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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

submitted 11 hours ago • 76 comments

We do not have to agree on how liberty is attained on all points. But we do have to agree that liberty is not actually liberty unless it's for everyone and doesn't leave vulnerable people behind.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

In other words, we'd still be occupying Afghanistan. Thanks for clearing that up.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Notable how they still haven't put any effort towards efficiency. Every action is some sweeping, arbitrary mandate. It'd certainly be possible to review the fed gov't for workforce efficiency—but Trump, Musk, and the GOP are allergic to real work, so instead it's just swinging axes wildly.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

When you describe the actual agenda of the Republican Party to ordinary people—like this kind of comical reverse Robin Hoodism—time & time again researchers find that they simply will not believe you. They cannot fathom anyone could be this cartoonishly evil.

submitted 21 hours ago • 49 comments

The right’s “waste and fraud” frame is a replay of the same participatory propaganda games they played w/ “voter fraud” in 2020, “censorship” in 2022, and any number of anti-immigration frames in 2024. Set the frame, inspire the generation of “evidence” to fit it, amplify that evidence, and repeat.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Trump and his goons have a lot of hate - jews, blacks, latinos, you name it - but they hate women most of all. bsky.app/profile/jwmu...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

This is critical to the conflict: Democrats are the party of boring mid-level management & corporate governance. Republicans are the party of private equity & entrepreneurs. The former are much more competent & valuable but the latter are much closer to how average folks like to imagine themselves

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Psychosexual politics of abuse continues to be an under discussed aspect of our current situation

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

GOP messaging also never does this. When the right freaked about the IRS not approving Tea Party groups for nonprofit status, no Republican was out there saying "of course, we agree that the IRS has a role in rooting out scams" - it was just guns-a-blazin' opposition.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

So many rich guys living a fantasy where they're freeing children from traffickers even as they back a rapist in the White House who is pardoning sex criminals, gutting CSAM investigations, separating kids from parents at the border and endorsing the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

"[W]hen powerful Americans start talking about working with far-right Germans and adopting their arguments, while giving anti-democratic speeches and throwing up Nazi salutes at home, it’s long past time to stop taking their rhetoric at face value." — @katz.theracket.news

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I hope to Christ the rest of the world chokes off US tech.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys. We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

By replacing a black 4-star general with a white 3-star general, we are finally bringing meritocracy back to the Department of Defense. by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Firing all the JAGs is very very bad

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 5 days ago • 300 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

👇🎯 A complete category error in our current authoritarian moment

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Here's @bluestein.bsky.social's uncensored thread of the town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), in which an unhappy audience pushes back against DOGE cuts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18927...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

This was just 233 days ago:

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

Phil Murphy is going to seek some kind of office since he's term-limited as governor and it's important he gets crushed in the primary, whatever that office happens to be.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

you bow to a false king and you dishonor your office, oathbreaker

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 172 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 8 days ago • 1065 comments

Again, the current Senate confirmation process is worse than no process at all, & we should abolish it bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Brazil doing what America didn’t: Holding a president culpable for attempting to overthrow an election.

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submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Trump last week: “Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf.” Trump today: on day 4 of 5 working from home, day 4 straight of golfing for part of the day. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

Do you think Merrick Garland is having a nice time? Watching SNL 50, playing Wordle, maybe noticing egg prices are still high. "Ah well", he thinks, "nothing I could have done differently. At least the courts will stop this."

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?

submitted 10 days ago • 158 comments

A narrative tic worth noting: When Biden pardoned Hunter, lots of ppl erupted saying “this empowers Trump to do the same.” But when Trump says he is above the law, no one replies “this will empower a future Dem to think the same.” And not bc “there won’t be one.” It’s deeper than that.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

@aoc.bsky.social is correct both as a matter of political strategy and constitutional duty. Cooperating with Republicans to bail them out of their own failures isn't fulfilling some higher duty to the people, it's empowering the wrong side in the most severe constitutional crisis of our lifetimes.

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

If relying on GPS rots your sense of direction, this only makes sense

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submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment