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In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

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okay but every fucking company that dropped anything remotely "DEI" so fast without any actual impetus to do so, preemptively for laws that were never going to be upheld because they weren't constitutional, needs to be fucking dragged into the street and stomped on forever

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They do Nazi salutes because they’re Nazis.

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Much of the new form of post-MAGA right-wing antisemitism is going to repeat the same old tropes about Jews as rootless cosmopolitan degenerates, but will conscript Israeli Jews on the “good” side of people victimized by those dastardly Jews. Groups like the ADL are unprepared to talk about this.

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me: I have seen leftists on here say that they want to be ruled by king babar. they want an authoritarian elephant to be president lady w/ bitmoji avatar who just left huge labradoodle turds in neighbors yard: shameful. shameful. these people have never had real jobs

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My cat Bobbie just stole a piece of lettuce from my salad and tried to eat it. She then spit it out in disgust and looked at me like it was my fault. I don’t have a photo of her with the lettuce, but here is one of her yesterday looking real guilty when I caught her sticking a dirty paw in my tea.

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another Neat thing is that PSL’s first publication, at a time the us was bleeding 700k jobs a month, was how there was no tiananmen massacre and also everyone killed in the massacre was part of a cia sleeper cell

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Carnation Revolution speedrun

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Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

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Every Friday we get a news story that’s like Trump Administration declares a return to meritocracy, fires African American scientist with 30 years experience overseeing germ disease laboratory with Trent “Jizzman” Spunkmyer

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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Huge swaths of this country are hell bent on revenge and if we don't have a party who will channel that rage towards the people who deserve it, they're going to settle for the cotton candy nutrition of petty grievances against trans kids. SOMEBODY LEAD THEM.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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I do think that you can make a good argument for Schumer/Jeffries' approach of "watch and let him screw up", but I have very little sympathy for them now feeling the heat. For years, the Dem ethos has been that Trump is a unique threat to democracy. You can't "wait and watch" without blowback there!

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for instance, in 2015, "we should kill the president if he declares himself king" would be a pretty uncontroversial thing to say, whereas in 2015 it is plausibly a true threat.

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“We are never going to stop existing. I’m never going to stop being trans. A letter on a passport can’t change that, fuck this administration.” — Hunter Schafer on uniting with trans people against Trump’s administration.

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Please don’t turn this into ax grinding about Biden and DeJoy because, and I can’t emphasize this enough, what Trump is trying to do is illegal and being done with the goal of privatizing the USPS. You can’t use that playbook if you’re trying to make something better.

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if you read the story, its primary thrust is "Trump cannot fire the Postal Service board"

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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the average overzealous Daily Kos diarist in 2007 had a better read on what Republican politics is than 95% of elected officials, staffers, lobbyists, and pundits, and so did Trump.

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Conservapedia keeps deleting my "irrelevant" Diamante Fabuloso page, even though the article clearly explains it is the name of the gigantic diamond angel President Donald Trump is currently giving birth to at Walter Reed Medical Center. I am hiding in a supply closet. I can hear his contractions.

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This is what I think in my head upon reading maybe fifty percent of the stupid opinions I see online

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American Maoists be like "death to America" bro you live here

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I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.

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"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

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Two messaging options to consider below, which works better? Senate Dems: we stand ready to unite in bipartisanship to move America forward Governor Pritzker: beheads a Republican Sic Semper Tyrannis

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when/if Democrats regain power they can win a permanent majority by becoming tough on crime: scams, fraud, corporate malfeasance, etc.

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Leonard Peltier has made it to North Dakota! The temperatures are bitter cold today, but our hearts and spirits are on FIRE for our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard. ❤️‍🔥 Read our press release for more about Leonard's welcome home event tomorrow ndnco.cc/lphomepr

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Art of War was a manual for 5th century BC noble failsons to prevent them from losing the entire army to diarrhea. This is why it appeals so much to oligarch failsons of the 21st century AD.

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If I had been aboard Ticonderoga when she was ordered to report for decommissioning things would've gone down differently I can tell you that much

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Philip K. Dick on seeing Meat Loaf on TV (from What If Our World is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick)

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If they honestly believe that Biden was our Robespierre, they are incredibly unprepared for what tangible, real pushback would look like. Softest people alive. That's what should, in theory, make certain things far simpler than they would be if these were competent people.

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