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“We have to meet REAL Americans where they’re at: gun shows and tailgates” - these are the words of completely insular bloodsuckers whose strategy for political communication is to imagine the dumbest yokel they can, and then try to imagine how to talk down to that person

Dems talking themselves into validating Trump/Musk attacks on the Constitution by voting for Republicans' budget out of fear Dems will take the blame if a GOP trifecta fails to pass it, and guessing that this is what swing voters will have front of mind 20 months later, would be utterly pathetic.

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Purging the military is what one does to make a dictatorship.

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

Musk, Trump, and RFK Jr.’s cuts to the CDC have halted 9/11 health care for Ground Zero workers www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

elon musk: "I am literally hitler" the new york times: "elon musk experimented with a new tone on thursday. some critics fear authoritarianism."

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

is masculinity when you never stop fucking whining about everything? that seems to be the vance demo

Come ON

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

A journalist of color or a woman at a reputable outlet who didn't think about FDR when considering "impactful start to his Presidency" would be fired and endlessly mocked about it for the rest of their career. But we're talking about a white guy who is managing editor for Politico Playbook, so...

Yeah what would people do without a trillion headlines like DEFIANT TRUMP PUTS HOLDING 2026 MIDTERMS IN QUESTION, BREACHING NORMS

WW2 Japanese officer: my god, they have so many ships. That one is only for making ice cream. That has truly broken my spirit and showed me our cause is lost. Pete Hegseth: You can’t shoot ice cream at the enemy. Ice cream is fucking gay and woke.

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

Mood?

CHIEF: Eric Adam's freedom is in our sights. Drop the charges! SCALIA CLERK: I can't, Sir. I'm Woke! ME (watching through binoculars): She's woke! She wont do it!

Interesting to see Tosca Musk get a friendly profile here. Around the time of the election I had reached out to her to report on something regarding her politics. She hung up on me and told her mother, who proceeded to bring up my race in a public tweet. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

In all seriousness WHAT IS HAPPENING??? Sassoon gave you massively damaging evidence! She directly implicated Trump’s goons in a corrupt quid pro quo! Why aren’t you standing in front of cameras shouting about it???

Quit a dream job???? That’s the takeaway??

BREAKING: NEW resignations over Trump's DOJ moving to drop the Eric Adams case. John Keller, acting head of the Public Integrity Section, refused to drop the case and resigned. Three others resigned. Kevin Driscoll, acting head of the Criminal Division, refused to drop the charges and resigned.

A tweet I find myself thinking about a lot as someone writing about the US far right in this McCarthyite moment.

Help people learn about their rights. It makes fascist scum angry.

All of this is 100% Mitch McConnell's fault. The current state of the United States is 100% McConnell's fault. Him and Newt Gingrich. Well them and the privateers aboard the White Lion in 1619.

Courts and Congress had a good run

Judge Bibas pens an intro of humility. And uses columns, bullet points, and the first person (instead of "the court").

If you’ve slipped into the bathwater of defeatism to this degree, grieve about it in therapy and step the fuck aside for someone else.

Then stop sending me emails asking for money.

This is going to sound super rude but yall have got to stop this surprise act and talk to some black folks. This is absolutely a thing that racist sexist etc people do all the time. Jessica is just the token trans person to them. It’s always and forever about power over the masses, not the in group

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

maybe there was actually a pretty good reason for the 14th amendment to have banned insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the government from serving in government and the decision to just decide it was a dead letter and ignore it was a horrible mistake?

reminds me of this mark twain bit i like

sorry for being all super partisan and divisive but i dont think minorities and women caused the plane crash

The CofE gets a lot wrong but whoever blocked Altar Mitty from getting a curacy did them a real solid.

It will be hard for kids these days to bel- oh, never mind.

I follow a lot of smart people and basically nobody appears to have any idea what this means, this is the opposite of a clarification these people have no idea what they're doing and neither does anyone else

The White House has to "check back" about whether or not they just shut off the program that funds health care for 2 million Arizonans? I can tell you the answer: Arizona's Medicaid payment portal has been turned off. This is absurd.

check out that chyron. this is where we're at.