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This happened literally after you posted this:

seemed like 10% of the entire population of maine was at protests today

i grew up in an area that virtually always voted for democrats from local to national elections for 30+ straight years (until 2016) while also using the word "liberal" as a slur and i think it would reward liberals to reflect on that fact and what it implies about the early signs of how we got here

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

Nbd just kinda telling how all our advice about how to stay safer at protests is about protecting ourselves from cops and not ever not once that I have ever seen about keeping us safe from other protesters Almost like there's only one real threat to protester safety or something

damn we really actually got the worst possible opposition party to meet this moment

"events happened slowly and then all at once"

if by some miracle the trump regime is stopped, not only should everyone in the admin but also every current editor at the NYT should be jailed and im not joking

@golden.house.gov has made it pretty clear with his recent statements that were he still in the marines, he would be unquestioningly and enthusiastically following all orders regarding policing US cities and detaining citizens

now that state senators and legislators are getting killed will the tepid cowardly elected centrists finally realize where we are in history

personally my favorite part of the NYC mayoral debates has been a tie between "mamdani has the 'it' factor" and "lets all agree cuomo is a giant piece of shit"

as a simple comparison: it was pretty common until recently in US to say catholics = vatican and are more loyal to that than USA and if you said that today ppl laugh and say accurately its weird bigotry.. but thats basically the *socially accepted* zionist position on israel and jewish people.

Hakeem Jeffries, minutes before nuclear holocaust engulfs the entire world: "The Democratic party will respond with appropriate force at the time and place of our choosing."

i still dont really understand how google search became such dogshit. i just searched for something from "auburn maine" and the top result was a local news story from auburn alabama. did it really save that much money becoming a search engine that doesnt really work?

trump should still hold his birthday hitler parade in the thunderstorms. he should watch the parade from an extremely tall metal viewing platform.

feels important to note also that all of the consultants, advisors, pundits, columnists, electeds, etc who forced that failed strategy down our throats are still influential power players within the democratic party and have expressed zero remorse or self awareness.

its so cool how the dem 2024 campaign so aggressively embraced 'Hug-A-Republican' tactics and shut down opposition to the belligerent rogue state of Israel and now the GOP is trying to imprison elected dems and Israels is trying to start WWIII. masterful gambit geoff garin

bibi needs to stop hiding in tunnels in civilian areas of jerusalem. i deplore his use of human shields

this actually exists in Rochester NY

today was the kind of news day where i intentionally chose to spend 9 hours in the sun moving an extremely large pile of soil from one spot to another because that seemed more fun than watching any of it

this opposition party could have been an email

It's wild how all pretenses of manliness or intellect are dropped with asmongold. No skills, knowledge, education, or talents. Too lazy/entitled to clean himself or surroundings, maybe even killed his mom with his filth. Makes millions being a NEET and is still driven by resentment and cruelty

- voted to confirm Noem - voted for GOP bill making crypto fraud easier this week As long as yall allow people like Slotkin, Fetterman, Booker, etc to continue to be allowed in the party the GOP will continue to get what it wants and the Dems will always be playing catch up and going backwards.

I've given up on expecting reporters to ever collectively gain the bare minimum self awareness needed to qualify as sentient creatures but I don't want them to ever be able to claim no one yelled about them intentionally killing their own profession. Most deserved industry self-implosion ever.

I feel bad for kids in modern history class in 30 years as for this period they just give "was it a real event or an onion headline" and it's the hardest test of all time

I feel like there are still way too many dems in denial about the fact that absolutely zero resistance or voting or anything else matters at all if the republican party is still allowed to exist in its current form in 2-4 years.

Israel had to attack now. Iran has been two weeks away from developing nukes since 1984, and they couldn't risk this being the moment when they finally realized that.

if i was fueling my car at the gas station and some maniac started flicking lit matches at me i would calmly ask him why he feels the need to do that. no i would not stop fueling the car to take away his matches, that would be a violation of norms

Jared Golden and Susan Collins in an eternal competition for who can be a bigger coward and still get fawning puff pieces in the paper from Steve Collins

It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

I dunno, frankly insane that we were bullied into silence about a genocide and I don’t think we should be bullied into silence about the same state actors bombing a new population of civilians and starting a major world war

people who dont have the slightest idea how much planning and support a strike requires love going "just immediately do a nationwide general strike"

Claims that an authoritarian regime wants opposition, and that their real fear is quiet public acquiescence, are so stupid it’s amazing anyone says them with a straight face. What weak, ignorant, servile complacency. Use your brain: those claims have it backwards.

remember when "access journalism" was a phrase with a negative connotation?

does anyone know if hakeem jeffries has calculated the perfect place and time yet

perhaps it was Not Very Good that ubiquitous infinite dopamine and outrage machines, late stage capitalism, anti intellectual reactionary culture, widespread adult emotional infantilization, historic wealth inequality, and godlike* propaganda machines all hit their stride more or less simultaneously