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I think my favorite lyric of any patriotic song is from the battle hymn of the republic: “as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free” which is an energy modern Americans need today

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1309 comments

Joe Lowndes: "If he’s lucky he will be remembered as a sad relic of the old regime rather than a kapo in the new one."

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

This is correct. The Bush administration tortured prisoners and weaponized the DOJ to institutionalize it as policy, and the only prosecutions were of foot soldiers who did short time and got parole. The US is a country that believes in torture of prisoners and detainees. That is what the US is.

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

at least the average democratic voter will understand why we NEED to protest against and yell at elected democrats, i hope that this shows them FINALLY the democratic party is complicit and useless

submitted 18 hours ago • 32 comments

Unfortunately, those 2% are all Democratic Senators.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

“I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don't know just exactly how to say this but my perspective for people have changed [...] I’d like to apologize" good things still happen sometimes 🥲

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians. ...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.

submitted 19 hours ago • 86 comments

Watching a man get disappeared for political dissent in the middle of the United States, as the opposition party agrees to give the tyrant a blank check to do whatever he wants

submitted 18 hours ago • 55 comments

my read: he was a yes the entire time, he lied, and we should assume many of those who were hemming and hawing and saying no position or talking about the amendment deal were potential yes’s too, and this lack of clarity was all about figuring out who was falling on the grenade for the rest of them

submitted 18 hours ago • 41 comments

This ended up being timely (and will be timely many more times before this is all over, I'm afraid) stancilculture.substack.com/p/crisis-is-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 3 days ago • 1222 comments

The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal. The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who thinks that’s manly and admirable and right.

submitted 19 hours ago • 251 comments

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

submitted 19 hours ago • 681 comments

taps sign repeatedly and more and more aggressively until I tap right through it

submitted 18 hours ago • 30 comments

As a Senator, I serve a cause higher than what my constituents might "want," or the interests of the labor unions that support my party, or even the continued function of the republic itself. And that cause is uh... hmm this is embarrassing. Wow. I definitely had it written down. On a post-it. Haha.

submitted 18 hours ago • 35 comments

I'm sympathetic to the idea of demystifying LLMs by examining what they put out, but here's where I stop - the mention that one of its metaphors was 'borrowed' from Nabakov. It wasn't borrowed - it was collated. maxread.substack.com/p/is-openais...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

I know at a base level political journalism in this country is compromised when senate aides i’ve never communicated with email me “off the record, blah blah.” that’s not how this works, but it tells me they’re used to treating hill reporters like trained dolphins. and that shit doesn’t fly with me.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.

submitted 22 hours ago • 486 comments

* IT'S FINALLY HERE * The 1st episode of 'Bowman and Bush' - a unique show in which 2 outspoken ex-members of Congress pull back the curtain on how Washington works - the corruption, lobbying, special interests. In this 1st episode, they talk AIPAC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Tk...

submitted 22 hours ago • 40 comments

I don't use poppers at all (I can't even be in their vicinity because of the vapor), but this is really frustrating and demoralizing news for two reasons. First, this is really a story about AIDS denialism. That's why RFK is doing this, and we need to call that out. www.them.us/story/rfk-jr...

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

as far as i'm concerned the entire purpose of the american experiment is to provide chuck schumer with a job that's not too challenging, yet rewarding and fun. and i hate to put it to you like this, but every criticism you post, and every phone call you make to his office, gets in the way of that

submitted 22 hours ago • 83 comments

gentle reminder that when you make jokes about chuck schumer on here, your friends who are sitting US senators will see them, but chuck schumer won't, because he's going on a month long paid book tour across the country

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

hey, cis folks i keep being like, "we need you to stand with trans people because there aren't enough trans people to win the fight alone" and...is it usually good for a tiny minority group when the government starts declaring their legal documents inherently fraudulent?

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

submitted 22 hours ago • 61 comments

Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-ho...

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The DNC chair has much less power than most people think, but this is a pretty damn good statement from Ken Martin. It seems like some important people in the Democratic Party have gotten the memo.

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

"The letter was put together swiftly by Rep. Derek Tran, a freshman Democrat from California who flipped a GOP-held district in 2024 by roughly 600 votes."

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

it’s starting to look like the only democrats who don’t get this moment are the ~8 democratic senators who are seemingly going to approve the bill lol

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

I gave the prospect of invading Canada a lot of strenuous sober thought, and I came to the conclusion that it's terrifying, stupid and insane.

submitted 23 hours ago • 30 comments

This is the school that awards the Pulitzer prize btw

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

Very thoughtful thread by a very thoughtful tech skeptic.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

having worked in this space i can confirm that a huge disadvantage to non-MAGA and non-libertarian outlets is the lack of deep-pocketed funders willing to lose money for a long period of time for the sake of shifting public opinion and mainstreaming otherwise marginalized ideas.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

There's a quirk about American politics we're all missing, and we talk past each other because of it. Since the election of 2000, every contest has been so close that any theory that explains about 100,000 votes spread over 3 swing states can and does explain the outcome. Every theory is correct.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

As a regular Patrick Bet-David watcher I know this is true.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1146 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

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This is exactly it. Republicans hate the post office not because it’s inefficient or “loses money”, but because it is INCREDIBLY efficient and maintains a truly enormous, vital public service that the private sector can’t come close to competing with.

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

roomba accidentally saw outside

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