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many alleged crimes in this article. eg it says Elon got advance notice of legally required drug tests so he could stop using long enough to pass www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Trump and his people really think of the presidency as an elective dictatorship. Even if you win an election promising to shred the Constitution in various ways, that doesn't mean you actually get to do it. (Also, he won on the price of eggs, not the constitution shredding.)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I talked to @delaneyrules.bsky.social about how the "Crypto Dem" caucus (Gillibrand, Gallego, etc...) are undercutting one of the Dems most obvious "Trump corruption is bad for people" arguments. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It isn't the content that's the problem. It's the way that center and left discourse is stuck behind paywalls while rightwing discourse is pushed out free, bankrolled by billionaires, and distributed like wildfire across social networks. We aren't failing at ideas, we're failing at spreading them.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

It's blatantly obvious that none of these people knows what they are doing, what real work is, or what it takes to run a small organization never mind a massive agency. They just spent years podcasting and tearing shit down about which they know nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad

submitted 2 days ago • 642 comments

is this a gender reveal

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

This is a very good and very accurate takedown of materialism as an explanation for Trump the global far-right. We still need aggressive redistribution and hopefully more worker ownership, but that won't stop the far right because material issues aren't driving the fascist backlash.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Fox Newsification and 4chanification of the GOP has turned the entire party into a bunch of terminally online liars and frauds.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

submitted 3 days ago • 302 comments

Marco Rubio, in his current job, took the official actions that led to Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk being abducted and imprisoned for their speech in the United States.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

People are misusing this ‘what are we a bunch of Asians’ tweet. If something is typical of the DPRK (which holds like 1% of the population of Asia) and hithereto atypical of the US it’s fine to point that out

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

submitted 3 days ago • 226 comments

Well, well, well ... While the Republicans in Congress have launched all out attacks on @actblueorg.bsky.social report is now coming out showing how it's actually Trump's campaign that's been receiving more problematic donations (1,600 of them) many of them via WinRed (R's answer to ActBlue). 🙃

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I remember in 2005 when Democrats decided they must Get Tough on National Security then won a landslide election in 2008 with a guy who said the Iraq War was stupid as fuck.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

My piece on the misnamed Genius Act, once again, which threatens to cause a totally preventable financial crisis: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/20/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

There will be no remorse or forgiveness for politicians who vote to bail out banks with too much exposure to crypto when it inevitably crashes. You WILL be primaried. I don't care who you are.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 4 days ago • 921 comments

the GENIUS Act might be the worst piece of financial deregulation in American history www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

We love to see it.

submitted 4 days ago • 128 comments

It's basically legal for high profile Republicans to commit crimes now. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

You don't have to let Nazis into the bar, but if you can't argue respectfully with the leftists or liberals or centrists you disagree with, this place will never replace twitter. Shit-posting isn't praxis as long as people have other places to go.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Even regular normie dems have had enough.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Ok this is an LOL They'd rather be yelled at by Nazis than have their own supporters expect more

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Theories of politics that involve giving up on defending Constitutional government and liberal democracy when Democrats lose an election, and scheming in the hopes that Democrats win every election forever, won’t work.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

My frustration with the Yglesias/popularism discourse is that it doesn't actually matter that much for winning elections. The difference between David Shor or David Sirota as a policy consultant for paid media matters a lot, lot less than whether the far right dominates the media landscape.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Matt does not understand, and will never actually seem to understand, that voters do not vote on the basis of analyzing the particulars of every candidate's positions and mapping them to their well-informed views. Has he ever listened to a focus group? It's really hard to say but I'm leaning to no.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The two obvious flaws here are that 1) it makes policy choices reactive instead of proactive and 2) it ignores the problem being addressed by the (probably misguided) original idea: that there is a robust narrative universe that excludes Democratic ideas.

submitted 6 days ago • 256 comments

Every one of these power-tripping fascist goons needs to be fired and their jobs reorganized to ensure they actually serve the public.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The is the fun sort of thing that happens when you tie wealth to individualized codes rather than institutional protections. Crypto is poison.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This is transparently false. Buttigieg and Klobuchar had done well in Iowa, but lacked juice in SC. Sanders had momentum for a plurality, then foolishly angered everyone with hubris. Biden was declining even in SC, but he was the last hope against Sanders, so poobahs closed ranks around him.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Fog, no airfield weather instruments, no runway lights. It sure would be nice to see any government records of "DOGE" cuts at the FAA and NWS that may have affected operations at the airport where that flight tried to land — but of course, John motherf––ing Roberts says we can't have those.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

This has been Trump's posture since the election. We're now at the "shouting it from the rooftops for the folks in the back" phase. The bully keeps taunting us. And he will continue until we collectively push back with everything we've got.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments