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Since 2000, Dem presidential candidates’ support from white voters only fluctuated 6pp (max was Obama 08 at 43%, min was Clinton 16 at 37%). Biden got 41%, Harris got 42%. Latino support has fluctuated 10pp (max 65% Clinton 16, min Kerry or Harris 55%) Smaller shifts than you’d think given punditry

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

The Lavrov-Rubbiotrop Pact. A total disgrace that is hopefully reversed by a future administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just take a moment to take in the disgrace of all this. We used to be a serious country run by adults.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

Dunno what to say about this except that Musk is beyond sick. What these people are doing to our country is deeply evil and I hope they are reviled by future generations.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The Republic Endures

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should have labeled this Operation Shitstorm. Martin is ground zero of the civic degenerates who Trump has cued up to shred the constitution and prey on upstanding Americans.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

You guys keep wanting to touch the stove. I'm telling you we can't touch the stove. What we can do is recreate it. We recreate stove touching in the aggregate.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Once again, "future we wanted" vs "future our techbro betters are trying to shove us into"

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

He’s right and the fact he’s being ratio’d by Stancilites speaks ill of this platform.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely hilarious how the party that claims to wage a crusade against moral depravity is now the party of moral depravity.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

optimistic take from someone from a country where politics has gotten way worse

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Quite the pairing

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Just when you think these degenerates can’t get any worse

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Bro is calling Ezra Klein a fascist, abandoned all hope for quality discussion on Bluesky

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submitted 8 days ago • 784 comments

Not surprising because YLS is not a typical elite law school, in a bad way. Students are barely graded and spend 3 years competitively brownnosing for elite clerkships. Some profs ignore students that didn’t attend Ivy undergrads.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 8 days ago • 230 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 9 days ago • 5662 comments

Trump/Vance are way overplaying their hand with Europe/Canada. American aggression will be bad for local right-wing parties. Already apparent with Poilievre's slip in the polls. They are mobilizing opposition to their own project.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

People like to compare deficit spending to “eating your seed corn” but that phrase applies much better to cutting investments that will have long term returns

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

obviously there are a ton of savings to be realized in the defense budget but I think they are learning the wrong lessons from the Russia/Ukraine war here. recklessness here could be a disaster for American security/power projection.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 11 days ago • 5017 comments

JD Vance: Big tech has too much power; put the nation back in change Also JD Vance: European nations are obligated to unleash hostile foreign information technology on their populations to juice American capital markets

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This site does scratch the Twitter itch but the most left-wing decile of the population is substantially overrepresented which really reduces the quality of discussion.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Difficult to stress how much it's complete psycho shit to indiscriminately fire hundreds of thousands of young poorly paid federal employees who probably uprooted their entire lives and moved to take jobs in service of their country for absolutely no reason.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Can't imagine what you would do differently if you were trying to usher in a dystopian cyberpunk future of unchecked corporate power, corruption, and extreme inequality. Tech right is in the driver's seat and the NatCons are getting shafted.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Here comes Summers. “.. economy being mismanaged .. “.. expect rates to rise significantly.”

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

This is the story running through everything, GOP remaking itself as a MAGA People's Assembly that just approves what the party leader wants.

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

If you want to understand how California’s NIMBYism squandered one of the greatest economic opportunities in nearly a century, consider that over the last 15 years, Silicon Valley’s GDP nearly tripled, yet it approved less housing than Austin, Texas has in just four years.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

This answer from San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman is exactly right. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Emblematic of a generation with short attention spans and a lack of functional literacy. Even if there's a thermostatic effect, politics will only get more broken until we invent Ozempic for phones.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

this is the most bleakly funny thing about the whole “AMERICAN DOMINANCE” shtick from people like Nate Hochman: every actual thing that this country has concrete advantages in they’re enthusiastically involved in tearing down. ensuring a Chinese century to own the blue hairs.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

The big stove beckons

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.

submitted 13 days ago • 477 comments

this useless muppet senator

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

No it's not, nor would it be a good idea for Jeffries to focus his time on municipal politics right now.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

He looks terrible. Bloated, asymmetric, and sickly. These are your ubermensch? Not sure he will last much longer, physically.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Glenn desperately clinging to a handful of messaging votes like a life raft

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

You'd think that all of the videos of macho Russian soldiers getting vaporized in the mud over the last 3 years would've disabused Hegseth of this hubris.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about traumatizing the federal workforce in order to get rid of them is that external pressure is critical to identity formation in groups under persecution

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments