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also voters have shown time and time again that they respect politicians who take a strong position and vigorously defend it (even if they disagree with that position) over taking a weak position and yielding the agency over the topic to the opposition

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Feels impossible that one movie had the best acting, the best writing, and the best directing. Movie award voters must learn from sports award voters who understand that every award has a secret meaning like “coach of the year is the coach of the team that had the biggest year over year improvement”

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

when someone cares this little about sexual harassment done by elected officials i just assume they probably engage in sexual harassment themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

I need a god damn cigarette

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It would not take much at all to heat Powerhouse Hobbs up into being a serious championship contender on the Takeshita/Fletcher level 🤼

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I got these memory foam indoor/outdoor slippers and I’m losing my mind how comfy they are. I don’t know if I’m ever putting on shoes again.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

submitted 1 day ago • 436 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 2 days ago • 413 comments

classic hitler move to open a second front when you’re fighting for your life on a first one already

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

you can really tell who’s never worked in the service industry based on who romanticizes the concept of the Small Business lol

submitted 3 days ago • 155 comments

Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 768 comments

you're a farmer with a boat that can carry you + one other person. with you are dave weigel, a trans woman, and a cis woman. dave weigel cannot be left alone with either woman. can you safely cross the river? it's ok to leave dave behind

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I wonder if there's anything instructional history can tell us about fascists in charge of implementing genocide riding around in extremely identifiable cars

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

this guy's coverage of trans issues has been shitty for a long time but it's always bracing to be reminded how many prominent journalists see us as nothing more than a thought experiment

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

If only trans people and their families were real and capable of speech, then perhaps reporters could speak with them and ask them their opinions about things. Unfortunately this is not possible with today's reporting technology for some reason

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

she made the bargain of selling out immigrants and trans people on the outside chance a famous liar would keep a promise of giving her free ivf! fuck her!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: Elon Musk is wreaking havoc on US science in Antarctica. Program managers have been purged; workers fear they could be fired while being trapped until October; foreign nations including China already recruiting, poised to take over. This is from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

The United States was carefully designed with a system of checks and balances where different branches of government are controlled by different billionaires.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I'm not worried about Trump. The Democrats have proven that the president does not have the power to make large changes. There will be some incremental tinkering with numbers at the margins, but mostly it will be business as usual. The ship of state turns slowly.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

Presidents can't do things unilaterally. Obama tried for eight years to close Guantanamo Bay and it couldn't be done. If presidents could implement sweeping changes, we'd have the Democratic dream of universal healthcare by now. It's an unrealistic demand to make of the candidates you ought support.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

submitted 5 days ago • 601 comments

This has to be one of the biggest opsec fails I've ever seen in my life. The actual director of the FBI driving around in the most conspicuous vehicle imaginable made even more so by it being neon red.

submitted 5 days ago • 694 comments

i keep seeing the right argue that the nazi salutes are "trolling." i think there's some truth to that, but know what exactly is being mocked. they aren't mocking the idea that they could be nazis, they're mocking the idea that they should care one way or the other.

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

dude it really is not funny or witty to tag a swastika on nazi stuff. people just see that and think "oh no, nazis have a big presence in this neighborhood, they're out tagging things with their symbols" they don't make the connection that it's meant to be a comment on the specific tagged thing

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Looking into it

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Offer ends this Friday, Tesla owners!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

For my first @spitfirenews.com piece, I investigated the tactics used to make stories and information disappear on social media platforms like Reddit. This piece is about Blake Lively, but it’s also about how to manipulate the masses about anything. spitfirenews.com/p/the-blake-...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

once again Chuck Schumer shows he knows the caucus should be voting no (as he did!) but is unwilling or unable to whip their votes

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Will you poor sad losers please stop reflexively going with "He has a point, but..."?

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

i feel like the spirit of 'no cops at pride' extends to 'no ICE at motherfucking mardi gras you goddamned ghouls[derogatory]'

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments