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"we are going to explode the deficit with tax cuts while raising tariffs to new levels and give everyone a new check while firing the entire civil service including DOD" how the fuck is this a coherent ideology?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Kansas Farmer, Topeka, Kansas, February 20, 1896

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

man it's so rich to be told that leftists "warned libs about this" when the entire past year was libs screaming about how dangerous it was going to be to reelect trump and leftists replying "yeah i don't care"

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

This is exactly backasswards imo, we are in such a position of profound civic rot because we think that rules and service and public good are for losers. Our media's poisonous cynicism means we don't aspire to better or expect better from those who serve us. Corruption is normalized.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

this would even have been a big scandal *in the previous trump administration.* we will see how much that's still true

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

A US President is no King. That's the core meaning of the Constitution, written by people who had good reason to not want a king. Congress makes the laws; the President enforces them. Employees of the Executive branch implement the laws passed by Congress, not Presidential whims. #ProudBlue

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 46 days ago • 131 comments

the fact that people all over the country who are squeezed by housing costs hear stories about relatives moving to Florida and Texas and improving their material conditions despite overall GOP misgovernance because there is a lot of housing is a huge headwind for the Dems.

submitted 48 days ago • 32 comments

These false claims were trumpeted endlessly on TV and in print. The prosecution and guilty plea of the "informant" who spread those false claims has received little attention. This is how disinformation works.

submitted 72 days ago • 29 comments

only real take on the Daniel Penny thing is that it's beyond clear that sustained visible public disorder, even if not actually that dangerous, makes otherwise open/liberal/cosmopolitan people into frothing reactionaries by now, and appeals to empathy aren't an effective counter.

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

The neocons were always pro-democracy. That’s their big thing. A lot of people don’t like hearing this because of how badly neocons messed up thinking that trying to spread democracy at gunpoint in Iraq was a good idea, but when democracy was threatened in the US, they followed their main principle.

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

The only definition of "working class" that lines up with Trump voter is the postmodern "holds right-wing views on culture war issues." That's how the "working class" can include car dealership owners and rich tech VCs along with some laborers, but not include many waiters and grade school teachers.

submitted 426 days ago • 6 comments

I’ve noticed that an ironic-but-not-really approval of the concept of bullying is a popular trope amongst certain subgroups on the Left. I mean, dream your little dream. Maybe put it in your five-year plan?

submitted 428 days ago • 28 comments