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Gulf of Distraction

submitted 16 days ago • 789 comments

Banning smartphones from k-12 classrooms and investing in in-person after school programs would probably reduce political extremism across the spectrum.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

An unelected billionaire is illegally seizing control of the US government apparatus and carrying out a flurry of crimes as part of an unprecedented authoritarian power grab that directly violates several laws and the US Constitution. Say it plainly. It’s fact.

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

“Audacious”? Truly disgusting.

submitted 23 days ago • 464 comments

For Jared Golden, a Dem in a R+9 district, to be talking like this is actually remarkable. probably gets at some underlying unpopularity of Musk even relative to Trump

submitted 24 days ago • 133 comments

Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 24 days ago • 1076 comments

It’s almost like they totally suck at their jobs and are woefully irresponsible in their civic duty of informing the public

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I realize this is probably too simple for the great minds that work at major news outlets, but we do not impose tariffs on countries. We impose tariffs on the goods we import from countries.

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury. Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk. Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠

submitted 26 days ago • 361 comments

You know what Dems need? Mass rallies in arenas. That would grapple back the media narrative

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The exact same story, covered two different ways. Don’t listen to the people who say there’s no better way to communicate urgency than what our political elites are doing

submitted 27 days ago • 283 comments

Our media refuses to connect the dots. So if Trump does ten illegal things on a day to seize control of the government, they have ten little stories about how he stretched the law, instead of one big story about how he’s attempting a coup d’etat

submitted 28 days ago • 22 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 28 days ago • 4415 comments

Walter Cronkite's ghost is leaving the building

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

People keep saying it but Tommy Tuberville, who probably can't tie his own shoes, held up military appointees for like ten months. We are always learning that - oh, Rand Paul can just keep something from coming to the floor. I have never seen a Dem involved in any story like this.

submitted 30 days ago • 21 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 88 comments

I’m still not over the fact that Tim Walz went viral for calling Republicans ‘weird,’ put Trump and Vance on the defensive, then got picked as Harris’s running mate because of it, and then… he was immediately silenced, disappeared, and Dems stopped calling the GOP ‘weird.’

submitted 31 days ago • 402 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

submitted 31 days ago • 1248 comments

Trump is more popular than he has ever been. The media is softer on him than it’s ever been. The chief task of the Dems, and of any self-styled #resistance, should be to puncture that bubble of popularity that he currently has in this honeymoon. To drag him - down. Forget the bipartisanship BS.

submitted 33 days ago • 320 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 338 comments

Man you are literally the worst messenger I have ever seen in politics

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Ah yes, the fundamental error of the Dem mind: assuming that the public is somehow directly observing politics, and that the Democratic role is to react to the public's reaction, rather than help SHAPE the public's reaction

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 37 days ago • 941 comments

I would strongly prefer that societal notions of what it means to be a man is not defined by men like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

submitted 43 days ago • 1667 comments

rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it

submitted 43 days ago • 511 comments

me to merrick garland:

submitted 43 days ago • 73 comments

This is a good description of the GOP: The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a truly superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone who says "History will not be kind" to Trump has never walked through the US Capitol and seen how Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens and John C Calhoun all have tributes.

submitted 53 days ago • 39 comments

FYI - Harvard law graduates alone comprise 8% of the federal judiciary This will have massive downstream consequences on descriptive representation in the courts in 15-20 yrs

submitted 73 days ago • 36 comments

A party of ancients more frightened of being replaced by people who know how to fight than of the thugs actively pulverizing them and the rest of the country. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

submitted 73 days ago • 58 comments

We're in a period where moral appeals don't seem to be landing so I want to put this in purely strategic terms: This is a disastrous plan. Our path to win in '26 depends on presenting a clear contrast to Trump's corruption and chaos, not acting like the junior partner in the fascist coalition.

submitted 72 days ago • 96 comments

Dems: campaign on Trump as a fascist threat to democracy Trump wins Dems: we're ready to work with Trump to get stuff done! also Dems: why don't people don't think we're authentic? it is truly a mystery

submitted 72 days ago • 49 comments

Remember how Meta suspended the Threads account tracking Mark Zuckerberg's private jet? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... The Bluesky account saw the jet landed in Palm Beach yesterday, and Zuck had a private Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump today: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

submitted 93 days ago • 104 comments

Americans have a weird cognitive bias. People make incorrect estimates about the population. Crazy incorrect. For instance, they think 21% of the country is trans, 40% is black, and 30% lives in NYC. . . . 1/7 www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

submitted 98 days ago • 72 comments

A new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found distinct personality profiles across different occupations. Journalism is among the jobs with the highest score in 'neuroticism.' Advertising and Public Relations has the top score in 'extraversion.' www.psypost.org/new-study-ex...

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

THAT IS A FORM OF INFLUENCE. YOU’RE A FUCKING LAW PROFESSOR.

submitted 438 days ago • 144 comments

um sir my question was about the earned income tax credit

submitted 451 days ago • 27 comments

In 2020, only 3.6% of the world’s population lived outside their country of birth. This has already led to a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and policies. Imagine if 33% of humanity have to migrate.

submitted 454 days ago • 12 comments