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There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Question: what does a Nazi salute look like to the staff of the New York Times? Follow-up: how does it make you feel in your soul to write something like this?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Along with the venal cruelty and existential consequences, can we pause to note that this is EXACTLY WHAT MUSK DID AT TWITTER? Beat for beat. Practically word for word. The guy hasn’t had a new idea or operational insight in a decade. He’s on autopilot while demolishing the U.S. government.

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

“scrub your website of trans people to save your funding” MIGHT seem like the rational choice when it’s put to you, but if you agree the main lesson they learn is that you can be strong armed

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

“Run the gov’t like a business” But good businesses don’t do this shit. This is 100% a pretext for more firings and anyone who says otherwise is a charlatan.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

I think it’s a mistake to think of the pro-natalist polygamy of Elon Musk as a departure from the “traditional” sexual conservatism. The tradition, really, is not primarily about male monogamy so much as male domination; the collection of multiple women affirms this, rather than subverting it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Wrote about the precious few high-profile Democrats who seem to understand we now live under a system of competitive authoritarianism. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/these-democr...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 16 hours ago • 145 comments

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

So glad our president somehow undid the fucking miracle on ice by making us the baddies in a friendly, tightly contested international hockey game that took on grim geopolitical overtones thanks to waves hands around.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Hey Trump

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 2 days ago • 1420 comments

Ice cold marketing brilliance right here

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It appears irony is not dead after all.

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

“The right perceives things about the centuries-long march toward a more just and inclusive nation that the left fails to grasp: that all of this is intertwined.”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 5 days ago • 451 comments

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 1416 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

I knew she was good at tennis but this is just remarkable court coverage to be there at Stonewall on the front lines while she was a 12 year old living in Czechoslovakia without a passport at the time

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

They literally just did a search for key words and then fired everyone. This is the laziest fucking coup in history. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

Guys, I'm not sure Canada wants to be a state.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Concur! 😂

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Actually hearing those Canadian boos live now. I’m mad but not at them. #4NationsFaceoff

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Remember, these are the guys who "deserve" millions of dollars every year because of their "vision," their "savviness," their "innate ability" to read the economic landscape and make the right decisions for the future.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

“…the argument Democrats have advanced against all of Trump’s bad ideas boils down to ‘You can’t do that.’ Actually, it would appear, he can.”

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

journalists are supposed to say what is happening and give context. if you’ve got a leader who’s constantly lying and doing evil stuff, then HE is the one who created an opponent relationship, not the journalists. to lie down would be to not do journalism.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I still do not want to start down a The Lawyers Are Our Resistance Heroes path, but credit where it’s due, that’s a bar. Guy really got to publicly quit with a “couldn’t be me bitch,” may we all get to do something half as satisfying someday www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Elon Musk is a dick, And he’s robbing you too.

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 10 days ago • 1874 comments

My congressperson is a worthless piece of shit so I’m adopting this magnificent man as my honorary one. 👏😂

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What do you mean "unexpectedly rose" guys? Trump is pursuing an explicitly inflationary policy agenda and any intermediate macro course will tell you that, even if he doesn't enact those policies, consumer expectations that he might would push prices up anyway.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats looked at Republicans creating snitch lines that got flooded with garbage, and decided "awesome, we need to do the same."

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

This is America, 2025 In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation

submitted 12 days ago • 85 comments

the Working Families Party exists and is actually interested in productively doing things while acknowledging the mathematical reality of Duverger's Law a party other than the Democratic party getting the Democratic Senate Minority Leader to show up and feel the animus of the crowd is not nothing

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This passage from Tocqueville (1840) leapt out at me as I was revisiting Democracy in America tonight. The last line especially made me think of the tough-guy-bad-ass-outlaw MAGA types who sycophantically hang on every word from their Daddy-who-will-regularly-spank-them in the White House.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

This flag spent more time on the field than Harrison Butker tonight.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is it. This is the take.

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

When you see a conservative influencer calling the Kendrick performance a DEI thing it’s worth keeping in mind just how many conservative influencers are failed screenwriters/stand ups/filmmakers who only understand any form of art through a lens of spite

submitted 13 days ago • 100 comments

A performer who was part of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show was detained by security after waving the Sudanese flag and Palestinian flags together with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” written on them toward the end of the performance, the NFL says.

submitted 13 days ago • 71 comments