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Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 15 hours ago • 109 comments

You can really feel the anti-Trump sentiment building, and it's not Kitchen-Table Americans complaining about egg prices, it's about the contempt for the rule of law, the reckless cuts, the abandonment of allies, the mistreatment of other Americans

submitted 16 hours ago • 61 comments

This is the lesson for every single organization, college, or business that bends the knee: "you buy nothing but disdain from your base/users/clients/customers."

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

The Tea Party protests at Democrats' town halls brought the fresh air of freedom back to our political system. But the liberals booing Republican Congressmen all need to shut up immediately.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 748 comments

none of this is wrong, per se, but giving Musk and Trump the credit for wanting to "save money" or "increase efficiency" or do anything better is misleading. they want to destroy the government's capacity to do things and they're often explicit about that www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Instead of huge, screaming headlines like “REPUBLICANS ALLY WITH RUSSIA, ABANDON ALLIES” we’re seeing “Surprising New Alliance” and “Trump Elevates Kremlin Talking Points.” Media outlets are catastrophically incapable of meeting this moment.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Rewatched TEMPLE OF DOOM for the first time in probably 25 years for the upcoming @blankcheck.bsky.social ep. Among the many problems—check my Letterboxd review for more—a fundamental flaw in the script is that it gets the 30s action/adventure serial alchemy wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 1 day ago • 1570 comments

Can't imagine a better side-by-side: On the day Republicans confirm a crooked MAGA partisan to run the FBI, the Dem NY gov decides it'd be...unseemly?...to excise the corrupt influence Trump has asserted over her constituents. A rebellion is brewing against Dem leadership, and shit like this is why.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

has a single mainstream journalist acknowledged that it was a massive media failure to treat project 2025 as a closed issue just bc trump lied a couple of times about not supporting it

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

worth mentioning again that senate democrats’ plan for strategic confirmation votes in exchange for blocking the worst nominees was a complete failure

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Skoooooooool

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Every major writing-based media brand in the last 20 years: -Sold to a billionaire and ruined -Sold to private equity and ruined -Sold to a shady gambling company and ruined -Sold to a cult and ruined -Is defunct -Is the New York Times

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

One reason we yell at Democratic electeds is because a lot of us live in blue states and THEY'RE OUR REPS. So of course we yell at them when they do a bad job; that's what we do in a democracy! If we had R reps, we'd yell at them, but we've got these Ds, and a lot of them are blowing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Terry Pratchett had this one nailed in Feet of Clay we don’t do kings here

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

dear voters: please don’t pay attention to the latest fascism its a distraction from how our party is counting on your financial support now to defeat the fascism in 2028. click here to donate and show your

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

and for the record an awful lot of Americans would side with and die defending Canada in any war between our two nations

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

just FYI a Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This was just 233 days ago:

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 2 days ago • 844 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

The next Dem needs to loudly and clearly reject both Obamaism and Bidenism and embrace an iron-blooded reform liberalism that will sweep all other factions aside

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

at the risk of stating the obvious, if a left-wing president started doing things like using eminent domain to enact widespread land reform and expropriating monopolist firms that essentially operate as utilities, you wouldn't see mainstream headlines about "bold actions" and "provocation."

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments