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The embodiment of Democratic Party resistance. “They’re throwing out the Constitution. I’m not sure how I’ll vote on it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 hours ago • 165 comments

Newsom is an awful man without a single principled bone in his body but I am actually genuinely shocked by how terrible his political instincts are in this moment the base is screaming for someone to stand up to this fascist kleptocracy and he thinks they want him to pal around with the fascists

submitted 14 hours ago • 161 comments

less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather

submitted 13 hours ago • 64 comments

Newsom is platforming Nazis. I’ll do whatever the fuck I want as I’m embarrassed I ever voted for this slick suit with no morals.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

yep. the story is often way more complicated. but not only is this set of pundits monomaniacally focused on their resentments and rivalries — which is what this all amounts to — they're also incurious, innumerate and unable to escape the conventional wisdom of their milieu

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

i would be curious to know the period in american history where no one faced opprobrium for sincere beliefs

submitted 17 hours ago • 166 comments

submitted 18 hours ago • 548 comments

Love the combination of “Real men buy gas guzzlers” and “Please purchase from my pal Elon.” No underlying principles beyond corruption.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.

submitted 23 hours ago • 101 comments

Imagine the kind of rich fantasy universe you have to live in to think Democratic Party leaders are per se heroic. Is that the lesson of history? Politicians are never cowards who blow in the wind?

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

The reason Andrew Cuomo will receive the bulk of mainstream media support and a narrative of inevitability is because his actual policies will be to destroy and loot NYC, whose residents the media despises, for the benefit of various kinds of suburban shitheads.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

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The reason I often want to burn the Democratic Party to the ground is because they cannot be trusted to do even the bare minimum. They are DESPERATE to stop resisting and if you leave them alone for 5 minutes and they’ll immediately convince themselves collaborating with fascists is the savvy play

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I really hate that Democratic politicians stick largely to X and either aren't on Bluesky or are only here nominally just to say they're here. Ditching X is literally the easiest thing you could do in this fight and yet you still can't.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

submitted 2 days ago • 390 comments

Don't Print Lies in the Newspaper. It's bad enough to do it, but just uncritically echoing lies from Rufo, who is not only an admitted liar but someone who has openly bragged in writing about how he uses lies to manipulate the mainstream media.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

i like that one of the unquestioned assertions made here is that universities in the united states are engaged in "anti-white discrimination"

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

man if after 7 weeks of "we're tuning out the noise" / "we can't do anything" / "we are voting yes on some of the reasonable nominees" / "the REAL fight is the budget resolution," they cave and vote yes on the CR and give Musk 6 more months to go wild

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I put a stock ticker widget on my phone just for this. It’s important to find joy in the little things

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

submitted 3 days ago • 1567 comments

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

A massive story in Canada is that damn near the entire country is turning on national God Wayne Gretzky because he refuses to stand up for Canadian sovereignty due to his desire to keep getting invites to Mar A Lago. An entire country choosing dignity over star-f*cking. We could take a lesson.

submitted 3 days ago • 460 comments

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

submitted 2 days ago • 151 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 2 days ago • 471 comments

It is important to note that absolutely nobody has phoned up the Guardian and said "we need you to manufacture consent for us to target disabled children with our cuts." This is just what they instinctively knew they had to do, as outriders for a government intent on targeting disabled children.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

As usual, the death penalty isn't bad because the people executed by it are good, it's because the state shouldn't have the power to execute people. Genuinely do not understand why we have to keep having this argument.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This is why you don't privatize important government functions. The fault in the libertarian utopia is that in the absence of government, you still get governed.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

From the man who backed out of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and an appearance on the Daily Show: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat". This is "my dad works for Nintendo" level stuff.

submitted 3 days ago • 1008 comments

I can’t abide how Labour centrists play the blame game, when they are the ones inflicting austerity policies on the most vulnerable in society.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

i do not think another cycle of wishcasting conservative Supreme Court justices as our saviors is in order

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

cops sense an opportunity to turn TeslaTakedown into the next overtime-a-palooza

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The Times has moved on from sane-washing lies to just straight up creating them.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

lady gaga setting the clocks back to when I had hopes and dreams

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

it’s not that the dems lack leadership or strategy or ways of enforcing from the top their strategy. leadership did in fact choose a strategy and has been pursuing it this way entire time. it’s extremely funny that defense of dems on here has included “there’s no actual leader or grand strategy”

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

submitted 3 days ago • 546 comments

the reason that the democrats need to get the fear of god put into them by their constituents is that we are going to get one bite at the apple in terms of fixing this and if we do not play constiutional hardball -- by, e.g., packing the Supreme Court -- we will lose American democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

YES, YES IT DOES Elite consensus and perceptions of elite consensus flow directly through people like Yglesias and drive policy debate and political action by electeds

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Pro-democracy patriots protest outside a Tesla showroom in downtown Chicago. Hit Elon Musk in the pocketbook, which is all he cares about. Check out TeslaTakedown.com for protests near you.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The party’s base—and the majority of those who vote in primaries—is Team Fight.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really good question and a really good thread, and I'm going to answer as best as I can. (A reminder: Don't be a jerk to this person, or to anyone in my mentions. It's gross, and I'll block you, even if I'm on your side of the argument.)

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments