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submitted 30 days ago • 142 comments

The Patel nomination is the clearest signal yet that Trump intends to use the FBI and the Justice Department for purely personal purposes and to subvert reality to such an extent that it will change Americans’ understanding of what justice even is. newrepublic.com/article/1889...

submitted 83 days ago • 27 comments

Whole thread up and down is worth a read for any aspiring writers who don't understand this stuff. But this is the core. Money flows to the writer. I have self-published, I have published through small trad presses, but vanity publishing is an evil scam preying on the vulnerable.

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

The IKEA Christmas Tree is here!

submitted 95 days ago • 84 comments

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

submitted 95 days ago • 6109 comments

The incoming administration may or may not reduce the size or scope of government. But it will absolutely become the biggest protection racket the world has ever seen.

submitted 95 days ago • 757 comments

It's funny how badly Trumpers want to be friends with us. "Don't hate people over different beliefs!" "Wow, you're gonna break up with someone over politics" Meanwhile those beliefs ARE hating us. Labeling us vermin, taking our civil rights, calling for our extermination. Fuck that.

submitted 107 days ago • 245 comments

Not one word of my solicited response to NYT columnist Thomas Edsall's election post-mortem made it to print. So, here are his questions to me and my answers:

submitted 99 days ago • 35 comments

One depressing lesson from 2024 is that the best strategy for a political party is to break stuff and lie. Thwart the function of government at every turn. Run ads that say, "Trump let 18 billion convicted murderers cross the border," "inflation is up 6000%," "Trump sold all our cows to China."

submitted 100 days ago • 39 comments

This is malpractice, @nytimes.com. A casual reader will come away from this hed/subhed w/zero awareness that these institutions tried to hold Trump accountable for documented malfeasance in keeping w/rule-of-law-bound procedures, and won't learn that this is why he's targeting them.

submitted 99 days ago • 30 comments

RFK jr. Hahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahaha repeating forever. May take 4 years still, but MAGA ain’t gonna survive this term intact. America will be begging them to go away

submitted 100 days ago • 762 comments

Much as I hate to bring in my baggage from the Old Place, there’s this

submitted 101 days ago • 25 comments

Anyone you see on your timeline right now praising RFK Jr. is a person you never need to take seriously on anything ever again. It is difficult to overstate just how extreme, conspiratorial, and insane RFK’s views are, on vaccines, microchips & beyond. He’s Alex Jones in a suit.

submitted 100 days ago • 926 comments

RFK announcement puts a fine point on something I've been trying to articulate and is a theme of the Trump years. It's something I've wrestled with and that a lot of Dem messaging has gotten wrong. Part of what Trump does is constantly divide the country along the lines of pro-system and anti-system

submitted 100 days ago • 344 comments

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at CERN unveil quantum syntax machine that converts all news about fascists into words the fascists will like

submitted 101 days ago • 16 comments

free idea for Thom Tillis and Susan Collins: resist Trump most usefully by resigning and letting Democratic governors appoint your replacements

submitted 101 days ago • 57 comments

Disturbing scenario: Trump will take credit for the recovery that is being handed to him, then say his anti-immigrant agenda is driving it. As @pkrugman.bsky.social points out, Dems leaving GOPers good economies is the story of our politics. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/1883...

submitted 102 days ago • 43 comments

absolutely nothing was normal about trump's presidential campaign and yet biden and the centrists cannot help but cling to norms. this gives democrats nothing to hold onto for the next four years. it's modeling acquiescence.

submitted 101 days ago • 98 comments

A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™. First of all, as always: eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.

submitted 102 days ago • 50 comments

OK- here we go. Sorry for the delay, I was not prepared for the exertion required in the thrill-a-minute adventure that is… CACAO FERMENTATION. Yes, this will actually take 5 days. After that two days of drying. I’m not making this up. Nothing happens. Really. You’ll see. Anyway, off we go!

submitted 105 days ago • 129 comments

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submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

If you're unhappy and unsettled by Trump's election, don't quit. That's just what they want you to do. But that doesn't mean you have to do everything the same. Your media and social media habits, for example. Here's what I'm doing to stay sane, and set myself up to handle what's to come.

submitted 103 days ago • 85 comments

At least not in modern history. This is the thing every “inflation” and “the economy” explanation needs to be able to explain.

submitted 103 days ago • 72 comments

"covid made everyone nuts" is underrated as an explanation for things imo

submitted 103 days ago • 73 comments

Every time someone says what the Founders would have wanted, ask them what people should be doing in 2275. What choices should they make? What do they need to accept? Change? And if they say (correctly) that there’s no way to know, point out that we’re as far from 2275 as the Founders are from us.

submitted 103 days ago • 13 comments

Alarming: Four reasons Trump can target enemies more easily this time: MAGA loyalists in govt will carry out threats this time No internal resistance Zero pushback from GOP SCOTUS grant of immunity On the pod, Susan Glasser is brilliant on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1882...

submitted 103 days ago • 17 comments