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The problem with Democratic Party is that no one takes them seriously because they don’t take themselves seriously. You can’t simultaneously argue Trump is a fascist intent on destroying democracy but your major response is to wear a pink suit to a speech, and expect to be taken seriously.

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

Araminta Ross, better known as Harriet Tubman, risked her life as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. As an abolitionist, her courage was key in the fight to end slavery. 170 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD

submitted 2 days ago • 373 comments

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid

submitted 12 hours ago • 1663 comments

Impeachment Announced by Congressman Al Green: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere (MLK). Injustice in Gaza is a Threat to Justice in America. Watch Rep. Green's floor speech online: youtu.be/N2xG1K0izqs?...

submitted 28 days ago • 840 comments

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

This was mainly called for by Black clergy and they know how to organize so it will be interesting to see what comes of it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 101 comments

oh wow a Democrat who knows how to message succinctly and effectively what's happening here why do I smell toast

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Ok yeah, more Dems like Al Green. This is the good shit that all of them need to be doing

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Good morning

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

well i spent the remainder of the company's money this year on a high fidelity cover of "Rock the Casbah" where the the line "Shariff don't like it" is replaced with "Tariff (pronounced Tareef) don't like it". this is it folks. this is how we save democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

interested to see what happens when the social security checks stop flowing

submitted 1 day ago • 1334 comments

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

submitted 21 hours ago • 79 comments

I just confirmed a guest I have been trying to get from the earliest days of Better Offline: Shingy.

submitted 16 hours ago • 73 comments

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 1652 comments

I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

submitted 1 day ago • 8792 comments

President Dealman forfeiting a trade war in 24 hours to the syrup people.

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 21 hours ago • 1130 comments

looking to crowdfund the purchase of FBI headquarters by a broad coalition of leftists in order to create a sort of fed-jacketing singularity

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

the New York Democratic Party is completely broken. everyone needs to be primaried

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

Gillibrand ran Franken out of the Senate for about 10% of what Cuomo did. What a fraud she is.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Trump killed a lot of people the last time he was in office, mostly poor. With Musk and RFK, he'll be able to kill many more.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

The IDW linguist has plotted a lot of graphs ok. So what if his work is shoddy and often debunked by experts. So what if he was a Jeff Epstein defender and spends his time doing rightwing bullshit. Who are u gonna believe when it comes to genocide? Scholars & experts on the subject or him?

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This shit is so tedious. "It's not a genocide, it's merely the indiscriminate murder of tens of thousands of innocent people." OK but then surely the moral imperative is to stand against it rather than moan about people using a term you don't like?

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

When you build housing, the cost of housing goes down. finance.yahoo.com/news/austin-...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Nobody should even obey Trump’s orders that are legal and within the remit of his office; they certainly shouldn’t follow his orders when they are crimes and/or he has no standing to issue them.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 2 days ago • 746 comments

Harris could have promised to end the genocide in any meaningful way but instead doubled down on supporting unfettered and unconditional arms support. The easiest lay up in political history, fumbled because dem leadership doesn’t care. They sold us out to fascism to support a genocide. It sucks.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely appalling and revealing how much more thorough, thoughtful and well-researched the videogame speedrunning community has been in evaluating Elon Musk's claims than the tech press or DC political press youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

people who think and act this way shouldn't be allowed to live in society. we need to bring back exile. stick this lady on a boat and shove her off into the sea.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

submitted 2 days ago • 413 comments

There is an authoritarian leader in that US that abandoned America and Ukraine and our allies. There's also Musk and an ongoing genocide in Gaza. I expect Hollywood to say nothing at the Oscars tonight. Capitalism trumps everything else.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

A key, decades-old conservative insight is that people like most of what government does, so their only hope of victory is to relentlessly abstract away from anything specific to "government" or "spending" or "bureaucracy," empty linguistic vessels into which they can more easily pour bile.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

[email protected] on Rahm Emanuel: "He’s not just a bad advertisements for Democrats, he’s a bad advertisement for cishet men."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Listen as two smart guys spend an hour trying to impose some sort of coherence or legibility on Trump's foreign policy. It's kinda funny that our center-left elites literally can not process how stupid & crude their opposition is. They need it to be some kind of evil grand plan.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

This, plus a complete ban on federal contracts to Musk’s companies.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

when someone cares this little about sexual harassment done by elected officials i just assume they probably engage in sexual harassment themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The impossible leftist purity standards of "don't be a sex monster" and "maybe don't let your political donors kill elderly people in their care while hawking your book about how you solved covid"

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

When France proposed raising the legal smoking age to 9

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

submitted 4 days ago • 415 comments

IF TRANS ISSUES ARE SO INCONSEQUENTIAL DOES SOMEONE ON THE NYT MASTHEAD WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY SPENT THREE YEARS RUNNING A1 “INVESTIGATIONS” INTO SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICAL CARE AND THE LANGUAGE CHOICES OF NON-PROFITS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS????

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

i do find it weird how many 'elite, respectable' commentators feel the need to announce that they would have been a sexual predator in middle school, they just couldn't figure out how

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Brutal.

submitted 4 days ago • 1069 comments

For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:

submitted 5 days ago • 759 comments

Honestly I think this is what Dems should be doing. I saw AOC ask for people’s opinions and it was a lot of bluewave emoji “dress like Handmaids Tale” stuff but I think doing constituent work draws attention to Republicans being scared of town halls and the people they represent

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments