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Yep. The party isn’t anyone’s friend because it’s the sum of the people in it, not an independent entity. This is why anyone who hates Republicans should work to see the “I Really Fucking Hate The Republican Party” faction wins over the “Maybe Daddy Will Stop Hitting Us If We’re Nicer” faction.

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

This aligns with reporting I did for my book on how sheriffs "work with" militias -- there are not generally formal agreements or deputizations, but rather tacit understanding or they are just all friends.

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

About halfway through Season 2 on a re-watch and man oh man is Frank Sobotka a great character.

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

I think it’s gonna have to be Pritzker. “Fat urban white ethnic who openly bribes the plebs with handouts” is a Democratic Party Classic for a reason and we can’t afford a loss in 2028.

submitted 74 days ago • 16 comments

Tom Homan has been saying Operation Lone Star is a model for mass deportation. He also says that it "reduced drug trafficking." It plainly did not. www.texastribune.org/2022/03/21/o...

submitted 74 days ago • 17 comments

Why is he like this?

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

Maybe it was a bad idea to let three dork billionaires capture humanity's collective online social interactions so they can hire a couple thousand fellow socially-stunted nerds to design and twist dials marked "racism" and "hate" and "confusion" in order to monetize moral rot.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Making ‘send letters to the publisher identifying their decision to deadname trans people as journalistic malpractice’ my entire personality until further notice.

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Here's an idea for the Democrats: Have a victim or two of Assad's torture chambers testify at Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation hearing.

submitted 74 days ago • 282 comments

Raw milk is cool if you want to do something dangerous with absolutely no benefit. All risk, no reward. Like trying to eat a campfire.

submitted 74 days ago • 94 comments

The conversation needs to be about how data centers are causing coal plants to be kept online longer, not about water usage.

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

We call them ‘homeless’ because they don’t have homes, you drug-addled lunatic sex pest.

submitted 75 days ago • 32 comments

I think about that Miyazaki clip a lot, about how his visceral response was that what he was being shown was both inhuman and inhumane—an affront to both the artist and to human dignity.

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Why did sheriffs become such huge players in detaining immigrants if the feds are the ones arresting people? Who is making money off of this? What options do local governments have to resist detention efforts? You asked, Bolts answers: boltsmag.org/the-pas...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Insurers must spend 80-85% of premiums on care by law. "But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers—by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers—they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care."

submitted 74 days ago • 42 comments

data centers hoard enough water and energy to power entire cities. they steal taxpayer $ in subsidies, and then drive up utility costs for us all. allowing unfettered data center growth will reverse climate progress, and entrench big tech’s chokehold on our economy and government. this cannot happen

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

I rather like having free weather info at my fingertips. I rather like having FAA air traffic controllers keeping my flight from colliding with others in the sky nearby. But the GOP? They're hell at demolishing such things. Education too. digbysblog.net/2024/12/11/k...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Both X and Meta manipulate their algorithm to benefit Trump X by pushing pro-Trump propaganda Meta by suppressing all news and political content. The less someone follows the news, the more likely they are to support Trump

submitted 74 days ago • 253 comments

All the people who said this wouldn't happen and feminists are being hysterical? They are still lying. They always knew. They want women to die. www.propublica.org/article/pors...

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

hey guys i'm going to stage a coup and then run for president next election cycle does anyone need anything

submitted 90 days ago • 20 comments

As press reports continue to highlight the debate within GOP Congressional leaders as to whether they should block grant Medicaid to pay for their tax cuts, it is worth highlighting that there are 11.7 million seniors/PWD on Medicare + Medicare. The so-called "Dual-eligibles".

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Matt Gaetz, 42, who records show paid $10,000 to two young women for "being my friend," "joy," "being awesome" and "just because," withdraws from being considered to lead national law enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 94 days ago • 22 comments

This leaves the Trump Administration with a mere two cabinet nominees accused of sexual assault and a third accused of turning a blind eye to it. Plus, of course, a rapist president.

submitted 94 days ago • 11 comments

Donald Trump is a sexual abuser; his Defense pick, an alleged rapist; his HHS pick allegedly groped a babysitter; his right-hand allegedly led a workplace "treating women as sexual objects"; his AG pick allegedly paid girls to have sex. And Nancy Mace stands up for women by… attacking trans people.

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

A lot of you are determined to be miserable no matter what. You’re not gonna make it the next four years if you can’t take 5 minutes to enjoy Matt Gaetz’s political career ending.

submitted 94 days ago • 16 comments

"they won't stop at trans people" - ok even if they did stop at trans people they still need their ass beat, right?

submitted 95 days ago • 164 comments

“Gaetz is gone, but the next nominee will be bad too,” probably, but you still need to build on and rally people around wins, too. Treating every development like a prelude to another loss is how you fall into the pattern of being a loser.

submitted 94 days ago • 56 comments

He means that he wants Trump to let airlines once again take your money without actually flying you anywhere.

submitted 95 days ago • 13 comments

I was informed recently that one of their desires is to see my lifeless body hanging from a tree. So, you know, I'm good, thanks.

submitted 95 days ago • 35 comments

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

submitted 96 days ago • 134 comments

Casablanca is a great movie for young men today bc it’s about this guy who’s mad and bitter about how a woman treated him in the past, but then his stubborn self-pity gets challenged by life itself, he realizes it’s not all about him, and then he starts to fight Nazis

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Why are Dem leaders blowing off Trump's scandalous cabinet nominees as a distraction? Because rank and file Dems are divided between those who want to do real opposition politics, and those who want to do Vichy "opposition" politics.

submitted 95 days ago • 28 comments

"People are unable to tell the difference between fiction and real life" is at the root of a ton of our problems.

submitted 95 days ago • 30 comments

so is anybody even going to bother to go through the motions of calling for Trump to divest from his businesses this time around, or did we just give up on that one too?

submitted 95 days ago • 1408 comments

for my first act as president, i am going to pass monstrous tariffs that will devastate the ag industry and for my second act, i will deport everyone working in farming and food production, checkmate [checks notes] red states

submitted 101 days ago • 33 comments

Here's something important: When Stevie Wonder succeeded in getting the MLK holiday passed, he was at the White House when Reagan signed the bill, and... he refused to be in the photo. Stevie said, "I told them I had to take a piss and I got the HELL out of there when those cameras came."

submitted 101 days ago • 83 comments