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I will give my eyeteeth for one, One, ONE interviewer to just say “well that’s an obvious lie.”

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Here's the moment he takes aim at her from behind, entirely, as far as I can tell, unprovoked

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

The Trump administration would love to use war-style brutality and violence to attack all protestors. About 35% of the country would cheer it. Remind me why I should feel any community, any common humanity, any need to connect with those people.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

submitted 4 days ago • 157 comments

Important question: when and which political parties lie? This new publication is pretty clear in its findings: radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Based on an analysis of 32 million tweets in 26 countries. doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 147 days ago • 13 comments

the core problem with "just triangulate" is that polling shows Harris won "voters who knew what the fuck was going on", which pretty directly implies that you cannot fix whatever problems we have by changing facts. the problem is people who don't know facts.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

It's common to hear that, if Dems are to win against the right, they need to shift their rhetoric regarding social policies towards the right. This is conventional wisdom for many. But I'll let you in on a little secret: There's actually quite a lot of data about whether this works, and it doesn't.

submitted 6 days ago • 195 comments

No, see, this is about neo-Nazis, not just the normal white nationalists. No, see, this is about people who want to kill Black people, not just imprison them. No, see, this is about people who hate Muslims AND Jews. No, see, this is about... Exhausting.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Pleading with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask Josh Divine at his confirmation hearing tomorrow if he still believes homosexuality is morally equivalent to bestiality, or that Christians are "obligated ethically to impose their beliefs on others." I do not ask for much.

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 11 days ago • 4571 comments

I have a radical view that we should evaluate our approach to Israel based on the government's stated policies instead of hypothetical theories about potential future decisions.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Trump is nominating Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia has ties to multiple antisemitic extremists. He called for X to remove a ban on Nick Fuentes and was spotted at a Fuentes rally, and also appeared at events with an alleged Nazi sympathizer.

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

Why does every modern high-powered fascist lawyer look like they're about to be killed by the Ark of the Covenant? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

submitted 12 days ago • 233 comments

Hilariously on-the-nose paragraph about a Cambridge NIMBY: white professor of African art history uses ChatGPT to analyze the city’s demographics if you exclude…uh…any young adult affiliated with a university (but of course not the professors like her) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

anyway what the sad little murderer's past online ramblings do make clear is that there's a particular nihilistic online affect increasingly shared by extremists of varying ideologies.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments