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this is why the first things dems need to do in power is immediately pass a law extending the statue of limitations for any crime over x dollar amount

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

See the movies or don't, read your kids whatever you want, but this self-portrait of a gloating hatemonger is the identity she has chosen.

submitted 16 hours ago • 152 comments

Democratic presidents are eunuch advisers and Republican presidents are Imperators. READ the Constitution. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Okay this plus his podcasts are starting to make me think, has he always sounded like this? On speed?

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

His inevitable presidential campaign should crash and burn. He is obviously learning all the wrong lessons about how to win a general election, and he will never win a primary this way, no matter how much money he has or how much of the donor base is behind him.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Even if a supermajority of voters thought it was great for the government to just deport people at will, instead of the opposite, it still wouldn't be ok! Just becuase the voters believe something doesn't mean it's ok! They're fucking stupid and have bad opinions!

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a good piece but they haven't lost their way, this was always their purpose www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-free-p...

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

submitted 19 hours ago • 266 comments

Fucking fascists

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is the kind of thing that really annoys me about Abundance. One of Ezra’s big villains is the endangered species act, but he does not make a nuanced or specific case against it, just that is a barrier for building. And it is easy to interpret that criticism of it as a case to gut it like this

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The “populist” administration cares more about vampiric middle-men like Inuit and H&R Block than the average American taxpayer. This is in effect yet another middle-class tax hike for no reason except corrupt lobbying from tax preparation corporations

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The rollout of Direct File was a genuine unequivocally good thing (unless you’re a huge Intuit shareholder or something), and I know a few people who worked very hard on it.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

The key insight about comedians is that their “truth to power” shtick was never about integrity, it was about following the crowd. The entire point of being a comedian is getting a crowd on your side, and they will say whatever it takes to make that happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

submitted 1 day ago • 282 comments

big law is the classic instance of very, very soft people who think they're hard.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

unironically avowedly partisan editors and publishers are needed to keep these fucking morons in line

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The argument in the text is they can’t accomplish their policy goal while following due process (and therefore the standards should flex). That’s a general purpose argument for fascism, not one specific to immigration.

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

Isn’t there like a hard age cap for ATC? Like they literally can’t work past 55

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Good lord

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Colbert > Stewart. It's always been true. Colbert is just a good liberal, Stewart is 70% liberal and 30% crank/libertarianish

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 433 comments

the farmers have always been the real welfare queens.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said

submitted 2 days ago • 580 comments

I think we need to turn the page on Clinton/Obama and the Jon Stewart era of liberal commentary

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

There are many people who should not be allowed to drive. However, because we have physically built our society around the assumption that everyone drives everywhere, the authorities are exceedingly reluctant to take away people's driving privileges. As a result, innocent people get killed.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

If you think the Lockmart pride socks or Raytheon girls coding camps are a disgusting way to market the defense industry to women and minorities, I need you to understand that Palantir and the Thielites are the alternative to that

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

this is why stewart’s oscillation between Voice of Moral Authority and Just a Comedian, Relax! has always been a bad idea

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

They like Republicans and want to help them rule over us

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Well MAYBE if we weren’t assured over and over that the libs were being hysterical we wouldn’t be in this position

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Alternatively, they could kidnap you, fly you to a foreign nation, and then pay the foreign government execute you and bury you with no trace, and keep all records secret for national security.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

yellen in a world of uncertainty

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Look, he doesn’t have dementia, but he is a shameless, lying, egomaniac. That’s been clear from the beginning though.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The imperial presidency is finally eating the Constitution. Arguably every modern president has repeatedly violated the Bill of Rights under the guise of national security. Now a president is shredding Article 1 and Article 3, too.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments