I don't think people understand how bad the aftermath of the midterms is going to be. He literally can't conceive of losing a fair election.

Max Boot@maxboot.bsky.social · 3d ago

A report from an alternative universe where Trump’s poll numbers haven’t cratered and he hasn’t lost the Iran war.

What I don't understand is that the victim is Senator Moreno's Daughter!!! Fuck political parties; if someone who abused my daughter were running for office, I'd do literally everything I could to help their opponent. If I were a US Senator, I'd be *campaigning for them.*

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · last wk.

Records of the investigation into potential child abuse show that Moreno told detectives that Rep. Max Miller had previously thrown hot water at her, shoved her,& held a gun to her head; therefore, she couldn’t rule out that Miller caused their daughter’s fracture www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you won't defend 100 trans athletes when it's unpopular, you sure as hell won't defend 30 million Black people when it's unpopular (hint: It's ALWAYS been unpopular). If defending the marginalized is a political calculus before it's a moral calling to you, you're not a leader.

Scott Witte@scottwitte.bsky.social · last wk.

Tom, suburban, college educated women are scared of “boys in girls sports”. Not arguing it, but that’s what polling shows. Same with runaway DEI and open borders. Again, not gonna argue, that’s just what reality is. If Dems stick to those things, independents and mod Rs are lost, again.

The claim that unicorns don’t exist is not an evidence-based statement because studies have not ruled out the possibility that unicorns exist.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry what

Reminder: There is far more evidence that the President raped children than there is that there was any meaningful voter fraud in a recent American Election.

The thing that hurt me the most about Philando Castile’s murder is that he compiled. He did everything they tell you to do in order to survive a run in with the police. And he was still murdered. That man was murdered infront of his wife and child because of a scary ass police officer.

Democrats, This is how we do it. Hammer home that these people are just deeply unhealthy mentally...."weird" if you will. No normal person would ever wanna hang out with any of them.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3w ago

About Pete Hegseth’s talk about testosterone for service members … Rep Becca Balint (D-VT): “There are so many people in this Administration that have some weird, intense homoerotic feelings toward men, while also being homophobic”…

Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.

Sometimes I’m like I can’t run for office because of the shitty books I wrote when I was ten and this guy’s like hi, I’m a serial killer

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.

Even if you don't trust the word of his accusers against his... Platner's campaign-ending video should end all doubt that he's unfit to hold office. Such tone-deafness. Such victimhood. Such entitlement. It's truly astonishing he got this far.

Trump: If you don't vote for me, I'll kill a puppy. *I Vote for Kamala* *Trump kills a puppy* Media: Did Trump kill a puppy for political reason? Who can say?

Politico@politico.com · 4w ago

Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states. Yet two days earlier, he had approved FEMA disaster aid for six Republican-led states. The move is raising questions about whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.

Oh My GOD, the entitlement. YOU HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT YOUR TWENTY PLUS YEAR HISTORY OF BAD DECISIONS!

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4w ago

"We engaged in electoral politics. We motivated people. We banded together. We did it the way that we were told we are supposed to make change, and we won, and now they are not going to let us have it," Platner says.

I have never been as invested in a Soccer game as I was ARG-EGY. Fine Soccer, you win. I'm in. And Argentina has made an enemy for life today.

I can't believe I have to say this, but if your response is "to question the timing" or to stop believing women because they're saying something you don't want to be true... ...you sound like MAGA defending *their* rapist. If you want to claim moral superiority, you have to act morally superior.

I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”

American soccer fans disappointed in the men’s World Cup should join the rest of us next year for the regular World Cup.

Republicans demanding Platner resign because we need zero tolerance for sexual assault can go fuck themselves. After years of defending, minimizing, and excusing powerful men accused of sexual abuse, your outrage carries exactly zero moral weight. Also, fuck Platner. Put Troy Jackson in.

The mediocre white men who backed Platner will face no reputational consequences and will still have their opinions and analyses valued more highly than those of us who didn't trust him from the jump.

Wait, you mean the guy who accidentally got a Nazi Tattoo may not have the judgement I want in a Senator?

Your Daily Reminder that no one in the Trump Administration has ever read the U.S. Constitution, and no Republican should be trusted when they say they respect it.

Trump DOJ sues Mass. over immigrant tuition law

The Trump administration opened up another front in its campaign to crack down on immigrant communities by asking a federal judge to scrap a Massachusetts law that lets high school graduates without l...

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I hope this court session killed the notion that Trump is the disease, not the symptom. We are in the midst of a civilizational battle over if we're a pluralist democracy or Gilead.

If you live in Massachusetts, you live in a state where trans kids have equal rights in school and on the field. We welcome people fleeing persecution in authoritarian states. We just need to work on our housing costs.

ACLU of Massachusetts@aclum.bsky.social · last mo.

Massachusetts does NOT ban trans youth from joining sports teams consistent with their gender identity, and instead, PROTECTS their ability to do so. Nothing in today's SCOTUS decision changes that.

I cannot emphasize enough how much this is true

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Stop blaming the left, it is counterproductive, same as when they blame liberals. Put the blame where it belongs: on Republicans. Who the fuck has time for infighting when the 14th Amendment, Reconstruction, and the actual outcome of the US Civil War are on life support. Tighten the fuck up.

This is a dangerous pattern with this Court: They find a delegation paired with a constraint, decide they don’t like the constraint, but appear totally untroubled by the idea that Congress delegated the power only *because* prior precedent assured them their constraints would be binding.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · last mo.

Accepting the (wrong) premise, if Congress created agencies and officers structured unconstitutionally, then the rule of law result would be striking down their existence and powers entirely. Instead the Court treats it like a one-way ratchet: grants of power by Congress upheld, limits struck down.

By Definition, if you win the Democratic Nomination, whatever your opinion of "the Democratic Party," Democratic VOTERS clearly like you. Isn't that, I dunno, the goal?

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

England must have nightmares about Massachusetts at this point.

President Trump is actually jealous of Belgium for at least getting a tie against Iran.

THAT'S HOW EVIDENCE WORKS!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Rep. Claudia Tenney: "There are thousands and thousands of cases of people voting in the wrong place, at the wrong time. This happens all the time. But the Democrats want to tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it."

Watching Netanyahu be like "I never thought the leopards would eat my face" has been *wild*