so happy to see this mendacious piece of shit go down at last newrepublic.com/post/217070/...

Make Susan Collins Pay for Her Big Abortion Lie

The Maine senator has spent the week prevaricating about her vote for Brett Kavanaugh. It’s time for her reckoning.

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A TRANS WOMAN WON ALABAMA HOUSE DISTRICT 25! (West side of Madison County / Huntsville)

trans rights are human rights muthah truckahs & i, a white cishet married dad guy, will die upon this hill

Remember when a huge portion of civil society including corporate leaders, top law firms, and elite universities decided to submit to Trump's authoritarianism? And it was legitimized because he won in 2024 with <checks notes> 49.7% of the popular vote? What now?

This has been true for quite some time, and people are only just now starting to catch up to this fact. Better late than never.

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Ross Douthat out here doing Ross Douthat things.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2d ago

When asked in a follow up in Palestine had a 'right to exist', Abdul says yes. When asked the same about Israel, Abdul says yes, clarifying that the question can't be detached from the question of Palestinian rights and self-determination and that it is a motte and bailey from the pro-Israel POV.

When asked in a follow up in Palestine had a 'right to exist', Abdul says yes. When asked the same about Israel, Abdul says yes, clarifying that the question can't be detached from the question of Palestinian rights and self-determination and that it is a motte and bailey from the pro-Israel POV.

The Atlantic, jesse singal. NYT etc we can thank these feckless, bad faith liars for this

Washington State Democrats@wadems.org · 2w ago

Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638

i'm sorry but 9 democratic socialists going to congress is big. Angie Nixon and Abdul El-Sayed winning their primaries is big. Hickenlooper nearly losing to a challenger with no money or endorsements is big.

Newsom is a weakling who will get rolled by MAGA on women’s rights, trans rights and civil rights. He’s exactly the wrong person for this moment. You don’t defeat extremists by agreeing w them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

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For most normal people, there r clear limits to the extent to which theyre okay putting lipstick on a pig, whether in terms of how much actual lipstick to apply or how long they’ll keep doing it. There is no such limit for republicans or conservatives writ large. They will double down, forever

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Respectfully to my family and friends who partake, but pickleball is a scourge and must be stopped. That is the true fight before us. Tennis dies in the pickleball darkness.

Ask Trump to disavow Nick Fuentes and the Charlottesville Nazis and. Basically, all the white supremaists that work for him first

CNN@cnn.com · 3w ago

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, during a heated exchange at a town hall. https://cnn.it/4s7r1TL

Everybody, omg questions have been raised Foh @newsweek.com

Serious statesman doing serious things

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump: "They are Dumocrats. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb."

If you can see me share Alaa.

Mama_twins@hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Gaza is under bombardment right now. We don’t understand what is happening here The bombing is literally everywhere The aircraft are flying extremely low,making terrifying sounds that are impossible to describe. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.Don’t let the world become numb to what is happening here.

What I find fascinating about this isn’t that his numbers are so low—it’s that it took this monumental scale of sheer criminality, misdeeds and corresponding societal collapse for his base to finally question, doubt, and eventually lose trust. And he still has support. Amazing.

Legacy media’s sanewashing of Trump’s campaign appearances as 'speeches' bears less and less resemblance to the reality of his verbal incontinence...Responsible coverage would highlight his mental unfitness daily, provide ample extracts of rants, and play them back: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Words & Phrases: A Crazy Rant Isn’t a ‘Speech’ or an ‘Interview’

🚨 28 Days to the Midterms 🚨

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Just when I thought I’d seen the most honest headline from the NYT in a while, they follow it up on the same above the fold with doozy about Trump “making the same mistake as Biden” amazing. They can’t help themselves. Everything always has to be balanced so avoid any charge if liberal Bias

Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70

$500M illegal dollars, towards a election bribe 2 months before the midterms. Never forget Biden and his team eventually succumbed and claimed they couldn't do this without legal challenges. Just. do. stuff.

Michael Froomkin@mfroomkin.bsky.social · last mo.

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

Never forget that Rufo was introduced to the world, broadly, by mainstream legacy outlets who platformed him as a reasonable, moderate, thoughtful voice of a new kind of conservatism, whose bad faith lies were framed as somehow worthy of discussion and debate. They do it every time.

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · last mo.

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

This is dumb for many reasons, but the big and obvious one is, once again for the people in back, you can’t present political polarization in this country as a bothsides issue. It’s not. We have to be honest and name things as they are. Conservatives are the source of the polarization.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · last mo.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx

There are infinite pathologies associated with fascists, but a core one is that they are all, at the end of the day, fundamentally lazy people who never check their work or do the readings. Their whole schtick doesn’t require accuracy, honesty, or precision, so it makes sense. But still.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

Karma rooted in a fundamental incompetence is a real thing. You can only use words to lie about the actual existing world around you for so long. People eventually look up whenever they choose & see things as they are. “Who you gonna believe me or your lyin eyes” is NOT a recipe for the long term.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · last mo.

radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...

Aka “Repubs/conservatives lie/fear monger about white taxpayers paying for black/brown inner city welfare queens & fraud—then lie about true feature-not-bug, systemic origins of market failings and corporate malfeasance, greed”

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last mo.

"However reflexive or held under erasure, conservation principles misrepresent the coordinated macro-operations of public and private balance sheets as immanent transfers of individuated value while naturalizing exogenous explanations of economic behavior and causality."