The aftermaths of the u.s. civil war and world war II teach a number of clear lessons. "We can all reconcile and move forward together" is not among them.

When someone violates the law, we don't refer to the state investigation and/or prosecution as "getting even" with the lawbreaker. We call it accountability with due process.

MS NOW@ms.now · 6h ago

"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.

it's been so long since mississippi has had a black senator that the last one was born enslaved

Sen. Warnock was just asked on CNN if Dems will focus on costs *or* corruption, and he responded "We can walk & chew gum at the same time." Hell yes, that is the message.

Breaking: Buc-ee's to close all Texas locations

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is interesting. A brand openly announcing it will only be available in Republican-led states.

My dude finally got to see a massacre.

it's not that Dems and leftists need to be assholes, or dirtbags. It's that we have to end the bogus and self-defeating worship of civility. Uncivil people don't deserve civility. When someone advocates for politics of bigotry, cruelty and murder the proper response is to fuck them up.

daviss@daviss.org · 11h ago

From @frederickmelo.bsky.social:

Look, as we know from court records, Trump should have no problem with this. He’s all about unwanted probing

The only way I want Dems to “reach across the aisle” is to hand out subpoenas

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The challenge we face is “the Republican Party still exists and their leadership are not yet wearing orange jumpsuits”, Mr. President. That hands-across-the-aisle sentiment might play well on Threads, but this is Bluesky. We’re the “…and then salt the earth” crew.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 13h ago

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

We gotta bully the fuck out of these Democrats on behalf of trans kids and trans rights. It's literally our responsibility.

listen up democrats: we did not vote for you for y'all to find common ground and reach across the aisle. we voted for you to crush our enemies, to see them driven before us, to hear the lamentations of their women

whose your favorite person to imagine lying in bed right now utterly miserable after being obliterated by losses and petrified of the Democrat retaliation to come? mine’s Stephen Miller

btw, Hinojosa was one of the Texas legislators who left the state to try to quorum bust the redistricting last year, and Paxton tried to remove her from office that's incoming Texas Governor Gina Hinojosa and unemployed Ken Paxton, for reference

This is a mandate for impeachments, abolishing ICE, prosecuting corruption, investigating DOGE and demolishing whatever wedding cake monstrosities get built before the family flees to some jurisdiction without an extradition treaty

It feels so weird to say “well done, voters of Texas”

the internet is a place on earth.

Incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee:

Rep. Robert Garcia@robertgarcia.house.gov · 16h ago

LAWYER UP.

Justice is great, sure. Accountability? Fantastic stuff. But hear me out: have you considered revenge

Looking forward to tech billionaire douchefucks all of a sudden sucking up to Democrats again. Carve "MAGA" on their goddamn foreheads so no one forgets.

we are going to have pronouns you xeople won’t believe

even in a flawed democracy like the US it feels fucking great to have a national quorum to tell one specific guy that hes stupid and you fucking hate his guts

Update: LOL. FURTHERMORE: LMAO Yeah sex is great but have you ever heard someone tell Steve Bannon that exit polls show that young men are evenly split between Dems and Republicans and he goes silent and then says, in a very soft voice: "that can't be right"

so fucking embarrassing to live in a country where we are still doing "first Black woman to _______" after two goddamn hundred and fifty years

In another pickup for Dems, Donald Trump's hand has flipped blue

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Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when the Republican Party steps into an open sewer and dies.