And that's precisely why MAGA votes with superior regularity. They do not want to live in a republic.

Rightardia@rightardia.bsky.social · 2h ago

"A core feature of the modern GOP is the party’s open and obvious disdain for democracy." Source: By permission of Mike Luckovich and Creators Syndicate and Daily Kos, Lisa Needham

Huh. Normally, being fucked twice brings a smile to our faces...

Blue Oleta@blue-oleta.bsky.social · 5h ago

Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?

Dems will never have a single clue that religion in GENERAL, not just these extremist Opus Dei and Dominionists, is the most destructive force ever vomited into US culture.

Tom Carter@thcarter123.bsky.social · 9h ago

The Heritage Foundation is run by Opus Dei Catholics Kevin Roberts and Roger Severino. More than 50% of the 100 orgs behind Project 2025 were funded by Opus Dei affiliated Leonard Leo. Miss the faith driven politics and you miss the story. jesspiper.substack.com/p/give-them-...

Well, of course 47 is the cause of this, too. His particular role in this spacetime game is to accelerate the demise of not just the US's empire, but to help bring about the destruction of as many ecosystems as possible.

Martijon@martijon.bsky.social · 3h ago

Strait closure. “Biofouling may result in a massive marine super-spreader event if preventative measures prove inadequate. Algae, microbes, and invertebrates (such as barnacles and mussels) spawn remarkably fast, colonizing the submerged sides and bottoms of ships after only ten days.” Idiocracy.

He's a shoo-in now. MAGA wants the end of the republic. They're in charge of this show. Dems are not in any way in charge of any of the publicly acceptable narratives or convos.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 1h ago

On a private call, Todd Blanche said his goal was to make the "Dobbs decision permanent in every single state." This isn’t just a confirmation vote anymore—it’s a roll-call vote on which Senators endorse BANNING abortion in ALL 50 states. I’m voting NO.

MAGA won't rest until the country is in default... then will blame Dems for it.

Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙@dovewoman.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump promised to get the National Debt lowered. In fact he said he’d eliminate our $19T debt. Under him, it’s now approaching $40T. To make matters worse, we’re losing revenue from the immigrants leaving & tax cuts to the wealthy! #Blues

Good. Finally, we might have evidence that Dems woke up for an election!!!!

Joshua B. Hoe@joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 22h ago

One thing people should notice, Dems are turning out in almost 2X the numbers of GOP in Michigan so far for this

Roadmaps.

@darren32359.bsky.social · 10h ago

The DNC will NOT allow this to be replicated.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 5h ago

"If Abdul El-Sayed can win this fall, he’ll have handed his party a roadmap," writes @peterbeinart.bsky.social. "Democrats across the country should be taking notes."

Young people under 40 better wake tf up- this 80 year old dirty stink is destroying your future. The 5 guys running this country put this party fluffer in charge of “cosmetics”, so you don’t notice them.

I dare say that there’s really nothing the Right can do to force women to rise up. They’ve already kept the file names secret, gotten rid of abortion rights, are going after contraceptives and now this? Rise up or you get Handmaids Tale.

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

All of them are now free to mount up after the midterms if the Right is DESTROYED at the polls, and attack the Capitol again if Dominionist Johnson doesn't state very clearly that he will not swear any new Dems in. I think he'll make it clear he will NOT be swearing them in tho.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 7h ago

A disappointing decision. A federal judge reluctantly dismissed the remaining criminal charges against eight Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack after the Justice Department requested the case be thrown out.

In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.

How many clues to you all need to recognize that we've fully reached Empire's End. No nation that demands legalized psychopathology will recover. It will CRUMBLE into the dustbin of history.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h ago

What once would have been a pitch in a writers’ room for tastelessly edgy joke in a comedic satire of a deranged country full of greedy sociopaths is now our reality.

He is being 100% supported by every person who could end this madness. THAT'S BY DESIGN. Too many powerful donors are on the Epstein list, 47's insider trading game is too lucrative for Congress (and others) and chaos is the foundation of restructuring the US into a fascist state.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 5h ago

“The Reflecting Pool mess is different from other Trump obsessions because it reveals just how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become, even when a trusted lieutenant wheels an entire box of supporting evidence into the Oval Office.”

I'm gonna use a prediction market to wager that RFKJ is working on the entire lower 48 getting hit so he can declare victory.

NBC10 Boston@nbcboston.com · 7h ago

A massive cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce has expanded to an additional six states, including New Hampshire, according to a source familiar with the matter. on.nbcboston.com/lLW9sHB

Yet more lies.

Come on!!! Do better!!!! You were soooooooo close.

This is truly incredible. MAGA is seeing the result of their stupidity and I'm going to wash with their tears today.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7h ago

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

Of course, the Right will claim a conspiracy theory... that he was secretly tazed, or poisoned, or spooked, etc. When you hear about that let me know what they say.

I, too, live in the basin in the late 70s and early 80s and it was terrible then. Now? It's the exact opposite. That gas reformulation mandate did it and 47 wants it totally ended. Fuck. Him.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 8h ago

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

A sitting POTUS literally forced charges on an Olympian with a crime over a gigantic mistake HE HIMSELF MADE (we're talking about the Reflecting Pool here). Let that sink in. It means he will do ANYTHING to prevent anyone from seeing himself as less than absolutely perfect. Fuck 47 with a cactus.

A reminder that 47's reign will NOT be ended by the BBC's lawsuit.

THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......

Honestly is anyone surprised? I'm not. This is what you get when you elect a criminal who wants to be king to be President. Project 2025 told us exactly what was going to happen. And here we are.

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

The Civil Rights Act spurred pre-MAGA into a violent frenzy precisely like they're doing NOW with ICEstapo. Only, this time it's against anyone who's brown. There will be continued iterations of this violence across time bcuz Americans worship chaos, not cohesion.

Yes. They did. And they intend the same thing to happen after the midterm. And they'll be pardoned again. Only this time, since Dominionist Johnson is in charge he doesn't have to seat them. HIS CHOICE. NOT THE VOTERS.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h ago

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

No matter how much 47 and MAGA blusters, their Red States will continue this march toward greener energy sources anyway. So will the rest of the world.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterday

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.