The fact that they say this shit out loud knowing it will appear in public is all the proof anyone should need that a lot of these people do not live in the world the rest of us live in and quite frankly their brains simply can't function properly anymore.
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 15h agoi encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice
if i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”
I think he's going to win, and it's mostly because of his accent on those long Os. Also, Trump's a dumb lunatic and Collins is his obedient lapdog, but it's mostly going to come down to the long Os.
Troy Jackson@troyjackson207.bsky.social · 3d agoMainers are done being fooled by Susan Collins. As always, she made sure the winds were blowing Trump's way before throwing away her vote. In November, she's going to realize we're not the idiots she makes us out to be.
Mr President, we have no time to waste. Get in the back of this horse costume
"Put more crisply, if you’re so worried about left-wing candidates getting nominations, stop sounding like a wuss in the midst of a grave national crisis." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/centr... "Centrists, This Is On You." TPM op ed. Worth reading.
‘Centrists,’ This Is on You
I’ve been observing the unfolding conversation about big DSA wins in New...
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Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoalso, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
Dems capitalizing on opposition to school vouchers isn't just an Iowa thing. Which makes sense. If you're a GOP voter who sees vouchers as an expensive giveaway to the rich or a state takeover of private schools, your party no longer represents you. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/02/r...
The Democrat betting that school vouchers can be a winning issue in red-state Iowa
Rob Sand is borrowing Republican language about waste and oversight to attack Iowa’s ESA program — and making vouchers central to his campaign for governor.
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I should credit @weedle.bsky.social. Here's the original post. A Bluesky all-timer.
Weedle@weedle.bsky.social · last yr.Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
Nice work supporting Trump by a wide margin, soldiers and veterans. Top-notch stuff. God forbid you vote for the lady who spent most of her career in public service and had a reputation for attention to detail rather than building an empire on empty promises, outright lies and overt fraud.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d agoIt sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
If you are campaigning against Democratic candidates in November, you're not a centrist or moderate, you're a Republican. Mainstream Dem leaders need to tell Third Way to shut up, and denounce them if they don't. #uspol. www.nytimes.com/2026...
Biden: 300,000 jobs a month, growth ~2.8%, wages growing, and robust savings rate, @nytimes.com: a recession Is coming! Trump: 20,000 jobs a month, GFP 1.5%, negative savings rate, real wage growth is negative, NYT: “slow but steady” F the NYT
“The warning signs are there from a very early, early age. You know, frankly from preschool,” [Alan Milburn] said. What warning signs??
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoPrimary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
One thing that's really evident about the pied-a-tierre tax: it was a brilliant move to call it that — everyone who argues against it sounds like they're defending tax-free caviar. Contrast to San Diego's "empty homes tax" ballot measure which lost 55-45 in a 70-30 Dem city.
I am once again begging Democratic lawmakers to wield their power as ruthlessly as Republicans always imagine they will.
When I say the Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse, the moral bankruptcy goes hand in hand with the vicious incompetence. As bad as they are, the young people they're hiring to succeed them will grow up even more irresponsible & incapable of accepting criticism or blame
"Sorry, my product randomly breaks the law sometimes" is not something we would tolerate from other industries. Maybe we shouldn't tolerate it with AI
all this talk of solving problems gets in the way of what voters care about most: hearing us talk about the need to talk about kitchen table issues
if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
May be wrong here, but my sense is there is a whole media apparatus that aggressively screens Dem candidates and cautions voters not to support the more left-wing candidate. And this is asymmetric. Credible media messengers don't police right-wing candidates the same way.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · last wk.VOTE BLUE NO MATTER... www.semafor.com/article/07/3...
This, from the WaPo Edit Board is genuinely stupid. It makes it sound like "dismiss[ing] a majority of the country as biased, ignorant or otherwise basely motivated" is some political no-no. This dismissal is precisely what Trumpism is! Their movement seems to be doing really well!
Trump is the authoritarian. He/the GOP have agency & own all the things now. But the media/societal enabling of this "Blue America are not Real Folkz & their cities are sh*tholes" rhetoric, for my entire lifetime, helped make it possible. It should have been banned from polite society decades ago.
Where is Ezra with his deep dive & podcast & op-eds about how Republicans need to stop talking like 👆 about the largest cities in America, where the majority of Americans live, & about going to those places & taking seriously the opinions of those people? We <never> get those. Why is that, exactly?
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is literally the campaign Harris ran: She pivoted to the center, something most leftists were happy to let her do because we understood the threat Trump poses. The thing Klein is suggesting here has been the campaigning tactic of mainstream Democrats for decades.
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Not the most important concern, but that James Carville keeps getting trotted out and used in fundraising emails is maybe the best example of "stuck in the 90s" thinking
Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.
we codify a lot of parasitic middlemen for a country that squawks incessantly about freedom and liberty
