the party's entire message on rising costs of living is either: 1. it's not happening, fake news 2. even if it *is* happening, fuck you

there's, like, zero messaging coordination going on with this white house now. we're three months out from a midterm that's looking increasingly bad, and everyone's just tap dancing their way through because president grandpa doesn't know what day it is and can't stay awake long enough to learn

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 23h ago

vance should be legally required to wear a hot dog costume in every public appearance until the war is over

vance should be legally required to wear a hot dog costume in every public appearance until the war is over

Low oil prices now ‘goal No. 1’ in Iran war, Vance says, as U.S. threatens new economic pressure

Oil prices rose Friday after Washington threatened an indefinite naval blockade and signaled it would soon intensify economic pressure on Tehran with “measures like have never been seen.”

nbcnews.com

This came across my TL immediately after a story about how Springfield, Ohio has mandated every Haitian immigrant wear an ankle monitor.

trump really loves the idea that he’s an ideas guy and like most ideas guys, he’s an annoying, stupid asshole who doesn’t know what he’s talking about

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2d ago

Most of our current awful policies are attributable to either simple corruption or gutter racism, but a shocking amount of the remainder comes down to “Some guy told Trump a random crackpot thing, he decided it was true, and no amount of evidence or argument can disabuse him of it.”

The right to vote is predicated solely on citizenship status and age. Registration is predicated on residence. Any other line curtails rights.

Poop

I think what we're seeing around the internet right now, vis a vis AOC & her ex-boyfriend & her eggs, is just a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the absolute madness that will break out if she runs for president. No matter how f'ing weird you think people will be about it, they will be much, much weirder.

America is simply weird & fucked up about women. Even more weird & fucked up about beautiful women. Even more weird & fucked up about beautiful women of color. Even more weird & fucked up about highly intelligent, articulate, opinionated beautiful women of color. The weirdest & fucked upest ...

I love the way the media pitches Democratic primaries “between the party’s left and center factions” as somehow more concerning than Republican primaries between the party’s crazy and fully delusional factions.

But they were, all of them, deceived; for another Woke was made...

Reflecting Pool. Arch. And Ballroom The voters in 2024 were extremely clear about these demands

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”

can you imagine a democratic politics that doesn't center around the idea that voters are dumb as shit and you have to work within whatever scraps of information you assume they may have about whatever policy question

that's what Trump is about. the white supremacists realizing that white supremacy is now really a partisan endeavor and that the other side will in fact take the country somewhere else if they can.

Hottest year on record, widespread droughts, massive wildfires across the entire hemisphere

awkword@awkword.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Trump admin admitted in court that they canceled nearly $8 billion in grants for clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state”. apnews.com/article/trum...

there’s a whole fucking category of ill advised thoughts that go through everyone’s head on a constant basis, things that have no justification or are meaner or stupider than you want to appear, and learning not to say those things because of *how they make you sound* is part of being an adult

For the purpose of "allowed to feel sad about it", 9/11 only happened to white people who were at least 3 states away. For the purpose of "required to perform sadness about it," it happened to everyone (but those people in the first group get to decide if you're offensive no matter what you perform)

“hey that thing youre all enjoying relies on just a touch of good faith. some prick could exploit that. i could exploit that. i would get invited on podcasts and its just for your own good. i need to be a prick to show you that someone else (not me) might be a prick about this”

a large part of being a conservative is pretending they are “pretending” to be a prick to prove a point when they really just want to be a prick because they are pricks at heart and thats who they are

Forbes@forbes.com · 7d ago

WBNA eligibility rules don't use any external measures to say what defines a "woman."

Cities aren't loud

assigning and writing a story like this validating an invented and bigoted narrative propogated by mamdani's enemies about him is a choice — one they repeatedly make for progressive politicians and never make for republicans

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 7d ago

This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.

Hate to play the game, but really imagine if Obama mused on being "allowed" to just take things if he feels like it.

Why is everyone surprised the US lost 23 thousand jobs in July? You have cut tourism in half. Other countries are turning their business elsewhere to avoid tariffs. No one can afford housing, new vehicles etc. Come on. This shouldn’t be a surprise.

I am so tired of having the stupidest, shittiest fucking people in the heights of power. Like, they’re doing damage and hurting people and that is genuinely the salient point but their fucking stupidity and complete lack of anything resembling taste is fucking infuriatingly obnoxious and I hate it.

“The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.” -Hunter S. Thompson ~2 weeks after 9/11

Like I said yesterday, whether or not you think public sentiment on data centers is correct, it is what it is rn and it is political malpractice of the highest order to see ppl ripshit mad about that and be like "I love them actually, they look incredible"

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump: It's a mistake to be against data centers. I don't think they're unsightly. They're the most incredible buildings I've ever seen

It is funny that the left response to burrioto taxi discourse is charts/data and the right response is “stop being a fat commie”

Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️@lvtyimby.bsky.social · last wk.

How it started vs. how it's going

I don't think even the most far left Democrat has campaigned on any policies as radical as what the Republicans are currently doing.

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.