the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.
This stuff happens so often with the far right authoritarian party that it’s not even news anymore. Our capacity for imagined Democratic slights of rural America is endless. Our shock at actual GOP demonization of the places where the vast majority of Americans actually live is ~nonexistent.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3w agoIf even a single municipal level Democrat talked like this it would be a week-long national scandal, complete with op-eds & podcasts from Ezra Douthglesias about how they are out of touch & don’t respect Real Folkz. This? Not even news. Total 🦗🦗 from those folks.
Racist chud relief pitchers? Those are labor leaders and they represent the will of the proletariat. CFOs? Let us turn to Lenin’s works on the aristocracy of labor, specifically 1920’s Preliminary Draft Theses on The Agrarian Question to see why CFOs are class trait…
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
man i wish Bluesky was a hive of far leftism like they say it is
“is the federal government assisting iran in their attacks on dem run states” is a legitimate question that needs to be asked
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoQ: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d agoIs there something beyond the death penalty
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 4d agoOne of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
39 percent of Americans think a thing that can’t think thinks better than them
David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery.com · 5d agoFor our latest @today.yougov.com newsletter, we polled Americans about whether they think AI is currently better or worse at thinking than a range of public figures, including Trump, Biden, Elon Musk, and @kenjennings.bsky.social. The full writeup: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/do-america...
Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
Zuckerberg decided to go after our kids nearly a decade ago and he’s still getting away with it
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.In 2017 Mark Zuckerberg decided that Meta's top priority would be teens, according to documents revealed by the state of Tennessee, which is suing the social media giant. The state said Meta's overall goal was to maximize the time teens spent on their social media platforms. /1
black pill yourself by googling how common this is, you won’t be the same
Ian Miles Schlong@tedcruznipples.com · 7d agoThis is the craziest headline I've ever seen
This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.
real heads know it’s not a god angry at our sins; it’s a malevolent demigod angry that we are part divine
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d agoIf this were a Greek myth or a bible story we would get a pandemic far worse than Covid this time around and be sinners in the hands of an angry God.
It’s crazy that everyone knows the president of the United States is a pedophile
Yeah but they also get a libidinal urge from cruelty towards people weaker than them that overrides any intellectual reasoning in favor of or against certain policy ideas.
Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · last wk.Your average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
Probably ought to start betting on the Dems losing the House
YouGov America@today.yougov.com · last wk.Economist/YouGov tracking, Feb 2025 → Jul 2026 Trump's net job approval (U.S. adult citizens): +6 → -24 GOP margin on the 2026 U.S. House ballot (registered voters): -0.3 → -6 Net approval fell ~30 points; the congressional margin moved ~6 yougov.com/en-us/articl...
