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Seeing the same stuff from the right in local small town politics. The same stuff they do over and over. And our answer is always the same: righteous moral outrage that only gives the clout chasing provocateurs more attention. Then the right wins. Maybe taking the bait is the problem 🤷‍♂️

ICE is committing crimes and violating our rights. DSA: then we should stop them from committing crimes. The best way to do that is to abolish ICE. Jeffries and every liberal: ICE can commit their crimes, as long as we prosecute them after!

Nothing says "resistance" like demanding more militarism toward North Korea just to own Trump. No thanks. You can criticize him for his actual crimes and fascism without sounding like Dick Cheney.

Shout-out to the 90s kids.

When you spend two weeks debugging data stream code that breaks from a typo you made two years ago.

The only thing moderate Dems will ever stand up against is their own voters.

Interesting that she did not call for this after the 2024 election loss or the DNC chair race. Only after a slate of DSA wins.

I think we could save a lot of time and drama if we just give Iran some nuclear weapons.

Seeing lots of Platner news. I like a lot of his stated politics. But can we wait to see a record for putting him on a pedestal? I want him to be what he says he is, but I can also understand the red flags people see.

You could literally post "the DNC is an incompetent mess" every week with no additional context and everyone would know exactly which current event you're talking about.

Sounds like most of the Chorus people.

The ACP is socialism with divorced dad characteristics

If AI is the planned obsolescence of capitalism, maybe obsolescence isn't the problem. The problem is who is doing the planning.

Listening to Death Cab for Cutie's Plans for the first time in years. My 20-year too late hot take: A lot of songs are Tegan and Sarah with better bass lines. Still love it though!

Damn. Accurate, but damn.

The resistance party 🙄

There are a lot of progressives who don't find Kotek an effective leader for this moment. Many will still vote for her if she's the nominee, but enthusiasm drives turnout. She won with less than 50% in 2022.

If Dems were serious about resistance the SOTU response would be ilhan Omar Minneapolis.

Seeing all the "communism never works" comments from Americans is kind of hilarious. China gains influence via trade, finance and partnerships, not bullets and bombs. Meanwhile the US expects results from belligerence and threats.

Prophesy from 2019. Relevant for everyone aghast that some people don't think Newsom is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

More Epstein files? Good. But they are so big that no one actually reads them. I'm already seeing a new "liberal Qanon" start to form.

Anyone else see Whitney cummings on the daily show? Are we supposed to ignore she's been flirting with maga for years?

Before body cams were sold to us as accountability they were pitched by the "law and order" crowd as data collection and to prosecute more low level crime.

Reading comment sections in libertarian groups today. The infighting makes it clear. Some libertarians just hate overbearing government. The rest are in the "comply or die" camp.

Dems not taking the lead to keep Israel within the bounds of international law have left the issue open for real, overt antisemites to take over the GOP. Don't forget these people are good at creating onramps and radicalization pipelines.

One less blue maga on my feed 🙃

My nominee for worst online content trend of 2025 is handheld tiny microphone influencers.

Oh how times have changed

The satire writes itself these days

Mine are that most of our leaders are stupid and the ones with good advice are mocked and ignored until it's too late.

Y'all know Trump saying crazy shit on social media is part of the strategy right? He knows his ramblings take up the news cycle. You hear about it, instead of something more important that happened that day. It's reality TV. It's a low form of art, but it is a performance.

Some of the criticisms of jasmine Crockett might land better if you don't use racially charged language. Also, it seems most of it centers around Israel. Is Talarico really that different on the issue?

Watching Arianna Huffington promote AI like it’s a wellness app. Everyone forgets she wrote the contract for America and an unconstitutional anti-immigrant bill. I'm not even necessarily against AI, but the marketing consistently asks us to ignore the risks.

Anyone else feel like a good little social democrat Monday mornings, then somewhere around Wednesday afternoon you want to build a guillotine out of discarded fax machines and TPS reports, or is it just me? 🏴Ⓐ♥️🖤🙃

It's always funny when people hold up Reagan as some super pro gun stalwart. The modern gun control movement starts with him signing the 1967 Milford Act in California. Did he change his mind later? No, he also wrote a letter encouraging Congress to pass the 1994 federal assault weapon ban.

Advice for those awkward thanksgiving get together. Make it more awkward.

Just read through the comment section on this and it's almost entirely very confident middle aged white guys who don't know actual definitions of words.

So many Trump staffers look like animatronics when they talk. Karoline Leavitt, RFK jr and Kash Patel especially. I'm not even high.

It's pretty clear right wing influencers prepared their post Epstein vote messaging. (Coordinating with the party I'm sure.) Meanwhile Dems are waiting on the files, traditional media and I'm not sure what else.