Retiredlibrarian

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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This is a hoot, because RW social media has been selling this as either a false flag created by libs, or produced by a random loose cannon in a vain attempt to save his bacon. The only thing I can think of is that he decided he couldn’t take living in Columbus for four years.

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A lot of Democrats seem to think abandoning trans rights removes a weapon from the right. Conservatives are now yelling about a "red-green alliance" and sending operatives to try and embarrass Muslim candidates. If you're defending oppressed minorities they'll ALWAYS find a weapon. You should too.

Zelensky is right 👇

Says the guy who *admitted* making up stories about Hatians eating cats and dogs.

Voters will, and I cannot stress this enough, ALWAYS say taxes are too high. This is one of the reasons you have to tell people over and over what their taxes are doing. A lot won’t listen, but when we don’t tell people what stuff costs it’s easier for ‘tAxEs ArE THeFt!’ to take hold.

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”i am a moderate on hustle“ = “I believe in whatever level of ‘ hustle‘ (;)) that will maximize the admission of white men to selective institutions“

There is no dialogue with the Sensible Moderates: they are *not listening to a word you say*, and they never have listened to anything you said. When you speak, they are only thinking about their next smart retort, and they only ever hear a noise like a cow mooing or Donald Duck throwing a tantrum.

This morning's message from Indivisible

Fox News talks a lot about the WNBA, but it’s not because it likes to see talented female athletes putting the ball in the hoop. To Fox, women’s sports is good for 2 things: 1. To agitate for white grievance. 2. To foment anti-trans hate. (This is No. 1, but there’s a lot of No. 2 on Fox as well.)

Rick Scott oversaw the biggest medicare fraud in history while leading a company in the private sector.

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

Please don’t sit this one out! #Pinks #USDemocracy

And these remakes always suck, because the good guys never win.

It’s easy to figure out. Telling rich people what they want to hear is attractive to rich patrons.

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

It is really, really, really hard to find any group of people who hates the countries they live in, its culture, and achievements as much and so viscerally as the far right.

The White House Press Corps should just boycott the White House and stop covering Trump in solidarity with their colleagues. He would wither without any media attention.

"he's not wrong that the GOP has a white supremacy problem and yet REFUSES TO ADMIT that the fundamental cause of white supremacy is other people being Black."

If you’ve ever dated an abuser, you recognize this language immediately

This kind of wimpy-ass mindset is a big reason why we’re in this godawful mess. Republicans are literally turning the US into a fascist theocracy, while Democrats like Jeffries refuse to acknowledge reality and live in a fantasy world where they’re all “colleagues.”

On Sept. 10, 2026, Trump led his followers in a public pledge to "cheat like hell" in the midterms. The New York Times didn't put that fact in a headline, instead sticking it in the 3rd paragraph of a story on Page 22 of its print edition.

There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...

Only an immoral evil criminal fascist would deliberately start a trade war with Canada in order to destroy a very longstanding alliance and turn some of the nicest people on earth into an enemy out of spite. Glad to see Canadians fighting against the orange felon.

Because Republicans. They never did.

It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.

What a stone asshole. How about an extra year to be happily married, see their grandkids, travel, work in the garden? We aren’t made for the GNP. We are made to live.

Perspective.

This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.

this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...

BREAKING: The House REJECTS a constitutional amendment to keep the Supreme Court locked at 9 justices. Mwuhahahaha www.cbsnews.com/news/house-s...

The paradox of tolerance. Racism is just another morally neutral "viewpoint" and how dare you suppress my "viewpoints"

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

It turns out Trump's "Freedom Fuel" network is a crooked as he is. They stiffed the distributor for the gas they were selling, according to a law suit. The operators have a lot of prior legal action against them. Birds of a feather, and all that. [gift link: wapo.st/4qMtzGv]

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

To be fair, Trump’s dearest freedom is freedom from paying his bills.

TBF, Johnson be got impeached only half as many times as Trump, so he is obviously mediocre.