Generationalize

With Republicans, every accusation is a confession. JD Vance has been engaged in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate speech this entire campaign.

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

I had a private conversation with another rapid responder in late January where we both confessed to having been listening to Battle Hymn of the Republic late at night a bunch

“I thought you had a degree from Columbia?” “Yeah, well, now I need one from America.”

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Democrats laying the groundwork for real opposition, with Congress asserting budget authority to stand against Trump abuses and rights violations. Will have to overcome cries that not passing Trump's budget is irresponsible. But it's the opposite. And starting now makes that hurdle easier to clear.

Just turning into one of those days where I want Jane here to be put in charge of everything.

Democrats really need to get ahead of what is clearly going to be a “we had brilliant economic plans that the Democrats messed up when they were just about to pay off.” The GOP is the party of bad economic policies that cannot and will never work, either in the short or long term.

Seems worthwhile to have this out of replies

When people don't trust you anymore, it doesn't stop based on where you think it should stop. They just don't trust you.

A minimal requirement that might help with what’s currently going on.

Feels underrated.

The thing about pointing out failures, lies, hypocrisies, and inconsistencies is that they build upon each other And, they give others permission to push in new directions. Like this one, which also happens to align with the GOP tendency to do the bidding of the Saudis and other oil-rich states.

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

Psssst….thats because we started a war with them.

The current administration has worked on the presumption that NOTHING about the rule of law has to be respected - not norms, processes, court orders, legislation, “settled law” - so the only way to prevent that going forward is to force a full examination of the presumption and its natural outcomes.

The idea that, after everything that's happened, a future Dem administration/DOJ would just be forced to respect blanket, preemptive pardons issued by Trump to cover up crimes, is absurd. The pardon power is not a magic spell that we are helpless to overcome.

I encourage any future Dem President to think along these lines and keep pressing until the other side is willing to accept a return of the rule of law. Unilateral disarmament doesn't work bsky.app/profile/gran...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

We all complain about headlines too much, but if your headline ends with "the White House said" or "Trump said" you are probably just giving the most valuable words in your article over to propaganda

This is what Trump wrought and the Republican supported it.

Mrs. Miller complains that Dems want to [checks her highlighted passage] prosecute those who committed federal crimes

Everyone in the Trump administration is more horrible than everyone else in the Trump administration. It's a gruesome paradox.

The success of Starlink as a force multiplier SHOULD allow the United States to broker not only a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine but re-establish military and diplomatic dominance for the United States. But the president and his fans like Putin and other dictators too much for that.

Fundraising is a drag and a problem, no question, but you know what I’ve never heard a filmmaker say in my whole life? “The problem was, I had too much time to make this film.” You WANT the process. The process is the deciding factor on whether it’s good. There is no skipping it.

Once upon a time, Americans took pride that people would leave other countries and come to the USA because it was so much better

The sheer psychic damage of losing Texas and other states by clear margins might just do to large amounts of the party faithful what it seemingly did to Dem leadership after Nov 2024: stunned acceptance and aimless disorganization Running up the numbers is an exercise in preventing violence tbh!

These days, whenever I speak of my once-upon-a-time military service, current events usually induce me to add “…for all the good it did.” A thought this guy has occasionally as well, no doubt.

Jan 2025: Trump shutters SDNY Epstein Probe Mar: 1000+ FBI agents are trained to mark Trump’s name for supervisory review May: Bondi tells Donald he’s in the files June: White House, DoJ, FBI conspire to create “case closed” memo July: Memo released Aug: Maxwell moved/sex offender status waived

Every fucking day:

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

As a metaphor, this is basically an acceptable idea that was poorly executed and I really want the takeaway for these folks to be the much more prevalent “terrible ideas with horrible implications that are poorly executed.”

Drop a BAD-ASS ONE-LINER

Hegseth’s staff broke Eisenhower’s globe. The symbolism is too much to bear. (And of course, they ignored the TRAINED EXPERTS WHO HANDLE HISTORICAL ITEMS. Because EDUCATION? EXPERTISE? WHO NEEDS IT?….im going to get some coffee…)

Republicans are bad faith liars who engage in Olympic sport-levels of projection. www.metrotimes.com/news/mike-ro...

Unburying from replies because holy forking shirtballs this and also (as noted later in the thread) “alcohol is rather effective against anxiety” explains so much about everything.

I keep seeing these “humanitarian” mentions and reading it as ”like a vegetarian, but with humans”

I’ll be sure to care about what the GOP says about protecting women and children when they stop being the pedophile-supporting party.

Donald Trump has just claimed that the United States had done “a lot” for Ukraine, but that Ukraine has done “nothing” for the United States. This is unjust in the highest degree. And not just untrue in the normal sense — it is a big lie, designed to bring about horror and chaos.

it's not the only problem in the world but it seems very clear to me that better ADHD support leads to better real-world outcomes, and that the delta between outcomes for the well-supported and unsupported is frequently enormous

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Hah. They’re both right.👇

It feels like the Democrats should have some plans in place for unexpected sympathy votes, just in case the October surprise happens to be Trump dropping dead.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

An $8Bil bailout that says vote Republican, we'll implement punishing farm policies that hurt you, and maybe, just maybe, 14 days before an election, we'll realize it, then panic to pay you off