Harrydoesntmind

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

And a complete fraud by any standard in the universe. What's sad is that he doesn't try to hide his preferred methods of propaganda. He openly brags about his rhetorical strategies: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Maybe instead of all these thinkpieces about how to cut corners we tax the fuck out of the 1%.

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

This entire situation reminds me of when someone would say “Black Lives Matter” and the dumbest bitch you met in high school would start screaming “all lives matter” on Facebook like it was somehow an attack on her. Ed Sheeran/Pink/RK is that dumb bitch in high school

So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.

the global war on terror broke this country and never ended, if that is winning I don’t want to know what losing is

We must stop these socialists before they tell companies who they can and can't hire, threaten executives into giving the government part ownership of their companies, pick winners and losers through selective tariffs, subsidies, and regulation, and dictate private sector personnel and HR policy.

your Tesla supports mass child death

Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.

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at least I understand why many republicans oppose statehood (they don’t want what will very likely be left-leaning senators and representatives), but anti-statehood lefties just crack me up

NYP reports on Mamdani's success at getting criminals to self-deport from NYC. nypost.com/2026/07/23/u...

I know a lot of the focus here has been on the Dems who voted not to cut aid to Israel but I think “the majority of the caucus voted to cut aid” is a monumental sea change in Dem politics and the movement here is only going in one direction this is the most Dem support Israel will ever see again

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

In lieu of flowers please give to his favorite charity drannieandrews.com/about/

Most of all, Lindsey Graham should be remembered as a passionate defender of rapists.

What I'll remember most about Senator Graham is how he sent my friends to die in an unnecessary war in Iraq

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

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Curious: Did Lindsey Graham object or say anything when Robert Mueller died and Trump tweeted something to the effect of, “good riddance”? If not, I assume that means he was OK with celebrating a man’s death. So.

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people don’t have to rush to say, “Please be polite!”

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

FDR was smarter and had more political acumen in his pinky finger than all the current batch of Dem Centrists combined.

Oh, guuuuuuuuurl! Trans women could only *hope* to be as fem as you.

I spoke with him today, too. We talked for around 20 minutes mostly about turtles, but he also wanted to apologize for all the pain he has caused our country. That apology is not going to help keep him from HELL.

I'm glad that Graham Platner is out. But it is so disturbing to contemplate that the man who was *twice* elected president makes Platner look like an amateur when it comes to serial sexual assaults.

Next time someone says there's no difference between the two parties, point to how the Democrats treated Franken, Swalwell, and now Platner at great damage to their party and then how the GOP treat Trump, Paxton and Gaetz. Results are the only thing that matters to them. They are not the same.

*raises a hand* Weird that he’s angry that something happened to him that he didn’t choose, right?

It's a little too on-the-nose that he's not taking no for an answer.

one of my unpopular (to americans) opinions is that primaries are a pretty flawed way of choosing candidates and only superficially have more democratic legitimacy than “smoke-filled rooms”

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

fwiw I wrote about how much the New Deal owed to socialism a few years back: dissentmagazine.org/article/new-...

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

So Trump's gas stations are the capitalist system at work ... but Mamdani's grocery stores are Karl Marx's sickle and hammer crushing the American Dream? thehill.com/policy/energ...

can he appeal to FIFA?

For some reason, people often forget that American Jewry is extremely liberal. Most American Jews want Israel to keep existing, but want a two-state solution and really dislike its current government. It makes sense that this group would like Zohran a lot more than Bibi!

We're a country founded on slavery and a very high-concept Enlightenment republic that held out hope for new kinds of freedom. It's a paradox. But that doesn't mean the aspirations for freedom or religious toleration were fake or alien.