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Genuinely fascinating to look at Fukuyama saying “there’s probably going to be a groundswell of people in the West who become uncomfortable with peace and prosperity“ and uh, all due respect, he may have undersold how big that groundswell would be.

Democrats are going to fund and support this war. Like every enabling and collaborative stunt they pull, this is yet another opportunity to recognize they aren’t an opposition party but a captured group that serves the interests of the same wealth and oligarchical classes as the Republicans.

idk where i found this or what the context is but i like it

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Canada created more jobs in 2025 (! year of the economic attack!) than the U.S., tho the U.S. job market is 7.5 times bigger. "Health" generated 41% of the new jobs. "Care" (incl educ) almost 1/2. Demographics guarantees that this job juggernaut will continue to dominate. Demand>supply everywhere.

Me as recently as two years ago: There are bad people but everyone fundamentally wants to be good. Me now: Evil is real and it must be punished.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

One of the more discouraging aspects of contemporary life in the US is that, to oppose fascism, you have to align yourself with cowards.

The affordability President just caused the fastest gas price spike in years, and the jobs President just lost 92,000 jobs in February. Are we winning yet?

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Once you've been through enough cycles, it becomes easier to see the candidate elites are trying to make happen vs. ones that have genuine popular appeal.

Every D who votes for Mullins cares more about the feelings of their fascist buddies than the safety of you and me.

Senate comity is going to destroy our country. These people are all in a little club together, and they care more about each other than they care about the people they serve.

If China bombed a school on a military base in Honolulu and assassinated the president and major Republicans *and also* Schumer, Harris, Sanders, AOC, etc. in the name of No Kings, how exactly do you think that would affect the liberal opposition in America?

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Democrats should put hold on vote for new DHS secy until ICE demands are met.

I hope someone makes a scrap book for Kristi Noem of all of the posts we made while we waited for someone to tell her she was fired.

In 2003, Jean Chrétien stated that Canada wouldn't join the invasion in Iraq without a UN Security Council Resolution, which was never secured. It strained relations with the States, but he didn't buy the claim that Iraq possessed WMDs, and his skepticism was validated when none were found.

It’s so depressing to go through each day watching the cruelest, dumbest bullies from your highschool running everything that matters into the ground and crowing about it on the news. Just, cancer of the soul.

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

Cudos to this framing by @nytimes.com correctly noting that Republicans blocked it, not “the Senate”

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Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is apocalyptic accelerationism VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world. That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke. And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.

Rolled my eyes so hard I saw my own brain

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Congratulations on duping both Iran and all Americans currently stranded in war zones with your sham negotiations.

Just for people keeping score they have gutted the CIA, FBI, and the State Department while obliterating an entire government with no articulated plan for…anything.

When you make a political party for stupid people, it inevitably becomes a political party of stupid people.

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

It would be nice if statements by members of Congress on the U.S. attack on Iran started with something like: “This attack is an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s war powers.”

“I believe the lawless fascists who are killing American citizens in broad daylight can bring peace to the Middle East by bombing children’s schools without congressional approval.” That’s what you sound like.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change