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Only in the US, a country unmoored from history (and determined by it), would red be the color of the Right.

Republicans are beyond parody.

Blood and soil rhetoric

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Hamilton's is the right position, valid if you leave out the reference to Jesus. Of course, Hamilton, a minister, has an authority in this matter that cuts across political constituencies and discourse.

Be 'people' he means himself. He is unclear on the meaning of the term incumbent. This is right up there with 'people' not knowing that the word dumb has a b at the end of it. We are being governed by the worst of the worst.

This is the insane shit Kudlow has said in a while and that it really saying something.

My partner and I have been going back and forth on LACMA since our first visit. He loves the aesthetic experience, I lament the lack of historical context and conversation between the objects in the gallery.

True, but Democratic leaders don't have to accept the narratives, they can push back sharply. The GOP is good at this, we can learn a thing or two from them. In fact, if there's one lesson I hope we are learning is that fight -- loud and direct -- from our leadership is a requirement.

Things have taken a turn for the worse of late but there has been an improvement in the social position of LGBTQ people over the course of my lifetime. Depending on the letter the degree of improvement varies but I think it is fair to say that in all cases we are in a better place. Note, I am old.

RFK Jr. is going to hate this. :)

Tuberville is a power bottom furry

Nobody is going to get wet because of this storm.

Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”

He's not very bright, is he?

This is the line of attack that explains why in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the West was a hotbed of populist and socialist politics. In Oklahoma -- OKLAHOMA -- the Socialist Party candidate for governor, Fred W. Holt, won over 20% of the vote in the 1914 election.

TikTok's US operations are controlled by a joint venture which was ostensibly created to protect US users from Chinese political influence. Lead investors include Oracle (Larry Ellison), Silver Lake, MGX Fund Management, Michael Dell's family office, and Vastmere Strategic Investments.

I know I shouldn't laugh but this headline from SFGate is testing my composure: "Two stabbed inside Bay Area's largest corn maze"

Do Democratic aspirants to the presidency know that they are being lapped daily? Ossof versus Schiff or Beshear or Klobuchar who would you pick? Policy wise, I don't see huge difference among them but fight wise, it's night and day. Even Newsome - who tries to jab - pales compared to Ossof.

NBC reports that Senate Democrats asked AG Blanche to confirm the DOJ will not seize ballots, voting machines, or other election materials. How about telling Blanche that if he does any of this he will be held liable and prosecuted vigorously as will any DOJ employee who assists? Use your power!

So are social media platforms responsible for the content on their sites or not? If not, what the fuck is this? If they are, let the libel lawsuits begin!

Worse than useless

1,000 years from now? What about today? There are many theories as to why Trump, why now -- some more compelling than others -- but none seem adequate in explaining the current moment. And, with all due respect, the "judgment of history" isn't worth a bucket of warm spit to anyone today.

schumers silence on omar is fucking enraging, he needs to go

Why wasn't this around when I was in grad school. Dude, writtens? Literature review? Slam dunk, my bro.

I think the new white, house secretary is doing ok

Taking up a socially obnoxious habit to broadcast your membership in the AI Utopia cult is very on brand.

These are very, very dangerous people.

This is the sort of pushback that we need more Democrats to engaged in. Statements of concern don't cut it.

Power move, a clear measure of who matters in the region.

The return of Christian Socialism is a remarkable development in our politics. We truly are recapitulating the Progressive Era.

“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you” (Freddy N.)

"...almost unilaterally all by himself."

I hope someone asks JD Vance his opinion on Coakley’s words. Not because I expect Vance to have a thoughtful response, I’m just interested in the comedic value of the exchange.

Being against the death penalty means you don't have to engage in insane debates on when, why, where, and in what form state-sanctioned murder is legitimate. Live-streamed or hidden away behind walls, by gun, gas, or hanging, the death penalty is an abomination.

at one point segregation and anti miscegenation laws polled off the charts in south carolina. should we have been ok with a democratic candidate who said black people were less than human so we can "win first"? no? then why the fuck is it ok to do this against trans people? hint: it isnt.

A bonkers response. The question is also a little odd. What do you mean how do you define socialism personally? Personally? OK, if that's what we are doing we are going to get Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs answers like the one below. Neither of the things Vance lists has anything to do with socialism.

I want to yeet Musk right over the border wall. I would then tear down the wall but specifically exclude Musk from returning. So my policy preference is open borders and freedom of travel except for Musk. He’s on permanent yeet order.

my theory that ive been pushing since 2016 is a lot of mainstream journalists, who are overwhelmingly white, have parents and grandparents who voted for trump. instead of admitting that mom and dad and gramps and meemaw are idiot racists, we've spent the last decade pretending they arent.

Trump: "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay" Tupac: "Now let me welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West A state that's untouchable like Eliot Ness."

"I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities." — Lewis Mumford.

What's that you say, a leader of the GOP convicted of sexual abuse has died!?!? Oh, you mean this guy. Yeah, OK.

"ICE is not an inevitable feature of the US government. It was created in the aftermath of 9/11 to turn immigration into a national security issue...The extent and scale of the abuses and failures we documented lead to only one possible road to justice: ICE must be abolished."

Sen Schumer is quoted in Semafor (10/6) as saying “If [Trump's] nominees are as crappy as his present ones, very few of them are going to get through.” VERY FEW? Try NONE. What is it going to take to get the Democratic Party to understand their role is to fight not manage the GOP?

Can I say something without people getting mad?