We need to stop accepting views expressed on Twitter as real opinions. The sooner everyone assumes that the median post on that website is done in bad faith and principally designed to chase clout, the sooner we stop letting these fake controversies take up all the oxygen in the room.
Agreed. We should not gerrymander as revenge. That implies that we wouldn’t gerrymander if they voluntarily didn’t. We should gerrymander because it’s good when Democrats win elections, and if there’s a danger of revenge, we can just congressionally ban gerrymandering nationwide. With our majority.
The first action any Dem president needs to take is reforming and packing the courts so thoroughly they never try this again for centuries. The conservative legal movement is making a mockery of the constitution and the law.
It really gives the game away. Religious freedom when they want to target LGBTQ people and no religious freedom when they want the state to indoctrinate their preferred religion (evangelical Christianity) on students.
The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.
Normal Rockwell "Free Speech" aka man speaking his mind meme
Tilting the playing field against fascists is good, actually.
We need to make cowardice a firing offense for police officers again.
The only purpose of this stunt is to scam readers. That's it. If execs aren't trying to fool readers into thinking stories written by the Error Robot came from real reporters, there would be no need for fake bylines.
The intent is, quite explicitly, fraud.
The right wing media ecosystem on X is going all in on attacking gay parents and adoption. They're pulling the worst tropes straight from the 80's.
And it was all so predictable after they felt they'd "won" on trans issues and needed the engagement.
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".
Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
The peak of fear mongering. The author claims Ohio HB 249 will jail women for going braless in a T-shirt. HB 249 is about shielding kids from adult performances & imagery —not policing whether women wear bras, bikinis, or T-shirts. Twisting it into "women could be jailed for going braless" isn't just wrong —it's a deliberate misrepresentation. It's common sense to shield kids' innocence from adult performances & imaginary. Nothing but perversion - twisting a bill that aims to protect the innocence of children into something it's not. Do better.
Here's the thing:
If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE.
They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.
Of course, the article also doesn't mention that this was done in service of banning trans people from public spaces.
Instead, they let the legislator run wild saying this about "men" in women's locker rooms and "protecting children's innocence."
This is how gender fascism advances.
Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.
HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
the problem with war is that you need credibility
The ‘public trust crisis’ in science largely comes down to ‘scientists tell people things they don’t want to hear’. Applies equally to climate science
I used to get mad when they'd do the whole "shame the progressives" routine but now I think it's funny! We tried three consecutive elections of their consultants and people pleasing approach and we lost two of them! They don't get to tell anyone to fall in line!!
It's unclear to me what the difference is between items #1, #4, and #5.
Pedocons
Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.
She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.
LMAO
I've never quite been able to capture it in words. I guess the way I'd put it is: the world in which people can see this story & simply nod & move on with their days & continue treating Trump like a respectable political figure is a world that operates on rules I fundamentally don't understand.
Yet again, the thought: how is this not embarrassing to him, to his followers, to everyone? How is this revelation alone not enough to end his career, to make him a universal figure of mockery? How can anyone support, or respect, or fear someone so viscerally *pathetic*?
Facebook and Meta are now just straight up pushing white supremacist content into your timeline.
pet theory I have is that this is partly down to financialization of everything. same reason why house flippers pick bland, lowest common denominator paint colors and fixtures
He's mad that Trump isn't *enough* of a Nazi, you monumentally useless buffoons
2028 dem primary is gonna be a bloodbath of deluded egos who have zero clue how to engage with a human voter