"Gilded age*" FTFY.

*arguably more like a regression towards serfdom 2.0

Literally evil

Robert Reich 29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.

No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed.

Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

/2 Also, the White House Correspondents Dinner was gross even when normal people were in power; a Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner is merely the satirical expression of how gross it is.

Dude said "my job is to hurt you". Cool. Very cool. Very normal.

That's ok, Hannity, Jesus doesn't know you either.

Matthew 25:34-46

Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday WASHINGTON—In what is being characterized as a massive middle finger to millions of furious motorists, oil prices plummeted Friday, delivering a big fuck-you to all the Americans who gassed up their v...

“Nobody was hit harder than the suckers who filled their tanks mere hours before the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon caused the price of a barrel of crude to plunge 10%,” said Georgetown University economics professor Elizabeth Murphy

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Don't fucking conflate people who do their jobs well (i.e., our service members) with their corrupt, rapist boss who didn't get the job on merits. No, there's no way to tell if I'm talking about Trump or Hegseth.

Yeah I remember his confirmation hearings and how conservatives spent all their time trying to rationalize what Anita Hill was saying just to force his placement anyway.

ICE is still here. The Feds are still prosecuting and harassing protesters and observers. The evictions and income loss are pressing hard on community. We are in this for the long haul. Keep doing what you can. Hold fast to one another. 💜

So impeachment for this clown when?

Conditions like these will reliably cause occasional deaths and the ICE agents culpable should face capital trials.

President Manbaby lashes out at the Pope by harming children.

Oh look, someone who is the type of authoritarian that forms the HISTORICAL REASON THE PROCESS EXISTS thinks the process shouldn't exist. I'm shocked.

Next you're going to tell me that bank robbers think that cash should just be left in convenient bags near the sidewalk instead of in vaults.

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

Here is another WTA trip report featuring a trip reporter reporting on a work party. This trail, on Tiger mountain (about 20 miles east of Seattle) is a family-friendly trail with a view of a very big tree.
@washingtontrails.bsky.social

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Remember, these resignations are happening while an adjudicated rapist sits (in a full diaper) in the oval office.

This would’ve been a great place to raise a family, but instead a wealthy couple will collect egregious amounts of passive income from bachelorette parties. Reference #32487

Real Estate: Never Mind, It’s An Airbnb Now

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

VP converted to Catholic because he sought that voter bloc not because he holds any string religious faith specific to their dogma. It was a numbers thing for political points.

This is a great illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social's point about how "backlash" framing lets the right play the victim.

The Washington Post is beyond repair. We need to build independent pro-democracy media that doesn't equate Donald Trump's pathological lies with Joe Biden.

You can start with subscribing to Democracy Docket. I built it to have only one side -- the truth. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

JD Vance, a disturbed idiot, trying to negotiate with Iran while Trump is at home screaming crazy things about Iran is a great example of how utterly demented American politics have become.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

I've never experienced a "high friction" layoff that your point implies exists in the alternative. It's been as impersonal as getting kicked out of the building with an offer to ship my personal effects to my home address at a later time. And that was 20 years ago.