I believe this which is why I find it disconcerting that his party is currently polling better than it did in ‘18 and is a coinflip to keep the Senate even before an unfathomable amount of campaign spending rains down on the Democrats.

I'm really tired of a two tiered election system where real candidates have to have real policies and are held to often brutal standards

and clown vibe candidates can be caught in print defending war crimes and saying slurs and refuse to cover it or care.

Being a @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social fan, I shouldn't be all that surprised that a dude who fucking loves Crusaders would be just as bad at logistics as the Crusaders.

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

It is kinda darkly funny how transparently obvious it was that Vance was trying to set himself up as a great statesman and the moment he stepped into the arena for real he shit himself and went home.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Kat is literally a Palestinian American and they are sending her death threats for not doing Palestinian statehood "right". It's freaking insane.

And last time we went to the moon, women -- black women -- were instrumental in doing the math that got us there and back safely.

This country had -- and still has -- a lot of problems recognizing the worth of its people, particularly those who are not straight white and male.

No Catholic President is quite literally a talking point of the second Klan.

Trump has been obsessed with the idea of attacking Iran for the great majority of his adult life, he spent most of his first term trying to goad Iran into a shooting war, & may have actually gotten it had it not been for COVID. This wasn't something that required arm-twisting.

Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

There are a some obnoxious liberals who misinterpret (often very much warranted) criticism of Democrats from progressives and leftists as defending Trump. Then you have people like Jeet Heer and Shaun who actually are defending Trump while framing it as criticism of Democrats.

We are stuck in the Mom Party and Dad Party dynamic, but we can I think shift that to a Pissed-Off Single Mom and Deadbeat Dad Party dynamic.

Good to see What the Fuck Is Wrong With You University's Department Of No Fucking Shit Studies is still in business

Pope Leo is going full TWAIL and I am here for it.

I think this perspective is the most grounded, least apocalyptic and most likely to happen if all the “economy takes” we’ve seen on Bluesky since November 2024

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

An under-discussed aspect of the perception of Zelensky in the West is just how much criticism of him, from both left and right, is more or less disguised anti-semitism.

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?

SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

AOC was very famously a bartender, markwayne mullin inherited and sold a family plumbing business for millions, which of these two does the median american think to be more blue collar-coded?

Notably, democratic socialism is the ideology of economic rationalism leavened with moral commitment to individual human dignity.

God it’s so fucking funny that he deliberately tore up the military’s fairly efficient logistics, probably the primary reason why the US military was until recently so heavily feared, because he thought logistics were gay and fake

Bars

An “undercover Baptist” is a “non-Denominational” (often mega)church that is culturally Baptist, has a coffee shop/merch store in their church, uses Bethel worship songs, worships Charlie Kirk, & usually has a growing charismatic element.

Left Behind theology & reactionary politics flourish there

Great news, which means we can put an 80% wealth tax on billionaires since they don't need to hoard so much money for retirement I suppose.

AOC is 100% right there. She has never voted for weapons to Israel. She's even never voted to fund the Iron Dome because while she believes in defensive capabilities to protect citizens, she's so much against arming Israel that she wouldn't fund the Iron Dome if it also means giving them weapons.

Basically, my threshold for taking a leftist seriously is if they see the mass of radicalized people as a potential resource or something to be mocked and driven away.

Preferable true neutral. To me, dude is neutral but others do not agree. If cousin works as true neutral I can rework my tongue to use cousin.

Then do I need to use dudette or is there a proper gender neutral singular pronoun I can use?