One thing NIMBYs have in common with the MAGA crowd — more than they care to admit — is that they can't imagine people volunteering their time and energy to organize for something they believe in. Everyone has to be a paid lobbyist or part of some hidden conspiracy to pull the strings of government.

Hating women but leftishly is a trend to keep your eye on, it's going to get worse before it gets better

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Exactly one year ago today:

As was foretold

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

Have said before but a lot of people want an excuse not to participate in civil society and have created a way to intellectually justify what is just rank apathy and extreme individualism

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

elizabethrosehalligan 11h So I'm not trying to knock the gesture here, I get the sentiment. I feel for the astronaut who lost his wife as it was devastating to lose my father-in-law, who I loved very much, to glioblastoma suddenly in 2023. But 4 astronauts deciding to name a spot on THE FUCKING MOON after ONE GUY'S WIFE while the other 8 BILLION of us down here have no input on NAMING SHIT ON THE FUCKING MOON still feels like colonizer behavior to me. I don't care if one of them was a black dude.

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Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Time to start up the discourse. Trump betrayed Israel and he must be impeached.

Perfect no notes

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

When you say “both sides are the same,” you own moments like this and are complicit in ignoring them.

This is correct. I think the underlying issue this piece kinda of elides tho is that a bunch of Americans online are convinced that they are communists, when they are actually just libertarians who use leftist rhetoric to rationalize their libertarianism.

Delta CEO and other airline executives are excited about Trump and a potential rollback of Biden-era ‘overreach’

More Perfect Union ‪@moreperfectunion.bsky.social‬ BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com . Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202... The airport perks for Congress may be drying up, not a minute too soon Delta Airlines suspends its special congressional service, while a Senate bill could end the line-skipping perk for members of Congress.

Nov 2024: Delta CEO says the Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air" (He was angry about Biden consumer protections for air travelers...how ironic is that?!)

March 2025: Airport chaos causes Delta CEO to cancel special perks for Congress until TSA is fully funded

30 For further comparison, see Parsons v. United States Department of Justice, 878 F.3d 162 (6th Cir. 2017). In Parsons, the Sixth Circuit held that the Attorney General’s designation of a group of musical fans as a “loosely-organized hybrid gang” was not final agency action...

Juggalos mentioned in opinion reversing RFK's reversal of vaccine policy.

I am conducting an experiment where I tell people who are acting weird to stop acting weird and so far I am finding out that it just makes them act more weird. More research will be conducted on this topic.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

For you younger posters out there who wonder what March 2003 was like: Picture the exact way the government, Fox & CBS are acting right now BUT ALSO 70% of your neighbors and Glenn Greenwald believe them.

so it was written. so it will be

The new global 10% 122 tariff will expire in late July. Extending requires an act of congress.

I'm sure this is what Rs want to be dealing with before the midterms.

Trump's cortisol levels skyrocketing after being brutally SCOTUSmogged and failing to tariffmaxx the moids and foids.