From Rivers of Blood to The Camp of the Saints It is a cardinal error to believe that unassimilated people can live together without violent degrees of dissension from each other.

i don't really think it's a great sign that the right wing intellectual class is getting into the Camp of the Saints

www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

I have been online and arguing about politics for nearly twenty five years and not once have I ever seen anyone respond to vote scolding with anything but "fuck you"

if you want to be mad at people for not voting, sure, knock yourself out

if you want them to vote next time, try a different tactic

here is the thing about vote scolding: it doesn't work

my personal position is that the right thing to do is to vote and - because the republican party is so completely world-destroyingly insane - to vote for the democrats

but you simply cannot change minds on this by scolding people

This thread is great. It's also depressingly funny how the same arguments immediately broke out in the replies

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering.

It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules:

newrepublic.com/article/2093...

I deeply loathe liberals and centrists who laugh at red states and say they deserve their fate. As if you can't be a good person, or woke, or antifascist, or whatever, because you were born in gerrymanderedland without the financial and social mobility to move easily.

Do it moron. Squeeze all the blood out of that stone. I fucking dare you

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

My county government is voting tonight to ask voters to cut our library tax.

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

For clarity re 10%. Over 800,000 Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank correspondent to roughly 7.4m Jews in Israel+Palestine overall.

Rep. Hageman Introduces Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 to protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.

Republicans introduced federal legislation literally called the Bill To Shield American Energy Producers From Leftist Climate Litigation to give oil & gas companies immunity from laws or lawsuits that aim to hold them accountable for their role in the climate crisis hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

Trump says ‘violent day’ of policing will end crime The remarks at a campaign rally Sunday did not amount to a policy proposal allowing police retaliation, the former president’s campaign said.

And just to be clear this is what Trump was saying when he was racking up police endorsements www.politico.com/news/2024/09...

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

Joe Biden threw unprecedented amounts of money at police. More than TWICE what Obama gave them in the wake of the GFC.

Every major police union endorsed Donald Trump.

Now that the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to refund companies what they paid in tariffs, yet there are still tariffs in place, what's the plan? Consumers continue to fork money over to corporations who will later get another refund?

"City prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued 'no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.'"

(For the record, the costume had, erm, somewhat deflated by the time of the arrest.)

It's kind of funny how Israelis are only very belatedly starting to realize that letting every asshole and psycho eligible for conscription do whatever war crimes they want is the perfect way to make everyone hate you as much as they hate Russia or the RSF or the IRGC.

Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

“the actual difficult part of iphones is making the color for icky girls”

'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

EVs won the war.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.

“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”

Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” #politics #tech YouTube video by The Intercept

Have you been censored for posting about "Antifa" on FB or IG?

Read more: interc.pt/3OfYThZ

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Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

We won.

Tesla Chicago is closed.

Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.

Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Continue to think it’s not that they don’t understand, it’s that they don’t want to win *that way*