I'm sure it stretches back forever, but this kind of thinking, that being opposed to war is some kind of flight of fancy of the youth really ramped up during Vietnam, not very long after the concept of teenagers as a culture class was invented.

Some kind of pathological compulsion to convince yourself that anyone who is upset about watching people being slaughtered every day for years is a hipster from Brooklyn, the stereotype from like 20 years ago.

Maybe abbot should think about this again over a nice, long, relaxing walk

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

Every journalist who worked at a flailing and rapidly decaying digital news startup in the mid-2010s knows exactly what is going to happen at CBS News.

when democrats have the senate majority the most powerful person in the capitol is the fucking parliamentarian who chuck schumer and co use as an excuse for "whoops we cant do shit, try harder"

the democrats had a majority multiple times and they didnt do any of that shit, unfortunately

I remember in HS our choir director sang his song (america version) to like a mass the day after 9/11 (catholic school) and i thought "wow, he actually can sing, but it kinda sucks, maybe he should work on it more" (thinking he wrote it). i didn't know the name till i was almost out of college.

Bluesky liberals - heavily influenced by libertarians and right-wing Democrats - love to treat the economy as a distraction from Trump's attack on democracy.

Look how Mamdani ties them together. He gets it.

Time to start expanding public transit!

Johnson in particular seems frustrated with the realization that being Speaker of the House hasn't brought him respect and an automatic win condition. This is a guy in denial about the trajectory his legacy is taking.

this is downstream of the dems not really having centering political values or ideology imo. 'ideology' is just another way to say 'the world we want to build'

if you asked the same question about AOC or Bernie you wouldn't get these results

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Snapshot of population changes in Pennsylvania from 2020-2024

A tale of two halves

So this is the difficulty. Not just how do we get to a deal, but how do we get to a deal we trust will be honored when Johnson is here *promising* to let Trump impound and take back whatever he wants from what they pass?

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

Get his ass ms Rachel

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

"Tracy you can't fly anymore, remember?"
*cut to Tracy stood in a plane brandishing a box cutter. his expression is tense and angry but he is saying "If you do not all calm down I cannot teach you about knife safety" in Arabic*

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.

Mike Johnson loves People That Fuck Kids and Hates The Troops

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

I could never