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Not a Democrat anymore.
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I’m now never going to learn about your engaged ex because among the many words I’ve muted forever “then-fiancé” is there to protect me
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I’m now never going to learn about your engaged ex because among the many words I’ve muted forever “then-fiancé” is there to protect me
I had managed to avoid Part 1 because I don’t know how many hours I have on this plane of existence and I want to spend zero of them on the affairs of terrible people if I can help it, but the screenshots of the above the paywall excerpts…I regret *being*
I saw an excerpt of something said by RFK and I’m fighting the impulse to scoop my eyes out of my head with a teaspoon
November 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I had managed to avoid Part 1 because I don’t know how many hours I have on this plane of existence and I want to spend zero of them on the affairs of terrible people if I can help it, but the screenshots of the above the paywall excerpts…I regret *being*
I saw an excerpt of something said by RFK and I’m fighting the impulse to scoop my eyes out of my head with a teaspoon
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I saw an excerpt of something said by RFK and I’m fighting the impulse to scoop my eyes out of my head with a teaspoon
Yesterday I opened the internet and Trump had accused federal Democrats of seditious behavior deserving summary execution
Today I opened the internet to see that he’s a one-man Mamdani fan club
I am not ok
Today I opened the internet to see that he’s a one-man Mamdani fan club
I am not ok
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yesterday I opened the internet and Trump had accused federal Democrats of seditious behavior deserving summary execution
Today I opened the internet to see that he’s a one-man Mamdani fan club
I am not ok
Today I opened the internet to see that he’s a one-man Mamdani fan club
I am not ok
You should start with calling out your GOP colleagues, who mostly prevented Trump from being barred from office the last time he attempted to kill members of Congress for disagreeing with him. They’re going to do the same ostrich act for this. You’re going to treat them as normal.
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You should start with calling out your GOP colleagues, who mostly prevented Trump from being barred from office the last time he attempted to kill members of Congress for disagreeing with him. They’re going to do the same ostrich act for this. You’re going to treat them as normal.
::leaves internet to do job::
::glances in to see how things are going::
::discovers that the president has demanded the violent deaths of political opponents::
::closes internet::
::glances in to see how things are going::
::discovers that the president has demanded the violent deaths of political opponents::
::closes internet::
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
::leaves internet to do job::
::glances in to see how things are going::
::discovers that the president has demanded the violent deaths of political opponents::
::closes internet::
::glances in to see how things are going::
::discovers that the president has demanded the violent deaths of political opponents::
::closes internet::
Exactly how I needed to start my morning (that’s only a little bit sarcastic)
This Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536. The conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of Mexican silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to discuss the labor history of early Spanish colonization of the Americas.
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Exactly how I needed to start my morning (that’s only a little bit sarcastic)
This remains the provision that makes me want to smack the taste out of Democratic Senators’ mouths—with votes
Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This remains the provision that makes me want to smack the taste out of Democratic Senators’ mouths—with votes
Every time I see a list of terrible votes taken by Democrats in the House, I get to look at the name of someone I went to school with and be totally unsurprised
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Every time I see a list of terrible votes taken by Democrats in the House, I get to look at the name of someone I went to school with and be totally unsurprised
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Democrats should have not defended her. She deserves censure.
The House has defeated a GOP plan to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett D-VI and kick her off the House Intelligence Committee. 6 Republicans refused to go along with the plan - and those were the key votes.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Democrats should have not defended her. She deserves censure.
I haven’t been writing for the last week due to migraines, but I’m wondering if my output would still be better than what Nuzzi worked on for months
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I haven’t been writing for the last week due to migraines, but I’m wondering if my output would still be better than what Nuzzi worked on for months
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Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Still processing that an economic advisor to multiple administrations, business leaders, and top institutions was asking a known sex trafficker of minor age girls to be his wingman for attempting to coerce his academic mentee into a sexual relationship—years after he said that women aren’t as smart
Yes white people in the South have a significantly different form of racism that runs deeper in their society and shapes their politics.
— signed, a descendant of a man who left Virginia at 12 because he said he’d die if he came of age where he was
— signed, a descendant of a man who left Virginia at 12 because he said he’d die if he came of age where he was
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yes white people in the South have a significantly different form of racism that runs deeper in their society and shapes their politics.
— signed, a descendant of a man who left Virginia at 12 because he said he’d die if he came of age where he was
— signed, a descendant of a man who left Virginia at 12 because he said he’d die if he came of age where he was
This is going to sound like a wild idea, but we should move the DoJ from the executive branch to the judicial branch and make it like a 10 year appointment with a 2/3 majority for confirmation. The DOJ has always been vulnerable to this type of corruption; restructuring should aim to protect it.
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
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Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is going to sound like a wild idea, but we should move the DoJ from the executive branch to the judicial branch and make it like a 10 year appointment with a 2/3 majority for confirmation. The DOJ has always been vulnerable to this type of corruption; restructuring should aim to protect it.
That’s all of the sides though
I know that this site leans quite left, so I very much hope that people will recognize the significance of this news. The right is cleaving, and the side triumphing — in terms of sheer numbers and media coverage — needs to be understood for exactly what it is: authoritarian and bigoted.
Robert George has resigned from the Heritage board of trustees.
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That’s all of the sides though
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump attempted to reject the popular will and install himself as dictator, overthrowing the US government and destroying the constitution. On January 20, 2025, with the assistance of the inaction and fecklessness of the opposition, he succeeded.
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump attempted to reject the popular will and install himself as dictator, overthrowing the US government and destroying the constitution. On January 20, 2025, with the assistance of the inaction and fecklessness of the opposition, he succeeded.
Guess who this is about
That’s a test in white liberals refusing to clock red flags that they will later complain about when he betrays them
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Guess who this is about
Well now I am not watching the finals because it is over and Jannik Sinner has won
You are watching American football. I am watching the ATP Finals. We are not the same.
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Well now I am not watching the finals because it is over and Jannik Sinner has won
MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked
You are watching American football. I am watching the ATP Finals. We are not the same.
November 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You are watching American football. I am watching the ATP Finals. We are not the same.
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And this is why I know the Democratic Party is dying. There is an obvious answer to our current moment, and they don’t want to take it because choosing it will foreclose the politics that they profit from.
We’re getting so much empty, stupid, outrageous corruption and I just want a Democratic Party that says, “Enough.” That’s a full sentence!
Democrats should run the most aggressive, brutal, unrestricted anti-corruption campaign in history. Fuck all the big money, just go hard at the wealthy like you’ll never win them over. Because you won’t.
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
And this is why I know the Democratic Party is dying. There is an obvious answer to our current moment, and they don’t want to take it because choosing it will foreclose the politics that they profit from.