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in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler
February 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler
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maybe i should say "america is not britain no matter how much some brits seem to think it is"
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
A Blaring Warning For The Democratic Party From Across The Pond
Popularism has been tried in the UK, and failed.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
maybe i should say "america is not britain no matter how much some brits seem to think it is"
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
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1: yes, in fact. as long as there are fascists you have to keep fighting them. this is not complicated.
2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high
2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high
February 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
1: yes, in fact. as long as there are fascists you have to keep fighting them. this is not complicated.
2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high
2: the democrats are not taking on maga's position on trans rights. or abortion. or immigration. go home you are high
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this is a key thing that is so prevalent here. very often when anti-liberal wreckers are ranting about the evils of the D party they’re clearly actually talking about Labour.
relatedly: these people often seem to forget that the backbone and soul of the D party is Black America, not, I dunno, NPR
relatedly: these people often seem to forget that the backbone and soul of the D party is Black America, not, I dunno, NPR
maybe i should say "america is not britain no matter how much some brits seem to think it is"
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
A Blaring Warning For The Democratic Party From Across The Pond
Popularism has been tried in the UK, and failed.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
this is a key thing that is so prevalent here. very often when anti-liberal wreckers are ranting about the evils of the D party they’re clearly actually talking about Labour.
relatedly: these people often seem to forget that the backbone and soul of the D party is Black America, not, I dunno, NPR
relatedly: these people often seem to forget that the backbone and soul of the D party is Black America, not, I dunno, NPR
I like Parker, and I like her work.
i don't know how intentional this is, but it feels very revealing to bring things back around to Bernie.
I do not think "last time we tried this, the more progressive candidate lost" is a very strong argument. But if you do, this might help explain why.
i don't know how intentional this is, but it feels very revealing to bring things back around to Bernie.
I do not think "last time we tried this, the more progressive candidate lost" is a very strong argument. But if you do, this might help explain why.
The whole Democratic electability argument in 2016 and 2020 was built on the idea that who you nominate matters because swing voters have limits. Sanders would lose moderates, the argument went, so you’ve got to pick someone those voters won’t reject.
February 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I like Parker, and I like her work.
i don't know how intentional this is, but it feels very revealing to bring things back around to Bernie.
I do not think "last time we tried this, the more progressive candidate lost" is a very strong argument. But if you do, this might help explain why.
i don't know how intentional this is, but it feels very revealing to bring things back around to Bernie.
I do not think "last time we tried this, the more progressive candidate lost" is a very strong argument. But if you do, this might help explain why.
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i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
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Right!
Like after Covid a bunch of coffee shops I like shortened their hours and closed in the afternoon.
I, as a consumer, disliked this. I like going to a coffee shop and writing into the early evening.
But it's because worker bargaining power increased.
Like after Covid a bunch of coffee shops I like shortened their hours and closed in the afternoon.
I, as a consumer, disliked this. I like going to a coffee shop and writing into the early evening.
But it's because worker bargaining power increased.
February 15, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Right!
Like after Covid a bunch of coffee shops I like shortened their hours and closed in the afternoon.
I, as a consumer, disliked this. I like going to a coffee shop and writing into the early evening.
But it's because worker bargaining power increased.
Like after Covid a bunch of coffee shops I like shortened their hours and closed in the afternoon.
I, as a consumer, disliked this. I like going to a coffee shop and writing into the early evening.
But it's because worker bargaining power increased.
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
Putin is a good answer
Putin 1990
February 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Putin is a good answer
I like this answer. there's probably other answers around the failure if reconstruction if i knew more history
John Wilkes Booth. We needed a real, long term reconstruction. By 1876 the Republicans were choosing between Tilden (a moderate Republican who didn’t like radical reconstruction) and Rutherford Hayes who also didn’t like it (and ended it). Maybe Lincoln could have stopped the backslide
February 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I like this answer. there's probably other answers around the failure if reconstruction if i knew more history
I unfortunately do think there's a world where carefully timed RBG shenanigans get a lot of work done.
If I a Time Machine existed (which it doesn’t making this post unambiguously speculative and hypothetical) the highest profile individuals to knock off to preserve American democracy probably Murdoch, Gingrich, Koch’s, and Zuckerberg.
February 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I unfortunately do think there's a world where carefully timed RBG shenanigans get a lot of work done.
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“Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him…”
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
“Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him…”
they are like this with their children, too, when they have them
what is with these people and dogs?
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
February 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
they are like this with their children, too, when they have them
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easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
this post is how I realized the nice man was back on Bsky
Need to stop men wasting their money on gambling and start them wasting their money on watches
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
this post is how I realized the nice man was back on Bsky
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When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.
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Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Response to the Charlie Kirk shooting was when it became easier to notice this for me.
I really think when Trump won by larger than expected margins (though still small), many conservatives truly believed they had finally won a cultural soft power victory and burned a lot of the actual political capital they had on trying to seem inevitable, and now more people hate them every day.
Chris Rufo doesn't have a career outside of being a "culture warrior." This is his movement. He made his bed. Now he gets to lie in it.
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Response to the Charlie Kirk shooting was when it became easier to notice this for me.
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I really think when Trump won by larger than expected margins (though still small), many conservatives truly believed they had finally won a cultural soft power victory and burned a lot of the actual political capital they had on trying to seem inevitable, and now more people hate them every day.
Chris Rufo doesn't have a career outside of being a "culture warrior." This is his movement. He made his bed. Now he gets to lie in it.
February 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I really think when Trump won by larger than expected margins (though still small), many conservatives truly believed they had finally won a cultural soft power victory and burned a lot of the actual political capital they had on trying to seem inevitable, and now more people hate them every day.
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Again, you can feel your big feelings about Chuck Schumer but I think as an adult citizen it actually is your responsibility to know basic facts about the American legislature
Schumer has been more obstructionist than McConnell was in the minority; that isn’t a value judgement, it’s a fact
Schumer has been more obstructionist than McConnell was in the minority; that isn’t a value judgement, it’s a fact
February 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Again, you can feel your big feelings about Chuck Schumer but I think as an adult citizen it actually is your responsibility to know basic facts about the American legislature
Schumer has been more obstructionist than McConnell was in the minority; that isn’t a value judgement, it’s a fact
Schumer has been more obstructionist than McConnell was in the minority; that isn’t a value judgement, it’s a fact
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BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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It is 1973, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 1989, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2011, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2015, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2026,
It is 1989, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2011, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2015, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2026,
February 10, 2026 at 5:14 AM
It is 1973, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 1989, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2011, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2015, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2026,
It is 1989, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2011, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2015, people are shocked to learn that Donald Trump is a racist.
It is 2026,
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I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I have never read a more useful footnote. (From Michael D.C. Drout’s The Tower and the Ruin.)