Conservative German philologist Victor Klemperer noted in his 1933 July diary that life was already unrecognizable and that “the political situation is bleak, the only comfort or hope is when the tyranny manifests itself ever more wildly, that is to say, ever more uncertain of itself”

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Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.

You know it's bad when Fox is trotting out Ramaswamy and going: MAGA culture war stuff over affordability doesn't work?

www.foxnews.com/politics/ram...

New sign outside the Oval Office..

To be awarded by Infantino in Washington, DC … 🤔 🙄

The GOP’s new villain lives in New York — and they’re already launching attack ads to make him every Democrat’s problem in 2026.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC.

My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.