Mouse
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“I don’t know how anything works and I refuse to learn but I’m certain the Democrats aren’t doing enough to end the things I couldn’t be arsed to vote to prevent 😡”
— half of Bluesky
— half of Bluesky
February 8, 2026 at 10:12 PM
“I don’t know how anything works and I refuse to learn but I’m certain the Democrats aren’t doing enough to end the things I couldn’t be arsed to vote to prevent 😡”
— half of Bluesky
— half of Bluesky
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Unpopular opinion: IDAF if Marjorie Traitor Greene or Thomas (m)Assie go after trump on Epstein:
They are both racist, raging antisemites who repeatedly pushed dangerous tropes against the marginalized for years. They are both 100% trash. Yes, 100 %.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
They are both racist, raging antisemites who repeatedly pushed dangerous tropes against the marginalized for years. They are both 100% trash. Yes, 100 %.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
February 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Unpopular opinion: IDAF if Marjorie Traitor Greene or Thomas (m)Assie go after trump on Epstein:
They are both racist, raging antisemites who repeatedly pushed dangerous tropes against the marginalized for years. They are both 100% trash. Yes, 100 %.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
They are both racist, raging antisemites who repeatedly pushed dangerous tropes against the marginalized for years. They are both 100% trash. Yes, 100 %.
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
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Zionism is a lifeline for Jews.
Israel literally saved my family from genocide in Iraq and Africa, as well as Jews from Russia, China, Europe and countless other places.
That’s why anti-Zionism sounds like a death threat to us.
Israel literally saved my family from genocide in Iraq and Africa, as well as Jews from Russia, China, Europe and countless other places.
That’s why anti-Zionism sounds like a death threat to us.
February 8, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Zionism is a lifeline for Jews.
Israel literally saved my family from genocide in Iraq and Africa, as well as Jews from Russia, China, Europe and countless other places.
That’s why anti-Zionism sounds like a death threat to us.
Israel literally saved my family from genocide in Iraq and Africa, as well as Jews from Russia, China, Europe and countless other places.
That’s why anti-Zionism sounds like a death threat to us.
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Since we’re on the subject…”progressives” have terrible political judgment and should shut the fuck up forever until we tell them to speak
February 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Since we’re on the subject…”progressives” have terrible political judgment and should shut the fuck up forever until we tell them to speak
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"Is 53 greater or less than 47" quickly becoming the defining political question of our time
Love to see people in the year 2026 spend all day talking about what the Dems can’t do and shouldn’t try
I mean, sure, Congress should, they never should have given the money in the first place and there's about a million things Congress should be doing to assert Art I powers
But this whole piece is written like Dems have a veto supermajority in both chambers
But this whole piece is written like Dems have a veto supermajority in both chambers
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
"Is 53 greater or less than 47" quickly becoming the defining political question of our time
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yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
And I can assure you, regardless of my personal feelings on the subject, "fire half of federal LE without replacement and don't manage immigration" ain't it
And I can assure you, regardless of my personal feelings on the subject, "fire half of federal LE without replacement and don't manage immigration" ain't it
I think a lot of people are falling for the same trap they did in 2020 where there was wide spread public support for "not that" just because the public does not like whats going on right now, doesn't mean they have deeply held and consistent views
I think there is a pretty clear-cut argument that DHS as named has to go
But people are gonna need to quickly do some reckoning with the realities of what that will actually look like and what entities from DHS will still be around if you don't want "abolish ICE" to be the next "defund the police"
But people are gonna need to quickly do some reckoning with the realities of what that will actually look like and what entities from DHS will still be around if you don't want "abolish ICE" to be the next "defund the police"
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
And I can assure you, regardless of my personal feelings on the subject, "fire half of federal LE without replacement and don't manage immigration" ain't it
And I can assure you, regardless of my personal feelings on the subject, "fire half of federal LE without replacement and don't manage immigration" ain't it
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Anyone focusing on ousting dems instead of republicans is not an ally and shouldn't be trusted.
February 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Anyone focusing on ousting dems instead of republicans is not an ally and shouldn't be trusted.
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Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, this year’s chili will cost more and be seasoned with frustration.
February 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, this year’s chili will cost more and be seasoned with frustration.
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It’s not “Congress” thats failing democracy its REPUBLICANS
oprah winfrey is wearing glasses and a pink sweater while sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
ALT: oprah winfrey is wearing glasses and a pink sweater while sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:42 PM
It’s not “Congress” thats failing democracy its REPUBLICANS
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It’s the same damned phenomenon with antivaxxers and their autistic children, hence the determination to “fix” the autistic child and get their “real child” back.
At the end of the day, it all boils down to "this is not the child we ordered, this one is defective, why can't it be normal and obedient and not annoy me? Back in the Sparta Frank Miller imagines we'd have thrown this one off the cliff."
That's it. That's all it is. No more, no less.
That's it. That's all it is. No more, no less.
February 7, 2026 at 10:51 PM
It’s the same damned phenomenon with antivaxxers and their autistic children, hence the determination to “fix” the autistic child and get their “real child” back.
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Sure, it's true that "we keep each other safe," but fucking part of that is supposed to be elevating sympathetic politicians, so that we can actually do things like mandate insurance coverage and criminalize discrimination, so that we're actually pushing forward and not constantly triaging.
February 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Sure, it's true that "we keep each other safe," but fucking part of that is supposed to be elevating sympathetic politicians, so that we can actually do things like mandate insurance coverage and criminalize discrimination, so that we're actually pushing forward and not constantly triaging.
The Montgomery bus boycott lasted over a year and took sustained coordination and the endurance of significant hardship on behalf of many people in order to target one specific system.
Calls for a one-day general strike sound romantic to people with no understanding of the reality of these issues.
Calls for a one-day general strike sound romantic to people with no understanding of the reality of these issues.
February 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The Montgomery bus boycott lasted over a year and took sustained coordination and the endurance of significant hardship on behalf of many people in order to target one specific system.
Calls for a one-day general strike sound romantic to people with no understanding of the reality of these issues.
Calls for a one-day general strike sound romantic to people with no understanding of the reality of these issues.
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It mistakenly treats democracy like a product instead of a civic duty. I vote because my right to do so has been predicated solely by the efforts of people before me and plenty of confederates and conservatives would love to prevent that.
The entire framing of "x candidate must EARN my vote" is invalid.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
It mistakenly treats democracy like a product instead of a civic duty. I vote because my right to do so has been predicated solely by the efforts of people before me and plenty of confederates and conservatives would love to prevent that.
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If you don’t vote, you are voting for fascism. That’s it. You’re not deciding which brand of mustard you prefer
It mistakenly treats democracy like a product instead of a civic duty. I vote because my right to do so has been predicated solely by the efforts of people before me and plenty of confederates and conservatives would love to prevent that.
The entire framing of "x candidate must EARN my vote" is invalid.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
February 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
If you don’t vote, you are voting for fascism. That’s it. You’re not deciding which brand of mustard you prefer
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Not coincidentally, this mentality taken to it's ultimate extreme results in trump himself.
A monster of a man who is driven ENTIRELY by personal petty grievances.
Who may never have run for president at all if Obama had not made a joke at his expense in public.
A monster of a man who is driven ENTIRELY by personal petty grievances.
Who may never have run for president at all if Obama had not made a joke at his expense in public.
February 7, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Not coincidentally, this mentality taken to it's ultimate extreme results in trump himself.
A monster of a man who is driven ENTIRELY by personal petty grievances.
Who may never have run for president at all if Obama had not made a joke at his expense in public.
A monster of a man who is driven ENTIRELY by personal petty grievances.
Who may never have run for president at all if Obama had not made a joke at his expense in public.
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The "ego-ization" of politics brought on by the internet has become toxic.
We lose proportionality.
We see our own very subjective opinions about how politics should be as the only possible way to see things.
+ that is how we talk ourselves into ALLOWING a psychopath like trump to become president.
We lose proportionality.
We see our own very subjective opinions about how politics should be as the only possible way to see things.
+ that is how we talk ourselves into ALLOWING a psychopath like trump to become president.
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The "ego-ization" of politics brought on by the internet has become toxic.
We lose proportionality.
We see our own very subjective opinions about how politics should be as the only possible way to see things.
+ that is how we talk ourselves into ALLOWING a psychopath like trump to become president.
We lose proportionality.
We see our own very subjective opinions about how politics should be as the only possible way to see things.
+ that is how we talk ourselves into ALLOWING a psychopath like trump to become president.
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To think that an election that will effect the lives and deaths of MILLIONS of people (even billions) is mostly about YOU?
That x candidate must serve YOU personally, your particular political niche first and foremost, "earn" your vote?
How selfish can you get?
That x candidate must serve YOU personally, your particular political niche first and foremost, "earn" your vote?
How selfish can you get?
February 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
To think that an election that will effect the lives and deaths of MILLIONS of people (even billions) is mostly about YOU?
That x candidate must serve YOU personally, your particular political niche first and foremost, "earn" your vote?
How selfish can you get?
That x candidate must serve YOU personally, your particular political niche first and foremost, "earn" your vote?
How selfish can you get?
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The entire framing of "x candidate must EARN my vote" is invalid.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
February 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The entire framing of "x candidate must EARN my vote" is invalid.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing.
It is about the BALANCE OF POWER.
You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power.
SIMPLE math.
Get it straight.
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Voting blue is not about "rewarding" politicians who you may not be 100% enthusiastic about.
It's not even really about you OR the individual person you are voting for.
Voting blue is about preventing fascists from doing whatever they want to the country and the world.
Don't get it twisted.
It's not even really about you OR the individual person you are voting for.
Voting blue is about preventing fascists from doing whatever they want to the country and the world.
Don't get it twisted.
If you are not "enthusiastic" about voting blue this year?
Then you better GET enthusiastic.
There is no excuse for not doing so.
Not one good reason to let republicans continue to control the U.S. government.
Not one.
Then you better GET enthusiastic.
There is no excuse for not doing so.
Not one good reason to let republicans continue to control the U.S. government.
Not one.
February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Voting blue is not about "rewarding" politicians who you may not be 100% enthusiastic about.
It's not even really about you OR the individual person you are voting for.
Voting blue is about preventing fascists from doing whatever they want to the country and the world.
Don't get it twisted.
It's not even really about you OR the individual person you are voting for.
Voting blue is about preventing fascists from doing whatever they want to the country and the world.
Don't get it twisted.
“Why won’t Democrats save us??? Also I cannot and will not vote for Democrats reliably and spread demonstrable falsehoods about them but want cookies for doing the right thing one time. I am very principled and heroic.”
I am left leaning and often will not vote for Dems. I left the party in the 90's.
However I did vote for Harris and other Dems because of the importance of stopping Trump.
I do scream "genocide" and think most Dems have sold out, but the politics of the last decade required a change of tactics.
However I did vote for Harris and other Dems because of the importance of stopping Trump.
I do scream "genocide" and think most Dems have sold out, but the politics of the last decade required a change of tactics.
February 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM
“Why won’t Democrats save us??? Also I cannot and will not vote for Democrats reliably and spread demonstrable falsehoods about them but want cookies for doing the right thing one time. I am very principled and heroic.”
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Another in a long list of "this site is multiple forms of illiterate" is the fact that *so many people* on here seem just fundamentally incapable of grasping the difference btwn what McConnell accomplished in 09-14 and what he accomplished in 15 & 16 (or even beyond).
this isn’t really true? the main political consequence of mcconnell’s intransigence was that obama won reelection and democrats kept their senate majority. to the extent that mcconnell helped trump win, it was after republicans won the senate majority.
February 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Another in a long list of "this site is multiple forms of illiterate" is the fact that *so many people* on here seem just fundamentally incapable of grasping the difference btwn what McConnell accomplished in 09-14 and what he accomplished in 15 & 16 (or even beyond).
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I've had a theory that white progressives just want to be bullies too and so "doing something" to them is bullying the correct people, but actual productive governing and/or getting the right people elected is boring to them
Jasmine Crockett: You’s a bad built, bleach blond butch body!
White progressives: YASSS! Jasmine should run for president! She’s got the fire we need!!!
Jasmine Crockett: I’m running for Senate in Texas.
White progressives: Sitchoass down! No one is voting for you cuz you’re Black! Go sit down!
White progressives: YASSS! Jasmine should run for president! She’s got the fire we need!!!
Jasmine Crockett: I’m running for Senate in Texas.
White progressives: Sitchoass down! No one is voting for you cuz you’re Black! Go sit down!
January 28, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I've had a theory that white progressives just want to be bullies too and so "doing something" to them is bullying the correct people, but actual productive governing and/or getting the right people elected is boring to them
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Absolutely chilling as a nonprofit professional
NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...
www.propublica.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Absolutely chilling as a nonprofit professional