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I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
September 3, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
September 2, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
August 30, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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👇🎯 The reason the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics, from 1865 'til now, is bc there are never any personal, legal, or professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. <Everyone> from the GWB era went on to $$ gigs in media, business & academia.
August 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
👇🎯 The reason the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics, from 1865 'til now, is bc there are never any personal, legal, or professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. <Everyone> from the GWB era went on to $$ gigs in media, business & academia.
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There was a lengthy article in the New York Times yesterday about how men who had lived almost their entire lives in America were being shipped to foreign prisons with no due process and held in conditions so severe they almost died from hunger striking, and it didn’t even make a ripple.
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
August 14, 2026 at 3:26 AM
There was a lengthy article in the New York Times yesterday about how men who had lived almost their entire lives in America were being shipped to foreign prisons with no due process and held in conditions so severe they almost died from hunger striking, and it didn’t even make a ripple.
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I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
August 14, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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"a Democratic successor can't easily roll back" like Biden tried rolling back Trump era asylum rules and GOP judges said they couldn't because Covid was still happening. Then they implemented a vaccine mandate on authority everyone agreed existed and that got overturned because Covid was over
also, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less
August 9, 2026 at 5:28 AM
"a Democratic successor can't easily roll back" like Biden tried rolling back Trump era asylum rules and GOP judges said they couldn't because Covid was still happening. Then they implemented a vaccine mandate on authority everyone agreed existed and that got overturned because Covid was over
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really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people
X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
July 26, 2026 at 12:15 PM
really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people
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With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
June 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.
June 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.
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My wife just woke up and heard the cheering and said "Did Trump die?"
June 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
My wife just woke up and heard the cheering and said "Did Trump die?"
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The very things that made the 'great years' the GOP daydream upon are also the things to which they are most opposed.
Imagine that.
Imagine that.
This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.
June 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
The very things that made the 'great years' the GOP daydream upon are also the things to which they are most opposed.
Imagine that.
Imagine that.
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America conservative rejection of the New Deal order shockingly coincides with white social and political backlash against the black civil rights movement, second wave fem, and other social justice movements.
I’m sure there is no connection there………………….
I’m sure there is no connection there………………….
This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.
June 13, 2026 at 11:13 AM
America conservative rejection of the New Deal order shockingly coincides with white social and political backlash against the black civil rights movement, second wave fem, and other social justice movements.
I’m sure there is no connection there………………….
I’m sure there is no connection there………………….
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Based on everything we keep seeing I just don’t know how people are so reflexively defensive of Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries etc. They’ve all fucking failed us. Their job was/is to fight the right and they don’t do it.
May 23, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Based on everything we keep seeing I just don’t know how people are so reflexively defensive of Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries etc. They’ve all fucking failed us. Their job was/is to fight the right and they don’t do it.
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😕🇺🇸 a rigged system
May 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
😕🇺🇸 a rigged system
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The "unsolving of the problems of earlier generations" is a great turn of phrase.
What we're seeing in the climate crisis, Trump's sabotage of the world system, & RFK's sabotage of public health is the unsolving of the problems earlier generations made progress on & destruction of the systems we inherited to address them in an ongoing way.
May 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The "unsolving of the problems of earlier generations" is a great turn of phrase.
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We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.
May 6, 2026 at 9:38 PM
We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.
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AVERAGE WHITE MLB PLAYER: has 18 latino teammates he doesn’t speak to, believes the 2020 election was stolen and is in a group text with morgan wallen
AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric
AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric
May 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM
AVERAGE WHITE MLB PLAYER: has 18 latino teammates he doesn’t speak to, believes the 2020 election was stolen and is in a group text with morgan wallen
AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric
AVERAGE WHITE NBA PLAYER: wokest dude you’ve ever met, has gotten into several fistfights over a teammate being called a slur, knows every nas lyric
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people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque
April 29, 2026 at 3:30 PM
people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque
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as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
April 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
April 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...
April 28, 2026 at 11:01 AM
You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...
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It’ll never happen.
It’s hard to say but those same “No Kings” white people will elect a white person who’ll let bygones be bygones and in another generation, they will be stomping the shit out of brown people again and asking why we make everything about race.
It’s hard to say but those same “No Kings” white people will elect a white person who’ll let bygones be bygones and in another generation, they will be stomping the shit out of brown people again and asking why we make everything about race.
There should be a plan to seize all the assets of every traitor who is looting our country
April 25, 2026 at 6:45 AM
It’ll never happen.
It’s hard to say but those same “No Kings” white people will elect a white person who’ll let bygones be bygones and in another generation, they will be stomping the shit out of brown people again and asking why we make everything about race.
It’s hard to say but those same “No Kings” white people will elect a white person who’ll let bygones be bygones and in another generation, they will be stomping the shit out of brown people again and asking why we make everything about race.
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Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.
April 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.
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And the reason the “POC’s”
Are uncomfortable with affirmative action is their proximity to whiteness is makes them beholden to the quiet luxury of anti Blackness
Are uncomfortable with affirmative action is their proximity to whiteness is makes them beholden to the quiet luxury of anti Blackness
April 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
And the reason the “POC’s”
Are uncomfortable with affirmative action is their proximity to whiteness is makes them beholden to the quiet luxury of anti Blackness
Are uncomfortable with affirmative action is their proximity to whiteness is makes them beholden to the quiet luxury of anti Blackness