Literally A Wolf 🇵🇸

love yourself enough not to take lectures on why “accelerationism” doesn’t work from people who believe appeasement does

19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.

Democrats Do Something Useful Challenge, 2025 Edition

It remains the case that the real dividing line across the center-left/left isn’t primarily about policy.

It’s between those who believe some kind of normalcy can be achieved through legal tweaks and technocratic fixes and those who believe our democracy is going to have to be rebuilt the hard way.

There’s a word for people who say they oppose fascists but believe that fascists make a few good points or are right about some things.

(It’s fascists)

yep. All it leaves is a result depending on the integrity and reach of either side in a conflict, and a dishonest and abusive person is going to come out ahead in the narrative

What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.

We need to push back really hard against this rapidly coalescing “backlash” narrative that places the agency solely with traditionally marginalized and "activist" groups who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing a supposedly inevitable reaction, a predictable, near-automatic response.

If you saw a person losing a game of chess to a dog, over and over, you would assume the person is losing intentionally, that they are losing on purpose. Probably to make money selling tickets to see the amazing chess playing dog.

Anyway, the dems

A small but meaningful part of the damn problem with the Democratic Party is that there is absolutely no meaningful internal party discipline — at least, not aimed at the party’s right. Discipline is only for progressives that are actually on program.

Centrists stop finding common ground with Nazis challenge.

Celebrate presidents day by playing Luigi's Mansion for a solid 16 hours

technofascists: vaccines are dangerous

also technofascists: you are asking too many questions that have already been answered by my "we used CRISPR to insert DNA from a starfruit and Murray Rothbard into our IVF" hat

That would require alienating their corporate constituents, safer to pitch yourself as nicer than the bad guys and just shrug when it doesn't work

this remains a massive problem. a month of rampant law breaking and the constitution in abeyance and still no sign party leadership cares about anything but positioning themselves for the midterms

I will not bring this energy here further but Jonathan Chait is in my opinion an odious human being whose function in our discourse is in no way made less pernicious by virtue of his being so generic and replaceable

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.

Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

MrBeast smiling with an image of the Pentagon behind him

Trying EVERY Dumbshit Right-Wing Internet Theory Out On The US Government At The Same Time

Every one should read Command and Control, the laugh-a-minute nonfiction book about all the many times we’ve dropped or lost or forgot or set fire to various nuclear warheads

I would simply take myself hostage in a kind of Budd Dwyer With a Twist situation, but I guess that’s asking a lot for a non Republican whose official stance is Jesus Has The Wheel

anyway remember when the democrats controlled both houses and the executive but couldn't do shit because of [checks] the Senate Parliamentarian? thank god Jesus Was on the Throne then too or we'd really be sorry now

I love Uranus!

a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency

They will do literally anything _except_ work for collective survival - too busy celebrating the suffering of those they think deserve it

Congressional Democrats' offices are being inundated by phone calls from angry constituents who feel the party should be doing more to combat President Trump and his administration. Why it matters: Some lawmakers feel their grassroots base is setting expectations too high for what Democrats can actually accomplish as the minority party in both chambers of Congress. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told Axios: "What I think we need to do more is: Put the onus on Republicans, so that the calls that we're getting are directed toward Republicans." "There has definitely been some tension the last few days where people felt like: you are calling the wrong people. You are literally calling the wrong people," said one House Democrat. What we're hearing: More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers and aides said in interviews with Axios that their offices have received historically high call volumes in recent days. Some staffers said they hadn't seen this many calls since seminal events like the Oct. 7 attack, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings or even the Trump impeachment proceedings. Aaron Fritschner, a spokesperson for Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), said his office's phones have been "ringing off the hook without pause since we opened yesterday morning." On social media sites such as X and Bluesky, another aide said, "Every Dem is getting lit up by the neo-resistance folks being like 'do more.'"

inadvertently vital reporting here from axios showcasing dem staffers whining about a foundational tenet of representational democracy: telling your representative how you want them to represent you.

I know it’s overwhelming to see Trump waging war on civil servants and replacing with loyalists, but remember we’ve seen this before. It was called the “Spoils System” when Presidents in the 1800s rewarded “their people” with jobs. Guess what happened…corruption exploded. THREAD