Of course, Democratic candidates did engage in a spirited policy fight during the party’s last open primary, in 2019. But many in the party now point to that period as having dragged the party sharply to the left, even though Mr. Biden, who ignored the progressive wing during much of the period, ultimately won the nomination.

Everything you need to know about the backers and goals

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it’s wild how shameless the right has been over the years poising themselves as the “free speech” party and when they get power they do this to people using free speech

i would eat the rich, i would. honest. it’s just that they don’t fit my macros

got to give an old lady the finger already and it’s barely even 9am. I am blessed 🥰

I wish I had chosen the tranquil life of a spinster

what’s it called when you want dick but only when you want it and not all the time ew

We want to do for search optimization what John Cena did for apologizing in Chinese

Israel's strike on Iran was 8 months in the making Even as Trump was seeking a nuclear deal, Israel was preparing for war.

"Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn't express opposition in private. 'We had a clear U.S. green light,' one claimed.
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The U.S. side has not confirmed any of that."

the pro-israel side cannot help themselves

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Just gave the cat a good brushing and he happily farted all the way through it and this is also how I express joy

found my new favorite TikTok account

Hayao Miyazaki should be allowed to kill at least one person

It’s happening….

Grim news from Joe Rogan world: Joe is getting into polio vaccine skepticism, and just had a guest who said polio wasn't that big a deal. Not good!

Greg Brockman (President of OpenAI) tweeting "ChatGPT images generation enables so much creativity!" It's a quote tweet of the most played-out memes rendered in the Studio Ghibli style

I genuinely - genuinely - believe that people like this don't have souls

there's lots of distractions, I know, but please do not look away from this. this is the ballgame right now. if this is allowed to stand, there's no turning back. it needs to be opposed with every fiber. speak up. tell friends and colleagues who may be unaware.

This is authoritarianism in operation. Americans don't know what it looks like, but that's it. This is what it looks like.

faceapp feminised john steinbeck with a famously attributes quote overlaid PSYCHOSEXUAL YURISM NEVER TOOK ROOT IN AMERICA BECAUSE THE WOMEN THERE SEE THEMSELVES NOT AS FORCE FEMINISING LESBIAN CHASERS BUT RATHER AS TEMPORARILY ENFRANCHISED TRADHETS. JOAN STEINBECK

grapes are meant to be plucked

Screenshot that reads, "I have terrible, disturbing, infuriating news. Wonton was adopted on Thursday to what seemed like a great home. She left as a healthy, perfect, playful kitten. Friday morning, just 20 hrs later, she was returned to me broken, bleeding, in critical condition."

Here are screenshots of Haley's post. Donation links: www.paypal.com/donate/?host... and donorbox.org/friends-of-b...
Venmo: friendsofbear

I don’t remember the context but I stand by it

This part has not sunk in for enough people. It's all a lot deeper than just Trump or even Musk at this point.

There are ascendant fascist ideologies on the American right that run far deeper than any one person and which we will be dealing with for a long time, one way or another.