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i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock

The majority of the world’s standard diets are basically some variety of vegan at their core.

in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.

Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.

Oh yeah. *waves in EMS worker. I’ve watched people who when presented with 3 perfectly sane options will instead drive their car into a wall

Marc A. Thiessen The filibuster is a wall against a Mamdani-inspired socialist dystopia November 6, 2025

Editorial Board Zohran Mamdani drops the mask The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors. November 8, 2025

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.

The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.

But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Can we normalize trains?

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

you know what's fun? the growing realization that a lot of Americans have no idea what rabies is

The thing is these guys don't think the government does anything important.

Been considering writing something on this for a while now, but the core of liberalism really is “mind your own business.” No one has to agree on what a woman or man is anymore than they have to agree what God is. What you have to agree on is to not accost people in the street over it.

There was once a time when SNAP ("food stamps") meant someone was experiencing temporary hardship that could be permanently fixed with employment. In those days, rent and utilities were better aligned with wages. Those days are gone. Today SNAP is the only way millions can eat. This is cruel.

"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."

—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

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what the fuck are we DOING here

It can be very radicalizing to even get people to seriously think about the economic system they live in and question possible alternatives

Public health defends its time-tested approach against the rise of MAHA Public health leaders convene in Washington, D.C. this week to defend their vision for America's health, and look ahead for how to rebuild after the Trump administration's attacks on the system.

"The reason that most of us are alive long enough to be able to complain about public health is because of public health, which has saved millions of people from early deaths through improving sanitation, vaccination, and discouraging unhealthy behaviors like smoking."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

“With significant funding from tech leaders, Rockbridge aims to equip MAGA to outlive Trump... It is gearing up to deploy its arsenal in the [2026 and 2028 elections],” aiming for JD Vance to takeover.

They believe a “select group of elites are exactly the right people to move the country forward.”

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info

My public school teachers showed this movie to us in class, for educational purposes. (The lesson was that the US was a nation of immigrants and that's what made us great.)

I don't expect Zohran Mamdani to be perfect. None of us should. Perfection isn't the point of politics. Conviction is. What matters is that he believes the government should serve the people. That public service should mean something again. We have been governed for too long by people who mistake cruelty for strength, and greed for strategy. So when someone comes along who actually believes that we deserve better, that belief itself becomes an act of resistance. He won't fix everything. No singular person can. But when someone fights for the people instead of against them, it should reminds us that change is not a myth. -Frederick Joseph

THIS!

“I don't expect Zohran Mamdani to be perfect. None of us should. Perfection isn't the point
of politics. Conviction is.

What matters is that he believes the government should serve the people.”

- Frederick Joseph

This is not a point I had considered, but, yeah: this is ALSO all going to cause a lot of domestic strife.

I don't feel especially bad for MAGA people generally, but it's also going to cause an uptick in domestic violence and that part I do fucking hate.

Over half the people who actually returned ballots in my county were 65+ so, um, maybe it was a good thing that there were so many gray-hairs in the No Kings crowds.

Robert Reich The Truth About Trump’s Tariffs

The Supreme Court today questioned Trump's use of emergency powers to levy tariffs.

Perhaps they're finally realizing what the rest of us already know.

Other countries aren't paying for the tariffs. We are. https://youtu.be/AfVGUiet39E?si=d0zTlOiRdMCuv6ke

BREAKING: As the holiday season approaches, Trump’s transportation department says it will begin forcing flight cancellations at 40 major airports due to the government shutdown.

Republicans control the White House, the House, and the Senate. This is their shutdown.

anyone ever notice how when Democrats lose one election there's a thousand articles written about how they need to fix their problems with young men but when Republicans get like 2% of the female vote there's silence?

funny how that works

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.