Laggy Taffy 🦆

The Democratic establishment saying ok we just have to shift to the center and go right again AFTER ALL THIS! show they are just an oligarchical cargo cult. They will never do a damn thing to fix this economical dump and they have to die as a party.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

So Big Brother is not only snatching people off the streets and sending them to know one knows where, they are pooling all our data in one place, they are using tons of AI through all of this so what can trust any of its results, they are doing it in service of weirdo billionaires what a nightmare

Almost like he’s completely full of shit and grifting

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

CNN’s CEO Mark Thompson reportedly told staff to ease off on coverage of Trump demolishing the east wing for his ballroom after visiting the White House.

Another outlet obeying in advance. Off the cliff we go. 😕 🇺🇸 www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

Further analysis just from Germany shows the center-left doing the far right a solid, and screwing themselves in the process, by unwittingly echoing their tropes /4
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I would tend to agree OB is definitely more fun, but Roddy and just how hot Chris Sarandon is in Fright Night is a large part of its charm.

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

The goal should be to repeat it so often that some reporter slips and asks Leavitt about the "Epstein Ballroom."

Me on Polymarket making a bet that before Christmas JD or Mike Johnson will say on camera or socials that anders breivik was actually pretty misunderstood. 🙃

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Mikey Johnson in every media appearance just floundering for his life failing at the every turn to not look like a little fool running a circus on fire. keep floundering

People often don't believe me or other repro health experts when we say this admin and its supporters (ahem, Heritage) are absolutely trying to remove access to WOMEN'S ABILITY TO CONTROL THEIR OWN REPRODUCTION.

And this isn't about raising birth rates. It's about restoring the gender hierarchy.

I realllly need liberals and the Democrat political pansies to be forced to watch Clearcut and made to understand what pacifism and empty self serving gestures do in the face of Destructive Forces.

GOP’s Anti-Democratic Gerrymander Drive Kicks Into High Gear Read more here.

After President Donald Trump told Republican states this summer to jump the gun on redistricting — a practice normally undertaken after the decennial census — many only asked how highly rigged their new maps should be. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yikes!

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

Mike Johnson has spent hours insisting he can swear Grivalja in any time, geez, guys what’s all the fuss about, when he could, you know, just swear her in.

genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Stephen Miller really is just Percy from the green mile and he deserves to have all the disease and hatred from every person in this country blown into his lungs by a magical Stephen King character.

“That’s some neck ass pussy” is gonna be in my head all day after seeing that times cover

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

It's kinda incredible that Barack Obama turning hope and change into more of the same created the conditions for Trump and MAGA - and yet as far as I can tell, Obama has never once been asked in an interview about his insane and self-serving "violence to the social order" defense of what he did.

The media has enabled this bs every step of the way the last decade.