Literally every other election: The winner is the person who gets the most votes.
The presidency: We need guardrails to prevent the wrong constituencies from deciding who wins.
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Literally every other election: The winner is the person who gets the most votes.
The presidency: We need guardrails to prevent the wrong constituencies from deciding who wins.
Some thoughts on what de-magafication of our institutions might look like when this nightmare is over (free post) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
14.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 1137 🔁 408 💬 88 📌 31This is so fucking evil my eyes hurt.
14.02.2026 00:31 — 👍 199 🔁 55 💬 7 📌 1I havn't had a chance. WIll do.
13.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Eugene Vindman and Benny Thompson jumped out... devastating
13.02.2026 02:08 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Joyce Beatty (OH-03) Jared Golden (ME-02) Greg Stanton (AZ-04) Sanford Bishop (GA-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Bennie Thompson (MS-02) Brendan Boyle (PA-02) Adam Gray (CA-13) Derek Tran (CA-45) Troy Carter (LA-02) Greg Landsman (OH-01) Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Yvette Clarke (NY-09) Donald Norcross (NJ-01) Marc Veasey (TX-33) Lou Correa (CA-46) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Gene Vindman (VA-07) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Don Davis (NC-01) Hillary Scholten (MI-03)
22 House Democrats (including some surprising ones!) just joined Republicans to vote to allow domestic abusers to buy tasers.
13.02.2026 02:03 — 👍 127 🔁 54 💬 13 📌 16beautiful
points
Reminder, here is how Skeleton is scored:
- the bones are their money
- so are the worms
- the bones equal dollars
- they will pull your hair up but not out
- all they want is another chance at life
We are governed by a collection of premature ejaculators having a contest—and they think you win by cumming first.
11.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Using the Wayback Machine,
I just found Edie Lutnick, Howard Lutnicks sister, on the homepage of Ghislaine Maxwell's "Terramar Project" in 2012.
This question is weirdly hard, bc the starting place itself is a result of anti-trans propganda shaping the debate.
Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone.
Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.
ooh, for what?
10.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"...without and ultimately unlikely Putin connection." is an absolutely wild way to write that.
Could you be any more obtuse?
No, really, try it. Try to be less clear.
NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
hey, watch it, that's the wife stroker you're talking about
08.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0love this
07.02.2026 07:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
you seem to often be the take i see first on niche subjects i give a shit about, and i'm grateful for it
07.02.2026 06:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0use thyme in everything.
(15yr professional chef.)
if youre worried about the stems, take off the leaves, or make a sachet.
i put thyme sprigs in tea
its really good in anything
homie, you threw up
07.02.2026 06:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They made up a whole story about a White House staffer posting ut in the middle of the night, and Trump just goes Leeroy Jenkins and says, "You're goddamn right I ordered the Code Red!"
07.02.2026 02:18 — 👍 2034 🔁 457 💬 35 📌 26Damn, I've seen my share of Rupauls drag race, but I am goooped by how much of a catty librarian Diva kween the President is
06.02.2026 05:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0well said
06.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: E-mails reveal Epstein’s bid for clemency from former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
05.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 5010 🔁 1630 💬 79 📌 92I have not seen evidence of Jay-Z in the epstein files.
Where's that coming from?
I just want to verify with the files I have.
Adam Nichols: A newly released email from the Justice Department’s Epstein Files reveals that convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be in Palm Beach with “all the trump boys” on Christmas Day 2016 — a month after Donald Trump’s election victory.
www.rawstory.com/epstein-trum...
This was all really well said, thank you for expressing it.
05.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0awkward gif, cuz someone just found an email suggesting Jerry Seinfeld was on the island for "lemonade"
04.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0*echem* Ana Kasparian... *cough* *cough*
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