Jon Pennington

Best case scenario is that he was too fucking stupid to realize he was walking around with a Nazi tattoo for 2 decades, which is not a ringing endorsement of his qualifications to be a Senator

“His views are firmly left wing” ok but I need him to have practiced them for longer than a full senate term before i can believe that they’re permanent views, and right now it’s iffy.

"to acceess higher ed" his parents were professionals and business owners and his grandfather was a globally recognized architect and furniture designer! He's not a poor kid doing a stint in the Marines so he can afford State U bsky.app/profile/jame...

Exactly! Platner could become Fetterman 2.0.

"His political views are firmly left wing" like are they though. What are we basing that on? He's never held office before. This is all just claims he's making about himself? I don't know this guy! Why should I believe him?

As a Christian, I think it's weird and inappropriate to publicly hope your spouse converts to Christianity. That's a private conversation for home. It also brings attention to the fact that your spouse's most immediate example of Christianity is you and it doesn't take. Yikes.

The richest administration in American history and they’re keeping snap hostage

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate …

The key points remain the same. Trump will likely have a much harder time getting Senate Republicans to abolish the filibuster than most people imagine.

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Kamala Harris on Jon Stewart's podcast: "I mean, are you fucking kidding me? This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that, that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now?"

but now they’re having to confront - in a truly inescapable way, with no ambiguity at all anymore - that a lot of their allies genuinely think the nazis were based and that the wrong side lost WWII. and often when cognitive dissonance is this intense it causes ppl to lash-out and act unpredictably.

and for 10 years they’ve more or less increasingly lied to themselves about the nature of the people they were getting into bed with, politically speaking; but they never actually got to a point where they’re ok being on team nazi — even if for no other reason than the legacy of WWII as US > Nazis

the brouhaha on xitter about and within the heritage foundation has been truly fascinating. i know this is so risible it’s hard to accept for many ppl here but there genuinely are a lot of conservatives who are both anti-antiracist *and* sincerely anti-nazi. they really do draw the line … there.

The press doesn’t get away unscathed: “The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.”

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

Why Is Susan Collins Mixed Up in the Virginia Governor’s Race? The “pro-choice” Maine Senator used her email list to support embattled Virginia gubernatorial aspirant Winsome Earle-Sears, who has called abortion “genocide.”

NEW: Susan Collins, who claims to be pro choice, is raising money for an anti-abortion candidate who’s slated to lose the Virginia governor's race. A donor email sent on behalf of Winsome Earle-Sears comes as Collins' approval rating has plummeted to net negative 20 points. Me in @newrepublic.com:

Trump: I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there! 125 ReTruths 524 Likes

The guy who tore down half the White House and keeps plastering tacky gold shit everywhere is suddenly concerned with the building’s aesthetic traditions.

Nick Fuentes Nick Fuentes is a 27-year-old white supremacist who praises Hitler and says that the Holocaust was “exaggerated.” He has been considered on the “fringe,” alt-Right, and his views have been widely rejected by conservatives, including Charlie Kirk and Turning Point, for the past nine years. However, tragically, Fuentes has recently gained a larger following (called Groypers), now has one million X followers, and was just interviewed by Tucker Carlson on his show. According to the Anti-Defamation League, “In a March 2023 livestream episode, Fuentes stated, ‘I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don’t hate Hitler. I think there’s a Jewish conspiracy. I believe in race realism.’” Fuentes also denies the mass murders, rapes, and kidnappings that happened on October 7, 2023, claiming that the attack was a lie created by Israel to “justify” their “unfolding regional war” with Iran. He has also claimed that Israel “allowed” or “participated” in the atrocity to kill their own people. Besides being anti-Semitic, Fuentes also expresses racist and anti-immigration views (even legal immigration). During a livestream on February 6, he said that white people need to “preserve their culture” and live among other white people because the United States has become an “alien nation.” In December 2023, he claimed that immigration has brought an “end of whites as a group, whites as a race. And it also spells the end of white civilization.”

Of course the piece is filled with apologia for others on the right who are racist (e.g., Chris Rufo), and presses Islamophobic claims, but notably does single out Fuentes (and Carlson) for rebuke for antisemitism:

Pop-up ad on Family Research Council website "God’s promise still stands—will you stand with Israel?", refers to West Banks "Judea and Samaria" and an offer to "Partner with FRC"

Opened the Family Research Council homepage just now and got this pop-up

It's true that in Trump II the MAGA-Groyper-Nazi nexus appears far more influential than the old guard Christian right was in Trump I. Trump thinks he got what he needed from the old guard Christian right (mobilization of voters to the polls) and now he's going for his true desires.

Opinion | Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.

The MAGA luminaries keep quoting Spengler, Schmitt, and other figures from Germany’s conservative revolution, but the NYT opinion page acts like all of this revolutionary fervor just came from the left. Why? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

Remember when Trump said he wouldn't touch Social Security? "As many as 1.5 million could lose eligibility over the next decade, including the widows and children of workers."

Gen Z rejects earnestness because they grew up online where bullies picked on earnest/concerned/caring people and made others laugh at them for their investment. We are seeing this in the classroom, the kids are afraid to be earnest in learning. Safety is a prerequisite to education. 🗃️

If you’re shocked by the Heritage Foundation defending Tucker Carlson — who’s done more to normalize antisemitism & white nationalism than almost anyone — you haven’t been paying attention. That same extremism is at the core of Project 2025, from mass deportations to gutting core democratic rights.

Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...

Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...

New from Epstein’s Inbox: In 2007, prosecutors moved to investigate Epstein for financial crimes as part of their sex-trafficking probe.

He and his lawyers went to war to stop them.

A screenshot of a post on X by Tim Pool (@Timcast). The tweet says, “Ms Rachel is a demon who harms children. Keep your kids away from this shit.” Below it is a retweeted post from Complex Pop Culture about Ms. Rachel criticizing the government for cutting SNAP food aid. The attached image shows Ms. Rachel wearing a pink shirt and denim overalls, speaking animatedly with her hand raised. Two quotes from her Instagram post are featured: one says, “People who say they are Christian and want to cut SNAP, Jesus said to feed the hungry,” and the other says, “Imagine slashing SNAP, the program that helps children in the US not go hungry, while sending billions in weapons to another country to kill children.”

The complete inversion of morals on the right is not surprising but it's still shocking. Imagine being on the side of intentionally starving children.

there are a lot of clueless people in the democratic party ecosystem who are in positions of power because they latched on to bill clinton and barack obama, who dont know a fucking thing about winning elections. theyre in control.

clintonism worked because it was led by bill clinton, one of the most charming human beings in the history of mankind. when its fronted by a standard democratic party robot it dies.

Block on Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment Stands As SCOTUS Takes Up National Guard Question Read more here.

A block on Trump’s attempted military deployment in Chicago will stand for at least the next few weeks as SCOTUS weighs whether “regular forces,” as cited under the law he invoked, includes the National Guard.
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