microplastics

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

Democrats after giving up: “Democrats must fight.”

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

if you can't savor the villains losing you've lost the spark of beauty and ingenuity that makes life worth living

“…underscoring potential ethical conflicts.”

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

horseshit

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

‘I Was Wrong About Charlie Kirk’: Six Conservative Students on His Killing

there are people on my college campus who would cheer if someone like me, a young person who openly expresses my traditional Christian beliefs and right-wing political views, were murdered.

The response from most politicians to the tragic news has been to call for unity and condemn political violence. But vague calls for unity and bipartisanship are not good enough. I cannot be in “unity” with people on the left who condone and justify terrorism against Christians and conservatives. There is no “uniting” with the people who want my friends and me dead because we refuse to be silent about our convictions.

A functional society cannot coexist with this destructive worldview.

Absolutely psychotic to publish this
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Trump being really, really stupid is one of the more interesting things about his rise to power

“Rejecting you was as difficult as fighting Malenia without summons — which is to say, very difficult!”

civility politics

“I was raked over the coals, just absolutely flamethrowered, for writing this very stupid article”

“Look honey, everyone on Reddit thinks that you’re a stupid bitch.”

This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

The masked men kidnapping dissidents are a “distraction.”

...I don't think that you need to worry about this.

I can't believe that a libertarian platform would promote a gutter racist!

the 2024 student encampments on college campuses had movement discipline and the state still beat them, tear gassed them, expelled them, and in some cases deported them

“he has the morals of an alley cat!”

"the bleach community"

“C-level work” is extremely generous

there is essentially no educational value after working 16 hours (much less 24-30)