John Davis

Noticing a pattern here.

Gimme Boer | Charlie Dulik The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner “refugees” points to a longer history of U.S. fascination with these Dutch-descended white South Africans.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans were fascinated by the plight of the Afrikaners—so much so that they came in droves to see the Boer War reenacted on Coney Island and at the World’s Fair.

Trump DOJ Drops Cases Against Top MS-13 Leaders | National Review The deal with Bukele comes with significant strings attached, it turns out.

“The Trump Justice Department has dismissed the narco-terrorism indictments against two leaders of MS-13, enabling them to avoid American justice and be repatriated to El Salvador…sending high-ranking criminals in back overseas so they can avoid prosecution.”

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FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets."

FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"

The purest distillation of maga

note that not one person has criticized the pilots, who in fact did an amazing job — but Donny and his flunky, Brave Sir Drinksalot, are trying like hell to make this about the pilots. they’re pretending that any criticism of the operation is criticism of our loyal and patriotic pilots. how dare you! they’re doing this in order to deflect from the real culprits in all this: their own incompetent selves. the fault lies with Brave Sir Drinksalot, who fired every Pentagon expert who would have known how to get this shit done — and the fault lies with Donny, for not leveling with the American people and admitting that his Glorious Iranian Adventure didn’t turn out as glorious as he imagined. We The People are being fed, as always, a steady diet of lies. what fairy tale we going to hear next, that Iran’s Supreme Leader turned the Mad King into a newt, but then he got better? this isn’t foreign policy. this is farce. it would be funny, except for the part where the assholes on both sides aren’t lobbing cows at each other. they’re using real bombs.

from today's post, on the Pythonesque farce that is Donny's Iranian clusterfuck
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4nrAeDN
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

Alaska’s Republican Senate Majority Leader on the GOP’s Medicaid cuts:“This actually jeopardizes ALL Alaskans, whether they’re the third of our population that receives Medicaid services or not.”

A hand holding a copy of the book “Gender Transition for Dummies.”

I saw this picture on a post earlier this month. At first it made me laugh, but the more I think about it, the more right it feels for the end of Pride Month. Because much of the rhetoric I see fly around about transgender people and ideas seems rooted in ignorance. (Thread)

Elon Musk’s political opinions today aren’t any less deranged than they were three months ago.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court Try to Erase Gay People in Mahmoud v. Taylor Decision
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Medicaid cuts don’t balance budgets.
They break lives.
And voters know it. Don’t fool yourself.

#VoteNo

The US currently has 902 billionaires - 0.0002% of our population.

$280,000 is 0.02% of $1 billion.

Republicans are destroying our nation for the equivalent of pocket gravel for the obscenely wealthy.

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Micky Dolenz might be the most underrated singer in rock.

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

So the consensus is in. The roots of all America’s problems are:

1. Billionaires are paying too much tax.

2. Too many people prepared to do the most demanding work for low wages.

3. Too much scientific research.

4. Too much affordable healthcare.

5. Too many pronouns.

I'm just quoting @radosh.bsky.social 's posting to add to its visibility. Get your facts straight, people. Be as grounded in humane understanding as Zohran is.

This is fucking fascinating @jemima.bsky.social on.ft.com/4eqw6Qh

Opinion | I am voting for the Senate megabill. But I'd still like the media to give me credit for expressing reservations about it.

by Josh Hawley

Fuck all the assholes yelling, "They did commit a crime" about any undocumented migrant to justify sending them to an alligator-infested swamp or a country that'll torture them. If you're okay with an actual convicted felon as president, you can shut the fuck up about who is a criminal.

Oh look, the fakest of faux-populists, Mr Gotta-be-a-manly-man, whining about having no choice but to go against all his pretend beliefs and do exactly what everyone who’s not a complete mark knew he would do.

Serious question: Has this administration done a single thing in nearly six months to benefit any regular people in the United States? I mean, other than giving jobs to complete morons and violent assholes. I can't think of anything.

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Fellow kids! We’re on TikTok now 😎

(@500songspodcast)

this is the work the gop is trying to convince you white americans are lining up to do if we just deport the brown people already doing it

The Founding Fathers if they had social media and behaved like Trump.

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Now more than ever
Listen to the Bern
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DO BETTER
Tired of seeing
"Dems in Disarray "
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@schumer.senate.gov
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UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AT STAKE

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Such a good point on SCOTUS hypocrisy when it comes to Trump vs Biden:

They let a nationwide injunction kill Biden’s student loan relief when they had a chance to rule on it.

5 months into Trump’s presidency, suddenly nationwide injunctions are a grave threat to executive power and they must rule.