Tim

It is mind boggling that they are explicitly acknowledging that the president is weaponizing federal funding to impose a partisan agenda (which is literal fascism) but then they blame those resisting this fascism for the consequences. This is an abuser’s mentality plain and simple.

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

Living rent free in his head

Call me old-fashioned but I think the president should not try to kill the First Amendment, the tourism industry, and the universities

Conservatives being shocked at the logical endpoint of their ideological commitments would be funny if it wasn't so costly to everyone who cares about democracy, equal rights, common decency, etc.

tearing down confederate statues is an affront to history but erasing abolitionists supports their segregationist goals, so it's just fine

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

There must be a million iconic images of nature they could have chosen, but in a personalist regime you are forced to carry the image of the man damaging the national parks you are visiting

"Mediocre white person applauds roll back of social progress and civil society"

There does not exist a hot dog suit big enough nor a face eating leopard ferocious enough to serve as an adequate metaphor for Chris Rufo complaining about right wing media becoming conspiracy addled click bait

Consistently amazed how transparent Rufo is about his propaganda agenda and the centrist media can't even be bothered to straightforwardly report on what he's publicly putting out. He's treated as some conservative thought leader when he's just one of their chief propagandists (and openly so)

I also think it’s rooted in *lots* of people wanting to avoid the clear implications of their friends and family members voting for (and cheering) an open white supremacist. Better to pretend it’s a gaffe or insincerely held campaign strategy than to ruin Christmas dinner.

Behind the Right’s Attacks on Trans Girls in Sports — Assigned Conservative media, legal, political, and business leaders came together in a breathtaking assault on human rights.

A lawyer who helped lead Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also heavily involved in lawsuits seeking to ban trans women from sports.

@billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a deep look at the strategies and coordination behind sports bans in one of our most read pieces this year.

Behold, an elderly man in the throws of complete cognitive decline. He is living in an extended delusion that’s being fed and encouraged by the sycophants around him, so that they can run the country for their own evil purposes.

this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights

damn that’s a lot of economic anxiety

main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.

This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

becoming clear that most of trump’s cabinet positions actually see themselves as “secretary of dudes getting jacked,” the one thing these guys have any actual interest in, the single bit of advice they remember from a jordan peterson audiobook they half listened to, and they all suck at it.

Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

It was never about deporting criminals. It was always about using deportation to criminalize people they want to control.

Fundamentally broken people

Would love to see @liberalcurrents.com team up with @jamellebouie.net again to discuss birthright citizenship and the meaning of the Constitution

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

So, basically want to make them gig workers

Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

Marketplace of ideas. Let's see what they're selling

There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.

Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.

The degrading of the American Presidency continues.

This is genuinely one of the saddest, most demeaning, most degrading moments for an American president. The empty hole you fill with narcissism can't be filled with gold or faux peace buddy.

It's like kids are doing the Pee-Wee Playhouse "Word of the Day" thing. It just happens to be two numbers