“Seizing the means of production,” you say? 🤡

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OK to be serious for a second: Dick Cheney won. This is the kind of presidency he spent his entire career fighting to establish.

Like many revolutionaries, he was devoured by those who followed in his wake; but when it comes to his chief goal — formally installing an imperial presidency — he won.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

I have been a reporter for close to 40 years, including stints covering police and the courts. This thing, from the president down, of accusing people of crimes when not charged: That did not used to be a thing. Authorities don’t do that because it is unfair and leads to cases being tossed.
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The Washington post Democracy Dies in Darkness Media Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon

we live in hell

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said

He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

“I chose a political culture that thinks masculinity means being an shitposter asshole who is proud to say ‘retard’, and now I can‘t find a suitable masculine mate.”

I think I may have spotted your problem.

this is more or less a perfect answer to an obvious gotcha question

Not just Democratic moderates frankly. There are a range of pols who think the ticket to success is to tell voters that the Democratic Party sucks shit every chance they get and then turn around & wonder why the Democratic Party has such low favorables with voters

Hannah's mom, Betty, a 63-year-old recent retiree who is a caretaker for her daughter and a longtime Trump supporter, said she is losing confidence in the president she once supported amid the shutdown fight. "I think deep down he wants to help the country with things like food insecurity," she said. "But now he is busy out of the country and demolishing the White House. I know that is being paid for with private funds, but those could be used to help people." "It all seems very selfish," she added. Betty Szretter said she now regrets voting for Trump in 2024 and would prefer a Democrat in the White House to "protect benefits he [Trump] wants to cut."

Longtime Trump supporter: “I think deep down he wants to help the country with things like food insecurity.”

(Trump enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history a few months ago)

Now says she regrets voting for Trump and wishes a Democrat were president to “protect benefits [Trump] wants to cut.”

Susan Collins will absolutely destroy Graham Platner by at least +15. like, this is simply not up for debate imho. whatever high ground ME Dems might've had against her with him as the nominee was entirely ceded because of the tattoo & all the terrible shit he said on Reddit.

Continuing reminder that the ACA subsidies and SNAP benefits help more R voters than D voters, and especially do so in rural areas that are already in huge trouble from the other shit the GOP is doing.

The party is completely high on its own supply.

I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.

It's wild to watch reporters ask Mamdani is the king will seek revenge against the people of his city if he's elected to govern them without addressing the small-d democratic emergency within that question

Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" omission of Trump's Binance pardon exchange A note said the extended version of the interview had been "condensed for clarity."

".. Toward the end of the interview, Trump responds .. telling Norah O'Donnell, '.. I'd rather not have you ask the question.'

".. That exchange was included in the full transcript but was omitted from the extended video on YouTube."

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Sometimes I wonder if giving up a steady paycheck was the right call and sometimes I don't.

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Not a dunk on Dave but they’re doing it because they want those candidates to lose and this is how they ventriloquize their views into without being “biased” bsky.app/profile/dave...

people like this get security details to make themselves feel important

This Republican Mega-Donor Is Changing Local Elections In Pennsylvania Billionaire Jeffrey Yass is influencing politics in one of the most competitive states in the country.

Whether or not Pennsylvania Republicans are successful in defeating 3 Democratic State Supreme Court judges in their retention elections tomorrow, PA Dems need to contend with the fact that PA billionaire Jeffrey Yass is all-in on influencing state/local PA elections.

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Biden meets with a Parkinson’s researcher to talk about science: “THIS IS A MASSIVE SCANDAL”

Trump gets multiple MRIs: “Nothing to see here, move along”

This is a website full of goal post movers, so whenever Ds hammer econ talking points (like now), they all scream that theyre stupid for ignoring pro-democracy stuff & when they hit pro-democracy stuff (like in 2024) they scream theyre stupid for ignoring the economy. Bad faith all the way down.

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Trumpcare plan finally revealed

Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid Yall better start fining the refs for doing the "Lewd", "blocking foul" gesture since I'm not allowed to do it #NFL NBA Communications The following was released by the NBA. ø ... @NBAPR . 36m NBA NBA Communications PR.NBA.com | @NBAPR | MediaCentral.NBA.com PHILADELPHIA'S EMBIID FINED NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2025 - Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been fined $50,000 for making a lewd gesture on the playing court, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations. The incident occurred with 7:08 remaining in the first quarter of the 76ers' 109-108 loss to the Boston Celtics on Oct. 31 at Xfinity Mobile Arena. ### 1:37 PM . Nov 2, 2025 . 1,012 Views t7 79 36 301

EMBIIIIIIIIID 😂

In other words, like so much related to anti-Semitism today—from Ye’s conspiracy theories to far-right attacks on American Jews—Trump’s elevation of anti-Jewish actors is not actually new; people are just starting to notice it. Yesterday’s Trump “mistakes” are tomorrow’s Trump guest list. There is a straight line from the 2016 campaign to the 2022 dinner. It would be comforting to think that some of Trump’s enablers have finally learned this lesson. But despite the condemnations, that’s far from clear. In the aftermath of Trump’s dinner, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared: “There is no room in the Republican Party for anti-Semitism or white supremacy. Anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view, in my judgment, are highly unlikely to ever be elected President.” As a general rule, whenever a politician tells you that there is “no room” in their movement for X, that means there currently is room for X, which is why they were compelled to condemn it. And in this case, the contradiction is particularly apparent—after all, Donald Trump was already elected president. If McConnell truly believes what he is saying, then he is in denial about the reality of his own party.

Worth revisiting what I wrote in 2022 after Trump dined with Nick Fuentes. As I said then, all of this was foreseeable:
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U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say