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centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.

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For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all

I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use

New Jersey podcaster at that.

"Exaggeration"?

If the Republican bill is passed as-is, then 13.7 million will lose health coverage. That's what CBO said, the result of 7.7m from the GOP bill, 4.2m from tax credits GOP isn't extending, and 1.8m from a Trump marketplace rule GOP isn't rescinding or modifying.

13.7m. It's a fact.

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

and honestly, the obsession over “we should have said more about biden being old” starts to grate when the currently serving president is very obviously impaired by age and cognitive decline, to crickets from the press

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

Of the American voters who are alleged to be upset about immigration, how many of them are upset because ...

a) their life has been directly impacted in some way by illegal immigrants,

vs.

b) they're immersed in a media system working relentlessly to active their fear, ignorance, & xenophobia?

Yup. Privatizing and selling off our public lands. It was explicitly spelled out in Project 2025 but the media thought that was worthy of less coverage than implying a fake scandal around which month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China so here we are bsky.app/profile/gree...

The core "ideology" of political liberals for decades has basically been "let's do stuff that helps people." They've often fallen short in the application of it, but that's been the core belief.

The Right built out more ideological lore, but the core belief was "we should rule."

And so.

“sell your product at a loss, or else” was probably not what the business people were expecting from President Business

And this historic assault on labor is nowhere to be found on *any* of the major newspapers' front pages today.

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

Also this is just insanely untrue? The US COVID response was incredibly pro poor? Like we just got rid of child poverty. For years we didn’t have child poverty until Republicans and Manchin demanded we bring child poverty back!

Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.

There are a bunch of articles like this, which argue that Trump is going after institutions because of their failures.
The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Duterte shit

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

Schoolhouse Rock but it's me learning about all the activities of government as Trump and Elon destroy them one by one

These are problems but the problem, which dwarfs all others, is that they’re totally swamped by the right’s sprawling propaganda infrastructure.

Their inability to withstand the flood of bullshit contributes to their lack of spine. These things are intertwined.

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

This is exactly it.

this post says progressives need to address young men’s needs. like what? job security? education? mental health concerns? which side do you think has the better offering for young men in those areas?

Judges gotta start throwing these people in jail or else they're gonna continue to fuck around. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

I'm amused by this commentary. The wordiness!

What else does Thomas have but words? Especially now. Nothing but words. His country is being rapidly dismantled by the ruling party and he wails at those who are protesting and documenting: "Your unified protest is what pushed folk to vote for Trump!"