Just Barely Barning On

I don't think you know these people, man. If Trump had left tariffs alone and never DOGEd the gov, the number of GOP southerners who'd let their squeamishness about ICE flip their R votes to D votes is electorally insignificant. They cheer for Alligator Alcatraz ffs.

Look, being credibly alleged to have sexually assaulted minors only shaved 20 points off the vote margin for a generic Republican in Alabama. Do you really think ICE doing their level best to transform into the gestapo is going to have a similar effect in 2026?

The Legendary Super Gooner

The typo may improve this, honestly

I love and work amongst them too. I can assure you that any current discomfort will not meaningfully change voting preferences.

Bingo

Dems should do nothing that strengthens the enemy while Trump is using power as he sees fit, especially when Congress has all but ceded power of the purse, and Congressional GOP will use what little remains to rescission as they see fit. If GOP want a deal, they should give up some power for it.

Is democracy worth suffering for?

For a majority of the Trump votingers, they're getting exactly what they wanted

I am a deep red state denizen, and I say, may the stove touch us all.

I need those folks to lock the fuck in

Pure contrarianism

so, to be clear, reopening the government for a deal on this will primarily have the effect of making sure that people who may or may not pay attention to politics in red states can continue not paying attention to politics

they won't remember if we bail them out now. this is a bad deal.

I will support primary challenges against any Democrat who votes to reopen the government without further concessions beyond ACA subsidies, and I oppose restoring ACA subsidies without additional concessions.

Devising increasingly convoluted keyword combinations that I must discover in order to produce the email I am searching for

Palestinian supporters not embrace tropes from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion challenge (impossible)

What Israel is doing in Gaza is horrifying, but let’s not stoop to classic antisemitism, okay?

In either case, the balls are out of this world

I constantly think about this interview with a journalist who became a UAF fighter

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances It reads: "This man is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM" The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

Tweet about the third amendment allowing businesses to refuse to grant ICE access to bathrooms

cc @epicciuto.bsky.social

comic panel featuring Batman and a cow standing dramatically in the rain. Batman says "this is where I watched my parents die, cow tools cow." The cow responds, her word bubble containing only the lump-with-handle cow tool.

cowabummer

it's one of America's technologies of "other people aren't real" something you have to consciously work against when driving

Twitter post. Image is Lee Kuan Yew. “We did it. We resurrected LKY. Father, tell us: what should we do to fix America?” “Ten billion H1B Indians.” “What? B–but—“ “Forced race mixing of neighborhoods.” “Father, no—“ “Arrest anyone who disagrees.”

we do at least have this tweet out of it

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

It gnaws at me

What I actually struggle with is that we're well into the zone where our founding principles and natural law not only permit revolt but probably require it as our duty as citizens, and I am shirking every day.

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...