Turtle Boy

Whiplash how fast they went from sadistic triumphalism to pants pissing

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Words on social media, in which the data has already been pre-digested into Takes that I can simply internalize as fact!

I participated in building Biden’s Official White House website, and given that it was an official government resource, the restrictions on political messaging were considered deeply important and severe. This is a joke. It of course breaks the law, but deeper, it breaks the very spirit of the law

It's the left-wing version of the idea that Trump can go "I declare the Insurrection Act" and all resistance to him will dissolve. There's just a lot more moving parts to that equation!

BREAKING:

A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits.

Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

Random thought, Virginia can also be seen as an indicator for how the shutdown politics are going, since so much of that state is employed by the federal government. Makes the blue blowout that much sweeter

At least 15 incumbents lost in the state legislative elections in New Jersey & Virginia, with 6 New Jersey contests still uncalled as of 5:30 pm EST on 11/5. That’s the most general election incumbent defeats in an odd year since 21 were defeated in 2011. All 15 defeated incumbents were Republicans.

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

"Now that war comes to you, you feel very different. You deprecate its horrors, but did not feel them when you sent car-loads of soldiers and ammunition, and moulded shells and shot, to desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people who only asked to live in peace"

VA Senate president pro tem absolutely rips MD Senate president for opposing redistricting.

Notably, VA Dems win massively *after* pushing for a new map.

And that's how it's supposed to work: There has to be an election after an amendment is proposed so voters can weigh in before it can proceed.

If we're doing barely concealed threats of violence, then there are plenty of libs who know how to use guns in NYC too Dort, probably outnumbering the freaks who think every brown person is a terrorist. You'd have to be (slur) to think that hypothetical ends in anything but a bunch of dead racists.

"It's so much easier, politically, to charge that Mr. Trump is acting unlawfully"

Okay, but it *is* illegal though. That is the issue everybody but the MAGA freaks are thinking about, and this is a pretty damn weak attempt to change the subject over it

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

oh my god they actually did it lmao

chat is it good for your far-right personalist regime when the right-leaning local security forces openly delight in cuffing your sloppiest stormtroopers

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Fwiw I agree that grocery prices are probably dragging him down a good amount, but we're talking about tens to hundreds of millions of human beings. It's almost certainly more than one thing

You aren't talking about his supporters though, you're talking about his general approval rating. His supporters will follow him off a cliff, sure, but that doesn't mean Independents and Democrats will, nor Republicans who weren't really paying attention and just voted red out of habit

And it starts an event chain following Cuomo post-election, ending with:
You give him a low-ranking role in your admin (less ideological power but more stability)
He slinks off into retirement (costs political power)
He starts an violent uprising in an attempt to break Staten Island off from NYC

For duration of event:
Lib morale +15%
Authoritarians cannot redistrict
New projects available in: Virginia, New York

he's flailing

Media elites despise communities like mine: urban, educated, professional class wage earners.

But here in real America, all the volunteers at the bike co-op I work at were excited about Mamdani. The American press is out of touch with people like us and it shows.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

The fighter/non-fighter split in the party continues to widen, and it will continue to do so until we've driven out every last one of these spineless dogs inshallah

Am I crazy in thinking we should just call them the north and south lines, or even the north line and the airport line?

Yeah sure, neoliberalism is when free public wifi