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and with that, i'm going to try to log off for a good while for self-care reasons.

my main mission is to survive until november '26.

if you want people to like you while you break things, you need to bribe them, instead this administration thinks people will like you if you punch them in the face

you think you're using AI to lift up your community, but you're really just stealing from artists to give money to billionaires while polluting marginalized neighborhoods, while training it how to be more influential to your community.

hmmm.

fwiw, the left is much more ideologically diverse than the center and *very* motivated by resentment, esp atm. i wish those you speak of could see how neither of those things helps one of palestine's better allies, but there's always someone else's line in the sand. it gets blurry pretty fast.

if anything, the purity testing and intolerance is coming from the centrist flank. whole classes of people *existing* isn't some lofty idea up for debate. dismissing them as too woke is just fascism. you're not fighting fascism w fascism. really hope ppl can wrap their heads around that before '26.

Solve Climate Change
Build Housing
Stop The Genocide
Protect The Dolls

I guess what this leaves out is continuing police reform and probably something about AI/Silicon Valley Fash but like seems like a neat enough summary of left-liberal American political priorities, no?

yeah, any list if priorities inevitably leaves out some important points as messed up as everything is, but i'd support a candidate on that platform. it succinctly conveys the right info to the right ppl.

these days you'd be lucky to see a blue candidate rattle off more than one of those.

whatever it takes to win people over, i see. now *that's* something i can get behind.

I’m sick of being lectured about “demanding purity tests” and being “uncompromising” when the actually existing Democratic establishment is demanding purity tests and being uncompromising *for* genocide, not even against it.

jfc merrick fucking garland?

nobody is talking about that guy.

people are on some shit. have you noticed how terribly fucked everything is?

might want to change the strategy a skosh.

has the party blocked trump's agenda? trump's cabinet picks? judicial appointments? who's out there trying to draw out a crowd against republicans? the ones that are trying to virtue signal (laudatory) liberal values the party claims.

damn.

the left is literally taking hits from all sides and we're the only ones saying fight fire with fire. like aoc's office was vandalized by the left of aoc. has the moderate wing made any concessions to the left? like at all? what's the approval rating of the party among democrats?

it would be cool if the gallant liberals would punch right for once. not really enjoying watching a constitutional polycrisis unfold while feckless lefties are being held to account for statements they didn't make. but ok, i guess schumer is doing it for you.

fascism is what's wrong w the picture.

Life isn’t a fucking debate club, ideas exist in context and the idea that it’s a sign of enlightened thinking to hear out things that are clearly bullshit from people that are clearly being dishonest is poison.

con law prof here. Wut.

Yup. Right before our eyes in broad daylight. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

the science is “this is the single best set of interventions against teen and also adult suicide we have for affected populations”

waking up everyday is giving me brain damage.

I agree with this. The problem is that this is in fact the country that the elites want and also regular people haven't built enough power to overthrow the current order. The elites support fascism.

Look at this shit! If Dems lose the messaging war on which party is full of pedos, it's their own fucking fault. There are mountains of evidence to point to. Why does shit like this not get factored into the overall narrative? Are the managing ranks at the papers full of pedos too? What's going on

While we often talk about America as a nation that has racially progressed, the truth is that there have always been two concurrent movements, one advancing civil rights and liberties, and the other seeking to diminish them.

millennials what are you doing, man

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

Republicans stay screaming about law & order…But won’t release the Epstein files.

They sit up here posting conspiracy theories all day…But won’t release the Epstein files.

They’re quick to call a hearing or launch an investigation on some BS…But (say it with me) won’t release the Epstein files.

Related, if any harder evidence of Trump's pedophilia comes to light house democrats should introduce articles of impeachment against him for it and make every Republican in congress have that vote on their record

Indicting Obama for treason would definitely not backfire

Trump Approval - White Americans:

February 7, 2025:
🟢 Approve: 61%
🔴 Disapprove: 39%

July 18, 2025:
🔴 Disapprove: 50%
🟢 Approve: 50%

- YouGov -

"We are very powerfully releasing the Roswell files, the long form Zapruder film and the extremely suspicious Hillary email investigation and we demand nobody ask about our files connecting me to Epstein and the Pedo flights, thank you for your attention to this matter!"