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*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

whenever you get mad at supreme court decisions, i want to remind you that half of the fuckers dragging us back to the stone age were nominated by these two guys, not trump, and that the rot is far more extensive than just trump

one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights

Yes the economy is contracting. Yes everything is getting more expensive. But at least the acolyte was cancelled and white people can say slurs again

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

JD Vance destroyed the college football national championship trophy and killed the pope in the same week.

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Gonna be clear about this now, so people can understand the goal: This country will not be safe until the Republican Party is dismantled, destroyed, burned and salted.

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

With the Philadelphia Eagles’ decisive win over the Kansas City Chiefs, Autumn Lockwood became the first Black woman coach to win a Super Bowl. Women have only been coaching in the NFL since 2015. www.instagram.com/p/DF6F4A5Neu...

The Republicans’ merciless obsession with destroying trans lives is indicative of something larger: a full-throated effort to strip all of us of our bodily autonomy. @luxalptraum.com in her column today: www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/04/t...

I feel like this is where I am in my old age. Gonna end up in black bloc throwing molotovs from my rascal scooter.

Given Europe's historical management of fascist demagogues this will probably not end well for Greenland.

This genius is paid millions for his wisdom and insight.

“We’re going to be the social network that lets you - encourages you - to say slurs”

no activist groups support this but this is how democrats keep themselves in the minority forever. dont change except to move to the right, then blame everything on "the groups."

Truly a great mystery why people think the two parties are the same.

Odds steadily rising that Fetterman becomes the new Sinema "independent".

Liberals should run against big tech and their oligarch bosses who are manipulating politics and the media. Think Teddy Roosevelt vs the trusts.

Remember way back when we used to wonder how Nazi Germany could have happened?

Fetterman seems to have embraced his heel turn but you rose emoji folks need to rein in your boy.

The ending of Joe Biden’s presidency is one of the most cringeworthy things I think I’ve ever seen in American politics. Very good domestic policy on many fronts but just absolute timidity and norms embracing in a way that exposes the weakness of the party and something they don’t wanna change.

This year marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage has been raised. That's unacceptable. Keeping the wage floor so low keeps everyone else’s wages down too. We all deserve more.

The fact that Trump and Republicans jumped on the name and face of the New Orleans attacker and declared he was an "illegal immigrant" despite his being born and raised in America is a pretty good sign of how the mass deportations are going to go.

it’s interesting that one flew over the cuckoos nest depicts psychiatry as a feminizing oppression of natural virility when in reality it was mostly used by (overwhelmingly male) psychiatrists to subdue female patients

I went to so many funerals/memorials in the 90’s. I can’t believe we’ve gotten here. And it was through the relentless loud activism of the queer community.

Mariah catches the heat but this is the absolute worst Christmas song.

this is the dumbest party in american history www.axios.com/2024/12/24/d...

It’s clear and obvious corruption and congress just accepts it.

Nothing says “populism” like taking orders from the richest guy in the world

New from me: I wrote about the massive own goal from House Democrats to keep @aoc.bsky.social on the backbench in the upcoming Congress at a time when their base is demoralized and looking for a sign that there's a way forward

if they can do it to cis, moneyed white dude who graduated from an Ivy, the rest of us already know what to expect.

Nothing is more American than proudly showing your ass while failing spectacularly.

Dems: campaign on Trump as a fascist threat to democracy *Trump wins* Dems: we're ready to work with Trump to get stuff done! also Dems: why don't people don't think we're authentic? it is truly a mystery

pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...

The Democratic Party decides the leading voice of their resistance to Donald Trump should be a 74 year old man with esophageal cancer. Really hard to come up with a better metaphor!

Everything’s awesome @democrats.org don’t ever change a thing.

That feminine urge to burn everything to the ground.

Elderly Democrats stop clinging to power challenge

Imagine

When I start to feel like Americans are unique in their shitty voting behavior, I remember that the Fords have been successful in Canadian politics for a very long time.

@workingfamilies.org has a giant opportunity to fill a void the Dems aren't interested in filling. Why Democrats lost in 2024: Lessons from Phoenix and the working class azmirror.com/2024/12/04/w...

And a classroom full of dead children at Sandyhook before this. There is a stinking pile of proof that American exceptionalism is our ability to shrug off our own horrific failures.