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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Speaking as someone who has many, many complaints about the Democratic Party, “letting them lose” when they’re in a contest with an actual fascist party isn’t very smart. Nor is it remotely fair to say they’ve adopted far right policies on trans rights, immigration, or abortion (??).
chat is it good or bad if the only defense against fascism is voting for one party forever and never letting them lose no matter how far right they go and how much of the fascist's policies around immigration and trans rights and abortion they start taking on over time?
This. Precisely this. Serious people don’t threaten to vote third party, because it’s a tantrum.
I don’t like Newsom at all, I think he’s an amoral opportunist. But JD Vance is quite literally a man who gets his ideas from neo-Nazis. He’s a white supremacist fascist. It’s an easy, easy choice!
I don’t like Newsom at all, I think he’s an amoral opportunist. But JD Vance is quite literally a man who gets his ideas from neo-Nazis. He’s a white supremacist fascist. It’s an easy, easy choice!
February 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Speaking as someone who has many, many complaints about the Democratic Party, “letting them lose” when they’re in a contest with an actual fascist party isn’t very smart. Nor is it remotely fair to say they’ve adopted far right policies on trans rights, immigration, or abortion (??).
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This is why healthy democracies don’t have competitive fascist parties - because it turns elections into Russian roulette. The dilemma isn’t “the same party has to win every time for us to be safe” but “the same party has to LOSE every time.” The fascist party is the danger
I do think this raises a problem though: A system where one party must win all the time to prevent fascism is not sustainable. If the electorate cannot simply reject candidates like Trump who threaten to use the military on their opponents... that's very very bad.
February 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
This is why healthy democracies don’t have competitive fascist parties - because it turns elections into Russian roulette. The dilemma isn’t “the same party has to win every time for us to be safe” but “the same party has to LOSE every time.” The fascist party is the danger
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The left attacks create a permission structure for non-voters. “Eh, they’re all the same anyway.” Same thing happened in 2000. It contributes to the miasmatic discontent with candidates that drives low-info voters to make terrible choices.
At least half of Stein's votes weren't gettable, they were gonna go third party regardless. So that's not enough. And non-voters are overwhelmingly people who are less engaged in politics, they aren't ideological hardliners abstaining for that reason in any substantial numbers.
February 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The left attacks create a permission structure for non-voters. “Eh, they’re all the same anyway.” Same thing happened in 2000. It contributes to the miasmatic discontent with candidates that drives low-info voters to make terrible choices.
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If you would vote 3rd party in this situation, you are a really sick person
how have these people convinced themselves that someone governing from the center of *California’s Democratic party* is some sort of agent of evil
Newsom’s vapid, mediocre and not great but he’s not anathema
Newsom’s vapid, mediocre and not great but he’s not anathema
February 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
If you would vote 3rd party in this situation, you are a really sick person
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Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.
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Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
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Democrats should boycott the State of the Union and send Epstein survivors and people illegally detained by ICE in their place.
February 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Democrats should boycott the State of the Union and send Epstein survivors and people illegally detained by ICE in their place.
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As far as I'm concerned continuing to support Trump in any capacity from a position of power is a hanging offense
February 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
As far as I'm concerned continuing to support Trump in any capacity from a position of power is a hanging offense
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This is why the people who show up to protests ready to burn things down aren’t “allies” with “different tactics.” Overwhelmingly they’re there for the thrill of rationalized violence; they will find some way to commit some violence against somebody if they have the thinnest excuse.
Had an IC class where I read a bunch of interviews with former warlord/terrorist recruits and it was very interesting how many of them were using ideology as a vehicle for violence instead of using violence to pursue an ideology. "Excitement" was one of the main reasons a lot of them joined!
Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This is why the people who show up to protests ready to burn things down aren’t “allies” with “different tactics.” Overwhelmingly they’re there for the thrill of rationalized violence; they will find some way to commit some violence against somebody if they have the thinnest excuse.
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Even those Americans who reject Robert F. Kennedy’s cynicism will live in a country with fewer vaccine breakthroughs than it might have had, and more unvaccinated people
RFK’s idea of making America healthy starts with making it politically sicker
And it will probably end with making it actually sicker
econ.st
February 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Even those Americans who reject Robert F. Kennedy’s cynicism will live in a country with fewer vaccine breakthroughs than it might have had, and more unvaccinated people
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The 1.4m emails reveal a world of flattery, vanity, cupidity, cruelty and lechery, as well as Jeffrey Epstein’s reprehensible crimes. Our data analysis examines his astonishing network of influence-trading econ.st/4cz1uNs
Illustration: The Economist / Getty Images
Illustration: The Economist / Getty Images
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The 1.4m emails reveal a world of flattery, vanity, cupidity, cruelty and lechery, as well as Jeffrey Epstein’s reprehensible crimes. Our data analysis examines his astonishing network of influence-trading econ.st/4cz1uNs
Illustration: The Economist / Getty Images
Illustration: The Economist / Getty Images
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Every time I see an ICE car on patrol I think “maybe it’s the last one.” And it isn’t. But soon
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Every time I see an ICE car on patrol I think “maybe it’s the last one.” And it isn’t. But soon
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This book is great
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
This book is great
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This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
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The President of the United States raped underage women.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the proof in the Epstein files and doesn't care.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the proof in the Epstein files and doesn't care.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 AM
The President of the United States raped underage women.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the proof in the Epstein files and doesn't care.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the proof in the Epstein files and doesn't care.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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“I’m going to seize control of elections even if Congress blocks me” is comically authoritarian and should result in his immediate removal from office.
Yes, he’s deranged, but what’s even more deranged is how we’ve apparently all decided to acquiesce to a dictator because it’s Trump being Trump.
Yes, he’s deranged, but what’s even more deranged is how we’ve apparently all decided to acquiesce to a dictator because it’s Trump being Trump.
“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”
February 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“I’m going to seize control of elections even if Congress blocks me” is comically authoritarian and should result in his immediate removal from office.
Yes, he’s deranged, but what’s even more deranged is how we’ve apparently all decided to acquiesce to a dictator because it’s Trump being Trump.
Yes, he’s deranged, but what’s even more deranged is how we’ve apparently all decided to acquiesce to a dictator because it’s Trump being Trump.
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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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Grim news out of Seattle: we passed an ordinance raising the pay of delivery drivers, but the result has been fewer delivery orders, leaving many of them worse off.
It may just be that "instant delivery of your food" is not a practical business & only exploitation can make it "work."
It may just be that "instant delivery of your food" is not a practical business & only exploitation can make it "work."
Seattle's gig worker law was supposed to boost pay. It did at first, until orders dropped
It’s been two years since Seattle’s gig worker minimum wage took effect. It was intended to boost labor standards for app-based drivers who deliver food for companies like DoorDash or Uber Eats.
How h...
www.kuow.org
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Grim news out of Seattle: we passed an ordinance raising the pay of delivery drivers, but the result has been fewer delivery orders, leaving many of them worse off.
It may just be that "instant delivery of your food" is not a practical business & only exploitation can make it "work."
It may just be that "instant delivery of your food" is not a practical business & only exploitation can make it "work."
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Here's a story about all the kidnapped children we are holding in torture prisons.
‘I Just Want to Get Out of Here’: ICE Is Detaining Hundreds of Children
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Here's a story about all the kidnapped children we are holding in torture prisons.
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AOC on Bondi: “The redactions of the names of perpetrators, the holding of 3 million files, the unexplained moving of Maxwell into a new cushy facility—
All of these things are what she personally oversaw, & that’s before even digging into whatever questions may arise from her history in Florida”
All of these things are what she personally oversaw, & that’s before even digging into whatever questions may arise from her history in Florida”
February 12, 2026 at 8:25 PM
AOC on Bondi: “The redactions of the names of perpetrators, the holding of 3 million files, the unexplained moving of Maxwell into a new cushy facility—
All of these things are what she personally oversaw, & that’s before even digging into whatever questions may arise from her history in Florida”
All of these things are what she personally oversaw, & that’s before even digging into whatever questions may arise from her history in Florida”
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OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position
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Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
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