A large share of politics coded as “left” on this site is in fact reactionary nostalgia - an inchoate belief that times were better in the good old days and nebulous forces have taken that from us.

And let’s be real here Trump’s own cognitive issues were a massive boon to him on the campaign trail

A lot of his support came not in spite of his dementia-fueled incoherence but because of it

It's the inverse of "where did the "we're not going back" chants go?"

They never stopped. You could turn on MSNBC and see Harris leading one from within 24 hours it's just that it was part of a stump speech so even the media in the tank for her uses it as background noise because it's the same shit

oleni.org

Literally the most heartwarming thing you can do in the next month or so.

The President of the United States is refusing to follow a court order telling him to follow the law.

Whelp, time to hold the President in contempt.

Biden would try to sell his admin's accomplishments to the press every time and the press pool would refuse to talk about anything but Hunter & Trump and whether or not he was supposedly too brain dead to be prez. Harris was doing constant int'l diplomacy swings? "Where's Kamala, she's invisible!"

It is the press’s job to inform people of news like ”what policies the government implements.” Like, that’s just objectively what the news *is.*

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:

-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick

Ana Kasparian thinks that there were no consequences for out-of-control protesters during the George Floyd protests, and that the lack of consequences was the reason why the Jan. 6 insurrection happened.

The legislature is trying to take power away from the people. It’s unacceptable.

Why do I feel like a bunch of dipshits looked at the targeting restrictions we put on the Ukrainians and thought that was a good idea instead of one of the dumbest things imaginable

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

So pretty much everyone here was already purged or disappeared in the last year; this is just the official confirmation.

At the durham nc no kings protest.

Reducing historical figures and moments to untouchable mythology is not actually respectful towards them. These were real people struggling with many things that we also struggle with