the U.S. has enjoyed such decadence for so long that Americans genuinely lack the imagination to conceive of how bad things can get — and how quickly. we are not God’s special, shiny city upon a hill. it can happen here. we’re watching it happen in real time.

Ever notice, those "Both parties are the same!" morons never criticize Republicans, or urge Republicans not to vote, or run their candidates in Republican primaries, or complain about the evils of the RNC. And they demand that Democrats save us. Ever notice that? Weird, huh?

This is a perfect encapsulation of the asymmetrical coverage of Biden vs Trump. Biden’s pardons were covered as world-ending events that would tarnish Democrats for decades to come, while trump’s long list of controversial pardons elicit no reaction from the media whatsoever.

Hey so this is far and away the biggest scandal in US history, I hope Trump wasn't exceptionally hilarious today so we can pay attention to it.

In the year 2026 if you're still talking about how Democrats haven't earned your vote rather than how Republicans have earned your absolute opposition, your soul is an empty pit and your brain is a yawning chasm

Jeff Bezos has $250 billion. The Post, even if it hemorrhages money, is utterly irrelevant to his net worth. Why is he killing one of the few remaining major American newspapers? Why????

Reminder that the green party wanted this and purposely helped trump to win

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

This is quite an exchange with David French about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."

And it begins. expect more of this in the run up to 2026 wsbtv.com/news/local/fbi…

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

How much of a bitch do you have to be to be protesting someone who hasn’t been in office in over a year and not the guy that’s planning to build a military base in Gaza with a 10 billion dollar war chest to do God knows what.

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There's something missing from the Hasan Piker discourse. Hasan's fans and critics often overlook the most troubling fact about him. The core problem with Hasan Piker is that, on a fundamental level, he doesn't believe in liberal democracy. x.com/CNLiberalism/s…

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here. Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch. Let's go.

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another.

1/The NYT is releasing internal SCOTUS documents re: 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket” noting Justice Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/…

Great NYT story revealing memos—and true motive—of Chief Justice Roberts to bend the rules to stop Obama’s effort to regulate emissions. Roberts sees his role, not as defending the constitution, but instead as protecting the energy industry’s profits, sparing the power sector

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.