Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

This fight is for everything.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

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Open Thread: When You’ve Lost Alan Dershowitz, You’ve Lost… Nothing of Importance

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Stolen from some dude on Threads…
Alan Dershowitz: I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party turned 18

— AblativMeatshld (@ablativmeatshld.bsky.social) April 21, 2026 at 4:33 PM

Just Google Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey Epstein to see why no one should want Dershowitz in their political party. The WSJ opinion page is a bad joke.

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— Tom Joscelyn (@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social) April 21, 2026 at 8:22 AM

Notice that Mr. Big-Time Lawyer doesn’t say he’s *changing his registration*, just that he’s gonna vote for the Repubs. This, of course, will allow him more leeway for primary ratf*cking — not to mention a handy ‘I’m a lifelong Dem, reeeaaally’ bolthole if (when) the GOP officially implodes / goes full-metal Juden Raus.

Dershowitz leaving the dems is a sign dems are doing something right

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) April 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM

(1/X) People sometimes wonder how things got so crazy in this country. Well, look back at the '90s: for Clinton impeachment, you had Alan Dershowitz on Geraldo arguing against impeachment and Jon Turley arguing for it. All three of course became Trumpers.
On various topics around feminism….

— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) April 21, 2026 at 11:47 AM

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Late Night Open Thread: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

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The good: the thread where I saw this said “This has been a four-decade experiment”:

 
The bad & ugly:

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 5:56 AM

It would be significantly less troubling if the company made… say Oreos or printer paper. Since Palantir amounts to a kind of fascism swiss army knife … yes, rather troubling.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 2:11 PM

The whole statement is far too verbose. I'm sure that, with a little effort, they could boil it down to fourteen words.

— Sheepless (@unsheeped.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 8:34 AM

This reads like someone is big mad that DOGE bros got exposed when the Elon tried to insert himself (and I guess general VC/tech innfluence) way deeper into government than before.

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— Pretty Happy Computer (@stupidcomputer.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 9:21 AM

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Late Night Open Thread: Money Changes Everything

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Moms for Liberty leaders resign, claiming group’s focus has shifted. Original chapter chairs say the parental rights group born in #Florida is now plagued by infighting & has abandoned education issues for politics & money www.tampabay28.com/news/local-n… h/t @kebrightbill.bsky.social

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— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM

Per Tampa Bay 28, the latest edition of Everything Trump Touches Dies:

Former members of the controversial parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty are speaking out, claiming the Florida-born organization is plagued by infighting, membership turnover, and a leadership focused more on photo ops with President Trump than issues at home.

Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone was one of the first reporters to introduce you to Moms for Liberty back in 2021.

The group rose to fame out of the pandemic, fighting school mask mandates and promoting book bans.

But five years after Moms for Liberty was thrust into the national spotlight, some members of the conservative group, which describe themselves as ‘joyful warriors,” don’t seem quite so joyful anymore.

“The reason why I resigned is because I feel like we’ve gotten so far away from the grassroots movement,” Jennifer Pippin said.

“The organization moved away from their mission,” Jessica Tillman said.

“It was more about a national movement and the big picture and their donors,” Angela Dubach said…

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Open Thread: Elon’s Proposed IPO Looking Ever More Shifty

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Elon shoving all his failed shit into the SpaceX ahead of the IPO: X The Everything App, the Mechahitler CSAM Generator, and now tens of thousands of unsellable Cybertrucks
Wall Street figures a bag of shit this big must be worth nearly $2 trillion

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— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.online) April 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM

There’s been talk about this across various automotive-related media, but when Bloomberg decides to highlight the latest Tesla thimblerigging, well…

Sales of Tesla Inc.’s Cybertruck have been propped up in recent months by Elon Musk’s other companies, an unusual arrangement that further indicates the polarizing pickup is failing to appeal to everyday buyers.

SpaceX, the Musk-led rocket and satellite maker, accounted for 1,279 — or more than 18% — of the 7,071 Cybertrucks registered in the US during the fourth quarter, according to registration data that S&P Global Mobility provided to Bloomberg News. The billionaire’s other ventures acquired another 60 vehicles during those months.

That means almost one in every five Cybertrucks registered during the period were delivered from one part of Musk’s sprawling business empire to another. And the purchases, likely exceeding $100 million in value, have continued into this year.

The figures reinforce the extent to which consumer demand is faltering only two years after Tesla began delivering the electric pickup. Without those sales to other Musk-run companies — which included xAI, Boring Co. and Neuralink, in addition to SpaceX — Cybertruck registrations in the fourth quarter would have fallen 51%…

Investors have largely overlooked Tesla’s declining auto sales as Musk reorients the company around futuristic pursuits including robotaxis and humanoid robots. But those products are still a ways off from becoming tangible business lines, and shareholders’ patience appears to be wearing thin. Since hitting a record high in mid-December, Tesla’s stock has lost a fifth of its value…

It’s not entirely clear what Musk’s other companies are doing with the Cybertrucks, or why an artificial intelligence and social media company would acquire 50 of them…

I mean, I don’t claim to understand high finance, but when the media prospectus for SpaceX’s IPO universally read like advertising for the latest pet rock FunkoPop Labubu drop (Everybody is buying these, because *everybody* is buying these! Also: automatic trading bots!!)… well, I’ve read a certain amount about the Wall Street Crash of 1929…

THIS. IS. BAGNAROK.

— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.online) April 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM

Blind box IPO

— Fnord Borgly (@borgly.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM

…They bough 1 CT per 10 SpX employees in one quarter?!… What, they're sending them straight to the same scrapyard that deals with all the Starship prototypes?!

— Raging Spirit (@ragingspirit.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 8:14 PM

Nasdaq is cheating its customers by allowing SpaceX to be fully listed on the exchange while the number of available shares is low. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. The small number of shares means the value can be easily inflated while listing forces the index funds to buy in at that inflated value.

— bcwbcw.bsky.social (@bcwbcw.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM

The big index funds like Fidelity should refuse to add stocks to their indexes that do not follow the standard IPO rules.

— bcwbcw.bsky.social (@bcwbcw.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM

If people were still clinging to any notion that financial markets were based in reality, they should be thoroughly disabused of it by now

— basal wrathbone (@groboudo.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM

(A lot of you seem to be in High Dudgeon mode, so here’s a space for you to tell me how I’m Doing It Rong.)

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Thursday Morning Open Thread

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A major U.S. Postal Service union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by President Donald Trump and others.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) April 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM

Fight the power!

… The 30-second message features a variety of voters, among them a busy farmer and a flight attendant, explaining why they cast their ballots by mail. Sponsored by the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union, the advertising campaign announced Tuesday will begin airing this week in Ohio, where Union Army soldiers during the Civil War cast the first mail ballots in 1864. It will then move to other states.

The ad ends with the message: “Vote by mail — keep it, protect it, expand it.” It comes two weeks after Trump signed an executive order that seeks to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and subsequently bar postal workers from sending absentee ballots to those who are not on each state’s approved list.

The order was met swiftly with lawsuits and opposition from postal workers. The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association said USPS is “not equipped or authorized to decide who is or is not entitled to vote” and pushing it into such a role “risks politicizing one of the nation’s most trusted public institutions.” The union also said it threatens confidence in the mail and in elections.

Jonathan Smith, president of American Postal Workers, said his union’s TV ad was produced before Trump’s executive order was issued, not in response to it. An executive order on elections that Trump signed last year also targeted mail ballots by seeking to require they be returned by Election Day, even though more than a dozen states allow a grace period.…

“Our message is to America: Vote by mail is efficient, it’s safe, and it’s successful. Period,” he said. “This is educating the American people that you can use vote by mail and you can be guaranteed that your voice will be heard and your vote will be counted.”

Donald Trump cut health care for Americans so that Meta could get a $3 billion tax cut.
I asked the IRS commissioner if that was a "really good outcome for the American public."
He said yes.

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— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) April 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM

Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.

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— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM

That’s quite a slogan.

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— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charlesgaba.com) April 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM

It’s time to end this war.

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— Senator Angela Alsobrooks (@alsobrooks.senate.gov) April 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM

The most frequent answer to "why aren't Democrats doing this?" is "they actually are" apnews.com/article/demo…

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— Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) (@kleinman.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM

Goodness Gracious! Ossoff raked in $14 million in the first quarter. This comes as Republicans in Georgia have failed to coalesce around a strong candidate to challenge him.
www.ajc.com/politics/202…

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— Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 9:28 AM

Texas State Rep. James Talarico just announced his campaign for U.S. Senate raised more than $27 million in the first quarter of 2026 — the largest amount ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM

James Talarico is going to be the junior Senator from Texas

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— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM

We just won our trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
A jury ruled in our favor and is holding the companies responsible for their illegal monopoly that cost consumers millions of dollars.
This is a landmark victory to protect New Yorkers from harmful monopolies.

— New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Cursed Images

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM

Realizing who Che is in this analogy bsky.app/profile/seva…

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— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM


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New: Feds allege SantaCon con

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— Victoria Bekiempis (@vicbekiempis.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 11:59 AM

Santacon. (More specifically, Urban Dictionary definition.)

“If convicted, [Pildes] faces up to 20 years in prison.”

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

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Based Schumer.

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— ArgellaStone (@argellastone.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM

I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman.
Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.

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— Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) April 14, 2026 at 3:43 PM

Keep your foot on the gas y’all!??????
We can get him a ticket to the big dance in November if we stay focused and keep getting the word out about #XavierBecerra
Don’t ever think your voice is too small to make a difference. This is because of us coming together!
www.scopeweekly.com/2026/04/from…

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— Miss Aja (@brat2381.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 9:47 PM

I don't follow CA politics much but I remember Becerra was good as HHS Secretary, and when Swalwell was being touted as the frontrunner, I thought, why not Becerra?

— HR Ryan (@hrryan.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 12:01 AM

Exactly. He was also our AG here. He sued Trump over 120 times????

— Miss Aja (@brat2381.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM

BREAKING: In a win for Indiana voters, a federal judge blocked a GOP-backed state law banning the use of student IDs as an acceptable form of identification at the polls.
The ruling means students can once again use their school IDs to cast ballots in the 2026 midterms as litigation continues.

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— Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) April 14, 2026 at 4:44 PM

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