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I bike everywhere and I love how much money I save not having to pay for gas, insurance, or maintenance. I pop a tube on my bike it’s $20 max.

Why does the electorate keep letting Republicans tank the economy with their mismanagement and incompetence?

I like looking at prediction markets, I think they provide an interesting if not useful pulse on consensus. That said I think the proliferation of gambling on every single possible event does not bode well for the health of our society.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Feel like more and more people are going to be copying the Zohran model going forward

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Democracy has led to the greatest era of peace and prosperity in human history. Barbaric and savage reactionaries wish to take us back to a time where might makes right, where suffering and poverty are the norm. We are not going back!

Sabres in the playoffs? A war in the middle east? hello 2006

Hormones* unless you’re a man taking supranatural levels of testosterone then it’s fine!

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

Herman’s Hermits?

Bari Weiss reposing a CBS News stories that says the current war with Iran stretches back to 1979

Story at the The Free Press: Our 50 Year War with Iran

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

No more forever wars! This is not a forever war. It’s not even a war. Okay it’s a war but actually we’ve always been at war! Don’t worry, just a few air strikes for a few days. Okay a few weeks. Actually maybe longer. But no boots on the ground! Okay maybe a few boots on the ground. But not a lot!

yeah so the 2024 election was narrowly won by a guy running on a platform of cheaper prices and no new wars who then immediately decided to raise everybody's prices and start the biggest new war of the past twenty years

Remember, the war with Iran is necessary because it’s unacceptable to have aggressive governments run by theocratic lunatics launching unprovoked attacks on the rest of the world

I, for one, like DEI

New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A914 NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY No. 25A915 PETER KOSINSKI, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [March 2, 2026] The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court are granted. The January 21, 2026 order entered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 164002/2025, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from grant of stay. The Court's 101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: "Rules for thee, but not for me." Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an elec-tion. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one. Ignoring every limit on federal courts' authority, the Court takes the unprecedented step of staying a state trial court's decision in a re-districting dispute on matters of state law without giving the State's highest court a chance to act. Because that order violates basic principles of jurisdiction, federalism, and equity, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.

The thinking that Republicans can still stem the bleeding is dependent on Trump and his ilk being rational actors who are responsive to public opinion. But they are not. They are wannabe autocrats who don’t care about public opinion!

I love how every political analyst is like “well well let’s hold on, Trump can still pull it together before the midterms” right before Trump goes and shoots himself in the foot.

I saw in opinion polls that Republicans are viewed as more extreme, more cruel, more elitist, but most of all they’re more willing to fight and therefore better than the Democrats.

i think there's a sort of dynamic at play where the GOP get more leeway on international conflict due to how they're dad/man-coded whereas Dems are not

Just an aside, the NYT op-ed page has universally condemned this war

I cannot stress enough that one of his central campaign promises, something that many people BELIEVED HE WOULD DO, was stop the wars. This is why people voted for him. Hit him where it hurts!!

root causes of the world wars

world war 1: clash between imperialism and rising nationalist sentiment

world war 2: resentment from ww1 treaties, rising fascism

world war 3: feminist youtuber made a video saying lara croft should have smaller boobs

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Look I’m sorry but Israel did not convince the US to do this. The Trump admin and the American right in general has always hated Iran! People need to develop a politics outside of Israel Bad and is responsible for every bad thing that happens

Not according to EU4!

War is peace!
Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is strength!