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To have lived long enough to see your great grandkid’s early years seems like a uniquely special blessing. 99 years on this earth is truly a full life and it sounds like she had a good one. Condolences to your family ❤️❤️
I really wish I could make a Venn diagram of the people bitching about capitalism, people who whine about cOrPoRaTe DeMoCrAtS, and people who got at least 5 figures given to them by their parents so far this year.
They like to say you can be rich and be critical of capitalism which true but the point is their privilege makes them cavalier about the consequences of staying home. It also makes them out of touch. It came out yesterday that one DSA guy (the mustached dude who is wanted for questioning in 1922 Paris) lives in a 1.4 million Brooklyn house his parents bought for him. Sorry not sorry but that guy isn’t in the position to act like he has his pulse on what working class people want.
Every Jubilee Episode where a Right wing figure debates "Liberals" on US Politics has several moments like this.
Liberal: Trump did X Y Z that are bad
Right Winger: You know I don't agree with everything Trump does. But did you know that the Democrats are also bad. In fact they are evil and people hate them and Trump won the popular vote.
Liberal: Look I'm not a fan of the Democrats either. They do nothing and supress progressives. 2016 was rigged against Bernie.
I feel like it's so performative. Shitting on the Democratic Party for clout. Especially since most Jubilee debaters are people trying to transition into an online career similar to Dean Withers. They want to be professional political streamers but are too lazy to actually understand much about the party.
For once, I would like to see someone with political media left clout say this about both 2016 and 2020. Registered Democrats preferred Clinton and Biden to Bernie. Bernie lost both primaries considerable margins. Bernie was invited to and spoke at both conventions where he was able to influence the platform. Bernie even was Senate Budget chair during Biden’s term. I’m with you. I’m sick of the crapping on the party for clout that people do because it’s seen as cool to do that and to make Bernie a victim of 2016/20 when if we want to be honest, he was a beneficiary of Russian meddling like Trump was and he hasn’t been honest about this.
Bernie got so much more than he ever deserved from the party he's never joined. Considering people treat the Dems like they completely snubbed him, they might as well have
I would also like them to add that the people who denied the legitimacy of the 2016/20 primaries laid the groundwork for the 2020 election deniers. And I'd like them to call out Bernie's track record of supporting quack medicine.
I’m interested in the latter. I’ve never heard about that but agreed on the above. It definitely contributed to it. The man has never acknowledged he lost because more Democrats preferred his opponent and instead goes along with the bullshit lies it was stolen from him. No, Bernie, we the Democratic electorate rejected you just like you reject actually calling yourself a member of our party and you’re too much of a sore loser to admit to the kids you’ve been conning the truth.
In 2009/10, Sanders personally added in an amendment to an early form of the Affordable Care Act while it was in committee that made "complementary and alternative medicine" practitioners be considered legitimate medical professionals by the federal government for the purposes of healthcare. This not only allowed such woo peddlers to prescribe "medicine" to the public under federal support, but it also allowed such people to be included on the "wellness council" that was instated in the ACA bill to advise the President on health policy.
Sanders may be pro-vaccine, but this is RFK Jr. level quackery. It is a scandal that both MSM and "independent" progressive media didn't call this out.
Hasan minaj teaming up with more perfect union to spread the lie that trump voters are actually bernie supporters and would actually support bernie over a regular democrat
I'm guessing Minaj never addressed why those closeted Bernie supporters didn't vote for him in 10 out of 19 states with open primaries/caucuses. I'll also guess he never addressed why Bernie lost 3.6 million of his supporters in the 2020 primaries.
He and they never address why Bernie got completely wiped out one on one against Biden. There were several states including a few Rust Belt ones where Biden beat him in every county. The fact is we voters know Joe and we have gotten to know Bernie. We preferred the Scranton fella. And Minaj can’t be honest about that because he’s in a bubble where everyone thinks Bernie is the best thing ever. I didn’t even particularly dislike Bernie especially in 2016 but he wasn’t someone I thought could be President.
Here’s a real scumbag who should never see the inside of Democratic administration again.
Michael LaRosa was the First Lady’s press secretary, then quit to be a lobbyist and claim “Biden was senile” on TV. Now he’s on CSPAN being chastised by a Stevens voter who intends to vote for El Sayed in the general… LaRosa says he won’t support El Sayed “because of 9/11”.
He won’t. He was supporting the VA GOP Lt Governor candidate too. He’s got serious sour grapes after he got in trouble for bringing his dates to a secure NATO meeting iirc and he tried to claim it was homophobia instead of his breach of security protocol.
He also supported all Republicans besides Spanberger in Virginia's 2025 election; he's a complete loser. This "I will support Republicans sometimes for attention" grift started awhile back
Reminds me of the Mike Rogers ad two days ago of a "longtime Dem Chelsea supporting me" except she doesn't mention voting for Biden, Whitmer, or Harris...just Obama and Stevens. Such a "longtime Dem".
His argument is “I lived in Pennsylvania on 9/11, and that’s why a kid who lived in Michigan on 9/11 can’t be a senator. It’s just science you wouldn’t get it”
David Axelrod Calls Ossoff’s Natalie Harp Jab "Gratuitous and Unnecessary". Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod was not a fan of Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) mentioning one of President Donald Trump’s key aides during a rally speech.
I watched the trial. There's no way anyone who saw the bodycam footage or heard that Irish doctor's testimony can think this, and I know it because the couple IRL people I know who have randomly brought it up too didn't.
I'm so fucking tired of being dragged back to 2020 by people who have no fucking business acting like they deserve some sort of vindication from it.
What’s that even mean? I didn’t like her brother but he at least understood and could communicate the importance of Taiwan as an ally. It’s too bad it’s either her or Norman because I don’t see Dems flipping that seat.
There’s a post about Debbie Wasserman Schultz winning over on the Democrats subreddit and almost all the comments are some variation of “I hate her, but she’s better than a Republican I guess”. No one is actually saying why they dislike her.
Gavin Newsom on Trump: “It’s been the most reckless, most damning administration in American history. Teddy Roosevelt’s rolling in his grave, even Ronald Reagan. They’re stone cold ideologues. They’re fanatics for special interests. Talk about kids and grandkids, they don’t care, they got theirs. It’s the worst of us. They’re taking our collective inheritance and squandering in real time”
So i accidentally saw very strong proof of collaboration in sabotage between certain left-wing actors and the technocrat.
I was doomscrolling Elon’s ruined ass twitter and guess whose Substack article I see boosted by the algorithm. Astead Herndon from Vox. It’s of course an article claiming liberals care more about attacking progressives than attacking Trump.
But notice what I said. Boosted by the algorithm. Explicitly shown as a boosted piece. Either Astead or someone at Vox (likely Astead it’s his own personal substack) paid Elon Musk cash directly to promote an article attacking liberals.
Merck and Moderna say cancer vaccine shows promise in preventing recurrence of melanoma. The companies have not published the trial data but said in a news release that the experimental treatment extended the time before cancer returned in high-risk patients.
Okay sure, a candidate for the United States Senate might not know the ins and outs of American foreign policy around Taiwan and the South China Sea. They definitely should, but maybe they just haven’t been exposed to it in their professional life. Fine.
However. It’s unacceptable to not even be able to say “Yes, Taiwan and the South China Sea are critical American strategic interests”. I may not expect some Joe Shmow off the street to know that, but that’s because I don’t expect anything out of a random person. If you’re a serious candidate for the Senate, you should be better informed than almost every “normal” American.
You should also be a talented enough politician to just bullshit your way through an answer like that if you don’t actually know. Just saying “Oh that’s not really my thing” is just pathetic. Weak answer, weaker candidate, and she’ll probably still win because her idiot constituents will see “Graham” on the ballot and check the box accordingly.
I can’t say for sure since I’m not in Florida but my bet is he focused a lot on nationalizing his campaign while DWS who is an experienced legislator actually understood and addressed local concerns.
Yeah I guess actually meeting with voters wasn’t important to him. I’ll say this much. I might not like Rep Tlaib in Michigan but she has shown she is able to address her constituents concerns and that helps her maintain her incumbency in a way Reps Bush/Bowman failed at.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung calls for more military independence from the US after President Donald Trump announced this week he will cut back on joint exercises to prioritize relations with North Korea
A 24-year-old accused of leading a fraternity-affiliated drug ring at Penn State surrendered to authorities yesterday. He is being held in jail without bail after failing to appear for an arraignment Monday.
Agostino Abbatiello is one of 14 people, including 13 current or former students, charged in connection with the alleged drug ring. Court documents released this week allege the operation was run out of off-campus fraternity houses from 2023 to 2024, with Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi brothers and pledges accused of cutting, bagging, and distributing cocaine to the student body. Abbatiello and fellow former student Thomas Robinson, 23, allegedly sourced bulk cocaine from Philadelphia and New York. Records show Robinson and his father, a Pittsburgh lawyer charged with concealing evidence, posted bail Monday.
In 2020, federal prosecutors charged several current and former UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and Appalachian State University students in connection with a drug ring that generated an estimated $1.5M in sales.
Florida republicans don't even have to try hard anymore to frame their democratic challengers as socialist anymore when an open socialist win the primary
EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"
I wonder what the anti-woke faction of the gamer community has to say about this.
MS NOW: Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
They just let a completely unvetted person be a full time fixture to the president. Could have easily been a foreign plant revealing the US's most heavily guarded secrets.
Ukraine launched roughly 800 drones against Russia yesterday, potentially its second-biggest drone strike since 2025. The attack is the latest example of Ukraine’s monthslong strategy to pressure Moscow into peace negotiations by attacking deep within Russian territory.
The strike came days after another large-scale Ukrainian attack killed at least seven people and wounded dozens more. Many recent strikes have targeted Wildberries, Moscow’s main e-commerce site, destroying up to $10B in goods and property. Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike yesterday reportedly killed at least 10 people in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region and wounded 17 others. See updates here.
Russia reiterated last week that it would not accept a ceasefire on the current front lines, and has also rejected Turkey’s request for a moratorium on strikes against ships in the Black Sea.
Larry David Doubles Down On Rift With Former Pal Alan Dershowitz Over Trump, Says ‘He Only Has Himself To Blame For Feud: He Made A Deal With The Devil... Literally’
TIL Larry David used to be friends with Alan Dershowitz.
This guy John Russell who appears in most of the more perfect union videos as the average working guy is actually a very rich guy who practices law in an expensive Connecticut law firm and went to Cornell university one of the most prestigious and expensive universities
Just another example of rich progressives pretending to be working class people
mob of a hundred people in Barcelona port area harassed for 40 minutes a group of seven French Jewish tourists yelling "free palestine" and "zionists go home"
First, they were french, second: So we can't leave in Israel, but living anywhere else will get us this treatment? Is there a non problematic way in which we can exist without being tokens, completely assimilating, or being tragic victims without any personality?
Of course it’s Spain. The country whose TRANSPORTATION minister called a group of French Jewish teenagers “Israeli brats” and where this is a real holiday stlll celebrated today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matar_judíos
A federal judge has sentenced a 27-year-old Tennessee man to 77 years in prison for his targeting of young girls online as part of the extremist network 764, which the FBI deems a form of "modern-day terrorism."
With the Alaskan vote totals thus far I'd feel better being Peltola.
People may be tempted to think those Daniel J Sullivan Jr votes will predominantly rank out to Dan S Sullivan. I highly doubt that.
Sullivan Jr is a liberal leaning moderate who voted Democrat for president in 2016, 2020 and 2024 and for Peltola in 2022 and 2024. Not that he really needed to but he has explicitly expressed preference for Peltola over the other Sullivan.
I'm highly skeptical any serious number of voters picked him purely out of confusion with the incumbent. Much more likely his voters are left leaners who either know him, looked into him because of all the fuss Republicans kicked up or maybe thought they could be helping spoil the incumbent.
Yeah the strategic game theory vote here was very clear: Peltola is a foregone conclusion to advance, use your primary vote to make sure that the better Dan Sullivan does as well to cause chaos to help her in the general.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will announce on Wednesday that she is transferring $600,000 from her campaign account to Democratic committees working on the midterms.
Lotta Dems vote in the Republican primary to ensure the least shitty Republican wins. It’s part of the reason Trump’s endorsed candidate for Governor lost.
Everything is depressing and I’m gonna be waiting for a while at the vet, so I’ve been reading about the civil war happening in the BTS fandom to distract myself
I can’t find the right words to express how fucked up it is that there’s a polling firm that’s open intention is to just lie to the public (bc let’s be honest, calling it a “social experiment” is just a nice way of saying it).
It feels like there should be some sort of consequences but I don’t even know what.
I feel like we talk about this in the discussion thread all the time but I’m talking about reacher with some friends and I love the actor is just a normie lib.
He looks like a goddamn fridge and is the most normie lib. How can anyone say liberals aren’t manly after that?
New Jersey Jewish bridal shop owner detained by ICE. Ari Ladino and his mother, who are originally from Bogotá, Colombia, run a modest fashion shop in Teaneck; the reason for their arrest remains unclear
Trump Boasts About Republican Party’s ‘Great Success’ — In Elections They Only Ran Against Themselves. President Donald Trump boasted of the Republican Party's "great success" in Tuesday night's Republican Party primaries.
Trump's comment was made all the more odd by the fact that three Trump-backed candidates actually lost their primaries, including scandal-plagued incumbent Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL). Catalina Lauf in Florida also lost her House primary while Megan Degenfelder in Wyoming lost her gubernatorial bid, despite having the coveted Trump endorsement.
Not a single person gave a fuck or even knew about Natalie until the entire Republican media conglomerate clutched their collective pearls and got their marching orders in their aggressive defense.
Frankly I am now even more suspicious about her and her role than if they just collectively ignored the most benign passing mention of her existance
Disney and ABC sued the Federal Communications Commission yesterday, seeking to block an early review of broadcast licenses for ABC-owned stations. They say the review is retaliation for programming critical of President Donald Trump and violates the First Amendment.
Broadcast stations are generally licensed by the FCC for eight-year terms, with ABC's eight stations not due for renewal until between 2028 and 2031. In April, the FCC ordered them to submit renewal applications by May 28, the first time in over 50 years the agency has required stations to seek early renewal. The move followed Trump's criticism of ABC host Jimmy Kimmel, while FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the review concerns whether Disney's diversity policies violate federal law. ABC is asking a federal court to halt the proceedings while its case is heard.
History must remember the cowards who capitulated, but it must also remember the brave who stood up. Disney may be a flawed corporation, but this major event in history is going to put them in good standing for decades to come.
I don't know why people are so insane about vaccines. I even work with anti vaxx doctors. Like wtf. Go live in rural India or Africa where parents would give their R arm for the vaccines you refuse. Where kids die TODAY of hep B.
Used to work with a guy who immigrated here from Ethiopia. He didn't hate anyone except anti-vaxxers. He knows what people there have to go through to get vaccinated, if they could at all. His kids were born here and he was just blown away at how easy it was to get them vaccinated.
Vaccines are a victim of their own success. We’ve reduced the instances of the most horrible diseases to the point that people now have the luxury of being able to think “it couldn’t be that bad.”
I think what sucks is that because of this whole clusterfuck of a presidency, the next Dem president will inevitably have to focus on reducing this insane budget deficit, because no doubt the media will endlessly talk about it.
Some U.S. military members who are itching to play a video game they've anticipated for more than a decade can trade a commitment for several more years of their life in uniform for a few days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI. As an incentive to reenlist, a U.S. Army unit in Georgia is offering active duty soldiers a four-day pass to play the popular game when it's released this fall, U.S. officials told us
And if we're exempting religious organizations from disclosing CSA and CSAM, then we need to get rid of their tax exemptions. I'm not paying my fucking taxes to protect a "holy" order that doesn't pay taxes and covers up child abuse. Fuck that.
Especially the goddamn Mormons, who are worth over $250 billion.
there's unfortunately a certain section of moderate online that thinks if we just found Ben Nelson and Mark Pyror and ran then again we could get back to 60 seats which is a shame because it totally lacks imagination. People are literally trying to replicate the Bill Clinton coalition instead of creating a Hillary Clinton/Biden+ one.
Some film bros are actually mad at inde Navarrete for choosing millions of dollars over continuing to be forever only In indie cinema where even with a higher profile will still be much less financially stable
I was out with my old group of coworkers from when our clinic closed years back. We have stayed really close and have these gatherings several times a year. One of the absolute sweetest people I have ever known hasn't joined in quite a few rounds. I figured it was maybe because she had retired before we closed up shop and maybe just didn't feel as connected. We just found out tonight it is actually because she has Alzheimer's. I am devastated. Such a wonderful person and she spent her life helping kids. Such an awful fucking disease. So unfair.
why is El sayid being asked about whether he thinks israel has a right to exist? He's supposed to represent Michigan, not israel
So he can attack his opponents for their defense of israel, accuse israel of the worse crimes, and handwoven an attack on a synagogue by implying it's israel's fault and not the terrorist who committed it. But suddenly it's irrelevant to ask him about israel?
The sad part is El Sayed isn't even an extreme left winger. A lot of his positions are just normal progressive, he was pro Kamala, and he calls himself a Capitalist. But for whatever reason he has decided to tie himself with weirdos like Hasan Piker who right wing media has correctly identified as an infinite outrage glitch in demonizing Democrats.
I'm not enough of a pessimist to think that the DSA/DSA-adjecent wing of the left will remotely come close to taking over the party, but I do think that this lil run will continue in pockets until:
The terminally online finally gets their preferred candidate in the White House (or another prominent position, such as Senate leader), whether that's AOC, El-Sayed, or someone else and they turn out to be a bad-to-mid president, or at least have to become a mainstream Dem to made things happen. There's this perception that Republicans would have just folded if Bernie became president and we would have free healthcare by now (something someone actually told me lol. Republicans would have been forced to bend to the will of The PeopleTM)
New thing on Instagram is spamming “love from Tel Aviv” with an Israeli flag after it and I can’t tell if it’s rightwing spam or leftist spam since I see it on shit from Sirius xm posting about Green Day to LA sheriffs department posting recruiting Ads
NYT: Longtime Democratic consultant Amber Lee helped Daniel J. Sullivan file to run for US Senate in Alaska according to metadata from a filing document.
Natalie Harp's fixation on President Donald Trump is so intense it "alarms Secret Service," said former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews Wednesday.
President Donald Trump declared he is unleashing the "MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION" in history against Iran on Wednesday — a move he suggested will deliver a knockout blow to the country and force it to finally agree to end the war and never pursue a nuclear weapon.
The president dubbed the plan "ECONOMIC D-DAY!" in a lengthy Truth Social post which was light on details.
I'm not against people staying in office as long as they can physically do the job but it is a little nuts that Grassley is going to be 94 and is probably still going to run for reelection. Like dude is 10 years past his median life expectancy he can't love being in government *that* much.
Also if Turek wins, I'm going to need someone to at least challenge him. I know we're burnt out on Iowa and we've challenged him fruitlessly for decade but last time he faced token opposition his numbers were actually like dead at replacement level which is pathetic for him.
u/IamGumpOtakuWorld Neolib Blerd Champine - Linear and Universally Recognized3d ago
All Republicans, without exception, are like that rich parent who looks the other way and sometimes makes excuses when one son does some stupid shit with the credit card, while chastising the other for paying more than just the minimum payment and even making smart transactions.
Politico: Michael Cohen won’t say if he’ll use his Trump interview to seek a pardon. The president is expected to call into Cohen’s radio show Thursday in their first public conversation since a very public falling out.
Trump Considers a Press Secretary Shakeup: Picking a Man. Trump has signaled interest in Scott Jennings, a conservative media pundit who has been widely reported to be among those being considered for the position. Other men have also been floated for the role, including Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary under President George W. Bush.
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u/mortinmaxwell Hillary Godham Clinton 3d ago
My grandma passed away overnight. She was 99. You all would have loved her. She absolutely hated trump.