Holocenefail

no, your marketplace of ideas is bunk

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Whatever Russian officials thinks they're achieving by hosting far-right influencer @RealCandaceO in St Petersburg, it's lost on Russia's warbloggers, who say they're dying of cringe. "They probably even licked the ass of that Yankee scum," one says appreciatively. ⬇️

[Holocenefail @NotinCivil]

@SwannMarcus89 Someday, someday, the US needs to figure out GOP attack ads.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

The problem for the Democrats in the Senate is you can’t trust any polls taken before Republican attack adds start ramping up this summer

Talarico was leading both Paxton and Cornyn by only a few percentage points in polls a few months back and Talarico had like a 39-29 favorability rating

He will not have 29% unfavorable numbers by November. The GOP will put him underwater. The question is if he can win with -10 favorables instead of +10 after the GOP machine gets through with him

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

We drove back in from Austin this afternoon and got passed on 290 by a woman doing 95mph, while driving with her knees, because she was smoking, drinking a 4 gallon Coke and gnawing on a fried chicken drumstick. And you're releasing foreigners into this place in a week. -OS

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

@MikeGinsberg6 You can criticize Platner fairly, but it's not the Democratic party who promoted this guy. Politico reports that the immediate recruiters were two DSA members (Daniel Ezra Moraff and Leanne Fan) who had written extensively about tactics to undermine the Democratic party.

[Holocenefail @NotinCivil]

@slantchev If anything, the election of Trump in 2016 made full scale war more likely. It gave Putin more confidence in pulling off aggression. The GOP 2011 sequester made the US look weak to Russia as well. No reason to think Putin does anything else but lie.

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

Oh yeah I'm sure every MAGA has a copy of Persopolis, and Trump never would have launched this war had they not all read it. They're famous for reading history about other cultures told through the eyes of women.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Sending 700 million to coal companies is like spending 700 million to build 8 track tapes again.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Have you noticed that our political campaigns are almost completely devoid of ideas? No arguing over the size and scope of government. No arguing over America’s role in the world. It’s all personalities, “vibes,” and memes. Our political culture has been badly degraded. Its perfect symbol is that grotesque “cage” on the White House lawn.

[Dev @sleepy_devo]

a normal person from 1995 did not want:
- USAID dismantled
- NATO dismantled
- the president to be granted absolute immunity by the SCOTUS
- the president to corruptly rug pull billions of dollars for himself

[Al Smizzle @AlZeidenfeld]

They published a 900-page book in 2023 that told everyone exactly what they planned to do if/when Trump won.

Many people chose not to believe them.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Wouldn’t this technically be voter fraud

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A Collins classic here where she joins Dems in the failed vote to block Trump’s slush fund so she can say she was against it, but when they needed her vote to get it over the top she was there for them.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.

[Holocenefail @NotinCivil]

@_fat_ugly_rat_ After 2020, everybody just figured she was unbeatable.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The fact that Joe Rogan is even being considered for 60 Minutes tells you everything you need to know about mainstream media in 2026.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.