Faith A. Wilson

Technically we’re talking Italian Americans but close enough

Exactly- maybe the "but well-funded propaganda" folks should ask what makes certain voting groups susceptible? You don't see Black women falling for the BS, for example.

It is amazing how people freak TF out when it's suggested that voters should be held accountable. They get especially testy when we specifically call out white, working class voters, who have, as a group, been singlehandedly responsible for holding us back for decades.

When one of them finally snaps

I can picture a scenario where one approaches the other to trade sizes, but each one is too suspicious thinking it's a trap

My husband is a statistician and he's never seen anything like trump support when it comes to finding a near perfect correlate as a variable for political views.

It is baffling and will continue to be

Independent baseball is a lot more fun

We’re still being paid back for the squeaky tank, aren’t we?

I'll hand it to trump: he managed to find someone even dumber than Noem, and that's hard to do

MAGA reacting to budgeting/dietary health advice from Democrats: accusations of government overreach, total mocking. MAGA reacting to budgeting/dietary health advice from Republicans: dissertation-level household financial accounting tips extolling the benefits of living on beans and rice for a year

I suspect after the primaries (and that key leverage threat) are done, that you’ll start to see some republicans try to gaslight by moderating and denying they supported him

Just send Mamdani to get the Epstein files 🤷🏻

Oh no! People will have to do their own work! 😱

Encapsulates how I feel, except from a strategy standpoint we need to avoid any candidate other than a straight white dude for the next 20 years

The whole “there’s no politics no left and right, just people” line is straight from fascism, folks. Beware.

Funniest: Drew Barrymore, The Pope
Sorta funny: David Attenborough
Meh: Truman Capote
Everyone else: painful AF to watch #DragRace

Drag Race gripes:
1. Changing the format of snatch game
2. Contestants choosing hard-to-impersonate celebrities, characters, or historical figures
3. Contestants choosing internet influencers born after 2005 #DragRace

This entire Greenland situation is a case study of the abysmal failure of American media

What WC Fields said applies to MAGA: You can't cheat an honest man

Man and I thought the Millers were terror twins

The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public Abstract. Many Americans hold substantial misperceptions about what the government actually does. However, they get the facts wrong not because they are la

If you want a scholarly attempt to explain this I strongly suggest academic.oup.com/book/55770?l...

"I voted for him because he won't do what he said he'd do" is the median voter's mantra

The rhetorical posturing of the trump administration summed up:

Banks is giving off "was listed as a reference in a job search" vibes

they're leaving MN because the focus is now on detention warehouses

The only new follows us "lesser accounts" seem to be getting are Gaza scammer ones. Time to beef up the algorithms, Bluesky.

It’s all about the company you keep. I mean when you look around and see Woody Allen and Prince Andrew, that should be a big clue to hightail it out of there.