Lindsay Ballant

The Iraq War AUMF vote destroyed multiple political careers and, via Hillary Clinton, helped decide at least two presidential elections. Congress’s big takeaway from that experience was to stop holding votes on wars.

As someone who's lived through 20+ years of this regime change bullshit one word of advice: screenshot all the idiots. They'll desperately attempt to distance themselves once it all goes downhill and public opinion shifts and they'll delete their most incriminating takes—don't let them live it down.

One of the main points of that warmongering @nytopinion.nytimes.com Overmatched series is how limited U.S. military stockpiles are because they've allowed their bloated defense monopolies to waste billions manufacturing pricey, outdated equipment that can be easily destroyed by cheap drones

It should be pretty easy for any 2028 candidate to run against Kamala asking why she ran in 2024 on All Options Are On the Table (including military force) to deal with Iran—which she called "our greatest adversary"—only for her to reverse course 18 months later

Literally no one across the political spectrum wants war with Iran, the polling is clear. And yet the Democratic Party will insist that you need bloodthirsty warmongers in the tent in red states to appeal to a fictitious pro-war constituency that doesn’t exist bsky.app/profile/repg...

Ghouls like this go unchallenged in the Democratic Party. His primary opponents won’t get any visibility because the party crushes it. Well-meaning loyal Dem voters will vote for this guy anyway because they couldn’t be bothered to learn more than Orange Man Bad. The perpetual cycle continues

Just to get this out of the way I’m not voting for any Democrat who supports bombing Iran, in 2026, in 2028, or ever. Which means all your Israeli-hugging genocide-denying frontrunners are nonstarters

He spent the first few months constantly scolding the left for being “too pro Hamas” instead of pressuring Dems for being too pro-Israel, and believed the IDF had a right to bomb that hospital. He never changed he’s always been this way!

There’s this idea among liberals- that I blame Nate Silver for but it is older and more widespread- that if a thing polls bad the only thing you can do to succeed is abandon it- and it makes them seem like they have no moral compass and also shows that they can’t lead people to a better place

Liberal elitism is dying. They chose Epstein, they chose genocide, they chose their corporate donors, they chose tech meglomaniacs, they chose to enable fascists, they chose to hollow out the very institutions they cling to. The professional class consultants & voters defending them must be defeated

complete and total vindication

And that includes my friends who decided that telling people to ignore Kamala's stance on Gaza, or lying about her stance on Gaza, was an effective form of voter outreach. Stop getting mad at voters for the rot at the heart of the party that never gets challenged because you put up with it.

Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

Defending Democrats who side with the GOP only emboldens Republicans. Every person who attacks people for not being loyal enough to the party instead of pressuring Democrats to stand in opposition to the elites sacrificing our lives for their enrichment are the problem. www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...

The last thing you see after winning a medal

Pretty incredible. This candidate went to the West Bank to see the violence of the occupation herself.

And Israeli settlers — apparently flanked by a soldier — immediately showed it to her by throwing eggs at her as she walked with an ex-soldier, a priest, and Jewish activists:

Think of this everytime you see a pro-AI Democrat, and bookmark this for every time you see someone defending a pro-AI Democrat

I keep thinking about how New York Magazine in 1997 was basically doing a wink wink nudge nudge about who this guy is… 1997!

In addition to Alysa Liu's inspiring personal story, I'm just so relieved that originality, taste, and artistry beat out classicism, tradition, and paint-by-numbers technical skill in that women's free skate. In a world where AI increasingly marginalizes human creativity we really need these moments

I think its rather offensive that they call it Thinking Time in men's curling and Feeling Time in the women's

Never seen a more apt use for this in a championship game before

And Sam Darnold, who was NOT out indefinitely

I may have been early but I’m not wrong

once again,

Based off this chart, which candidate ran on demonizing immigrants/building an authoritarian surveillance state, and which one ran on protecting immigrants/expanding immigrant rights and reigning in the authoritarian overreach of his predecessor. One of them didn’t keep their promise—guess which one

Also this

No it’s not. ICE is the behemoth it is because it was literally never reigned in—not by Obama, not by Biden. All they did was shovel more money their way. It’s a through line. Stop erasing the Democrats out of their culpability because they refuse to hold anyone accountable when they have the chance

And learn about the U.S.’s imperialist involvement in the Korean War while you’re at it

You all defended this. That’s why we’re here.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

this PAC, “democratic youth wave,” has poured over $100,000 into a single delaware based corporation with a generic sounding name that came into existence shortly after the PAC was formed in 2024. they’re using this man’s murder to fundraise for some vague fucking grift.