heinous, evil, illegal and it'll happen more and more and more, until we organize and stop them

this is what the Scouting movement was all about!

Check out today's episode of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism:

the right-wing teaches people that the loss of relative privilege is oppression

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

people do not follow politics, they don't remember things about it, and if you want them to care about something it is your job to explain it to them in a way that'll stick and not feel to them like a lecture this sucks and is unfair due to the public's biases, but the alternative is unacceptable

we didn't have enough power -- being right isn't enough

This is real. Note that the first response is from a neo-Nazi, to whom the EEOC chair politely and helpfully responds.

this guy is the son of the guy who would be King of Portugal if they had one (last line of male descendants of the previous monarchs) in my opinion you should not be both a royal and hot at the same time, honestly embarrassing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso,...

whatever this is - earnestly malicious cruelty, or foolish backwards vote grubbing - we must stop them

folks this is *bad news* -- 51% isn't enough for a Democrat to win the Presidency and if AOC, one of the most charismatic politicians around, is that close to the bizarre void of personality that is JD Vance, we are not in a good place

the center of right-wing politics is the belief that a rising tide sinks their ship

Trump take Mario

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

they just want a "splendid little war"

this is simply the most incredible archive of Trump's obsessions and political thinking that i have ever seen, honestly i'm in awe, i must see them all

every day the levels of debasement increase

ok now I need to see the rest of it, does it just keep going on like this down the rest of the gallery? at what point does it transition from his screeds to wikipedia boilerplate? or did they have ChatGPT fill out the rest and do Trump-talk trashing Martin Van Buren’s handling of the Panic of 1837?

I come back to this essay frequently. I show it to students. I think about the grave things it means. And I look at the second man in the White House, who is one of these. “Burning stuff isn’t just metaphorical with the integralists.” jewishreviewofbooks.com/philosophy/1...

MTG is trying to pivot away from MAGA, this probably won't work for her but it is evidence the ship is sinking

Join me for a talk at the Main Branch of the Oakland Public Library, Thursday Feb 12th at 6PM, for a talk about my book How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism!

how's your day going i'm calling stores asking if they have Lebkuchengewürz

logistics wins wars rations, convoys, maps, and ammo supply chains win wars i always tell students you can tell the losing side in any historical conflict if they're the ones said to have tenacious warriors and brilliant generals - the winners NEED them to be worthy opponents

ugh this is like that game we used to play at music festivals - one up your friends for the lowest-billed act you've heard of or listened to top of my head, mine's Doug Wilson

When Dreher is turning on you, you know you messed up

we need to get behind this, my central issue with much of contemporary pop is that there isn't enough bass, and yes this literally includes the song "all about that bass," which doesn't feature enough bass!

listening to the news this morning a segment began "Hollywood legend Dick van Dyke..." my heart sank "... 's birthday is today, he turned 100" phew

full on party youth league stuff going on here

the central truth about the push to us LLMs is that the pushers have *never cared* about the literal content of the things you make, they only care about "content" in the abstract

you must assume that the billionaires have it out for you

the best description of the manosphere i've ever read

ok why did nobody tell me that Cesar Romero (the Joker from the Adam West Batman show) claimed very credibly to be the grandson of Cuban independence hero José Martí?

National Rally leader Jordan Bardella is insisting he doesn’t need help from U.S. President Donald Trump to shape France’s political future as his far-right party guns for the presidency in 2027.

there was a whole West Wing episode about this

some of those "ancient traditions" are at least from the 1700s*, but otherwise point stands *and some of the Catholic ones are from the 1500s

saw Wicked pt 2. - my favorite part was anytime two or more human actors were in the same frame at once, so about a third of it i guess

the goal is to have fewer people of color anywhere, for any reason

it means "we are building the infrastructure to imprison and torture far more people than we already do for the political crime of opposing us"

what's something terrible that happened in the first year of the Trump administration that got swept under the rug?

A third of people just like fascism, it was that way in Nazi Germany, it's that way today

when past me put the event "meeting" in my calendar for today with no further details he knew he was setting a landmine, which present me is about to get blown up by well done, past me

this is the single most important photograph i have seen in years

this is precisely what Trump wants

I wrote about right-wing media's escalating attacks on women, from pushing for birth control restrictions to pressuring young women to leave the workforce. A new hire at The Heritage Foundation, Scott Yenor, exemplifies this trend, but it goes far beyond him. New at @mmfa.bsky.social

"Do the rich have too much political power?" Yes: 80% No: 8% YouGov / Dec 8, 2025

gotta admit the fact that Leave won the Dead vote got me, i lol'd

yet another one we are gonna have a hard time explaining in the history books

I hate to post the NY Post but I find this noteworthy. nypost.com/2025/12/08/u...

MY LATEST: Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few countries.