New: Officials say intel confirms that Trump’s boat strikes aren’t achieving the purported goal of stopping the flow of drugs. Top WH & Pentagon officials know this. And that apparently hasn’t changed a thing — as sources say Trump is now exploring an *expansion* of operations. @swin24.bsky.social

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

You can't eulogize the monstrous humans killing us as your good friends colleagues while claiming you oppose them. This isn't difficult. Eventually liberals are going to have to stand for something besides civility with whoever is most convenient.

The Republican Party is not our enemy because we intend to kill them, but because they intend to kill us--and already have killed a great many of us. Your friendship ought not to have survived that; it is to your great discredit that it did. Our anger, born of discouragement, is real and abiding.

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

To Democrats and their eulogies: If you say that democracy is under attack by the Republican Party—and it is—and you say that the Republican Party represents an authoritarian threat—and it does—then civility and comity have already been murdered, and shows of comity are utterly incoherent.

There is more surveillance in the average American grocery store than there was on the inside of the Death Star. Our ancestors' most fevered imaginings of totalitarianism do not compare with the level of surveillance we are under every second of every day of our life Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

people online used to be pretty enthusiastic to learn how to use software that made their lives easier. now they act like a facebook grandma who gets scared when her grandchild replaces internet explorer with firefox because she thinks the blue e is "the internet" and now it's gone

(the answer to "has woke gone too far?" is always gonna be "woke has barely made even 1% of the progress that needs to be made.")

Fair play, very funny thing to say in defence of a party whose primary campaigning strategy is to wait for a horrific tragedy to befall a town, community or even individual family, and then roll up and go, "We sure hope nobody burns down a mosque over this—though we'd sure understand if they did!"

Very telling that the problem these labour mps seem to have with it is how it will impact the party electorally, not that its in and of itself morally repugnant

The irony is remarkable. The WSJ invokes the struggle against apartheid to argue for regime change in Cuba, ignoring that the U.S. backed South Africa's apartheid govt while Cuba helped defeat it. Cuba's military intervention in Angola led to Namibia's independence & the collapse of apartheid

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

we have issued an arrest warrant for Diarrhea

The short answer to the second question, is no. There is no limit. There is nothing that an in-group "us" politician could do, that would be so irredeemable, that US consensus would be OK with not saying nice things about them when they die. Take all the time that you need to process this.

It comes down to two important questions: 1) Who is an "us," and who is a "them?" And 2) Are there any irredeemable acts that an "us" could do, that would prevent us from saying nice things about them when they pass? Is there any limit? The US history of racism leads to some weird answers here.🤷🏿‍♂️

No one expected Dem pols to say nice things about Bin Laden when he passed. Because he attacked Americans, and was not considered a colleague. Similarly, no one was expected to say nice things about the premiere of any nation that the US was at war with. But if the British queen passed, they were.

Separate from "Should we ban Black users for not being sufficiently happy that their abuser can't hurt them anymore" is the discourse around "Should Dem politicians say nice things about their 'colleagues' when they pass?" This is complicated, and tied in to the nature of racism in the US. Cont'd.

I think that many people don't understand that Evangelicals consider Catholicism to be essentially a pagan religion.

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

God: Fix your heart or die Lindsey Graham: Get that woke shit out of here God: No your heart bro

A) you can just say “condolences to his family” and not jerk iff a fascist for his sense of humor. B) I actually think the idea it’s some natural ritual to praise your good friend the open white nationalist is in fact a problem

Hey, a good way to celebrate Lindsey Graham kicking the bucket is to contact your senators about KOSA and the KIDS Act. Graham was a big proponent of these kinds of laws, as well as of gutting section 230.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

LINDSAY GRAHAM IS DEAD. MITCH MCCONNELL IS DEFINITELY DEAD AND THEY'RE HIDING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. ALL THESE FASCISTS ARE OLD LOSERS. THEY WILL NOT WIN FOREVER. EITHER WE BEAT THEM OR THE REAPER FINDS THEM AND NO ONE MOURNS AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

“Pat, I’d like to solve the puzzle”

The number of innocent lives lost around the world because of Lindsey Graham, one of the most bloodthirsty war hawks in Congress over the last few decades, is incalculable.

The heel turn you’re about to see from the right after a week of justifying the *murder* of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo to condemning people in the left for even talking about Lindsey Graham…

This is why JKR is a danger to queer people, and people need to wake up to this sooner rather than later. She is picking fights with human rights groups, because they support the existence of trans people and our human rights.

In case you don't follow UFC (don't blame you), alleged rapist Conor McGregor was top billing tonight and came out swinging like a crackhead, only to instantaneously blow out his knee on the very first kick, get punched in the face approximately 11 times, and lose immediately

he got the war in iran he's wanted his whole life and for all that desire he got to watch them just completely push our shit in. lmao

and we'll get the bonus catharsis of literally everybody getting to go "shut da fuck up" when dems roll out their usual "hwuuuuh how tragic for our good bipartisan dinner party colleagues across the aisle". everything's coming up milhouse

hahahaha waking up to this fucking rocks

Lindsey Graham has died. He is being remembered for the way he lived . If you do not wish to be mocked when dying , do not make your dying the only way vulnerable people can find peace

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

The American media class is totally complicit in fascism and genocide.

This man's sole purpose on earth was to advocate for more dead human beings

There is a guy at this bar in a Conor Macgregor shirt which is, in my opinion, like wearing a Jared Fogel shirt

The first things Joe Biden did in office were: stopping stimulus checks, giving 40 billion dollars to states to hire more murderous cops, and giving up the fight for a 15 dollar minimum wage because the Senate Parliamentarian said “no”. But it’s the lefts fault Kamala lost..

No party campaigned on age verification. Nobody the US voted for this. Nobody the EU voted for this. Nobody the UK voted for this. Nobody in Australia voted for this. Some don't even know it's happening. Meta lobbied for this and got their way within a few years. Let this radicalize you.

I talked to mitch mcconnel for 20 minutes again today. This time he appeared scrambling up my basement stairs shouting a language I've never heard. He looked more see-through this time. Still, every day he comes for 20 minutes. I never know when or where. He almost caught me this time. Help m

Thinking about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statement that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven