Things you can rock around (an incomplete list) The clock The block The Christmas tree

The Trump administration’s attempts to blame “left wing ideology” and the victim herself for being murdered by a psychopathic ICE agent is taking manipulative gaslighting to a new and outrageous level. I know MAGA drinks this koolaid but surely the rest of America can see through this insanity?

The western civilization that I want to save provides clean drinking water, sanitary food, good schools and a fair justice system, not the one that enslaves subclasses of people for the benefit of a few.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

In other hell site news billionaire VC and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale seemingly endorsed the murder of "commies" the other day.

There have been so many opportunities for reasonable people to ditch MAGA that anyone left is either totally supportive of what is happening or are just waaaay too deep down the rabbit hole to see reality at all.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

The Chinese hacked into most of our sensitive systems and spied on powerful people, for YEARS. The companies involved covered it up and the Trump administrations' "fix" was to destroy our cybersecurity protections and corporate oversight. the press, generally, yawned and put the story on page four

Saying someone had “pronouns in their bio” is just another way of saying that that person is not on our team, the good people, the “real Americans.” They are someone who can’t be trusted. They are someone who deserves to be treated with contempt and their life can be taken without concern.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

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I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute

The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.

Get to keep your life?🤪

One of the many reasons for fox reducing victims to traits like this is to reassure their fanbase that they aren't at risk because they aren't lesbians with pronouns. Can't be coming out with phrasing like "innocent white women gunned down in broad daylight". That would put the frighteners on them.

The New York Times states it plainly in display type: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

The president of the United States isn’t supposed to be playing game of thrones.

The deepest American tradition might be blaming the newcomer for why you don’t have it better off.

Holy s! Finally found someone who is articulating this idea that efficiency and optimization must be pursued in all things. It’s anti-human because it devalues everything that makes being a human such an amazing thing and promotes suffering in service of value.

looking back at now once again trump loyalists statements on jan 6 is crazy because it really illustrates how they’ve managed to sanitize what everyone knew was going on. the jan 6ers were ultimately successful it seems

I was born a couple years after Nixon resigned the presidency, and in my lifetime, the GOP has never taken a single moderating step. It's been a continuous acceleration of extremist violence and hate backed by utter disdain for the law and a determination to never apologize for anything.

Maddow concludes that it’s all just pushing the boundaries of what Donald can get away with. I say it’s part of the deal to get guys like Rubio on board. Those guys wanna settle scores and keep “fighting the communists.” They have deep pocketed support for this project.

When I showed the fifth grader my new fleece lined cargo pants that I got for Xmas she said my look was “Adam Sandler.”

"your honor, some people called the defendant 'The Gangster of Love'"

The Whitehouse pages on January 6th have now been MAGAfied.

Republicans said *openly* they wanted to 'repeal the 20th century' and apparently far too many people either did not take them seriously in this (even though that's what "Project 2025" was all about) or maybe forgot what were the big achievements of the 20th century that right wingers might hate.

Corporations have no allegiance to anything other than their own preservation and profitability. That is why they shouldn’t have rights. They will bend to whoever has the power to serve their needs. They’re not our proxies.

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

And so here we are, with that lesson clearly in view, and our guy thinks that Tojo had the plan that's worth repeating.

sure sure you can have hegemony by trade, ideology and cultural influence, but does that make your dick hard?

ID, WY, ND, and MT have a combined population of ~5.6M people. That’s 3M less than the pop of NYC. Those states have 8 Senators. CA is home to 39M people. They have 2 senators.

Guys like Miller hate the international order that was created after wwii because he feels that it restrains the powerful to the benefit of the weak. This is true. It’s a good thing. Or else we will live in a world dominated by those with power, whether they seek to do good or not.

Historian here the Donroe doctrine which is as idiotic as it sounds. The Triple Axis sounds like the world on the eve of the First World War which is not a good thing!

The biggest bully on the block, the guy with a stockpile of arms, decides to physically evict the family with the messy yard. He’s now trying to decide which of his buddies gets to move into the house. The neighbors are all like “I hope it’s someone who keeps their yard nice.”

The Republicans want you to forget about Jan. 6 because they've been continuing the coup ever since. Do not forget.

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Human thumbs always think they are first string for some reason

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

They're still trying to bully Mark Kelly.

The White Man's Burden is back, I guess. This editorial cartoon from 1899 embodies everything Christofascist White Nationalists like Stephen Miller believe about the world. Not only do they believe that they are White Saviors to the rest of the world, they resent that world for not being grateful.

Ask an American what they ‘do’ and they will tell you their employment status

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

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It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

I know my audience. I am my audience.