Violence stopped the German Nazis

One interesting question: Did Homan report the $50k on his *STATE* income taxes? You have to report your income — even if it’s an illegal bribe. And if not: Could be an opportunity for state tax fraud charges in NY….

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Paul Campos at LGM would be awesome!

Or taxes and economic growth Or people with "faith" and people who are non-criminal Or who won the 2000 election Or charter schools and educational gains Or gun ownership and gun violence .... Conservatives just lie, like, all the time about everything Ideology ahead of reality

The Disappeared

Working for Trump must be like working for the Oracle of Delphi, except it’s really stupid. Trump will say something like “ME WANT HAMBURGER”, and then his minions translate that to mean a Ukraine policy shift or something.

Thank goodness nothing like this ever happened to me I believe I would hold that grudge forever - against the actual agent, his organization and the government that sent them This is how domestic terrorists are made

Reminder that Mahmoud Khalil is still being deported for his 1A protected speech.

They didn't lie and say he quit. You can't fake that he got hired at another network or retired or anything. You CAN fake elections, and who is going to protest - the Democrats? They're approval rating is in the toilet... the Right controls the media.... These things are different

From your mouth to the spaghetti monster's noodlie ears

In my mind, it is a burlap sack with a giant dollar sign on it

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I think the outlets for anyone with progressive views are pretty limited Media, corporate, government venues have all been slanting right wing for decades If you are pitching fact based New Deal rhetoric, who's going to host you? Fascism and corporatism speech is how you feed the family

Some good news for a change... I wrote about how a Seattle-based company is piloting a way to turn compostable diapers into climate friendly biochar and deal with a portion of the 20 billion diapers that end up in North American landfills. My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/20...

I'm so old that I remember Dems/Reps ignoring the fact that the First Trump candidacy gave Bondi $10K to make her investigation of his fraudulent University go away in Florida America has not suddenly become corrupt, Dems and Reps have been trending this way for decades

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... sorry, *wipes away tears*, the idea of Dems holding anyone, specifically Trump, accountable is just...

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

For certain definitions of "function"

And if someone comes up with a "corporate" solution akin to carbon taxes, I'm going to lose my shit on them

People keep trying to draw this distinction and I get it in terms of culpability but the system is what the system does; a system that put people with courage and moral clarity into positions of power would be a different system than the one we have.

My wife is a PhD ecologist Watching ignorant DoGE chuds slash every cent from their programs And then listening to tech lords spout ignorant phrases about her and her colleagues work It's like seeing the Library of Alexandria burn, and then hearing the sergeants comment on why it had to be done...

As we saw with the US torture program, we've never felt the need to apply the same law to Americans

As prices increase people are getting squeezed into "company town" lifestyles. Your health insurance, your retirement, and now your housing, all linked to your job This give employers greater control Add the ability to black list based on social media posts and it becomes a bleak future for many

An underappreciated result of AI sounding so human and yet being so full of sh... "hallucinations", is that it points out how fact free a typical person's discourse is As LLM AI makes it's way into different professions, it's relative success can be a metric to see how much actual truth is required

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Really like Chris Murphy - but Republicans are using the Justice department to prosecute their political rivals. Is the Democratic reflex of hoping to find some Republican that will agree we ought to say "STOP" really going to do anything? Our leaders are not up to this moment

Historically, I'd say yes. Christians leaders throughout history have supported mass murder and torture.

Nobody would notice a little half inch white beak in the dirt...

I follow several people with large/national voices on BlueSky Not one of them has called for a general strike or any kind of national, organized resistance Republicans are openly targeting political enemies for prosecution and blowing up civilians in boats... among many, many other things

Here's an idea Let's find people who's support of New Deal socialism, trans, abortion, etc, instead comes from their deep seated principles instead of mercenaries who will say whatever they think people want to hear in order to win?

Why didn't this make the Memorial greatest hits list?

Stephen Miller speaking at Trump's rally has very familiar vibes.

Don't know why it's incredible that most white Christians align with ICE - do you know your US and World history that poorly, Radley?

Hmmm, he was vastly outnumbered by the Christians at Charlie Kirk's memorial - are you now ashamed to call yourself a Christian? Or are you going to pull a "True Scottsman" fallacy - cherry pick "Christians" you approve of, use the label to group yourself with them so you are good by association?

I saw some kids get dropped off for soccer and their grandparents showed up and the absolute joy of both the child and the gparents meeting and then hugging was sooooo soooothing

Actually good advice for every public space and most private ones

They also control the media, the judiciary, most major corporations are subservient... They've won - plan for the resistance

How do you negotiate with someone who has proven untrustworthy? Even if you get everything in legally binding writing, when they renege (as we know he will) the the high court has proven they'll just throw the case his way You're unwilling to accept what you're must have shown you, Josh

Atrios says everything that needs saying about this nonsense www.eschatonblog.com/2025/09/the-...

Community Unites to Drive Out ICE GOONS ✊

You're stuck in Liberal framing - where certain acts are legal or illegal irrespective of station, race or creed Trump and the Republicans are Conservative - whether or not something is legal depends upon the actor and their relationship with power

@cherylrofer.bsky.social posted an empassioned plea in LGM for people to stop following shallow ideological memes and instead drill down to reality, then plan your actions on those I couldn't agree more, and it's one of my major personal goals Problem is, human nature doesn't work that way

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

Are you kidding? Look at the White House press corps for the last 20 years - the bulk of them are simply stenographers... hell, if this wasn't published I'd be surprised if anyone noticed anything different from the coverage

Republican governance - this is who the National Democrats want to find common ground with

Honestly - I don't know that we would actually notice much of a difference It's not like there are consequences for law breaking in the political world I'm old enough to remember a President that spied on every American (back before it was cool) and tortured folks to death He's Obama's good friend

If only there were an international body that was setup to hold rogue countries accountable - where a united group of nations could act like a world wide court. That would be nice.... No one is coming to rescue us - we need to resist

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out” Watching my nation's resistance, this seems true

Look at photos of US troops in Fallujah. (eg here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... ) They're armed like these ICE agents in Chicago. But none of them are wearing the cowardly face masks of today's ICE thugs. Like the one throwing a young, female Congressional candidate to the ground.