And the response to all of this has been muted mumbling because the idea of instant murder at the specter of drugs for non-white people holds such hegemonic buy-in, even ostensible opponents blanch at the prospect of opposing summary executions.

Essentially, the Trump Administration has reassured the military that they can commit murder with impunity, and now 200 people and counting are dead in “narcoterrorist” strikes, which don’t require the presence of narcotics or any weapons.

The SpaceX IPO is basically sub-prime mortgages in space.

with you until the "let them live" part. but that's a detail we can sort out later.

Abolish ICE. Strip all honors and employment and assets from everyone who has ever worked for them, all up and down the line. Take everything they have. Let them live in public housing. This includes Donald Trump. Dissolve all of his assets, distribute the proceeds to his victims.

Think tanks explicitly founded to "abolish transgenderism" will publish a report that's like "there's no evidence that trans healthcare works if you ignore all the evidence" and be taken seriously, meanwhile actual researchers go "there's seriously NO evidence that gatekeeping helps" and get ignored

Gavin Newsom too

Democrats love cops, especially Nazi cops, and hate the public.

The Backrooms is inherently funny to me because I am 39 and have worked in offices for 21 years. My entire career is walking around in the backrooms and wishing something would just eat me.

all else aside, I think this was the start of a shift for a lot of people- realizing their government was absolutely capable of helping them, but actively choosing not to

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

Mikie Sherrill campaigned on "I'm a tough military pilot who isn't afraid of Trump and will stand up to Trump!" The first time she's tested, she works with ICE to beat up her own citizens. And her backers explain "she's working with Trump STRATEGICALLY, because she's scared of Trump." OK, got it.

i bet you a bajillion dollars that if it was a hammer and sickle tattoo instead of a totenkopf the dem party would have already endorsed susan collins

the generation gap here is so huge. it was not kids and teenagers who fell for the ten-year right-wing propaganda campaign to erase every tiny inch of progress made on trans rights; it was their parents and grandparents. the party is not prepared for what winning a primary will look like by 2036

Can't wait to vote for someone named James MilitaryIndustrialComplex who worked at McKinsey after serving as a CIA handler for human traffickers in Afghanistan and served on the board of Uber who is "moderate" on trans issues but bullish on deregulation of AI data slave farms.

And, while we're at it, maybe it would be a good thing to talk about how so many of the policy makers and personalities are paid by the same billionaires who control the GOP's authoritarian agenda and all they do is constantly advise the Democrats to become more and more like the GOP?

It literally does not matter if we Jews are Indigenous to Occupied Palestine or not, because (a) multiple people can be indigenous to the same place, so indigeneity is not exclusivity, and (b) there's no "but we're from there" exceptions to the rule that apartheid and genocide are evil.

A lot of Americans don't really like it or they sidestep it altogether but in actually existing Israel if you are for a state of all its citizens you are near uniformly considered anti Zionist, or more charitably what people call "non-Zionist".

There are so many people I know who have been laid off in the last two years, and so many journalists of color who have lost their jobs in media. And then there's this guy.

Extremely funny to issue an indignant denial of a story that's been reported by at least three different outlets when you are also maybe the single least credible lawyer in the entire country right now

This functionally ends science in the United States.

you’re gonna need to gut DOJ. like, GUT it

Been thinking a lot about this.

Fuck peace I want justice.

Which is what trans people told us would happen. Repeatedly. And the media kept allowing Republicans to frame the narrative. Some Dems even said they had a point. They started at trans kids because you don't care about them and they won't stop going after marginalized groups until we're all gone.

This is a really important piece from @joyurcaba.bsky.social. Most people think that the government's restrictions on health care for trans people was limited to minors (which has been the government's messaging). It's not, and people need to know about it.

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

It’s wild to live in a big swimming pool they’re filling with concrete because they don’t want black people to have anything that’s pretending to be a country

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

I think a few generations down it’ll be discussed the way the Tulsa race massacre is now.

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Also since 2023 the calculus for all of these states have fundamentally shifted, they view Israel as a regional destabilizing force and they see their own publics resurgent in their prioritization of the Palestinian plight.

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The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

The idea of winning votes by running candidates that appeal to bigotry is so obviously wrong-headed. A voter who is going to make their bigotry the priority is just going to vote for the most bigoted candidate. You win by differentiation, not by being the weaker version of an existing flavor.

If you back an anti-trans candidate that you *know* will kill trans kids, because you are anti-trans? Then you are an evil, broken person. But if you back an anti-trans candidate that you *know* will kill trans kids, not because you are anti-trans, but because you chose to save yourself? Worse.

The GOP caters to its base while Democrats despise theirs and would like a different base.

They murdered this girl, just like they hoped to. The people backing these laws have made it clear: they want the penalty for being trans to be death.

The worst part of Bluesky aside from the bigoted moderators is everyone constantly talking about being on Bluesky because of some guy who wants people to move back to Twitter.

The way the Israelis are talking about Lebanon is exactly how Russia talks about Ukraine but there are still US liberals who think that Israel is anything qualitatively different in scale or scope. The Israelis talk like they own everyone around them and have the right to bomb them as they please.

“A morally and emotionally normal person might be somewhat chastened by being told, to their face, in an official hearing, that they had caused a young woman’s death. Not so the British press. This, for them, was only the start.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

the antebellum south is as close to hell on earth as this country has ever gotten evil baked into every square inch of the place

Tangentially but related, if someone says ‘diversity of thought’ to you they fully intend to put you in a death camp

the tl;dr: iran won the war

BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE

This. They want American hegemony abroad and wealthy white supremacy at home. They just don't want to be embarrassed by Trump.