Mayve it's obvious to everyone else, but I just realized Black Lives Matter was America's "Arab Spring" - a social-media fueled popular uprising against domestic injustice. I think the envy of virality springs from frustration there isn't a popular front for technocratic domestic oppression.

And if we’re arguing this stuff doesn’t really count then I’d really like to know why it shouldn’t.

Elon Musk spent billions and billions of dollars to buy Twitter and immediately went about trying to prove Jack Dorsey was somehow illegally elevating the prominence of Black people.

I know I’d be better off if I just went ahead and attached “white” to these statements because the assumption is we all kind of know that’s what they mean but the idea the left can’t do viral politics has to stem from the idea that its somehow different when Black people do it or it’s not the left.

Yeah I saw someone say the left needs to get better at viral politics and you can’t really start to approach the concept without acknowledging how race works here and the very deliberate choice to run away from any association with Black people online, like…

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

It is vicious, vile, and nasty.

CNN: “Surely you don’t think a daycare should be unlocked.” SHIRLEY: “There should be a reception area.” CNN: “No, every day care is locked.” SHIRLEY: “Fair point.” 🤔 He shows up to a day care with masked men and wonders why they don’t let him in.

these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

Sir Idris Elba!

I remember being told that it was too soon to say that the same Trump that took out ads in the Times to advocate for the execution of innocent black teenagers in 1989 was an avowed racist. www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

I was trying to explain this video/song to my mother weeks ago.

I was a teen when we got cable and MTV. I remember my mother watched it once so she could "try to understand me." Lol. The one video she watched was Rock the Casbah by The Clash and she left the room saying "I don't get it." Still a banger

They want the most violent people they can find

is this sense making media

right wingers are trying to break into daycares in somali communities because they have become convinced they are all fake and are a part of a massive scheme that is stealing tax money from good hard working white people. they film themselves and are using their denial of entry as further proof.

There's certain kinds of people who believe democracy means that one's moral values should conform to popular opinion. This kind of attitude is anathema to democratic virtue. It's an abdication of responsibility to discern right from wrong. We need people with the courage to stand before the mob.

Every part of this is embarrassingly lame.

Remember what I’ve been telling you about Iowa? I’m there almost every month to speak to organizers. I see it. They see it. MAGA is in trouble.

"woke boyfriend, unwoke Trumpist girlfriend" is a fascinating subversion of the usual gender dynamics

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

With the new year coming, we’re approaching the midterms & in addition to flipping the House, it’s important that Democrats flip ME, NC & possibly OH without losing 1 seat for there to be any chance of flipping the Senate in 2028 & to make it possible for voters to elect a Democratic trifecta. 🧵 1️⃣/4️⃣

Did you notice he talks about the ballroom in the present tense, as if it’s done?

Ramblings from a president who cares more about his vanity projects than the economy. Trump claims his ballroom is “under budget” while he keeps raising the budget. He also insists “everyone wanted it.” Absolutely no one asked for it. The budget: • July: $200M • Oct: $250M • Oct $300M • Dec: $400M

The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.

Once again—unsurprisingly, but still meaningfully—President Donald Trump has gone out of his way to provide aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, at the expense of U.S. allies, U.S. foreign policy, and U.S. credibility in a fact-based world.

We can also assume that Russia was harvesting tons of kompromat on the big-mouthed Trump as he bragged about sidling up to one billionaire Russian oligarch after another in hopes of extending his real estate ventures there. “The Russian market is attractive to me,” he said at the time.

Feel like in more functional countries if a bunch of random dudes turned up to a daycare and demanded to see the children they would be immediately escorted to prison

It’s hard to fathom the tragedy of another Kennedy-this time Tatiana Schlossberg-dying at such a relatively young age But it’s unimaginable to comprehend what she felt, while cancer was stealing her life, as she watched her cousin cut research that might’ve saved other victims of malignant diseases

Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate seat, blocking GOP from reclaiming a supermajority thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Read the full article. Everyone should be asking themselves, why is it that the MSM is NOT talking about this....at all.

Your kink is wielding privilege like a weapon, because you have the luxury to do so. How nice it must be for you to live in a world where that is an option. 😉

A pragmatist understands that PROTECTION of Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Women’s Rights, The Department of Education, The Department of Health, SNAP, Healthcare, and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives are vastly more important than the childish dopamine rush need to be excited.

Trumpsters claiming they voted for his economic policies remind me of when men would claim they read Playboy for the articles.

The story, time and again, is that gains are broad and small and losses are localized and deep. There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

This is how you do it folks

Florida trying to make their laws into one of my favorite comics.

RIP senator.

I absolutely cannot imagine a worse outcome than Trump back slapping and trying to pardon Netanyahu for a littany war crimes.

Pedialyte tastes like sweetened ear wax and Ensure tastes like punishment in liquid form. But do you know what they do really well? Keep people alive. Years ago, I interviewed a woman who had undiagnosed TB while pregnant and she could not swallow and Ensure helped her and her fetus stay alive.

One of the things that's wild about MAHA on social media is they're also vilifying Pedialyte and Ensure. So not only do they want you to not do anything that can stop you from getting sick (masking, vaccinating) they also don't want you to effectively treat yourself once you are sick.

This WH apparently also incapable of googling “Is there a senate race next year in Minnesota?”

Endless lies 🤥

“They won’t vote for women- especially minority women-so let’s not run one“ will always be stupid fucking weak sauce. And has no place under a tent that claims to stand for equity and equality. They’ve already won if 2 losses is all it takes to have you send us back to the kitchen.

Pleasure Principle- Ms. Janet

Since I dumped some really bad news on y'all I wanna tell you about the other side of social media. It's children of anti-vaxxers turning 18 and filming themselves getting vaxxed.