Voters don't want cruel right-wing policies from nice liberals. Voters hardly even want cruel right wing policies from cruel right wingers. They want nice policies as a rule, with the confidence that if they need somebody to be a cruel bastard, the right winger has that in them

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Dems are now overperforming the 2024 lean of red districts by, uh, 30+ points in special elections I’m not sure “apocalyptic” is sufficient to describe how the environment is starting to look for the GOP in November

what, like the five year old US citizens in Liam’s class who will miss their friend? sure, let’s think about those citizens and stop trying to teach them how cruel the world is when they’re in preschool

Bad Bunny at the halftime show demonstrates not controversy, but the fact that this country is now a pluralistic modern nation containing vast cultural diversity, achieved through heroic effort against a flank of confederate-sympathizing bigots who are the most coddled little babies of all time.

The fact that MAGA is pissed about Bad Bunny in the halftime show should be presented as an uncomplicated positive. "Not only is he hugely popular with the majority of mainstream U.S. audiences, he's also made ignorant bigots as angry and excluded as we would always hope to make them feel."

You can be one of the most popular figures on the cultural landscape and it won't matter; if white racists don't like you, you're controversial and polarizing. White racists are meanwhile never framed as divisive or polarizing, no, they're always "concerned" or "anxious."

The degree to which legacy media starts with the premise that white racists and badly-socialized men are the default heroes of the American story is extraordinary. bsky.app/profile/jens...

This headline and framing illustrates the underlying racism and fascist sympathies of those who run and manage The Washington Post, whether or not the article itself manages to be more even-handed.

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

none of us are free until we are all free

Portland, OR mayor Keith Wilson responding to public demands that ICE's land use permit be rescinded after they gassed thousands of peaceful men women and children. Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?

This survey is conducted every year, so you can see how much worse things have gotten under Trump too. A sampling below; again, morale tanked even before the recent killings of protesters:

Note that these data *predate* killings of protesters in Minneapolis. They're from the Partnership for Public Service’s proprietary Public Service Viewpoint Survey, which was made available to all federal employees Nov. 10 to Dec. 19, 2025.

What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning. *21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity. *Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution

Somewhere among you is a young person with the potential to be the next James Baldwin, but they are now online writing: "Is cortisol-maxxing via monk mode more EV than SMV chadfishing while mogging moids in mixed-use nightlife zones?"

Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now: "Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"

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One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

Think about all that could have been avoided if you all had just listened to trans people and took their wellbeing seriously? www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

Like if you're going to fire all your good journalists in the pursuit of engagement metrics at least be good at viral entertainment? But they're not good at that either. They're not good at journalism, they're not good at agitprop, and they're not good at entertainment. they're just losers

the other funny thing is that people like Bezos and Weiss talk as if they're analytics wizards, but then they'll throw gobs of cash at pseudo-intellectual brunchlord cack nobody asked for and nobody actually wants

"if people click on it, it must be of value" is how you get TV shows like fuckboy island

Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror. It's up to us. Just us.

the one tiny silver lining, such that it is, of Bezos’ obliteration of the Post is that these editorials have no ability to influence anything beyond online disgust and outrage there is no agenda-setting power left in anonymous editorials issued from a smoking crater

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OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.

This is a 1:1 to how many North American indigenous communities in the 19th century were wiped out.

One way in which Israeli settler colonialism very closely matches that of North America's is the way in which the "frontier-settler" has a de facto alliance with the army. The army allows settler violence to happen and in many cases actively supports it, without official policy needing to say so.

Call me a filthy commie but I think if we're going to have a carceral legal system it's probably more important to prosecute the child sexual predators and murderous fascist goons than kids who shoplifted, and if we're doing the opposite maybe we're doing everything wrong Just a thought

Hiring the guy who torched Tumblr as the Washington Post CEO is one of the more blatant examples of how failure is a feature of the role. Not only can C suite people fuck up on a massive scale with no consequences, there is strategic value in dropping a fuckup into a role like that

Imagine all of the talented and storied journalists and publishers out there right now, more than a few of them out of work due to media consolidation. And instead of picking one of them to run the Washington Post ... YOU PICK THE EX-CEO OF FUCKING TUMBLR WHAT IS EVEN THE FUCK

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

We got the beginnings of a nightmare blunt rotation

“Renee and I chose kindness. We believed that every life deserves the same care, treatment, and dignity, no matter who they are or what they look like... That shouldn’t be radical. If it is, then I want Renee and our family to be known for how we practiced radical kindness every day.”

Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/