ME: That's a lovely fairy house, Bubble. BUBBLE: *sigh* It's not a fairy HOUSE. ME: Oh? Then what—? BUBBLE: So you know how I've been obsessed with that book about polio, right? ME: So... it's—? BUBBLE: An isolation ward. ME: I see. BUBBLE: For fairies.

How is the GOP planning to attract young voters?

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.

everything about this article is so deeply American. exiling the truth teller, wanting to know the history but not too much, inability to come to terms with its own violent history. fam, this is as American as apple pie.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.

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Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

so far this week: DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps Opposition leaders detained illegally Opposition leaders indicted Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state military parade with tanks through US capital Red line here yet?

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

The administration's criminalization of Dem politicians for being Dem politicians is designed to produce exactly this outcome. Their celebration & pardon of white vigilantes is designed to produce exactly this outcome.

I would like to be wrong abt this. I would like for white conservatism to accept dissent & respect the rights & ideas of others. I would love to live in an actual democracy. Until we actually address the problem of chronic right wing lawlessness, however, all the rest is just wishful thinking.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

Don't forget it

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

ICE crossed a line in LA

As a western Washington and former Centralia resident this makes me SO happy.

There are moments with authoritarian takeovers where resistance is met with state power and violence in order to intimidate a population into compliance. What happens then literally defines everything. Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay focused.

The fascists are waging war. They see the fight in those terms. Liberals and progressives do not.

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

The right to bring a challenge to your custody to a neutral magistrate has survived in the common law with very few exceptions or exemptions for nine hundred years. Suspending it over a made-up "invasion" is not "controversial." The US media is just openly refusing to meet the moment at this point

The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed

If ICE wants to charge me with obstruction or aiding/abetting or whatever else just for doing my job no doubt they'll do that anyway but it does feel especially important right now for anyone reading this in the future to specifically state that I do not encourage or endorse violence of any kind

It is weird to watch everyone on TNG be like "LOL, Data you don't have emotions," when Data clearly demonstrates pride and delight in his special interests, and when Riker was going to use Q power to make him like everyone else, he was clearly afraid. Data, my brother, you're just autistic.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

This is such an obvious win for the city. It's not just one of the most pedestrian friendly streets in Seattle, it's one of the most miserable driving streets, even within the most miserable driving neighborhood, which is also the main hub of the regional transit system.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

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I'm CRYING he was speaking FRENCH

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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.