trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.

People are sometimes surprised that Trump and other reactionary politicians don't have consistent policies. They shouldn't be. Reactionaries hate abstract systems and coherence. They don't understand NATO, USAID, public broadcasting, literature, or science. So these things must be destroyed.

These institutions and the global order they created were very far from perfect, but they were much better than what existed before. Unfortunately, their creators didn't realize that they needed to continue to advocate for institutions and to continue to reform them.

Someone ask him which wars he ended

who busts the ghostbusters

As actual “jackbooted government thugs” wage war on an American city, the people who spent decades warning about government tyranny aren’t just silent. They’re stoked. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/what-happe...

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

The trump era is like watching your new ship captain dump various engine parts overboard to make the boat run lighter

I wonder how freshly cracked pepper boyfriend is doing

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Oh my god

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Just rewatched Event Horizon at the theater. Still kicks ass

Every time someone makes a specific claim about alleged wasteful scientific research, it's either obvious bullshit, or not even a lot of money (the former in this case)

The old constitutional order is gone, and we should be straightforward about that. It’s becoming obvious that, whatever else is on the reconstruction agenda, ICE abolition must be included. For goodness’ sake, Bill Kristol is in favor of it. Can you really not get there? trib.al/rPjQYKp

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

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They hate us so much but we love each other more

I hope I live to see humanity look back at our vast parking lots with disgust This should be mandatory high school reading

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

Too many Americans support the grotesque evil of the admin, yes. The *majority* do not. Claiming that they do support this does nothing but further GOP talking points. Do not do free labor for evil.

to any politicians out there: the only metric by which i am deciding my votes in any future Democratic primary is how far they're willing to go in punishing this administration and i am far from the only one

Good statement here

Ahem, from 2014…

Hahahahhh bro lmao hahahah

The man who shot Renee Good is exactly the sort of person they want throughout DHS

People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents. But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

While theyre at it they should start issuing travel bans on american oligarchs, starting with Musk. "Keep nonces out of the commonwealth"

i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job." www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...

Theres a scene in Bob's Burgers where Bob proposes a rent strike and one of the other tenants says "hmm I dont think Mr Fishoeder is gonna like that" and thats how a lot of people sound when discussing politics

Post four TV couples you love (actual couples or intense yearning acceptable)

white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”

Fun fact: your local fire departments, EMS, and police are not required to provide services to federal buildings or lands except in rare cases when there is a specific written contract

ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time. This is performative authoritarianism. performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke. But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation. They lack the numbers to win.

So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m. So around 0.6% of the population. 0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million. They do not have enough goons.

incredibly clear to me that they released the video not because they necessarily think it shows the officers innocence, but because it shows two gay women confronting a man

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

They're literally doing the "Virgin Walk" meme

On a group chat I'm in someone shared a post by a rando saying (paraphrased) "I dont care about Venezuela, i care about the cost of groceries. Why aren't any dems talking about this!" and thats when I decided to (REDACTED)

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

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❤️ 34K wtf man

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

The period in question is historically regarded as "the Long Peace" and it represents the greatest rise in real living standards in human history. Of course MAGA hates it

Tag urself this is me

For the price of one of these you could convert a significant amount of grass to biome appropriate plants, and then you could probably stop watering it too

I'm going to elaborate on this, because holy shit, last night - thank you everyone who engaged in respectful back and forth, it felt like Plato's Republic in here lmao - I had a brain blast So, the problem: Caesar has come. He intend to end the republic. For the military, there are three "worlds"

Everybody has only one mode of reacting to everything now, and it's unbridled rage. Suboptimal, in my opinion.