conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

And I’m going to sound like a bit of a broken record on this as well, but the refusal of Republicans in Congress to act to stop this usurpation of our constitutional order makes them just as responsible for this as Trump.

Get in loser, we're doing 2017 takes

Journalists need to quote this verbatim. Don’t sanewash it. Make white evangelicals and conservative Catholics have to hear what the person they voted for is saying on their behalf.

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

It's all just paternalistic shaming, coupled with the widespread belief that those in poverty or receiving benefits are of the Undeserving class and therefore must suffer institutional indignity with a "please and thank you". Oversight of this new rule will also just burn through money better spent

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

Everybody treats him as if he's a Make-a-Wish kid.

Don't read PinkNews. Don't click or share their posts If they want reporter free news it can be consumed by a reader-free audience

Yes, believe women. But men need to start speaking up about other men's bad behavior in ways that are startlingly unusual katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

While Republican politicians around the country are helping TPUSA set up student groups in public schools, the guy who hosted TPUSA’s alternative halftime show and who frequently appeared with Charlie Kirk on his podcast is repping McCarthyism 2.0.

Anyone else find it weird that despite not talking much about Iran a few weeks ago political leaders are suddenly trying to convince us they pose the biggest domestic terrorist threat?

In 2026, America has entered into a Golden Age... for one person and his cronies

Reminded of @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's book "One Nation Under God" and the concerted effort by conservatives to neutralize and reverse the spread of the social gospel and New Deal programs in the early 20th century.

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

A recent Atlantic column claimed society is allegedly "transing" effeminate boys. For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote a rebuttal using my own experience as a young, closeted trans girl. xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

This is what they mean when they say shit like "suicidal empathy." It's just bloodlust. Not patriotism or deft military strategy. Just thuggery on a global scale.

“When Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by DHS, people on the right quickly memed their deaths to glorify state violence against the left. Again, their bodies, and the manipulations thereof, serve as the primary object on which to enact politics.” www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

No point in pretending anymore he just says it out loud: "die for Israel"

DO NOT COMPLY. DO NOT OUT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE CHILDREN

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

I just left a classified briefing with the Trump Administration about the war in Iran. I was worried before, but I’m more worried now.

Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity. This is transphobia.

if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately

Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!

I've never clicked a link so quickly Great conversation

The war on Iran & the war on immigrants aren’t different stories— wars justify investments in technologies of violence, create a foreign threat that manufactures consent for the abrogation of domestic rights. See: “War on Terror” that killed millions & in whose shadow DHS was formed.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

"I'm always wary of being like, what does Trump think? I'm not sure that Trump thinks in these terms. I think he mainly just wants to be able to act with impunity and steal money." Listen to @jamellebouie.net today with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com talking about the State of the Union

Trump & Co have been talking about US military action for weeks, if not months, and positioning the assets to do it - long before such intelligence ever could have become a factor. This is transparent nonsense.

Excited for this conversation with @jamellebouie.net and @lkatfield.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/live/-5-mGzH...

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

So, it was Iran? Not China? Not Venezuela? Not the radical left? We are living inside the minute-by-minute delusions of a madman.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

it's also revealing that we're attacking a country to "liberate" it while we're abducting refugees to put into concentration camps

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

I really can't emphasize enough that you are a complete freak if you care about Boy Scout genitals

The reason they spew some much disinformation about kids transitioning is because, in reality, trans people existing doesn't impact your life at all. Not. At. All. So they lie, as Trump did in his State of the Union, to make you scared and angry. Just leave trans people the fuck alone.

@adamconover.net has a terrific podcast, and I don't say that just because I'm on it this week. Adam is the polymath of comedians. It's a pleasure to talk to him about trans issues. He's so well informed, one doesn't have to retread the usual talking points, so the conversation goes further.

What they're afraid of is young people taking certain courses as electives and it having a lasting impact. The humanities, arguably uniquely, are about skills, ideas, and dispositions that are transferable across disciplines and in one's life. Shrink the possible and you foreclose change.

The Party of Lincoln now believes in a government of the predators, by the predators, and for the predators

The state of the union is jesus fucking christ www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...