Americans, and certainly Americans who aren't actively doing things to structurally undermine Trumpism should not be berating non-Americans about Trumpism.

No one on the US right actually cares either way about Iran's nuclear program. Everyone else understands that, right?

Thin Mints are ick. Why are you brushing your teeth while eating your chocolate cookie? Those are two different steps.

Literally nothing but unavoidable material condition change is going to shift GOP behavior. You want them to change their "hearts and minds"? Build actual cities in their states.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

The President of the United States is publicly threatening to commit genocide. For love of country, for the freedoms we cherish and for the values we hold dear, the House must immediately reconvene and vote to impeach Donald Trump. Read my full statement: tonko.house.gov/news/documen...

Anyone in Congress who is not working frantically to stop this will share the responsibility for it.

it's kind of funny how people don't include uncapping the house as one of the reforms that would probably be worthwhile doing

Congress: Social media posts are not votes. Social media posts are not actions. Social media posts mean nothing unless you back them up with votes and actions.

The game electeds play where they pretend to powerlessly observe the actions of the government reveals how broken we are as a society. You're not some especially engaged Trader Joe's cashier connecting with a customer. You're in Congress. Tell us what you're doing about this.

No, for the millionth time, you can't make kids good by not teaching them facts.

So much this. Don't give me "Dems don't have power." They have power. They just haven't marshalled it.

The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us

TFW you are reminded that geographic illiteracy exists in many places. When you say "Korea" Americans are not at all the only ones who assume you mean the country with the current dictator.

People on Bluesky sometimes keep an eye on X and post screenshots of the insanity there. Nobody really posts screenshots of the radicalized normies on Threads declaring US societal collapse is now inevitable ...

term limits feel like a good way to toss the bastards out. but there are always more bastards waiting in the wings. there isn't any shortcut to people making better choices in democracy. trying to get around that generally just leads to worse outcomes.

Literacy is political. There is an illiteracy problem in the US. Every resident of the US is affected in some way. Every resident of the US may have an opinion on the problem.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Another day, another non-American baffled at US healthcare, gun policy, and homelessness.

Add 'impeach' to any sign you've got. "No Kings! Impeach." "Abolish ICE and Impeach." "No illegal war! Impeach." "Defend science. Impeach." Impeachment is a clear, actionable goal. Saying "no Kings" is fun but vague. We need to push for the *how.* P.S. Trump loathes & fears impeachment.

So it's being a dumb Yank to be opposed to the US going parliamentary because the GOP, the party of rump rurality and voter ID, would turn a parliamentary majority into autocracy at the first chance it got? Alright. I'm a dumb-dumb. 🤷‍♀️

Pro-rural politics is vulgar *something*. Vulgar Whitmanism, probably.

If there needs to be austerity after Trump (and yes, ok), then use that to get rid of employer-sponsored insurance. It needs to be done, it will be hard to do, so bundle it with the time of hard stuff. Gonna be a time of sacrifice, make the companies recalculate their political economy.

I always hate the whole "Freedom isn't Free" thing, but it's extra ridiculous when Republicans are saying it with regards to a war we started only because Trump backed out of the Iran nuclear deal. We literally did this to ourselves! We didn't have to start this war!

This maybe explains why he's doing war as opposed to building out Amtrak or whatever, & I guess if that's all someone wants explained ... ok. But for those who also care about "why *this* war?", "because he can" isn't an answer. He *can* in theory bomb Perú. He *can* invade Somalia. Why *Iran*?

This can't be fixed with just constitutional reform. Yes, the US needs constitutional reform. But the political movement driving all of this has social power; that needs to be challenged directly.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

I guess my three main questions for a 2028 Dem presidential candidate would be -Will you abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved -Will you prosecute Musk and the DOGE boys -Will you expand SCOTUS with the aim of neutralizing all Roberts-era jurisprudence

#Lent2026 #AshWednesday

contrast this to a year ago when there was very little anti-Trump messaging in public from anyone in a position of power or influence this is an big change and it does indicate his power over the elites - who have been much more deferential than society at large - is starting to wane

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Literal congenitally-poor spatial reasoning, in my case. The impatience came from the high school algebra teacher herself.

Someone has put up an Upwork job post looking for someone to write an anime fanfic for them. ... Yay for at least not using AI?

This is so good, and necessary, and maybe especially so for us liberal Trekkies (aka most Trekkies) heat-death.ghost.io/th-yesterday...

"News" (it's not surprising) that Vance has been booed at the Olympics reminds me how STRANGE it is that the MAGA talking point is "aCtuAlLy tHe wOrLd LoVeS tRuMp" and *not* "Yep, they hate us! It means we're doing something right! We hate them just as much or more, fuck yea!!" Why not be proud?

Will Stancil just used "three-cuing" as an insult for the tipping-point Trump voter, and I'm *cross* that I have no choice but to hand it to him.

Listened to @polphilpod.bsky.social's Fascism and Fiction ep and wished once again that there was a Star Trek series or movie *about* the period around the imagined Third World War & first contact itself, *about* the move from war/fascism to one world govt.! Right now it's a side show & hinted at.

Dems should demand a full ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis as a condition for any deal. Please, just give us this. Get them out

"Oh it's moral rot. Oh it's divine punishment." It's a social, material consequence of lack of urbanization and fetishizing the rural. Fetishization that these caterwailing people are doing at the same time in many cases.

I wish the US left would care about urbanization.

Obviously I disagree with some points here, but this article also says valuable things; there really is a fascist/"gangster" transnational movement: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Almost the entire planet is going to celebrate when It happens.

Folks. ⬇️

Bovino's out because he can be fired. How do we get Schumer out? He must still have majority support in the caucus. So, now what?

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.