I'm surprised NBC hasn't been forced to fire this journalist yet

After years of hearing about the U.K. having abolished slavery earlier than the US, I’m somehow only now learning about “blackbirding.” I guess that’s the answer to how you “build an empire” like that “without” slavery. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbi...

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

not enough money to protect Ukraine's democracy but plenty to bail out this crypto dork after he tanked his economy

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

In reality, despite the manner of his death, Kirk was a hate monger, an absolutely vicious misogynist, and a conspirator against American democracy. Let’s not sell tickets to his “spiritual journey.”

"From 1974 to 1980, Duke was an active leader of a community organization he founded that championed the power of dialogue and debate."

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Happy autumn equinox everyone!!🕊️💚

Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Sometimes I think about how Mitch McConnell said he voted not to impeach Trump over the coup because it was the purview of criminal courts and that SCOTUS later gave him immunity from prosecution claiming it’s the purview of Congress through impeachment.

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?” - Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1

Things *are* bad, and we should be honest about that - but that includes being honest about the good stuff as well. We are far from hopeless. The fascists are incompetent morons and also extraordinarily unpopular, and getting more unpopular by the day. More people are moving left, too.

rewatching the new Superman and so happy Gunn has decided to fully embrace the insanity of the DC Comics universe

Music Time

@geekwithabook.bsky.social if you've written about the flavor/color/orgasm experience, I'm intrigued

same

Schumer and Jeffries have a chance now to stop going along with it i really hope they don’t fuck this up

the federal and many state governments are in the hands of the worst people imaginable and we have to face that reality

fireworks, as it turned out

"Cursèd are the poor" - Jesus, probably

He was a hateful freak at his dad’s funeral too. And his brother’s. Just an impossibly horrible person in every way.

please be aware that if you throw their own munitions back at them the cops think you deserve to die

"About 20 officers marched toward the protesters, a cloud of smoke obscuring them. They threw a flash bang grenade at the crowd while agents on the roof fired pepper balls. One demonstrator volleyed a flash bang back at the officers while ... fireworks ignited in the middle of the street."

Music Time Tim Curry Appreciation a truly iconic performance for the ages

it isn't punishment it's torture

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Yes this level of frothing Christofascist zealotry is alarming, but please let's keep in perspective that they want to base a thousand-year reich on *checks notes* Turning Point USA

These are federal government officials

Martyrdom, spiritual warfare, Kirk as a 13th disciple - the sacralisation of Kirk is being pushed extremely hard. calls for TPUSA to exist for „eternity“ make this memorial into an eerie mix of a propaganda event, MAGA rally, religious revival and memorial. Now, Stephen Miller goes on stage.

Trump & several cabinet members have been announced to speak, including the VP, Director of National Intelligence, RFK Jr., Rubio, Hegseth, as well as the president's chief & deputy chief of staff- staggering considering Kirk was neither an elected official nor a member of this administration.

Wow, great reporting out. These people are scary crazy.

Stumbled upon an artist's studio today while trying to find a yard sale and their work is so incredible. www.instagram.com/campagnabron...

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

domestic terrorists

Brett Kavanaugh's imagination v. reality, a potentially infinite series:

I was going to say

Remember when Republicans spent years complaining about the fact that some people mentioned politics at Paul Wellstone's memorial service? nypost.com/2002/11/01/a...

#uglydogs This is a thing? Crocs for dogs? www.crocs.com/p/pet-crocs-...

"America's first toddler president" is SO accurate and covers SO much of his dysregulated behavior

you guys

Trump isn't a President, he's a mob boss

In normal times, the President presides over all of us. President of the US. Not President of the people who I like. This? He has unpresidented himself.

The Self-Propelled Stones

The Velvet Bullet Train

This absolutely should be DC cannon youtube.com/shorts/JsGSr...

"They're trying to show domination." "They're trying to terrify people out of standing up and they're trying to, kind of, show this model of government where they attack and dominate us and we submit — and we're just not going to do that." "We can't." #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Living through the creation of MAGA Horst Wessel in real time is Fucked. Up.