The brunchlord establishment press hates progressives (especially female) exponentially more than fascism and it's simply not subtle

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

The Press Secretary confirms: Donald Trump posted the racist video of the Obamas.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Managed to drop an Ash Wednesday post before I ran out of Ash Wednesday. This is about death and about why it's good to think about death. It's also kind of about living under fascism. open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

I am going to have to stay up late 😠

Whether it's slighting Mark Milley by an unprecedented attempt to block the promotion of an officer who served under him, or re-re-relitigating the 2020 election, everything in this administration is petty retribution.

This genuinely isn't a dunk on this person, the thing that is the hardest to explain to people is that the IRS does not operate on a 21st century timescale, and it is many billions and billions of dollars in investment from getting there. I'm very worried this year about the IRS not issuing checks

Two years ago several hundred people got really mad at me because I pointed out that thrift stores exist to fund the charities that run them, not to give people access to cool clothes for cheap.

Lol

"FCC Chair Brendan Carr's theory is that giving airtime to Talarico and not his rivals violates the Federal Communications Act’s Equal Time Rule. But that’s not what the law says … at all."

long time no fish

Given the recent discourse about what Dems should focus on, there’s stuff like this that almost no one brings up and would actually win over voters on both sides.

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

Marco Rubio leading the fight to make sure the whole world has access to hate groups and child porn www.joemygod.com/2026/02/stat...

(1) they had prisons (2) the criminal justice she's describing is torture. When Foucault says that the modern system replaced the early modern one, YOU ARE INTENDED TO TAKE AS WRITTEN THAT ITS AN IMPROVEMENT

Its really quite a tell to refer to what was going on in 1500s France (& Europe more broadly) euphemistically as "criminal justice" rather than what it actually was: a period of time so famously brutal that Foucault notes in Discipline & Punish that penitentiaries were pitched as a *humane reform*

Starting to wonder what planet these folks live on, because there's a long list of stuff they keep claiming you need to show ID to do (check out a library book; stay at a hotel) that everyone knows you... don't need to do that for.

right like, we keep yelling at AOC when the fucking pan-blues are basically like "i like Russia and the PRC :3" absolutely insane behavior tbh

I would simply eliminate prison by (checks notes) executing everyone convicted of a crime.

The official US policy over Taiwan is about as comprehensible as the Schleswig-Holstein Question was. To misquote Palmerston, only three people have ever understood it, Richard Nixon, who is dead, a Chinese professor, who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten.

the vaccine rollout was the most effective campaign for the public good our government had overseen in years, and no politician will ever be motivated to do such a thing again. absolutely zero political reward for it

The other batsh*t insane thing is that we *had* an informal confederation built around "western civilization," one made through the defeat of Nazism and the containment of Marxist-Leninism. It worked! What made it durable was the liberal internationalist ideas and institutions, *not* the racism.

Children have spent more time in prison than the child abusers named in the Epstein Files.

Absolutely stunning

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision. After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

Because the mainstream media's focus is fundamentally on Democratic factional politics, rather than national politics. Everything is about fights within the blue coalition, as opposed to, you know, the red coalition that actually wields power.

Dawg how is this a 3 days news cycle?

I think we should relitigate the 1984 Coal Miners Strike.

*Taps sign.

I remember watching “The Karen Carpenter Story” in middle school. That was in the very early 2000s.

Somehow I have the feeling that poor people, men, women, and children, wouldn’t make the cut to get into a boat in Eric’s world.

But Ellie, have you ever considered that girls are icky and have cooties? I bet not! Checkmate shitlib!!!!!!!!!!

Is it really any wonder that Hasan (and commies like him), who had been loudly shitting on the non-fascists during the "Fascist Are Coming" election, and who backtracked to a half-hearted "vote Dem" as late as he could, is now trying to set up a hypothetical where his ratfucking was virtuous

Brantford Municipal Railway #128 during the 1940s. This photo was taken by Jack Knowles.

Whether it's Trump planning to use secret police to suppress the Democratic vote in the 2026 election or Zohran Mamdani planning to open up a couple city-run grocery stores in Manhattan, both men are threatening the integrity of our democracy.

activists took the bait by debating the object level positions and some electeds took the bait by giving rhetorical ground to appear moderate but you don't have to fight on their terms, this has been a problem across a lot of Democratic politics for a while

i once confronted one of these people at a public event with direct evidence that "gender surgery for minors" isn't a thing that happens and it made no impact.

something that happened all too much on the left with everybody from activists all the way to politicians is allowing Republicans to choose the battleground

how dare you, Tolkien never wrote a prequel in his life, just accidental sequels which actually got published before he went back and rewrote the unfinished original stories for the seventeenth time

Your biggest concern re elections should just be people voting for Republicans. After that, probably gerrymandering. After that, GOP legal challenges to throw out votes based on technicalities, like they tried in 2020, or seizing ballots and destroying the chain of custody to create uncertainty.

So a fun thing yesterday was letting people know about pretty major pro trans bills Newsom signed in CA and get told “well he stopped doing that after the Kirk podcast” and then after I show the the dates which disproves that it’s “they were veto proof he had to!” and yeah none of them “veto proof”

This child is in prison. He is a US citizen that has committed no crime, has not faced a jury of his peers and has not been charged with anything at all. He is 2 months old. In prison. He is 2 months old and in prison.

My @liberalcurrents.com essay on the “repeal the 19th” guys from last November www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

I will absolutely die on this hill: If you hand wave away mass death you are only about three steps away from endorsing shoving people into gas chambers.

Paul Ehrlich and the monstrous consequences of "The Population Bomb" style thinking are still very much with us.

The crunchy granola Khmer Rouge is real and it's literally running our national public health policy right the fuck now. These ppl were never harmless cranks--b/c they managed to keep whispering in the ears of gullible-on-this-topic tyrannical regimes--like the PRC. Or even more terrifyingly: MAGA.

Somewhat less absurdly tyrannical regimes were convinced to engage in forcible sterilization of the poor and disabled in order to prevent the 'population bomb' from going off. Degrowtherism, in all its forms, is a cancer upon our culture and our species. It ruins lives at scale and always has.