I’m going to say something abt domestic abuse that I think applies to our current situation: Abuse increases when the abuser feels they are losing their control. Also, here is the Power and Control Wheel.

Context: Straight men often think of the process of gaining a life partner as employee headhunting (while today’s women are largely looking for a IRL partner). Think how many companies lie when recruiting about how employee happiness & fairness is their core value? That’s 21st century dating

"Choose better"

Gee, I can’t wait to see article after article in mainstream press breathlessly reporting how hurt and wounded the poor men feel when the women break up with them after they “come out” as conservative… Sigh.

To show their support for the Second Amendment, everyone stood behind bulletproof glass—after going through metal detectors and a full TSA-style fondling.

Other countries have safety nets. The US has women. Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net. Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Yeah, the calculated insincerity from people who clearly don't believe in anything other than power is the worst part of evangelical culture, and what drove me away before I ever reevaluated what I'd been taught, and they've all turned the performance up to 11 in a nauseating way.

I spent a good chunk of time in this pep rally for Jesus evangelical realm and it was exactly these shiny plastic people (five points to anyone who gets the reference) that drove me out, honestly. If you're going to lie, at least have the decency to be good at it.

This is what we risk when we fail to make student loans forgivable and when we fail to make college degrees free for all.

Some pundits have argued that we can solve the "boy problem" by persuading more men to go into fields like social work and teaching. But I'd argue--they ignore the systems (and politics) that benefit from persuading men to skip college for the promise of high-paying, high-esteem "enforcer" jobs.

Fascisms also look to men to be the state's enforcers. And I'd argue that they persuade men to fill those roles by making jobs in law enforcement, military, and corrections the best path to security and esteem for men without college degrees.

Let's get ready to GRIEEEVE!

Yep I genuinely felt for her at first, just on a human level. But she spent down that grace REAL fast. The unvarnished opportunism is really something to behold

Notice how none of his family or friends spoke at the memorial.

It’s like a watergate level scandal every six hours plus he’s just straight up bombing boats full of civilians every few days

A single bullet strikes and kills someone and this nations is apparently shaken to its core. Yet, thousands, literally, have obliterated our children, and all we ever hear are, ‘thoughts and prayers’, which is now American slang for tuff shit. Doesn’t make sense.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Fascism is just domestic abuse on a national scale

beneath the bravado of evil there’s *always* a shrill, panicked undertone. the louder evil boasts about its dominance, the more weak and frightened it sounds. because evil knows it has already lost and is doomed to vanish. all that shrieking at the podium today? the cry of the Eternally Defeated.

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Nazi bar. Inviting foxes to the henhouse just makes it a fox house, not an expanded tent.

"which is much better run now that Kash Patel is in charge" 😂

“An order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink” Indeed. Known by all. … cults are weird.

They need to start suing over this stuff. But the party that fear mongers about "false accusations" when women & children are raped are fine with false accusations from conservatives feigning "persecution."

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Earlier I saw a post on FB that made a joke about the Kirk hysterics & some MAGA replied with a meme making fun of Kimmel that was supposed to own the libs, I guess. Conservatives really struggle with the difference between cult of personality vs principles.

ezra klein once again demonstrating that cis men are extremely eager to propose "solutions" to authoritarianism where everyone except them is subject to authoritarianism and they get to be the authorities

These 95 won't fight for any of you. Remember their names. They voted to honor a man who said Black people were better off during segregation and Islam is the sword used by the left to slit the throat of Western civilization. Primary them, cull the party, support and elevate the fighters.

Yep, that's a big thing I'll point out to anyone crying about 'male loneliness' or the like...that it's self-imposed. If you even look back at black 'n white photos, people were (seemingly) far more ok with casual contact, and showing affection...Then the whole 'gay panic' hit...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

We have far more disengaged lean D people who are erratic voters than potential swing voters, and this kind of pandering to moderate Rs around social issues is what keeps them disengaged and suppresses turnout.

This is the lesson the DNC never learned from the GOP co-opting the Tea Party in the early 2000s, which has directly lead to the Republicans' stranglehold on our government. I'll say it again: Insisting on staying in the Center is meaningless if the Center is constantly dragged further Right.

Frankly at this point, this stuff needs to be the longest, loudest, sharpest running joke in the history of showbiz. It should be considered the mark of a quisling not to include a Kirk bit in your set. I'm being hyperbolic but only a little

All these nazis ever wanted was to make the rest of us take them seriously and treat them with respect. Nothing rattles and throws them off their game more than being laughed at. THAT is what the Kirk censorship is about, especially the attack on Kimmel.

will mark facebook, sundar google and tim apple be adding this to the calendar reminders

1/? People of a certain age will remember this. Phil Donahue interviewed Farrakhan. Mike Wallace interviewed Farrakhan. There was not a single murmur of cancelling their shows. Arsenio decided to interview Farrakhan and was told him if he did so, he would lose the Arsenio Hall Show.

Let's say he didn't murder and dismember her, he's at minimum a pedo. She was 11 when they started talking and 13 when confirmed together.

Women get a cat or a dog because petting them releases oxytocin. They don’t commit rape or mass shootings. The himpathy here is disturbing

This was aimed at parents so I'm not so much criticizing it as the general rhetoric bc I constantly hear men are "touch starved" & the solution is always sex. It's yet another weapon entitled men have hijacked to shame women into service. But here's the thing: women/girls are touch-starved too. 1/

If you only read one piece today about how wrong Ezra Klein is when he claims Kirk did politics the right way, make it this piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates where he asks: “If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

That Kirk did not “I hereby advocate for the stoning of gays to death" is a distinction without a difference – unless, like Kirk, you’re a liar. In that case, the distinction between saying what you’re saying and not saying what you’re saying is important. If that collapses, so does your deception.

JK Rowling's descent in to ultimate villain status is at the "she can't stop quoting Hitler" stage I see. Even Cruella DeVille wasn't whacking out Hitler's bangers when she tried to make what would have been an absolute slay of a coat.

Yeah this and, again, among other things, Kirk was deliberately picking fights he thought he could win; in the rare instances where he permitted an argument with someone who knew what they were in about, he got his ass fucking handed to him and never spoke about it again.

This is whatvtrump had to say about domestic violence just days ago

A lot of people are about to learn that the republicans were never exaggerating When these people are abhorrent or unconscionable, they mean it. Furthermore: I’ll be using platforms like this the same way I use Facebook because I don’t know how much longer they are going to let me keep my page

They were already declaring civil war after cynically & opportunistically pretending to care about Iryna Zarutska because she was white, young, & conventionally attractive. Kirk just became a better excuse. They don't care about either.

I wish I could believe this dude blatantly lying to congress under oath in a seeming effort to memory hole *Jeffrey Epstein's As A Whole* would matter even a little bit at all. I mean… the sheer fucking temerity to claim there's "There is no credible information" of Epstein trafficking children… jfc