“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

ok yes they kidnapped a 5 year old, but have you seen their quotas? they can't afford to lose this job on the ground floor in the booming white nationalism industry

would it be possible to non-violently surround them, gently strip them naked, softly guide them into a trailer and lovingly haul them to the border of the next state, then sweetly deposit them there alongside all their clothes and gear in a tangled pile? i'm just asking questions here

when this pos finally dies i am begging you all, do not fall for the media tricks and conventional sentimentality. always remember that he was a used diaper of a man, a sex offender who was in actual fact a traitor and an illegitimate candidate who never should have made the ballot the second time.

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

congress should remove the president while it's still possible to do so. once he figures out it's coming he'll make it impossible and probably get a bunch of people killed, including and especially, umm.. congress

i'm still baffled the dilbert guy endorsed the most infamous real-life example of the pointy-haired boss for president

come on guys he'll be back, this is nothing a summer of dodging modern medicine and tanning his asshole while high on ayahuasca won't fix

Pam Bondi is going to announce tomorrow that Jerome Powell tried to ram Donald Trump with his car

well this is certainly a development

If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.

A reminder from Huffington Post that DHS and ICE have opened fire on unarmed civilians 16 times since Trump took office, killing 4 people. In every case, DHS claims that the victims "assaulted officers" and/or tried to ram them with cars. In every case, evidence proves they are lying. Every time.

”Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes... Families are torn apart: men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

Here’s the deal: ICE officers shouldn’t be allowed to carry firearms at all. If they find themselves in a potentially violent situation, they should retreat and call the local police to handle it.

rightwingers always call women “too emotional” but renee good states she’s not mad in a calm voice while the agitated emotional ICE agent unloads his gun umprompted and calls her a “fucking bitch” after she’s dead

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Blood and stuffies. Trump’s America.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

trying to think of the last time i saw so many reversals of fortune at the end of a football game, good lord these teams

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

I'm glad that Congress isn't alive to see this

2/ ~old jk is best jk~

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

welp i guess pour one out for the poor bastards who died defending their country from an unprovoked attack by american forces tonight. so much for refusing illegal orders!

Outlook for the new year ...

thought just occurred, is trump really an anomaly? would we have any way to know what kind of asshole millard fillmore (for example) truly was? without social media and the modern news cycle in play, all of his theoretical shitgibbonry just played to a room and is probably lost to the ages

the weirdest thing about the maga cult is their absolute insistence that Donald Trump is hot and fuckable

The epitome of misleading bullsh*t from the WH deputy press secretary. 👇 Getty Images link to a 2003 pic of the same event. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

Sorry, I didn’t get to any Christmas posts earlier. Here’s one.

just rename the country at this point

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

rest in peace, meathead. pretty good little director.

the thing about conservatives is they'll always stand in opposition to social progress - it's baked in. so they just delay the inevitable, and hurt people in the process. it's a backwards-looking ideology at its core, and often unthinkingly cruel (being generous here).

they've convinced me at this point, democracy doesn't work. at least not the bullshit version we're doing. a democracy that allows itself to legally be replaced by an autocracy is pretty useless.

makes more sense anyways share.google/0Q3pxAqJE2Op...

man they could sell it in the beer aisle, my job still won't let me have any

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

this reveals trump as a useful idiot to the real villains of our story, not that he's not a villain but he's too stupid to come up with any of this shit

dead horse, but what's to stop a state from redrawing its districts every couple of years to best protect whatever majority party seats are up in the next election? sure it could backfire when sentiment changes, but decrease that window enough and they can do the math to ensure a win.

Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to motorhead texxas jam '88 (counts as 5 honestly) rush beastie boys jon spencer blues explosion

apparently disney, or somebody, is working on 4k remasters of the originals right now. no special edition stuff, original 1977 crawl. the dream, essentially. i'm gonna assume the target is 2027 for obvious reasons.

maybe america was a mistake