I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Spoiler alert: Making life livable reduces crime. popular.info/p/the-secret...

“Girls have been getting better grades than boys since before women had the right to vote.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Trump’s DOJ forced UVA President Jim Ryan to resign. Wesleyan President Michael Roth calls it what it is: an assault on academic freedom and a warning sign of tyranny. A must-read for anyone who cares about democracy:

Big news: We are searching for an assistant professor at our university! (He was last seen two days ago. Please share any tips with campus security).

Wow! I wouldn’t vote for him, but give me more of this please

This should be the top story in the WaPo and NYT but no mention. Human Rights Watch report on guards. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This Day in Labor History: July 20, 1885. The British crown gave royal assent to the Chinese Immigration Act in Canada, which placed a $50 tax on Chinese workers and which reinforced the general global oppression of migrating Chinese workers around the world at this time!!

“He’s a test case to push the envelope for legal immigrants that have committed no crime, to trump up charges against them,” GALEO’s Gonzales said. “And the second piece is how to target journalists.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's happening here.

Knowing the difference is the gap between democracy and autocracy. ‼️Share this if you believe critique is a form of patriotism.

The assaults on basic human decency will continue until morale improves.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

What @annepagano.bsky.social said

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.

They finally made the milk from that hotel

there are no atheists in foxholes. foxes worship satan

It’s not a crack house, it’s a crack home

Gotta be honest, the American Revolution was well on its way for a lot less than this

Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

Every single claim he makes here is a lie. Every single claim. He lies as he breathes.

This is utterly deranged

if Cuomo loses today and goes ahead with a 3rd party run in the general "No means no" as the counter message is right there

Mass deportation policy means NOT focusing resources on deporting the most-dangerous people, where the expected benefits (& costs) of deportation are high. It means using resources to deport productive, safe members of the community. This is cost without expected benefit. bsky.app/profile/chlo...

Donald Trump is the most powerful enemy of America's free speech rights in our country's history.

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex. I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

Math joke

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

PERFECT! then end of discussion: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Be truthful, not neutral

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Florida ready!

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

From the piece: "I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."

The Founders & our Constitution anticipated would-be tyrants & Mad Kings. What they did not anticipate was universally pervasive cowardice grounded in hyper-partisanship & a pathetically deep lack of personal character among a supermajority of our elected representatives.

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.