This is why removing Trump won't get us back to "normal". Even if we reversed GOP abuses enacted during his administrations, for many people "normal" was already wildly unfair and dangerous to their existence. It's just worse now. And the Gang of Putin really likes that.

Can it host an index of regime sycophants, documentation of their many crimes, and culminate in a partnership with Anonymous to hack, host, and publicize the unredacted kompromat that led each individual to fall in line? A Nuremberg prosecutorial playbook, if you will.

Everyone should read this and know what Palantir does and who its leaders are. NZ should NEVER have allowed Thiel to buy citizenship. Rod Drury and Xero have a lot to answer for. They threw open the door for the next Hitler. We already had enough of our own to deal with. #nzpol

Magyar is a conservative, correct? So I get that we're excited to have ousted the overt fascist but fascism is cultivated in conservatism. I'm reserving judgement until we see what happens in policy. And I'm very worried about what happens to underrepresented Hungarians now.

Please stop telling me you want a businessperson in that elected position. Here's why... 🧵

...God DAMN this is good.

There's a Ruru outside my window, and I'll never not love hearing it.

The GOP is excellent at exactly two things: 1. Growing the wealth of the rich by stealing from the rest of us. 2. Convincing voters that somebody else is to blame.

And if you were repeating the line that there are “too many racists in Texas” for Crockett to win, you aren’t analyzing the problem. You’re helping maintain it. If you’re not willing to challenge racism, you’re assisting it. 4.

Why are people so incapable of understanding that "regime change" does not necessarily = "better". Poorly informed demand for 'change' without any framework for 'measurably better' is what dragged NZ to a right wing government whose only goal is to help the wealthy fleece the majority.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

But Crockett supporters are the ones who are racializing the campaign? Deeply unserious. Whether y'all are ready to accept it or not, you are in a war against racist. Many of the strongest leaders in this war, are Black women. Crockett was speaking with conviction while others were mealy mouthed.

This. This is why I'm terrified that people just want to get back to 'normal'. That they might settle for that. It was always broken. We need nothing less than revolution. Restructure our country, every system, bottom-to-top. For the people. Not the billionaires.

It’s sad to see people protest America at the Olympics. It’s sad, and also I’m grateful. You are good neighbors, holding us to account. I’m sorry we can’t be good neighbors right now — we have been before and I think we will be again but right now we’re lost.

Decontaminate HHS Dismiss and prosecute RFK Jr. Deliver science-based medical policy

Remember in 2018 when @aoc.bsky.social campaigned on abolishing ICE and people thought she was crazy? I think about how right she was twenty times a day. www.instagram.com/p/BhPhihgFZMe/

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I’m not going to lie. I’ve been writing about the War on Terror in its depravity my whole adult life. And the brazen execution of Renee Nicole Good has left me in a state since the moment I watched it.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

I'm a single issue voter and this is it.

The US didn't win the Cold War. Russia pivoted from missiles to information warfare and bided its time, while the United States trashed its own societal systems; minimizing funding for education and enabling rampant disinformation, to chase a warped definition of 'freedom'. This is the outcome.

Kiwis: there's going to be a really long list of shit we need to do if we want to avoid American carnage. Showing up to demand better for our community from the evil shitkickers in government is top of the list.

I’m not anti-wealth. I grew up poor and wish it on no one. What I, and most Americans, take issue with is a handful of people holding SO much wealth while Americans go bankrupt if they get cancer and working class people struggle to get by every month. It’s greed.

The outcome of a system is its intent. When you work for 30+ years to force a huge swath of the population onto the bones of its ass, you create the conditions that depress revolt because people are focused on basic survival: earning just enough money each week to pay for food and rent.

Fully expect next year's person of the year to be "mediocre white men" or "architects of the patriarchy". Is there an island we can plonk them on while we give matriarchy another shot? 🤔 It'll be the era of giving a shit about humanity.

Stealing money from you just powers a leaderboard for the ultra-wealthy. An ego trip with no other impact. Meanwhile, children go hungry, people die for lack of healthcare, basic education is out of reach and/or eroded in quality, and college is only for kids who already have every advantage.

Stepping off a pandemic flight from LAX to an empty AKL, getting to the tomokanga at customs, and bursting into tears at the relief that I'd gotten my family out of the madness of the US to safety, and we'd all get to see Mum before she died. Maybe not "charming", but I'll forever be grateful 💚

Or, make sure every veteran AND every American has those things, because we all need them and we all pay taxes for them. Then we can close *additional* gaps for vets, like retraining them as they leave the military to be ready for non-military jobs.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

OMG. I just remembered we used to unironically call the President of the United States "the leader of the free world". Can you imagine? Take that, Thursday productivity.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

More people need to understand this. I feel like I say it 50 times a day. Getting rid of Trump won't fix this. The entire system is broken. Burn it all down and start over: Of the people. By the people. For the people.

🇳🇿New Zealand devs make the best games (and you can buy them cheap rn) store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...

Related aside. My dad has been freaked out about car electronics since we stopped physically rolling down our windows. We have a curvy, sometimes icy, harborside road in my hometown and every so often someone slides in. Now I have these in our cars, hanging from the rear view mirror: resqme.com

This. 1000x this. If America is ever to crawl out of this hole then Americans must abandon individualism and embrace community. Vote for, fight for, speak up for, and bodily defend, people other than themselves.

Serious question. Are there equivalent EU agencies who*don't* draw their recommendations from US agencies that can fill the gap for us all?

A Vietnam Veteran came up to me afterwards and thanked me for coming and then took my arm and said, “You are going to have to tell them the truth. You know the truth. We have to be in the streets.” I don’t disagree. To the streets. jesspiper.substack.com/p/you-are-go...

We could have had her... but there's nothing quite like American hatred.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Andreessen does not care about white working class students or white middle class students. He cares about power, and he's using racism and division to maintain his.

Regular Americans do all the work, generating all the business success, and yet the very few in power - the rich and the corrupt - take it and leave most people struggling. It is long past time for us to stop being "obedient civil servants". (Page is from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social)

Leopards... Faces... As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.” How does anyone still say 'but he said only criminals' when talking about their vote/support for a proven pathological liar...?

Age distribution of NYC mayoral election www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/n...

Meta will pocket $15 billion from one new tax break in Trump's budget. That is more money than the federal government spends annually on childcare. Trump's budget is filled with tax breaks for wealthy corporations while screwing over American families. It's disgusting.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social won my respect the first time he hit my feed. He's an unequivocal inspiration. I hadn't heard of @bradlander.bsky.social before the cross endorsement but I'm a huge fan now. This race has made me believe in "by the people, for the people" again. Bring it home, NYC!

The United States is in desperate need of a major new party: The People's Party. One which has the wellbeing of humanity at its core. A party with values built around wellbeing and simple clear policies to deliver on that goal.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

This was never about science or proper medical care. Here's a list of major medical authorities supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth: (thread)

Gotta love all these cops who whined about "my rights" and "can't breathe wearing a mask" during a global pandemic that killed a million Americans, who can suddenly wear a mask without problems to hide their identities while violating our constitutional rights and committing crimes against humanity.