He doesn’t watch what he reposts, is the thing. He sees a video with his daughter in law and himself, assumes it will be praiseworthy, and reposts like a grandma sharing recipe links on Facebook. It’s a sign of technological illiteracy, not dementia.

'there's no such thing as rape in our town' tends to be the kind of thing that means there's a lot of rape in your town.

Portland doesn’t need the military. Portland has its own defenses.

Oh my god I’m a terrorist.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

I saved this the day after the election. It is aging terrifyingly well.

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

I was gonna say- they are not smart enough or skilled enough to pull a loyalty oath purge.

In 1839, at the start of the new Congress, the clerk of the House of Representatives, a Democrat, refused to seat five duly elected Whigs—thus giving control of the chamber to the Democrats. Next year, if the House is closely divided again, could Republicans attempt such a maneuver to keep control?

I'm convinced that the key to Clinton's success wasn't his "moderation", it was his charisma.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

President Bleach Injection has thoughts.

Even if I were still a conservative college student I’d have laughed this dork out of the state.

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to say you are…you aren’t.”

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

The meds I use to walk are rare, patented, are already twice the cost of my house payment, and manufactured in the EU. Guess I will pull my cane out of the back of my closet.

Look, I'm not wild about it either, but we need to defend James Comey as if he were our firstborn child, and a drooling, starving dire wolf is circling him in an open field.

The collapse of the American healthcare system looms.

I will give my life to elect the first Democrat to run for President who vows to rip this monstrosity out of the ground and imprison everyone, from donors to architects to painters, that participated in it.

if we can get him down into the 20s, we can start to really shatter MAGA into pieces.

The Seven Years War was illegally started by George Washington, who fired on a French fort without provocation. It sadly caused tensions later that blew up into the American Revolution, which was a problematic cause in itself.

the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books

Actually now I get why she’s cheating on him with Musk

The United States has benefitted more than any other country from the postwar order WE created, and I will forever be angry a bunch of ignorant rubes decided to smash the fine china to annoy the libs on TV. Everyone will be worse off in the new order. Everyone.

Throughout history, 99% of societies would not have tolerated a man named Beast who looks like this.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

There are two ways to eliminate autism in three years. The first is a “cure,” which does not exist….or another, darker implication.

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

I think about this quote all the time.

The slow breakup of the United States of America begins to accelerate.

I am not a “doomer”. What I am is someone who expected this fever to break a long, long time ago. And I do fear we underestimate how much worse it is going to get before it gets better, and the price that each of us is going to have to be willing to pay.

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

Had to happen. What a shitty timeline.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

My Mormon MAGA relatives are gonna be shocked after their queer relatives are rounded up and then the Trumpers come for Ensign Peak and the Mormon Church.

I do not know how we get out of this madness. I truly don’t. I am genuinely frightened for the future of my loved ones and my country.

Not just some random guy on the internet but a U.S. Senator saying this. Serious stuff.

I understand the principled argument against it, but at the end of the day, constitutional government is about checks and balances. And if you're not willing to check and balance other power-seekers when they start coloring outside the lines, everyone loses.

WALTER KOENIG. Happy Birthday to the original Mr. Chekov!! I’ve been fortunate to meet him on three occasions, and he has always been friendly but, more importantly, *genuine*… 1/

I don't know how to explain it but 3+2 feels more like 5 than 4+1

Governor Cox is a middle aged-alfalfa farmer. No shade to him, but of course he’s going to focus on the ‘fascist’ casing- it’s the one he understands.

i would posit that a society where even governors use the phrase "touch grass" in a public statement and expect to be understood cannot in fact log off. offline may as well be the lost garden of eden

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

I too was Mormon once.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Republican senators’ desire not to live amongst their unwashed constituents is so strong they would elect Trump King for life if it meant they get to serve as court eunuchs for one more day.

Brett Kavanaugh: cool