This is one of those posts I think about a lot now. Especially on a day when the White House press secretary replied "your mom" to an earnest question about peace negotiations.

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Autism is not a disease, it is a description of a brain that processes information differently to the "average" brain. Eliminating autism necessitates eliminating autistic people, there cannot be a cure just as you cannot cure a personality. The only conclusion to his false problem is genocide.

The media framing around the current government's directive to demonize safe medications and otherize autistic/neurodivergent people sickens me. Headlines are all most people read, yet "coincidentally" headlines are always more charitable than the article. The media hates the disabled.

hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social that press conference a few weeks ago was great but what's up now

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today. by most liberal pundits

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

The media will not allow themselves to accurately diagnose the reasons for this political assassination, they will just directly contribute to the environment that fostered it and then condescend to the average American about morals and justice.

The media environment in the US has degraded so quickly. While Dowd's remarks weren't laudatory, they weren't crass or cheap. Compare this with the Fox News anchor suggesting *this morning* that we should murder ("involuntary lethal injection; just kill 'em") people experiencing mental health crises

Political violence is never okay unless you’re trying to break into the Capitol to murder the Vice President.

The Trump administration will deny emergency preparedness funds to cities and states boycotting Israel, which is heinous but unsurprising. The Trump admin literally wants its political enemies to die. The American Jewish Committee supports the Trump admin’s policy. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The New York Times goes both-sides with El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, raising doubts about whether he’s really an autocrat even though Bukele has described himself as the world’s “coolest dictator.” I think it’s clear that NYT is neutral on the question of democracy vs. dictatorship, even in the U.S.

If they were confused they would be kidnapping white citizens, they know who they are there to harm

they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know

David Hogg is cooking lately

President Trump's first bombing campaign against Iran was a great success. We have now discovered a new Iranian nuclear site: directly underneath a high school in Gaza City. by Benjamin Netanyahu

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

If the government is violently and illegitimately subduing protestors, not to mention additional harm, kidnapping, transit to a foreign concentration camp - it is an American obligation to resist this violence in kind and halt continued fascistic overreach by the criminals in power.

Metaphorically chiseling the most annoying parts of the statue of my life rn 😤

Good

“We need a Joe Rogan of the left” no we need climate Lenin

Elon Musk changing AI to do Holocaust Denialism is 100% what everyone was warning about. And it's only being caught because Elon Musk is a ham handed loser with no real talent. A competent person behind the scenes using AI to spread propaganda will be absolutely armageddon for truth as a whole.

When asked about the president's memecoin scam, if the Speaker of the House answers, "Well I don't know anything about the memecoin thing," will literally any journalist in the room PLEASE just say out loud, "Okay, but shouldn't you?"

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

I think AI is going to be incredibly harmful to people who are socially marginalized. It seems like some are becoming reliant on it to provide "authentic" human responses, hopefully something most can recognize as paradoxical on its face, but nevertheless appears to be a prevalent thought.

Democrats and Republicans are so equally evil and scummy that it really is embarrassing just observing so many people exhibit cult-like, emotive tribalism defending their preferred conman and criminal over one just as corrupt but in a slightly different flavour

Deciding to become an untrustworthy clinically insane hermit to avoid expectations

If there’s 1 thing that drives me crazy on left/liberal social media at large It’s self censorship to get more views Call people Nazis Say Israel is committing a genocide Call Trump and the US government at large fascist. When we start using euphemisms to game the system, we sanitize the situation.

they’re going to try to start conversion therapy to double prong attack children that are autistic and transgender and it’s going to traumatize a new generation of kids in a way we aren’t ready for

Sending a harshly-worded letter to Satan asking he go easier on innocent unbaptized infants in Hell

Every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Every single one. They should never live that down. Yes, that includes Warren and Sanders and Booker. www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-...

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

"Food is expensive, buy eggs" NYT is dialed in

Wish I could volunteer to be in a coma for research or something

In Gaza, World Central Kitchen @wck.org is among the last organizations still able to cook meals. The IDF has shut all crossings to shipments, including humanitarian relief. We are now nearing the end of our supplies—and the limits of what’s possible. mailchi.mp/wck/4-23-25-...

this is what slave labor camps look like

Trump disobeying the supreme court is hardly the biggest issue with him throwing innocent people in concentration camps in a foreign country, but whatever makes the suits actually care about human lives I guess Good to know no one would care if it were "legal"

given the blatant human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, the most moderate position from the democratic party in this moment should be that they prosecute and lock up the entire trump administration and heavily sanction el salvador

The two faces of the neoliberal death machine: polite and deft or lunatic and naked. Both are as twisted and deformed as the human condition gets.