My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

If Trump can order the murder of people on boats without any accountability, he can order the murder of people on land without any accountability.

Guardrails are good and we should build and maintain them, but they guard against traffic that’s trying to drive correctly and messes up a little. The fundamental problem is you can’t build a guardrail that can withstand a tractor trailer loaded with bricks bearing straight down on it at 80mph.

You can make a 1984-style propaganda video, but it doesn’t mean people have to see it.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.

Nobel went with the anti-fascist, anti-cruelty nominee, as it should be.

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

The right’s Nobel obsession is useful because it is inexplicable as anything other than trying to make Trump personally happy. 95% of all Trumpworld obsessions have the same root (2020 election, James/Comey) but rarely is it so hard to retcon a justification for it.

After some thought, I'm actually *happy* about this, and here's why: When Animal Planet puts on their annual "Puppy Bowl" halftime event, and beats the everliving fuck out of these clowns in the Nielsen ratings, we'll be able to roast these assholes about it for the rest of eternity... 😈

It would be *extremely* funny if the Nobel committee just gave it to Obama again.

On Sept 28, a russian drone killed nurse Oksana Katerusha from the Kyiv cardiology institute. Following protocols, all patients and staff moved to the shelter when the air raid began. But one man's condition deteriorated there. Oksana took the risk & went upstairs to help & there both were killed.

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If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no. Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

It’s even less responsible for a Republican president to be starting one.

We’ve gone from DEI is bad to being upset that the #3 most streamed artist on Spotify in 2024 will be performing at the Super Bowl because he’s Latino. This isn’t just white identity politics or institutional racism, this is racism as official government policy. thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

The only time one should work that hard for a company is when they own a majority stake. Otherwise, you're killing yourself to make someone else rich. No. Thank. You.

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that. —Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

I admire the FBI agent who declined to perp-walk James Comey. However, I can’t sit by while anyone portrays that as the law enforcement norm before Trump. In fact law enforcement, state and federal, routinely does gratuitous perp walks. /1

They are not, you know, actually sincerely against showing contempt for America or its values or its peoples. That’s the essence of their movement. What does MAGA mean other than America is no longer great? No, the demand for obeisance is only directed at certain people.

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece just incredible @katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do. It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate. Always punching down

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

Every government shutdown over the past 30 years was caused by Republican intransigence in Congress, the White House, or both. (Remember that one time when Ted Cruz was basically the Speaker of the House for a few weeks?)

Democratic cities are filled with Americans and fund the US. If Trump’s plan is to invade, occupy, murder, and defund Democratic cities, we need to reevaluate the nature of our union.

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

Biden in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!! Trump in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!! Allowing one party to control the media narrative because they’re loud and dumb is absolutely ruining people’s understanding of how anything works.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

“Miller and the rest abhor the word ‘fascist’ because they know it fairly describes their politics and they worry that, as more Americans come to recognize that, the country might turn against the nationalist project. As the saying goes: A hit dog will holler.” thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

Can't wait for the FBI to "find" unspent ammunition rounds with "ANTIFA RULZ" "I'm DEFINITELY A LIB" and "TRUMP BAD" written on them with a Sharpie.

This captures much of the frustration of today.

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

Violence and barbarism seems to be latent in the American psyche. The Rus are far more blatant about it, and no nation is free of it (e.g. Canadian/Australian treatment of the indigenous, France's LePen klan, Germany's Nazis/AfDs), but we've been a shitshow for most of our ~250 year existence.

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Crazy to have an epidemic of murderers confessing they’re actually leftists on the bullets despite everything else about them being right wing coded.

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I don't get why Democrats aren't threatening consequences for conglomerates that use their market weight to stifle free speech. This is the perfect impetus to kick off a wave of trust busting. The party acts like they will never be in power again.

Charlie Kirk was a bad person, who said bad things and had bad values.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky.