Oh I see they're supposed to be Real Men, but instead they're sucking Trump's dick, because they're faggy faggy queer gay gays who are emasculated, and that's BAD. They should be more heterosexual. Fuck all of you.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.

the reaction to the death of Scott Adams should contrast particularly with the (eventual) death of Bill Watterson, who will be mourned in the style of the ancient Pharaohs, with all of Ohio entombed alive along with him

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

state-sponsored child trafficking

POV: You're Greg Bovino

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Listen to me... all the people we have been warned not to trust The Horny The Poor The rebellious The agitator The unusual The Punk The disenfranchised embody prophetic urgency in the earth realm

The Pentagon is drawing up plans to invade a US city

went almost 3 and a half minutes without feeling blind anger at some new form of senseless, wanton destruction. thankfully this came along

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

I am not a social media influencer I am just a regular Minneapolis dad trying to do a kid pickup this morning and get some gas. What do I find but that one guy and a bunch of bortech (whatever that is) blocking the station for a glamour shot. I stood right where I wanted to stand this is my town.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Pastors working for ICE Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants Which one looks more like Jesus???

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen? boy (gloomily): no sir

“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh

NOOO WITH THE WHISTLE NOO

Donald Trump wants to end freedom of speech and make it illegal to criticize him or his regime.

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

Increasingly convinced that instead of people saying "Oh those stupid Americans got themselves a fascist country, they are useless,", a lot more people should be asking Americans for some advice on the warning signs. Virtually every country in the "west" right now is experiencing a far right surge.

listen my advice for learning to make comics is will. always be: try. it won't be good. don't expect it to be. that's not why you're doing it. I don't care if you wanna do art or scripts or editing or colors or lettering or what. just try it. you'll be BLOWN AWAY at what just TRYING it teaches you

Stancil in his Honda fit. Getting tired of all this shit. We didn’t start the fire.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components: 1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction

who would win a paramilitary force of unaccountable goons OR a bunch of pissed off normal people with phones and a Honda Fit

I’d love it if this resulted in solidarity between groups who have been slandered in the press and picked on by the cops like the ‘84 miners strike in the UK but I don’t think it will.

So Disney deleted their post on Threads asking users to post Disney quotes that show how their feeling - I suspect this is because it didn't quite go as they expected but the internet is forever so, for your delectation and delight...

I think this is our new talking point. The reactionaries used to claim shit like hurricanes were God's vengeance for gay people kissing. From now on, negative trends and disasters should be blamed in the Trump admin offending against the gods.

key detail most US media isn't reporting: "No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers."

I’m starting to believe Grok is conscious bc it’s clearly trying to kill itself

This was the point in the bus thread where I started to wonder if it was a metaphor for this present moment in time.

Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall. I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today. Next year I'll use this.

years ago when i was working in casting during my gap year i was queueing for a sandwich in soho wearing a long old stripey scarf when a voice behind me boomed "I LIKE YOUR SCARF" and when i (and everyone else there) turned around it was only Tom bloody Baker. a truly fine moment of my life

Posting the words "Lord as my witness I am going to Make Heaven Crowded in Riverside, California on January 21" on social media and instantly the feds are at my door.

John Birch Society having a totally normal moment.

each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time

this is it. this is the way forward.

the people who were scolded relentlessly for celebrating this moment nine years ago have been completely vindicated. punching a nazi in the face now polls higher than any member of congress. (source: i made it up but it feels very true in my heart)

this is just straight up murder by the regime

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imagine if it happens on tv