this is the best reframe i’ve ever seen about calling your politicians

it’s really important to have publications like People covering this because it’s going to get seen by so many people who don’t consume political media

So he definitely had to be 100% aware of what he should've been doing (re: various flavors of claims that even if she wasn't trying to hit him, he could've still been in reasonable fear) (people on my TL aren't doing that, but others are, just noting one more point showing just how ridiculous it is)

the whiplash man

Are you fuckin kidding me man

Hell yeah 👍👍

Potato's Corollary to Murc's Law: Even if the vast majority of the time you are discussing the fault of the Republicans, if you discuss anything negative about Democrats, inevitably someone will accuse you of fulfilling Murc's Law

Boiling with rage at the idea that Democrats may not change their tune on this

Skeet of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay (Read the whole thread ya dummies!)

New Overwatch mythic dropped today Doomfist has never been one of my faves, I just hate the asymmetric huge ass fist lol, but I have to say this looks rad as hell

For ATX friends, I shared this earlier, but here's protest information for Saturday; it's at City Hall at 11 a.m. (NOTE: Often protests are at the Capitol, but this is at City Hall! It's in this tweet like 4 times so I'll be super mad at you if you mess it up)

Yup. Though, I will say, not new. In the years I've been involved in various sorts of activism, mainline clergy have always been present, always among the first to put their bodies on the line in the situations where it came to it

*Very* good thread on fact, opinion, and defamation

If they had an ounce of sense they'd have cut the guy loose and portrayed him as some kind of outlier to spare ICE the aggro. They don't, so it seems bad, I know, but the NBA does not take political statements lightly.

We're desensitized to it, but this is the Vice President of the United States speaking "The guy who wants to take all property away from white people?"

Had to convince my oldest that it was a good idea for me to be protesting A kid shouldn't have to worry about if his parent will come home from a peacefully exercising the basic rights of speech & assembly He's not super worried, he knows the risk is small, but the fact he had to broach it at all

genuinely kind of fascinating that Ventura of all people is making an extremely lucid comparison of Trump to Marcos

I'll never not associate this song with Fallen. Criminally underrated movie.

The good news is he doesn't know how to think more than two moves ahead. This is also the bad news

I think Stephen Miller wants an ICE agent to get shot and is creating the conditions for that to happen.

How to let her down gently?

First you stress eat, and then you stress skip meals, it all evens out ✨ balance ✨

SOLIDARITY WITH FREE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD

Holy fuck they actually did it

I am, generally speaking, extremely anti-homewrecking, but you don't pass up a weapon in a streetfight

we can outlast these people. I cannot promise that everyone who fights will live to see the other side, but I can promise that they do not have enough men to rule us as they desire, and they are too hated to rule us the way the system allows.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

minority house speaker jeffries

This is a good general point, but an additional thing to consider is that elites not only follow but shape public opinion (Zaller 1992), showing voters' #1 concern is inflation may not be a rock solid justification when that concern is in part endogenous to Democrats messaging on inflation so much

everyone knows that what trump is saying about renee good is a lie, including ICE and CBP. the messaging needs to be a lie in order to be effective. what they are communicating is this: opponents of the regime have no rights which you are bound to respect, and the conspiracy goes to the top.

Literally the first thing they did after putting up their backpack when they got home was jump in a tote of plushies

Update: The Saturday protest is actually at Austin City Hall at 11 a.m. There is additionally one planned for tonight at 5 p.m. at 45th and Lamar

Hmm I would on the one hand love to reward this decision by going back to Spotify. Rewarding good behavior is usually the best way to get more good behavior On the other, their ICE blunder caused me to learn I like Deezer better lol

They are going door to door to check people's papers (papers which, by the way, they don't always even honor) Just seething at every Republican who has accused Democrats of overreach or of secretly wanting or planning to do the shit that they themselves are doing now

Some say mannerisms show they are weak people insecure about their weakness. That may be related to only knowing escalation Coming up, I was relentlessly bullied. I made it through by becoming willing to escalate farther & faster than anyone else. When you're weaker, sometimes it's all you can do

If even in this late hour you (or anybody you talk to) remains unconvinced of the moral and pragmatic imperative to abolish ICE: Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent that killed Renee Good in cold blood, is a long-time veteran of the agency. He was brought on before this admin lowered hiring standards

And it's this across their whole project Almost none of their chosen tactics & strategies further any of their stated goals, and many of their chosen tactics & strategies are counterproductive, sometimes massively so, to their stated goals Like it's not just evil & harmful, it's not even effective

This is correct. ICE is there in the first place because of an evidence-free racist conspiracy theory promoted by a 23 Year old YouTube propagandist. They manufacture pretext.

Yes Affordability messaging actually is good and they actually should use it! They should just also not do awkward shoehorns or use it as an excuse to avoid their responsibility regarding Trump's tyranny

you might say to me "quit eating cheese balls" but no!! I will not!!

sometimes yelling still works, even on Republicans, if enough people do it and they start shitting their pants

If you've ever done labor organizing, you run into this a lot You would be surprised how many people will argue, with a straight face, that they don't *deserve* to be paid more !!!

all they ever have are concepts of a plan

From gunwales to shore without spilling a drop of Chardonnay, that's the mark of a true operator

You know how you're slowly going up, ka-chunk ka-chunk, you know there's a plunge but for now it's slow climbing, then you get to the top & just start to go over, and you have that feeling before acceleration goes brrr & you hit the loopty loop, you feel the motion kinda before it actually happens?

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING

impeach him for this, too

The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.