I told my wife that kids online were daring each other “kind of like a Bloody Mary thing” to listen to this cursed song that a dead child molester recorded in the eighties and I asked her if she wanted to hear it and she wasn’t sure but she said yes And she was so mad at me when it was “Thriller”

In a major victory, a court ruled the Trump administration must use emergency funds to provide food stamps to Americans.   No one should choose between paying bills and buying groceries.   We'll continue our lawsuit to fight for our families and the services they deserve.

Don’t drive tonight if possible. If you have to, drive slow and please keep your eyes open.

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation. If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Note the healthcare line right when 2026 ACA plan rates were announced

Aaah I wish I could be there! I love this movie so much that I named my cat Duckie! Also I love that the original Duckie, @mrjoncryer.bsky.social , is donating proceeds to the Trevor Project

... severed economic aid to Colombia in a tantrum, threatened to crack down on NYC, announced drug prices would be coming down "500 percent," claimed Pete Buttigieg tried to fix the air traffic system with "glass wire," and committed probably a dozen other crimes we've already forgotten about.

... threatened to invade every state in the US, renewed his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and vowed his people would prevent it from happening "again," bragged about illegally slashing programs Democrats like, said he would send disaster relief to a state because it voted for him ...

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Elon Musk wants to build a private robot army that he would have "influence" over. This is Bond villain shit. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

literally destroying the White House to build a ballroom which by all accounts will be bigger than the entire remainder of the building, gonna look great I'm sure

The irony of the amount of water that data center wastes predicting environmental disasters…

This looks like pictures of where clerks worked in Dickensian London

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

"Whomst among us hasn't worked for Blackwater, gotten a nazi tattoo, and said some incredibly racist and sexist things online." /s

i can’t

“Working class” in a lot of political discourses is a polite euphemism for white male.

Stop trying to make Minority Report happen.

If you need a whistle, please drop by our office (7016 N Clark Street) to pick up one for free. If you see ICE, blow three short bursts. If they are detaining someone, blow three long bursts.

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

When are we going to stop thinking that men who code as “blue collar” are more authentic and thus more worthy of running for office?

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

“I think there’s some healthy critiques of these protests and some big, important questions about what they are demanding and where next do they go, but right now they still feel right …Because the instinct to gather together -- to connect offline and in public-- is the right instinct”

Over and over again, establishment journalists just refuse to describe Republican policies and beliefs in plain language to mislead the public. The GOP says it is purging liberals from academia and journalists reframe it as “rebuilding trust.” That is not journalism, it is regime propaganda.

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

There's just the stink of sexism around the assumption that women past like college age are all mumsy figures who don't really understand all this complicated politics stuff but want everything to be nicer.

Idk, like I know plenty of committed socialists, communists and anarchists with very specific politics and a lifelong history of activism who also happen to be older women.

I find it interesting that everybody assumes every woman over the age of about 30 they see a picture of on a protest is a liberal winemom or whatever.

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

It's amazing how many goobers in the Chapo adjacent set have completely missed the moment by purity testing protests, presenting the idea of the median dem voter as someone who needs years more of education (from them) meanwhile thousands of 72 year olds named Janice sound like fuckin Mao out there

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

From what I’ve seen the crowds were a dense mix of both these kinds of rich white liberals and more left-wing radical types, and it’s also good, I think, for these to be mixing: the latter is more likely to influence the former than the former is to dilute the latter.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

No Kings march Durham

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Huge turnout for No Kings in Durham NC today. It’s hard to guess numbers but a lot more than in June.

If history teaches us one thing Never trust a man who would be king Who seeks all power for himself To burnish his prestige and wealth And a nation born in revolution Should know this offers no solution For there can be no liberty Where one man rules with impunity www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...

Between this bullshit, the environmental impact, the plagiarism, the deep fakes, and the encouragement to cheat/take short cuts instead of learning critical thinking and problem solving, I struggle to find any reasons to support using generative AI

“Why should I go to a No Kings protest?”

No. Stop this. "Advice" like this is just scaring people and any actual radical with organizing experience who has participated in militant actions or used black bloc tactics will tell you this is nonsense. Stop spreading half-baked advice for Internet clout. Listen to experts & movement elders

Pleasantly surprised my state is on the list

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho. One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire. 25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage. This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

I’m definitely left of the average No Kings attendee but between an injury and attending with my young teen kid, I’m just not up for protesting where it’s more likely I’d get gassed and have to run. And showing up to this is better than just sitting at home.

Quite a quote—and addendum— from a cybertruck owner