I think I need to take an indefinite break from on here. I think it’s really doing a number on my executive function and attention span Take care of yourselves, folks

This is gross hyperbole but goddangit it's gets the feel of this day and age perfectly.

Too many people on the Right have way too much free time on their hands. Learn a new language. By a fucking jigsaw puzzle.

One thing I did not include in my profile of Trump's BLS nominee, E.J. Antoni, is his boosting anti-Churchill far-right histories!

one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it

I can pretty much guarantee all this is because WH people have been driving around and noticing that it doesn't look like every street corner is crawling with troops and is getting very mad about that and is now drawing up every single friendly NG

I don’t keep track If one or both sides want to mute/unfollow/block me for because they question my commitment to Sparklemotion, so be it

Trump administration out there creating massive new job opportunities in a long-neglected industry.

Third Amendment enthusiasts it is OUR MOMENT

crimes trump was an outlier and should not have been counted

The Appalachian Trail. You invented the Appalachian Trail

FWIW this has been going on for at least 20 years!

Conservatives are the aggressors in the war against the United States let's get make sure this is an absolute established fact. They've turned against everything.

Just got back from my closest brush with American patriotism of the year (the county fair) and man two things stand out - the GWoT warped our sense of patriotism so it’s indistinguishable from jingoism -US Christians’ Persecution complex is so, so grim

Because the message we want Dem electeds to internalize is, “Hey, if a total asshole like Newsom can get all this praise for fighting Trump, just thing what it could do for me.”

Can we at least wait until after the midterms to start the Dem primary Doscourse?

Yup Also major media orgs are heavily concentrated in urban areas, and even minor ones (like local TV stations) tend to be in the local metros so urban crimes get way more media traction

iirc at about this time in 2017 people were getting hot and bothered for Avenatti 2020

We all owe Cathrine the Great’s horse an apology for mocking its trauma.

Particularly bleak chum ad

The further down this road we go, the more likely it is that the *moderate* position will be lifetime prison terms for Adminstration members and senior DHS personnel

And he openly admired similar brutality by Saddam Hussein. He just loves despots, and desperately wants to be one himself.

Seeing a lot of this sorta thing. When I pointed out the noticeable decline in violent crime in Baltimore, someone yelled at me that I was an idiot to say that Baltimore had no crime, which was not something I had said.

Anyone who says the two parties or the same and that elections don't matter must contend with how desperate Trump is to keep the House from flipping.

If you want to get the state to prosecute fraud aggressively there's a very simple way to do it: identify an alleged fraudster who is poor. Once the fraud is successful they lose all their pep and verve

Really not good

In other words: They lied.

This guy hosts a debate show

it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.

We spent like the whole Biden presidency with business elites glooming and dooming about a recession all while it was avoided leading to a Trump presidency that is going to unconstitutionally force a recession into being. The lathe of heaven is not a toy.

The architects of Trump’s policies openly communicate with fascists and fetishize neo-Nazi fantasies of race war and violent dictatorship, but in the storied hallways of the New York Times, you are still required to hold, as a default, the view that this is all about wanting to reduce crime levels

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I can't support Pritzker for President until he cuts cultural ties with his deeply problematic legacy of deep dish pizza

I can think of one big reason

@golikehellmachine.com has posted at length about how this is the all stick, no carrot administration, but it occurs to me that this is because the administration considers itself the carrot nonpareil. If the mere fact of their actualization is not a joy & a glory in your eyes, you're the enemy

Conservatism is magic: It can transform you from a fifth-rate swimmer to the smiling face of horse dewormer (inexplicably recommended here for you and your children)

This is cool & all but I can't help notice that one of the goons is using a similar knee-on-neck restraint as the one that killed George Floyd.

It's funny that people were mostly concerned about Kash turning the FBI into the NKVD when really they are turning them into a glorified LASD

"Liberals already ruined it" shows the plot here. These aren't impartial law enforcement officers protecting all citizens. They are partisan paramilitary militia, terrorizing domestic opponents.

The dynamics of this Mamdani shit would take me days to write He's obviously super popular Attacks on him are often the death throes of a political machine But sometimes it's an African/MENA-phobic psyop spread by panicked people who cannot *fathom* having an ally that anyone likes.

and, like, i mention the story from time to time as an illustration of how you can actually be kinda *selfish* about activism as long as you're not *evil* — as long as you treat everyone involved as a human being with human rights, a bit "i want to improve this thing for myself" quid-pro-quo is fine

The thing about the “the courts are a sick joke therefore there’s no point in contesting even cases clearly in our favor” is that irrefutably demonstrating the court is a sick joke is a necessary step to delegitimizing it if that is indeed the case.

Honestly, JK was kinda cooking with “Okay, so there’s the smart kids, the brave kids, the nice kids, and then there’s this one group of kids who are literally just a bunch of evil racists that suck shit and everyone accepts this and nobody can do anything about it.”

Though it is pretty funny to think of what a professional bigot resume would look like on LinkedIn. “I see. Concerned Mothers Against Harry Potter in the 1990s, Concerned Mothers *For* Harry Potter in the 2020s… Ma’am, you *have* read a second book, right?” “What a Ravenclaw thing to ask.”

Jesus on easter monday

lol. Hope the author stretched before trying this kind of reach.