This is the first government shut down in my entire life where I know tons of federal workers who would be negatively affected, and they're pretty unanimously pro-shut down at this point because they don't want their services slashed indefinitely.

The story of this election is downtown business owners and suburban landlords trying to meddle in a majority renter city in order to be allowed to exploit us for more money. Fuck that.

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

If you're in the twin cities you should 100% be subscribed to Racket. Essential reporting, great writing and a perfect tone throughout. This is a hell of a deal.

Because Erika Kirk claimed that her late husband wanted to „save young men“ - he was deeply misogynistic, and used his audience‘s hatred of liberal or leftist women to enrage them and to use this engagement for profit

I know the penalties are flat & based off late filings, but when we are dealing with massive contribution PACs- these people don't view it as being fined, they get to treat it as a 3.7% transaction fee 4k is nothing to them! They accept mostly checks, this is functionally a ActBlue processing fee

we love mpls were fined $4k by the campaign finance board for failing to disclosure donor information regarding a minneapolis downtown council contribution of $35,000 and a contribution of $72,585 from the minnesota multi housing association taylordahlin.com/f/we-love-mi...

Fantastic, and sobering, read on what it's like to experience solitary confinement, which I again note is considered torture!

An 11-year-old Michigan boy was expelled from school for a year after he took a gun away from a classmate, disarmed and disassembled it, according to his mother He’s now enrolled in a non-accredited online program as he tries to keep up

Asked this guy how he felt about choking women today as he stared down at us all from the roof. He proudly declared he likes it.

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

This is the perfect combination of these fascist assholes pretending to fix a problem that doesn’t exist by shaking down a business, leaning on anti scientific bullshit, propping up a fake solution that earns them profits, and not even beginning to care how it hurts anyone.

is it good that nothing feels real anymore

We can’t box out people because we disagree. In the Senate, I helped to pass transformative, bipartisan bills with Dems and Republicans alike. I'm running for Mayor because all of us deserve a mayor who is willing to collaborate. We deserve an affordable city, accountable to us.

Even the Star Tribune gets it. “He pours blame on the council in a broad-brush way that impedes his ability to build alliances with the more moderate progressives.” It’s time to move on. Our city deserves a Mayor who is willing to grow relationships and work with the City Council.

Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm. His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN. When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

Turkey Feathers is best because 1) the color scheme is distinct and 2) more feather can be added as the battle flag of Greater New England incorporates more provinces in the coming War for Second Reconstruction

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

"unless you oppose israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing, in which case we don't count you 'as one'"

I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

ICE shot "projectiles, threw flash bang grenades, pepper-sprayed and deployed tear gas" at protesters. ICE detainee "said he was held in a cell with 150 other men, had his medication taken away and was not given regular food." #Illinois #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

No particular reason

Some pundits praise Erika Kirk for her forgiveness, calling it an example for all. This is witless. One needn’t question the *sincerity* of her statements to do the basic work of reading public politics as such, by asking “what does *she* mean? What do her followers hear?”

It's wild how intensely right wing American Christian political cultures have embraced this idea that if they don't have the green light in every public setting to make everyone else pray their way that it's the *exact same* level of oppression as being thrown to lions & crucified on the Appian Way.

The Strib doesn’t mention that the U administration advised faculty to hold classes online today instead of on campus

(my take, subject to amendment, is that glass should be understood as something of a jeffersonian progressive: driven to rationalize american society according to jeffersonian principles of decentralization and the promotion of natural aristocracies)

When I published this story after the first of now 4 incidents of Trump using the US military to kill boatloads of people, I didn't want to use video of the attack for the image, stills from a snuff film. Instead, I went with a Coast Guard interdiction from summer, what this normally looks like.

I don't understand how the political media class can simultaneously be so cynical and yet constantly take the worst bad faith actors at their word all the time. There seems to be no other explanation other than they are collaborators because they want the same goals.

this and the next few skeets show just how clearly this guy is following goebbel's playbook

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Young people are already the most tolerant folks in the country. No one ever proposes making people 50+ do national service or some such because no one believes you can make them do anything, while it's generally accepted that young people exist to be commanded and pay for everyone else's bullshit.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

I think part of the reason people have trouble accepting how openly fascistic the Trumpist movement is, is because they don't use the aesthetics of the 1930's Nuremberg rallies. Rather, it's a knowingly campy simulacrum of those aesthetics, which disarms criticism through the conscious irony of it.

Stephen Miller ramps up the spiritual warfare talk & mixes in some dog whistles about „lineage“ and „civilisation“: „We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil…We will achieve victory for our families and our civilisation…God bless our heroes“

Martyrdom, spiritual warfare, Kirk as a 13th disciple - the sacralisation of Kirk is being pushed extremely hard. calls for TPUSA to exist for „eternity“ make this memorial into an eerie mix of a propaganda event, MAGA rally, religious revival and memorial. Now, Stephen Miller goes on stage.

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Why is it almost all decent news organizations, even the nonprofits, are so anti-union and so resistant to fairness? @propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow (I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)

It gives me no pleasure to inform everyone that these are the same memes that everybody's parents were passing around on Facebook 10 years ago, but spiffed up a bit for the TikTok audience

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

And let us not forget who ran the CIA in Europe.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

good piece. It mentions the tradwife influencer Hannah Neeleman, owner of Ballerina Farms. Just your reminder that Hannah married the son of the guy who owned JetBlue and is now 4th generation wealth

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.