There is no difference - NONE WHATSOEVER - between Fuckabee's attitude towards Israel's neighbors and the US settlers' attitude towards Indigenous nations and their land. They're EXACTLY the same thing.

Yep! Also the foundational ideals of the country, despite our actions to their contrary. "Nation of immigrants" trying our damndest to keep out the foreigner, and all that. Made a lot of things click for me when I heard the term civil religion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_r...

It occurred to me today that carcerality and empire are nothing more than a religion. People who believe police will come and save them if they're in danger, or that only bad people are in cages, or that the US keeps the world at peace through military might,

israel is an apartheid state doing a genocide and tucker is a white supremacist running propaganda for a different state doing a couple genocides so i hope they both lose

If Israel and Tucker Carlson are going to have a fight, I hope they both lose and everyone involved ends up having absolutely atrocious days. Israel is an apartheid state doing genocide, and Tucker is a white supremacist, so frankly they deserve each other. Let them fight. In fact, make them fight.

Getting interviewed today. It's weird, because this is the part of the job I hate the most.

Just switch parties already, ffs www.huffpost.com/entry/john-f...

Why are aspiring Democratic politicians still going on Bill Maher? The dude is a transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, xenophobic racist.

His audience are fundamentally antisemitic - the Venn diagram between Tucker Carlson's audience and Stormfront is an oblate circloid, like a pumpkin Carlson's doing a philosemitism at the behest of someone funding him

Tucker Carlson is evil. I'm glad he's on the right side of Occupied Palestine (for now), but a stopped clock being right twice daily doesn't mean the clock is working. He's not your friend. He's not even an ally of convenience, because he's very much pro-genocide -

(The slavery case might be what you are referencing but I feel like there’s a whole spectrum of corporations v people and defending SLAVERY is very much all the way to one end.)

I've never seen a legal aid lawyer, sliding scale lawyer, or public defender get even a fraction of the fame or praise or glory that Neil Katyal does. They're representing marginalized folks all the time, and his wins for "democracy" are between representing corporations AGAINST marginalized people.

I just want to say that I'm deeply grateful for the community I have On Here. I can genuinely say I'm a better person from being here with all of you, and I don't take that lightly. Thank you. 💙💙

Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't accomplish positive change through the courts. Let's see if she follows through. news.wttw.com/2026/02/19/c...

Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC. Let me get this straight: Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds? Release the Epstein files.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Just wanted to tell my fellow trans people that no matter what gender(s) you are, whether you pass or not, whether you WANT to pass or not, whether you're binary or not, whether you're socially or medically transitioning or both or neither...I see you, you're beautiful, you matter, and I love you. 💙

If you're a marginalized person in the legal field and you're experiencing imposter syndrome, just remember that Samuel Alito made it onto the Supreme Court and I am 100% sure that you, yes you, the person reading this, are a better lawyer than he is.

Clarence Thomas unironically wrote that Congress can delegate all of its powers to the president forever and make the president a king through either their action or inaction and even Gorsuch was like...dude, no

Specifically, every conservative wants to be the exception to every rule, which everyone else has to follow. Including other conservatives. It's a miserable existence defined by earned loneliness.

A 20-page opinion with 150 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions.

The "empathy sucks" crowd out here wondering why no body has their back.

This is true around the conservative pundit ecosystem and within the movement at large. Turns out that having an ideology revolving around selfishness and cruelty means you're not a great team player

Conservatives despise everything. That's why they're conservatives.

Two brief takeaways from the SCOTUS decision striking down Trump's tariffs: 1. Justice Jackson is the only one actually doing proper statutory interpretation. 2. These people HATE each other. And I don't mean the conservatives hate the liberals. The conservatives DESPISE each other too.

I tried to explain my position here:

This is absolutely fucking vile shit from Jain tbh

Ordinarily I don't want to get caught up in Twitter drama, but I am *noticing* some things related to the fallout from that Argument piece about trans rights polling. So, first and foremost, Jerusalem Demsas wrote up an interesting defence of the piece. It singles out Parker Molloy's criticism.

The frustrating thing about it is that she kind of misrepresented my criticism. And when I reached out on Twitter to bring this up, she said "cry me a river."

The entire international signing/training system is exploitation, and every club is complicit.

I know I don't cover baseball anymore but I have to be honest, this is all sorts of icky to me. There are so many levels of ick here I don't even know where to start. heavy.com/sports/mlb/p...

Donald Trump really stood at his "Board of Peace" meeting of the "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace" (to discuss Palestine with no Palestinians) and very peacefully threatened war with Iran.

I know I don't cover baseball anymore but I have to be honest, this is all sorts of icky to me. There are so many levels of ick here I don't even know where to start. heavy.com/sports/mlb/p...

American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process

Having mashed carrots with dinner (Crohn's Disease) and Birdies Tuvok and Janeway were having some. They must have really liked it because they just stashed a bunch in my hair for later 🙃

The UK arresting Andrew. South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life. John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.

but at the end of the day yeah i agree VITAL to choose every option that preserves life. there's a reason halacha contains the principle of pikuach nefesh--which itself kinda says the same thing you seem to be saying: "the preservation of human life overrides virtually any other religious rule"

"No one is free until everyone is free" Also means "No one is safe until everyone is safe."

are oppressed people allowed to defend ourselves? or not? or only some people? we've seen israeli forces brutalize orthodox jews IN ISRAEL for speaking up against the treatment of palestinians. what safety, for whom? we just saw israel say israeli muslims can't decorate for ramadan. safety for whom?

I think everyone remembers that Taylor Swift fan account that rather than answering the call for mandatory military service in Israel, they chose jail. That is always an option, deny an unjust system your blood, sweat, and tears. Walk, leave, quit, maybe kick over a computer on the way out.

Biden literally said no Jew is safe in the world without Israel.

It's a little weird that people are angry with me for saying "death is preferable to doing genocide" but okay, I guess

Here's my underlying point. We are constantly having to talk about Occupied Palestine in terms of Jewish safety. Without Israel, we're not safe, they say. Israel must have a right to defend itself, they say. And yeah, it's a false choice. It always has been. BUT.

feels like you're trying to say "even within the delusional framework where genocide legit made us safer, it'd still be inexcusable to do it" but b/c it's dressed in the language of if jews "deserve to exist" they're hearing "b/c jews are committing genocide we don't deserve to continue to exist"

The Talmud is very clear on this. The rabbis considered the trolley problem long before it was known as such. If you’re in a position where you have to make that kind of choice you attack the person demanding it.

people should exist but countries don't need to

I don't believe in a choice between genocide and suicide but if one exists, suicide is unambiguously the morally correct choice and I'm shocked this is controversial.

You can't commit genocide against people who are not in your power. That's not a thing

It *is* our problem because doing genocide is worse than death. It's LITERALLY GENOCIDE. And the whole pretense for THIS genocide is "without Israel, Jews are not safe anywhere." Better that than doing genocide tbh.