@taradublinrocks.bsky.social Do you know of a place in Portlandia that makes good, *real* bagels instead of bread donuts? Boiled before baking instead of steamed in the oven? I need to convince a friend in Vancouver there's a difference.

Trump has now gotten his billionaire supporters to get both Colbert and Kimmel cancelled because they did too good of a job speaking truth to his big stupid face.

Avoid this guy like the plague. He wants you on a list that the wrong people are almost guaranteed to get hold of. Show up. But don't put your name in writing.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

Well, that’s a lot of truth …

Magats all over the bird place are planning to r*pe and m*rder liberals with impunity, while progressives get suspended for saying someone should be slapped. But tell me again about free speech.

Yes. I this country right now, MAGA are allowed to be Nazis but you're not allowed to call them Nazis. A very convenient setup. However, they're allowed to call opponents commies, Marxists, terrorists, the pro-murder party, Amerca-haters, vermin...

Nope. The actual goal here is bringing back slavery.

@olivia.science coined the finest definition ever about LLMs "Correlation is not Cognition" and i might tattoo that phrase somewhere visible in my arm

The far right isn’t “winning ideas.” They’re winning because the center and left hide behind a fake version of free speech. Free speech doesn’t mean zero consequences. It’s time to shame, expose, and confront hate, not coddle it.

Fact: Stochastic terrorism is the act of using speech to intimidate and promote violence for the means of advancement of a political ideology. Fact: Charlie Kirk was a terrorist.

"It is fair to say that no one has done more to aggravate and expand the culture of violence in the United States than Trump and MAGA."

Acknowledging Charlie Kirk was fascist scum who incited the violence that claimed him is not a crime and not cause for any civil punitive action. Acknowledging Charlie Kirk's death as Trump's Reichstag Fire used to justify consolidation of fascist control of the United States is just reality.

Remember: Civil discourse is when you encourage others to kill members of a marginalized group, violence is when you say you aren't sad that the guy who tried to get people to kill you is dead.

Your daily reminder that the United States of America does not have a national language or a national religion. I don't know what motherfucker needs to hear this.

School shooters never act alone; they're assisted by 53 Republican Senators, 220 Republican House members, the president & the NRA.

Treason weasels gonna treason weasel - and hope you don't notice. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What about the “Serious Consequences “ for Russia if there’s no deal. He was never going to stand up to Putin.

Ask any MAGA what they would do if someone had broken the window of their front door and was climbing through it. Every one of them will say that they have the right to shoot the person climbing through the broken window.

The new fighter should be called DSM-5 301.81 for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th edition, Chapter on Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

What if the republicans are just lying about not drinking - the way that Pete Hegseth does?

I'm not saying the fascists are deliberately trying to start a shooting war to have an excuse to institute full military dictatorship, but I am asking if they WERE trying to start a shooting war to have an excuse to institute full military dictatorship, what would they be doing differently?

Trump might have asked Putin how he manages to stay in office all these years. Putin told him....rig the elections. Stop mail in voting. Intimidate voters.

If Trump came for their guns they’d lay them down for him.

Mood: Feeling cute, might display your entrails as a warning to others later idk

The more I see of the current trajectory of this country, the more completely convinced I am that every single individual who held either a position of authority in the Confederacy, or ownership of a slave, should have been hanged by the neck until dead. No exceptions.

Do the math. This means a hefty proportion of MAGAt voters believe Trump is dishonest and corrupt, and are willing to follow him into Hell anyway. How are we going to end this?

Yep

You know, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and grief by punishing the Confederates…

To sum: we did not go far enough in snubbing the right because we did not take what we'd done in our private spaces and apply it in our public spaces. As a consequence of this failure, cultural ritual has shifted such that even officially sanctioned snubbing is almost impossible.

@scalzi.com Is this guy an ancestor or what? (Found him looking for the first Westerners to contact various tropical islands; this guy was Tahiti.)

I should really keep a tally of how many people here took an oath to protect and uphold the Constitution, but now think the Framers wrote "Anything you say, Mr. Trump, sir." That shit rises to the level of treason. A disgrace to the uniform.

I think Trump has threatened to abolish the court, and maybe worse like jail them, if they don't do his bidding. They've dropped all pretense of even pretending to consider the law or the Constitution in any of their rulings that favor him.

Trump and his innermost circle are absolutely capable of ordering political assassinations, and the current Supreme "Court" majority would declare them immune from prosecution. Read Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown's dissents and then try to tell me she's not the most courageous woman on the planet.

But the only way we’re going to get through this painful era is remembering that the best moments in our country are when we look out for each other. It’s when we build community. It’s when we don’t leave others behind.

"He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimp." - Sir Terry Pratchett "He was an X executive before he worked his way up to medical lab rat." - Sir Terry if he were alive today, probably

Trump is a pedophile

Have a look at the depths to which this misadministration will sink rather than admit they were wrong and lose face politically. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"What, exactly, is the conservative culture in the age of President Donald Trump’s second coming, and what does it think right-leaning women should want?" What does IT think you want? Not what do YOU think you want? That's "modern" conservatism in a nutshell. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...