Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches

I do think about this a lot

it may be controversial but i seriously believe we’re at the point where we need to have NO KINGS demonstrations every goddamned day

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Hey you ever wonder why the histories of resistance to Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa are full of references to making and disseminating fake passports?

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

the reason bosses oppose work from home so strenuously is not because they think it doesn't work but because they think it's an awesome privilege that should be reserved for awesome people (like bosses), not given away to their ingrate employees

It's not really inconsistent if the goal of the Constitution is seen as the violent maintenance of white supremacy. which is clearly the view of the conservative majority on scotus.

The combination of shitty AI and PragerU is going to obliterate our children's brains.

wow what a surprise that what's ultimately a supply-side economics argument would turn out to be full of right-wingers

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

Yeah. It’s happening here.

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

He's gonna make kids go to work camps because he can atmospherically deduce chakra misalignment.

Weakly argued piece, blandly written. Mostly hand-waving: Maybe a president demanding more seats from his party will be good for "democracy" bc voters will say "I don't like this." How can they register their disapproval? That's the point of a gerrymander, they can't!

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD

Armed military in an American city — not to protect Americans, but to terrorize and suppress protest. Trump and Stephen Miller know their destructive economic policies are about to cause massive civil unrest, and they’re preparing the military to use deadly violence when it happens.

Trump always announces the horrible shit he’s planning to do, and this nightmare in DC is just the start. Very soon we’ll be seeing armed military in other cities too. He’s planning nothing less than a military takeover. He has declared war on the US. We’re already in a second Civil War.

Worse, I tweeted about the stupid loud singing appliances and some people said they LIKED the “music” from their washing machine. I kind of blacked out. You deserve better than 1) reheated coffee and 2) washing machine music in your home. Love yourself more than that. Get a record player.

I once researched and pitched a piece on the singing washing machine being a sign of hostile shitty tech’s vision of our political future. That’s where I read a market research paper where industrial design psychologists said loud machines encourage clients to interact with it. INTERACT

ooh if you’re of polish, italian or irish descent…watch out

I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.

Nobody wants to talk about it but my whole life has been a corporate psyop shifting the burden of saving our burning planet onto me, the consumer trapped in consumerism, when the reality is that my lifetime of recycling is negated by one private flight by Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, or Taylor Swift.

‘Defend your culture.’ ICE sure sounds like it’s borrowing from Replacement Theory as a recruitment tool. Who exactly are they hoping will apply — white nationalists?

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

I, too, ensure my house looks like shit, like a dimwitted college student decorated it, because I’m terrified that someone somewhere might think I like men.

the left did not lose the working class. the left lost white people, who it never had, who are considered to be the only working class, even when they're not working class, because that's how white supremacy functions.

Activating a national surveillance network to share with the police amidst a mass deportation push is comic book villainy.

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

In the immigration system, the Real Americans are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the secret police, who arrest brown people, and the secret attorneys, who send them to concentration camps. These are their stories. *DUN DUN*

This is literally "Your papers, please." It's Stasi shit. That's what Homan is declaring, here. Anyone who "looks foreign" is subject to detainment and harassment. Fail to persuade ICE thugs of your citizenship, and you risk arrest. And we've all seen video of what happens if you try to turn away.

Noise canceling headphones for the apocalypse.

Noticing a trend of podcasts where the entire premise is teaching everyone how to have a civil discussion with Nazis. That’s certainly not concerning.

It is frankly pathetic. As someone with a very high level of exposure to right-wing antisemites, I can assure you many of them unabashedly want to eliminate Jews as a people.

Democrats aren’t worried about antisemitism, they’re worried about BEING ACCUSED OF BEING WEAK ON ANTISEMITISM, which means they’re hypersensitive to Muslims but absolutely unconcerned about right-wing antisemites, because they know no right-winger will ever try to pin it on them

I don’t really care what this place is or isn’t. Alls I know is it’s been great for the business of The Onion and that both Zuck and Musk have experience cooking and/or hiding the books on their own traffic. Doesn’t really matter if there are more page views if they’re not real people.

a good indication of how bad the NYT reporting on Zohran’s college application was is that it got zero pickup from other mainstream publications yesterday. the only coverage was from the Times, the Post, and some right-wing slop farms

If only we could get them to think that they’d just come up with democratic socialism as their own new, brilliant idea.

I’m going to be very honest and clear. I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.