I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

Mark Rothko’s The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool”

posting this image for no reason in particular

Can I cook or can’t I?

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

The richest part of this is that Trump was famously goaded into running by Obama’s WHCA speech which imagined a garish Trump-branded White House with a bunch of tacky additions, and that’s exactly what he did.

A trillionaire dollars. Still won't pay child support.

You know what? Good to know…

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

TGIF Thank God It's Forty-eight hours until a friendly reporter drops optimistic news about the Iran War ending just hours before markets open.

do you want to see the whole crew rushing from one high-stakes phaser fight to another? no. nobody wants to see that. we want to see bashir and o'brien playing darts

To be clear: any outlet that reports "Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz" without reporting "because they explicitly said the ceasefire must include Lebanon and Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon" is an outlet you cannot trust.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

I’ll use all the commas and dashes and whatever the hell else I like. Regurgitative AI didn’t invent writing styles, it *appropriated* them, and I sure as shit won’t cede a single shred of my writing to the thing currently stealing it.

“If you use <insert grammatical pet peeve here> then I know your writing was done by AI.” Cool, and if you use AI paranoia to try and shame a writing style you don’t like, then I know you’re a bit of a cunt.

this is cold war paranoia, through and through. all continued spending does is make the world less safe by creating an arms race. we’ve had enough fire power to end the world since 1950, and yet we’ve still lost every war since WWII, because weapons don’t make us safer. diplomacy does. trade does

"I'd rather spend the money on" is a myth. The United States has enough money to spend a trillion dollars per year on NASA *AND* have universal healthcare and housing and free education through college for everyone. It's not either/or. It's both/and.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

Just for fun, here's a version of "Master of Puppets" that replaced every snare hit with the crappy snare from St. Anger www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xui0...

YESSSSSSSSS

To my Trans bloomfs (or any Trans person who comes across this), I may have the opportunity through work to direct some funding and people-power to the community in the next few months. I'm exploring local options, but would love your input to help maximize our impact. DMs are open. #transsky

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

Abolish the agency. Prosecute leadership and field agents. Blacklist anyone who so much as answered the phones from law enforcement (because clearly mall security is too much power for these people).

Seven Minutes in Heaven, but it’s the Criterion Closet

I'm returning to my guillochet idea Combined guillotine + trebuchet, immediately yeet the severed head 300 meters

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

The view from my apartment window. That parking lot has been plowed twice today. You can hardly tell there’s a road there. My weather app says we’re at 25” and counting. I love it.

and an additional fuck you to everyone who said we were overreacting during the patriot act and creation of DHS.

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

I can’t talk during moments like this because I get super Irish about it and immediately want raw vengeance. that and I am reminded that the reason we are here is America has a stupid two party system and the side apparently representing equity and sanity are a pack of useless careerist cunts

I've been reminding myself of this so much recently.

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day). What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance

Also, any Democrat who won’t get on board with abolishing ICE (as opposed to continually voting for increased funding and decreased accountability in some foolhardy courting of the xenophobe vote) needs to be driven not only from the party but ideally from politics and public life altogether.

I can’t help but wonder how many of the people who are (rightly) losing their shit at a jackbooted thug of the state murdering an innocent white woman in broad daylight spent 2020 tut-tutting their way through any discussion of police reform and accountability.

…guilty Like, *incredibly* guilty

eBay option to fight the other bidder in the parking lot like gentlemen

It's that time of year again when all my Jewish friends stop arguing about everything else they were arguing about and start arguing about spelling 😌

Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift

ME IN THE CRITERION CLOSET: I guess I was just hoping you guys would have more copies of Godzilla vs. Biollante

Yeah I don't know how to fully express that I feel like my soul is basically damaged by the way I feel about the regime & its agents at this point. I don't know that I've ever really felt this level of visceral moral CONTEMPT for other humans. It veers into cold hate at times in ways I worry about.

Well, has she considered *not*being a little whinging fucker?

May all of your bajas be blasted