Forget group chats, they literally live in the same house and can't get their story straight

Apparently 2025 involves being nail-bitingly invested in a mayoral race happening roughly 2,990 miles from my house.

Past 36 hours. "No regime change!" "Yes, regime change!" "Ceasefire!" "God bless Iran and Israel!" "I'm not happy with Israel or Iran!" "Israel and Iran don't know what the f**k are doing!"

small point on the insane, racist diatribe trump just posted but this is not how cognitive tests work.

Does Israel really not see that Trump doesn't "support" them, so much as he thinks truly, genuinely believes he owns them like a waterfront resort? His outrage here is actually real, he truly cannot believe that a man he thinks he employs would cross him.

Schumer works for Israel and Wall Street. He probably wants this. Schumer is the only Senate Democrat to vote for the Iraq War. Time for a vote of no confidence in Dem leadership.

You and the other Senate Dems need to do a hell of a lot more than write letters and call for investigations. Start with blocking every motion, every vote. No to cloture on everything. No appointments. Nothing. Shut it down.

If y’all don’t think JD Vance purposely said something racist about Senator Padilla…I’m going to remind you that Vance served with Padilla in the Senate before he was VP. He called him Jose because he’s a racist asshole.

JD Vance refers to Senator Alex Padilla as “Jose Padilla”

The NYT is aghast that trans people haven't elected to just lay down and die after their editors put so much money and time into trans eradication.

"Well, we polled a bunch of bad people and it turns out they had bad ideas, so we have no choice now really to do those things. I guess I'll feed my human rights into a woodchipper."

The decision in Skrmetti lets politicians create their own evidence to justify banning necessary healthcare. It's bad, writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Not just for trans people, but for anyone whose healthcare is or could potentially be politically contested. Read more here:

Skrmetti seems like one of many modern SCOTUS decisions that future generations will look back on as the Dred Scott of our time

When you call your senators, tell them the part that strips trans people of gender affirming care in the BBB is section 71117. They can only pretend they don't know for so long. Call and point section 71117 out to them. Show your senators YOU give a shit about trans people.

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.

meanwhile in America...

This kind of weird way of thinking about time reminds me of in Hitchhikers Guide where they talk about how everyone remembers a time before time travel, but once time travel was invented it was suddenly in every time, and no one knows when it was invented lol

Forcing people to work for no pay is very on brand for the president. The thousands of National Guardsmen President Trump sent to Los Angeles in an authoritarian power play are working for free. https://trib.al/7tS6NOP

Cassidy is also a monster who has been targeting other kinds of healthcare providers for a while now. He's a vocal opponent of gender-affirming care and abortion rights, and has been using his position as senator to bully providers

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

hard to predict the vibes tomorrow, but historically the instigators most likely to disrupt a protest with violence are the police

About "nonviolence"— The definition of "violence" is not neutral. What counts as violence is determined by those who control public discourse. This is why police can terrorize people without it registering as violence, while the slightest act of community defense is framed as "violence." 🧵⬇️

This is a terrifying but sobering thought. Everything he does is about how it can be spun to position him next to people he thinks are the "greats." Other than money, he doesn't care about anything else in the world. This is why he keeps bringing up Washington and Lincoln.

far be it for me to claim to have improved on fine art but i did my best

At a time when other politicians attempted to distort the truth and disrupt our state, we stayed true to the virtues of the Land of Lincoln. As long as I'm governor, Illinois will uphold our Midwestern and American values — by treating people with dignity, respect, and fairness.

There's a fun little nesting doll of fascism in this, from -They tackled and handcuffed a US Senator -For asking a question of an admin official -Who had just stated plainly that the federal government wanted to "liberate" a city/state from its leaders

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

One more good reason to dump Chuck Schumer right now is that he's absolutely salivating about a pending war with Iran.

Apparently this needs to be said. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it.

Yesterday: Trump scared to death of action against Iran. <Iran a paper tiger getting bagged on the head by Israel> Today: Trump takes credit like it was him the whole time. MAGA: “So brave”

Yesterday Trump couldn't answer simple questions about theoretical strikes by Israel against Iran and whether it would hurt negotiations, contradicting himself multiple times. I think it's clear he actually genuinely had no idea about this, which shows how little he matters on the world stage.

No war with Iran. No war period.

imagine this consistently underperforming people's worst expectations. Ladies and gentlethems, meet: Chuck @schumer.senate.gov.

Marie Antoinette could have written a more rousing response than this.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..

Trump and Musk seem to have buried the hatchet faster than either of them have ever done before. Neither are notorious for letting go of grudges. Which begs the question, who has what dirt on whom?

Downtown Los Angeles Free David Huerta rally just starting. Do not fuck with the unions, folks.

Letter: The expected cost of Donald Trump’s “military parade” is about $45 million with $16 million estimated to repair the street damage caused by heavy tanks. I guess DOGE missed the memo on that one.

People underestimate how little it takes for bad actors to stir anti-immigrant sentiment into a fever pitch. The right material conditions: widespread job loss, recession, a handful of highly publicized crimes.. a platform with enough reach to convince a chunk of the population they're under siege.

So help me god, watching these dems trying to cozy up to musk right now are trying so hard to lose an election cycle that hasn't even started yet

LASD and LAPD were on camera absolutely brutalizing neighborhoods yesterday. "Law enforcement" is not your friend.

Great pro-tip from Reddit for anyone facing off against the ICE gangs invading your neighborhoods “Cable tie rows of shopping trolleys together and tip them over on the road to prevent certain unmarked vans from wrecklessly driving in your community.”

We're all Ghorman eventually

OK, I know more about the CA case and we have more information on the deployments coming out, so a few thoughts. 1. This is a massive overreach of POTUS authority. Using Section 12406 to federalize/deploy military forces w/out also invoking the Insurrection Act is literally unprecedented. 1/

I remember when a particular brand of resist lib was swearing up and down that the military would "refuse to be a part of trump's plan" a few months back and how these people will believe anything

Images of tanks pulling up for a huge PARADE that NO ONE asked for that will cost money & take military personnel away from more important things at a time when Americans are being told we don’t have money for food & healthcare seems wild to me.

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

People outside the US really don't understand how bad it is there. They think they do, because what they see is absolutely abhorrent, but they really only see a fraction of what's happening.