One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

I hope both Nintendo and Tylenol take this administration to the cleaners.

I cannot get over the fact that Stephen Miller is a Jewish Person saying this shit.

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

What if there have been raptures this whole time but nobody made the cut?

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

WOW they actually forced this guy out??? New Pope ain't fucking around.

Yeah but white old man feel irrelevant and unable to fuck young people without raping them and that make them feel angy so no more constitution for anyone!

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Was that a full-throated rah rah rah endorsement? No. But she did what you should do @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov and endorsed the democrat without worrying about some BS convos. “Do you endorse him?” “Sure, I endorse any Democrat.” IT’S NOT FUCKING HARD

All Dogs Get Raptured (Don Bluth, 1989)

Lol what if lefties get Raptured instead? A bunch of kind, considerate atheists looking around at Heaven going "The fuck?"

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate. It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free.

I /like/ Mamdani but I do not like how he gets wielded like a cudgel constantly, getting stuff like this where you become the enemy even if you say you support him but not with the right words or enthusiastically enough

Don’t resubcribe to Disney just yet folks. PBS still needs help! NPR still needs help!

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

People will try to downplay this because it isn't the big win they might specifically want, but: public pushback just forced one of the largest & wealthiest media companies on the planet to walk back its capitulation to the regime. And that is power.

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

Gently: instead of whatabouting the Kimmel thing, you can use the win to motivate people who are new to collective action. Don’t punish behavior you want to see, especially if you want to see more of it.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

I don’t think the US public quite grasps how corrosive of an effect it has on society at every level for everyone to know that there simply won’t be any investigation or consequence for any malfeasance or corruption when done by the leader’s allies. That’s the real broken windows

It's weird how modern America seem built for the cars themselves, as if the people in those cars are just little organic parasites, along for the ride.

Every time I log on here and see even an ounce of resistance yielding results, you fucking doomers start in with some shit Y'all are bitchmade, I'm sorry. Sit on your ass alone in your house and cry more

*Obligatory Porn Joke*

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

Younger people won't believe this, but during the Second World War, Disney put out cartoons about how it was your patriotic duty to stand up to fascists, even noting that we'd each have to take a financial hit if we wanted to win that struggle. No, really!

Random passersby while I'm out with Cricket: "OMG your dog is so cute we love him so much!" Cricket: "BARK BARK BARK IMMA EAT YOUR STUPID FUCKING FACE BARK BARK"

It's that time of year again... youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

TBH I came *this* close to taking them up on it...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

as someone with a strong history background? co-signed. co-co-co-signed. you wouldn’t want to live at any point before the 20th century. youtu.be/LRxGuJkiOYc?...

you don’t need to run candidates who have bad culture war positions. you maybe do need to run candidates who code as moderate independent of their culture war positions.

Great post by @laurenshof.online. This stood out as an incredibly succinct summarization of what has been going on in the culture and why even using Kirk’s own words gets people pilloried. connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

Many of them don’t want change or progress, but to cosplay as a revolutionary. Compromise of any sort for the greater good, even if it’s something as inconsequential as aesthetics, is unpalatable.

This is the way.

Trump II is obviously the worst thing that's happened in my lifetime, but it's hard not to love how he's turning so many of us into The Kind of People Who Own a Pocket Constitution.

💯Protest is a numbers thing, so making it appealing to normies is the name of the game. Normies are normies because there are so many of them (us?)

THIS. 👉

The more things change …, News from 1939 Germany from the archives of The New York Times www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Ok so what do you plan to do about this Teddy?

Cannot escape the feeling that people would care more about the nightmare unfolding in Chicagoland if Trump had actually sent the National Guard. People hung all of their ideas about fascist escalation looks like on that. Meanwhile, agents hunt our neighbors and gas protesters here.

Dear god, do I miss when memes and shitposting were the province of us chuckleheads in the cheap seats and not fucking government officials.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.