The US far exceeds Russia in total wealth, GDP, and number of billionaires. How did we let Russia outbid the US for ownership of the Republican party?

Vancesplaining Catholicism to the Pope is peak mansplaining.

JD Vance says that morality is not a consideration for the Trump-Vance regime. Seems pretty arrogant of JD Vance to pretend to convert to Catholicism in 2019 and then ignore its teachings and put himself above the Pope just like he's put himself above the Constitution.

Hey y'all, if you have a few bucks to throw at a group that's been delivering food to 90+ vulnerable families once or twice a week since the ICE occupation started (and is still doing it) hit up @southsideneeds on Venmo. I've been helping them out for a few months and they're good folks.

So glad to hear middle school kids recognizing reality. My kid's middle school class fought the pro-AI tech teacher over this last week, and sounded far more coherent than she did.

This is an actual statement from the President of the United States. This cannot be hand waved away as a joke. The man is threatening war crimes on top of war crimes! ENOUGH! I don’t say this lightly: The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked. The President needs to be removed!

An American President threatening to end a civilization is not just anti-American, it’s flat out crazy.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

Have you tried turning the moon off and back on again?

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

What is the point of the Constitution if this criminal is not impeached and removed? Seriously.

Sigh. If only we had learned from the start of COVID that work from home has many benefits, instead of being inexplicably forced back to the office by out-of-touch CEOs.

Release these innocent people from these deplorable concentration camps!!!!!!! All Americans must stand up against this!!!!!!!

Iranians turn against Trump who presented himself as their saviour just a month ago. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

If someone is providing info to our enemy Would they not also be our enemy 🤔 So a potus having secret conversations with said person be treason 🤔 & Isn't putting our troops at risk for no clear reason also treason 🤔 & Ending at home surveillance for terrorists, putting us at risk, also treason 🤔🤬

IMPEACH TRUMP OR HIT HIM WITH THE 25TH AMENDMENT. DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO REMOVE HIM. IF YOU DON’T HE’S GOING TO USE NUKES. ALL OF THIS SHIT IS NOT FUCKING NORMAL. WAKE UP.

Trump does not have the authority to start a war in Iran. And yet, he’s moving in the direction of committing ground troops. If Republicans in Congress do not want to serve their constituents or their constitutional duty, they should just resign.

One important reason to create a new federal government rather than tinker with this broken one is that no other country will ever trust the US without a clean break from the pariah that we have become.

I have seen conflicting reports. Is Russia helping Iran target US soldiers? Or is Russia paying bounties to Iran for killing US soldiers like they did in Trump's first term? Did Trump allow Russia to sell oil last week so Russia would have the money to pay bounties?

Thanks to my kid, I know the term speedrunning. As in, Trump and his crew are currently speedrunning the Nazi Germany DLC. Can we skip ahead to the part where Nazi Germany is defeated and the remaining leadership is put on trial and locked up?

Today the United States wasted another #1B on an illegal war in Iran, money that could have been spent on funding health care or providing SNAP benefits or cancer research or academic scholarships for minorities. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. #endtheiranwarnow

We started with restrain ICE. Then reform ICE, then landed squarely on abolish ICE. But I’ve moved on to prosecute ICE y’all. Every last one even if it takes 20 years of trials.

Tonight we eat Noementaschen.

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Some of the spam I receive claims to be hackers who are in my computer/phone. Hackers, if you want me to believe your credentials, get rid of all my other spam so you're not lost in the noise. Then we can talk.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Comments are worth reading.

This ad should concern Susan Collins.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.

The USA now has CONCENTRATION CAMPS The USA is torturing, starving, and killing adults and CHILDREN in these CONCENTRATION CAMPS Sick Disgusting Abhorrent WHAT HAPPENED TO NEVER AGAIN

Trump and RFK Jr are working to destroy Moderna, destroy vaccines, and put us all at more risk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Clergy friends, your moral voice matters so, so SO much in this moment. In the public square. Pushing your electeds. With congregants. At actions. Teaching the truths of your tradition & using the authority of your office. & calling in all that damn social capital. What ELSE is it FOR

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

@deardara.bsky.social is awfully good. deardara.com/so/adPmSCLoz...

Open letter to our Senators: Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow. We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.

Friday, Jan 30—National Shutdown General Strike! No Work. No School. No Shopping. Stop Funding ICE. Migrating more than 3,000 miles from the northeastern U.S. to southern Mexico, the monarch butterfly has become a powerful symbol of the immigrant rights movement. nationalshutdown.org

One of the mind-boggling aspects of Tom Homan taking a $50,000 bribe to steer federal contracts and still having a job rather than being in jail is how small-mindedly low-rent Homan was. Homan can steer billions. Taking a bribe of 0.000001% is pathetic. Still worth prosecuting him, obvs.

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

ICE needs to be DISMANTLED NOW. Unconditionally. Not “Reigned In” (Sorry Tina Smith), not Reformed. ICE is an agency that is operating outside the law and murdering people. ICE is not redeemable. Alex & Renee deserve Justice. END ICE.

Stand With Minnesota words by Alex Pretti guitar by Evan Handyside illustration by MJ Hiblen

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

"Today we remember that freedom is not free. We have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it. May we never forget and always remember our brothers and sisters who have served so that we may enjoy the gift of freedom." [1/2]

A clear, important and moral statement about the authoritarian move in US politics from one of the best voices within the niche hobby that I love. youtu.be/FwWjbq4tm3o?...

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices