@captmarkkelly.bsky.social @slotkin.senate.gov you need to move your objections from the theoretical to the concrete. These are illegal orders. It's time to say that unambiguously.

If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

The public doesn't give a shit about immigrant numbers. The public DOES care about what they perceive as the security risk of people coming across an open border without "going through customs" as it were. 1/

“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Richard Thompson The Bevis Frond Elliott Smith Gil Scott-Heron Pet Shop Boys/New Order

This is what all democrats can learn from Mamdani - tell the story. The public actually does want to know what government is doing, and outreach is a vital part of democracy.

The law is that Stephen Miller wants to reach a big round number.

You've just died. The sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. - Honestly, today of all days, that's absolutely fair.

We are uncompromising in that. Lesbian, gay, bi/pan/+, trans/nonbinary/genderqueer, intersex, asexual/aromantic/agender, and all other kinds of queerness are not just permitted but *required* for the full reflection of the image of God and the accurate representation of the Kingdom come on earth.

"A death-haunted Trump is fed a steady stream of AI-generated news and polls while he focuses 100% of his efforts on building a ballroom that would dwarf the rest of the White House while navigating a series of accellerating and hidden health crises" is my take on the current situation.

I've been seeing a lot of really ignorant takes about the cost to the average person of SNAP, so let's just clear things up. The cost to the average American is not $632 a year. It's just not.

Imagine looking at the last hundred years of human history and imagining that who wins US national elections has the slightest fucking thing to do with "improv[ing] the material conditions of the working class."

I really, really, really love condiments and decided to stop resisting my destiny.

My question going into it was whether Trump was going to be aggro Trump (as with Zelenskiy) or charming host Trump (as with Macron). I was unprepared for him to be fanboy Trump (as with Putin, Kim and MBS) and I suspect everyone else was too. But that was his vibe

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't fuck, At least I can fucking think! I can't keep up, I can't keep up, I can't keep up, Out of step With the world!

Turns out he really did "flow through" her. Good job everyone.

Not pictured: Andrew Cuomo breathing heavily into a brown paper bag.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

He's the kind of old fart who will rant about "the god damn Mexicans ruining the country" and then when the family goes out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant he'll effusively praise the servers and leave a huge tip.

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

The Coast Guard changed its policy, calling swastikas “potentially divisive”. Then DHS lied about it and got caught. This is Kristi Noem’s leadership in a nutshell: divisive, hostile, and dishonest. Our Coast Guard deserves better.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Time to pick up some whistles and make these bastards wish they'd never set foot here.

If you don’t define how a leader is selected, constrained, replaced, or held to account, you’re not designing a system, you’re offering a narrative container that people can fill with whatever authority figure they already want. That's the hollowness at the heart of his entire intellectual project.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control. by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

Half a century ago the white working class got presented a choice between solidarity with their brown coworkers or their white bosses and they've been choosing the latter every four to eight years since then

I would invite any leftist youngster who sincerely believes that the vast majority of boomers are either Trumpers or politically inactive to attend the next No Kings protest in their town. Our elders are (beautifully) overrepresented.

Complicated by the fact that since 2009 the party has also attracted more and more people whose ideal healthcare is "make medicine illegal"

I think we must recognize that MTG is both 1) a human being, fully capable of growth and redemption, and 2) long known as a remarkably devious and amoral political operator. Which is to say that forgiveness only comes from repentance, and her repentance must be demonstrated through actions.

Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans." thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

Yes, but - this makes even more absurd the idea that Epstein would kill himself. He was pulling the strings of a congresswoman to tighten the screws on Trump, definitely planning something. He had the goods - why would he not stick around to savor and use them?

I actually don't see why immigration is seen as so hard for the Dems. Polling is really clear - what the majority wants is 1) strong border enforcement, and 2) an orderly path to legal status. Mass deportation is unpopular to begin with, radically moreso after actually seeing ICE goons doing it.

Reading through these emails, there's absolutely no way that Epstein killed himself. He was a raging narcissist who loved drama, and he had salacious dirt on the president of the united states. Is there *anything* to suggest he would have voluntarily given up the opportunity to talk?

In fairness, TCW lacks a human soul, along with literary talent.

I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel. We have to be SHARP on the left right now.

I will say this to everyone who supports this man: you're on the train to hell, and you're running out of stops to get off.

Having a weird airport thought - it's mildly dystopian to interact with machines in places we're used to encountering humans (supermarket, bag check, etc.) and the best version of the liberal future would automate the back end of these processes, and see real people rehired for public-facing jobs.

Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?

Wanna end up like fucking Labour, with neither voters nor morals nor dignity? Follow the advice of Brian Schatz here. What we can offer the right is a nonjudgmental opportunity to change their deeply immoral ways and beliefs. We don't stand with bigots, we stand with repentant ex-bigots.

I truly, truly do not get what the fuck is wrong with these governments. Kidnap squads in the streets in the US, refugee expropriations in Britain. The average American (and I assume the average Brit) doesn't actually hate immigrants, which is why these policies actually poll so badly.

I was unfortunately not cool enough to be aware of it at the time.

I don't want to care about how his fucking brain works, or what he's afraid of, or how he'll react to x thing, or how other people are doing his social media, or whether the latest Iraq War redux is a fake or not.

Nostalgia is a major ingredient in fascism.

Of all the evils of the second Trump administration, the idea that law enforcement agents should be allowed to operate without their name, badge number and face on public display at all times, is one of the most disturbing. A tacit admission that they know they're doing wrong, and fear justice.

You are not, & you do not need to be, the one trauma survivor who figures out how to "win" recovery by doing it "perfectly" the first time. I understand that overachieving was often your ticket to "safety" back then-- but this isn't like that. Breathe. No, really: breathe.

If we are normal levels of unlucky, the answer is RFK Jr. If we are more unlucky, the answer becomes Pete Hegseth. If we are *really* unlucky, it's Noem and Bondi, at least for Americans killed. If we are *really really* unlucky it is Hegseth again. And if we are *extremely* unlucky, it's RFK again.

Maybe the real revelation they're trying to prevent coming out is that Trump didn't get creeped out and ditch Epstein, Epstein got creeped out and ditched Trump.

Trump: [seizing his monkey paw this morning]: change the conversation away from how I said there weren’t any talented Americans