The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

THIS 👇 HERE......

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

Diana is being held at a facility with a measles outbreak. A facility holding a 2 month old baby. A facility that held Liam Ramos and made him sick. A facility where kids scream “let us out!” They’re denying a Congresswoman entry. What are they hiding? bsky.app/profile/repd...

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.

We kissed the American middle class goodbye when we believed the lie that we’re ALL better off when the RICH get richer and the POOR get poorer. What if more companies and corporations (including newspapers), were cooperatively owned by the employees…

I need all my doomer friends to get a grip. At a minimum, use conditional language, like ”He will try to do X.” Stop giving away your power as an American. This country got through a revolution, a civil war, a couple of world wars and a shit ton of other badness. We will get through this too. 1/2

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Bingo!

Bonus: rep john rose is now running for Governor of Tennessee 😕

Trump's pumping agents onto ICE’s payroll at record speed. He's giving them a mere 47 days of training (Trump is the 47th President). And he's sending them onto the streets with loaded guns and telling them they have full immunity. Congress should not be funding ICE’s abuses.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

The immigrant shredder we built as a bipartisan exercise in good governance is unfortunately voice-activated, specifically the voice of anyone saying “don’t shred immigrants.” If non-immigrants don’t want to be shredded, they should avoid making the shredder feel bad. I won’t vote to turn it off btw

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Man I thought you were joking but no she was winding up to wreck his shit

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

Reminder that MULTIPLE "manosphere" commentators were exposed as directly taking payment from Putin, and nobody ever did anything about it. They still have their channels, still have their audiences.

It’s like Kavenaugh being at the brooks brother’s riot, it’s not just the same problems it’s the same damn people

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti. The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere. www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

was told once there's an old joke from ireland. guy gets the absolute shit beat out of him by some british soldiers. hasn't done anything to 'em. they won't take anything for an answer. "why are you doing this," he says. "you scum," say the brits, "we'll never forgive you for what we've done to you"

You: It can’t happen to me. The state: we looked into this white guy we killed and we do feel a need to bring up these parking tickets

🚨"If you support Donald Trump, never invoke the constitution—you don't give a f*ck about it, never invoke states rights, you don't give a f*ck about them, you don't care about tyranny...you have no principles," -Minneapolis ICE protester in -1 degree wind chill. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Primary every single one of them.

We don't need a liberal version of Trump. We don't need a liberal version of Musk. We don't need a liberal version of Rogan. If your political instincts aren't any better than "the shittiest people alive, but with a different color tie", go jump in a lake.

Head’s up —

It's a real good grift they've got going on, municipalities keep throwing money at them and they have no responsibilities.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

This happened to a friend of mine. Followed them home. Patrolled their neighborhood for a few days. Then there was a door-knock and an attempt to serve an illegitimate warrant. Friend knew their rights (and also had an attorney handy), and they've backed off for now.

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

✨️🍞✨️ It's Saint Sebastian's Feast Day, my dudes. ✨️🍞✨️ Let's lean into the chaos and this time: Bake him into my favorite bread, Savory Garlic Parmesean Monkey Bread. 1/?

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

The fact that Gavin Newsom is even talking to the likes of Shapiro is a sign that he’s a non-starter. I’ve never forgotten how Shapiro said that Trayvon Martin deserved to die. Not fucking ever.