Many of our problems would be solved with more Muppet movies based on classic novels

Seems like the president signaling his intent to use the military against democrats should be a bigger deal, or are we still pretending this isn’t happening

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

Central to fascism is jailing political opponents/dissidents, and the right is looking for any excuse to do so

America is civilization’s most destructive toddler

The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.

Forget the “This is the future liberals want” memes. This is the present that conservatives have created.

Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”

That's ten times what the federal government has ever spent on sex changes for trans people in prison btw

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

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A healthy society would study the ties between conservatism, religion, and pedophilia, to find a means of prevention

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Just to be clear: the Attorney General informed the President of the United States that she has evidence of his child sex crimes, then lied to the public about said evidence to protect him. If anyone actually cared about children or had any level of integrity, all of these people would be in jail.

The Standard interviewed eight homeless women who say the city’s tent ban, has made them more susceptible to sexual violence. “We try to look out for each other, but we can’t be there every second.”

Wow, it's amazing all the different kinds of files they can produce when they want to

Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.

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Wow. @404media.co uncovered the names of additional dozens of people who were disappeared by the Trump administration on the March flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Just to confirm — anyone can buy a mask and an ICE vest, arrest someone off the street, detain them in a private camp with no contact to the outside world, and even refuse to give their information in court?

Last week, Grok called for the extermination of the Jewish people and called himself MechaHitler. This week, the Department of Defense announced it was using Grok as an AI partner. In response, not a single Democratic member of Congress or progressive organization has left X.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

If this doesn’t come up every time Trump does something in the name of “antisemitism” then we are failing

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

Two days after the deadly Texas floods, nearly two thirds of calls to FEMA's disaster assistance line went unanswered — after hundreds of contractors were fired by Kristi Noem once their contracts expired. On July 7, the agency had 16,419 calls and answered 2,613. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

I hate it here

where my Paaisians at

The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.

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Thinking of all the people who didn’t vote for Kamala because she didn’t do enough to denounce the genocide in Gaza

Peace demonstrators have been beaten, foreign students have been disappeared, and educational institutions have been broken and tarred for being "antisemitic" through a series of tortured jingoistic inferences, while Donald Trump constantly and explicitly tells us what he thinks of Jews

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Secret police, from the dictionary: "a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public."

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

Abrego said he shared a cell with 20 people, who were forced to kneel overnight, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.” He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…

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Justice Jackson: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law." "If this country is going to persist as a Nation of laws and not men, the Judiciary has no choice but to deny it."

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

It wasn’t so long ago a moment like this would have ended someone’s political career

They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

The Democratic establishment backing a candidate who resigned in shame after credible accusations of sexual harassment and corruption perfectly explains how we got here in the first place.

I’ve been saying this for years and people looked at me like I was crazy. So glad to see this idea becoming mainstream.

A message from Bernie as we head into the final weekend before the election.

Trump is baiting Iran to attack us so he can declare martial law

AOC: “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. “He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Uh oh. He’s just going to have to shut this thing off.