The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

If the remaining elements of the White Press Corps who aren't MAGA lapdogs have any credibility, they will push Leavitt to explain why staffers have access to the President's social media account in the middle of the night and have the ability to post to it. Talk about a national security risk.

I can’t help but wonder who has replaced him in that particular role. Seems like an important absence to fill. (Jared Kushner comes to mind as a possibility, but I’m just speculating based on his similar network of connections and travel pattern.)

Jeffrey Epstein seems to have been a money launderer and money laundering fixer/coach, in addition to a sex trafficker.

The list of people that have access to this account should be available via the Presidential Records Act.

Also not great that we're seeing excuse making that wouldn't convince a student teacher who fell off a turnip truck. Not that I'm seeking better lying but it is sort of surprising that the pre-eminent institution in the United States is essentially just transparently ridiculous.

“Staffer declared military invasion in error.” “Staffer fired cabinet member in error.” This is the government they created — and it highlights why the government they created is so exceptionally dangerous to national security. The systems and bureaucracy, it turns out, exist for a reason.

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.

Weren’t these the same people who wanted everyone fired who said anything disparaging about Charlie Kirk?

Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him. This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

I was noticing they went from thin and chapped to pillowy and disturbingly wet

They don’t even have to go this high-concept. Make *the people who are systematically sexually abusing children and murdering your neighbors* the villains! Do that little! Why won’t they take that simple victory?

Oh. So, it’s bad bad. Beyond the bad.* And the other bad.** * = The firings. ** = The opinion pages.

Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Palantir fasciitis

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

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Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity. These were the lyrics for a KIDS movie soundtrack.

It really kills MAGA that they have no culture, just resentment at everyone else's. Bad Bunny is the #1 artist in the world right now and won album of the year. Instead of putting poquito de sazón en su vida, they're gonna listen to the guy who sings about liking underage women.

Tonight at 8:30 PM our constituent Ricky was pepper sprayed by ICE on 18th & Polk. 2 agents parked their car, got out and approached observers, started pepper spraying Ricky on public property, and then drove away and left. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minnesota. ICE must be abolished.

TEXAS — “Get out of my house!! U.S. and they’re inside my house with no warrant. They broke a window.” Trump’s ICE goons terrorize a citizen family, including attacking a man when he closes the door as they leave. Terrorizing families. www.instagram.com/reel/DUZl6RO...

“Public outrage at the imprisonment of this small child is why we must deport his whole family” is *literally* what’s happening here. We need a stronger word than “monsters.”

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

The American people as a whole are in a weird place where they're simultaneously hyper-cynical and totally dismissive of the notion there are like 18 different psyops going on to undermine their belief in the concept of society.

this, too, is an impeachable offense

Among (lots of) other things, this is going to flood the federal courts of appeals with cases in which the BIA might previously have cleaned up the IJ's messes. When something like this happened in 2004, the circuit courts ... did not respond favorably to the government's positions in those cases.

Over 73,000 people are currently in ICE custody, the most ever... But that's not the only shocking number: - There has been a 2,450% increase in the number of people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.

To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you

The people whose names literally show up thousands of times in the Epstein files want you to think a 5-year-old refugee and star kindergarten student is the problem with this country rather than the white pedophiles in charge of it who keep stealing American money and assaulting American children

krugman is spiking the football and doing an end zone dance

Someone explain to me why the men’s names are redacted?

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Dilley is a hellhole and we have to get it shut down and all those kids freed.

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

Hey so trumprx actually went live and it's got the same cost savings as goodrx. Exactly the same. However it's worse because it doesn't include generics. Generic protonix is about $6. This literally does nothing. What a joke.

Your suspicion was right. Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations. He’s betting we forget in two years. In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop The things I saw and heard the grief feels enormous and bottomless

They’ve been following all the rules. The cruelty is the point

In the last two weeks he's put his name on the Kennedy Centre, pushed "Trump accounts" for every kid and just announced a new Golden Fleet of Trump Battleships. And we're still in the first year of his term! This time next year, will the date be Trumpday the 23rd of Trump, twenty-twenty-trump?

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

I never want to hear the words, "How could people have let the Holocaust happen?" ever again. This. This is how they let it happen.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

It seems like a big chunk of very engaged people are now discovering in real time what was explained by patty murray over two weeks ago.

They have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.

NPB, aside from its other issues, is the kind of traditional bipartisan event nobody should attend if he's going to be there. Don't show up and observe the norms as if he's a normal president. Symbolism matters, don't give it to him. Let him speak to a room full of only his own braying jackasses.

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity