Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Abraham Lincoln famously said that "in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail. Against it, nothing can succeed." The crimes they are committing are horrific but keep that public sentiment in mind: neither their agenda nor their M.O. is popular.

As a key element of the Trump 2.0 is an attack on “publics” that is a shared public’—broadcast, social and “old media”, universities, and innovation structures, a strategy of resistance is to support counterpublics. Counterpublics are alternative publics develop their own discursive strategies.

Remember when Hillary Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable“?

It’s great that companies start out like, “We have a fun new app where we deliver fresh fruit to your door” and then ten years later, “NEW: FRUITMAIL DEVELOPING AUTONOMOUS SWARMING EXPLOSIVE RECTAL DRONES DESIGNED TO HUNT DOWN THISE WHO WERE MEAN TO THE PRESIDENT KING SO AS TO EXPLODE THEM RECTALLY”

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

THAT IS THREE AND WE ARE MOVING ON!!!!!!!!

Tigers Win! I was never not nervous!

3 outs to go…

That umpire's punch out motion is smooooth.

Let’s go Vest. Make me eat all the bad things I’ve ever said about you.

Two on, nobody out. Now finish them. #Tigers

there will always be people preaching capitulation as if its strategic. you should always ignore them.

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

This fact is not breaking through. Republicans have the power to open the government by themselves. They just need to use the “nuclear option” to suspend or change the filibuster. Rs nuked three weeks ago for judges, so we know they’re able. But they’d rather keep it closed and blame Dems.

Confirmed. The plans are *slightly* different because carriers make tweaks from year to year, but are virtually identical. This is useful to be as I didn't think any of the state-based ACA exchanges had launched 2026 window shipping yet, nor did I know Georgia's 2026 rates had been finalized.

The radical left wants you to have access to healthcare and that's why they shut down the government

Jahmai Jones was a .407 hitter with RISP this season, with more walks than Ks. He struck out. Tigers are 1-for-11 with RISP today, and have left 11 runners on base.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

It’s really hard to listen to Rs when they are talking about fiscal responsibility when I see: 20B to Argentina A plane we are retrofitting for 1 T that will never be used by a sitting President 24 karat gold Oval Constant cosplay trips by Secs. 800 Generals to DC for what? Nat Guard I see WASTE!

Hahahahaha

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

This is the thing they'll never understand about "wokeness" or "political correctness" - huge organizations didn't implement these policies because of "cancel culture" or secret communists, they did it to stay competitive and viable. It's what people wanted

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Convincing colleagues to vote with them is the literal job of politicians - if they can’t do that, they can’t do their jobs. They own this shutdown and all of the consequences.

Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition. And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%. That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?

the regime is now blocking elected politicians from being sworn in

The Secretary of Leviticus has convinced me to plant some banana trees in our back yard so wish me luck!

One of these is not the same. "Recount familiar partisan complaints"

Boasting about random murder just like a fucking serial killer.

Been thinking a lot on this MLK Jr. quote lately: “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice…”

BREAKING: Michigan church shooting suspect went on anti-LDS tirade, political candidate said

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

MSU volleyball beats Michigan 3-0. Last night the Spartan men's soccer team beat them 2-1 in Ann Arbor. Another great weekend to be a Spartan.

Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power

Got my performance review.

War ravaged Portland

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

"Would you say the US is in a political crisis?" Yes: 79% No: 18% Quinnipiac / Sept 21, 2025

Watching Michigan soccer players flop all over the pitch against MSU. Too funny.