The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

A good rule of thumbs is that if a country doesn't have a strong enough opposition to unseat their own dictator, they don't have a strong enough opposite to fill the power vacuum if you do it for them. Something you'd think the US would have learned after like the 15th time this century.

went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

"This is the kind of liberty," Hunter warned the Confederate President, "the liberty to do wrong–which Satan, Chief of the fallen Angels, was contending for when he was cast into Hell."

I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine

The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.

WTF 🤬 ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.

It really is just simple geometry. You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.

"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Thank you for coming Dude, we’ve had some terrible news, Mr. Lebowski is in seclusion in the West Wing

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

Antifa.

Taking a cue from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social we’re confronting a cheap, gaudy knock-off Leviathan, a fantasy to manifest into being (per @jamellebouie.net). It can’t be the only form of defiance, but it/they need to be mocked: endlessly, relentlessly, and without mercy

This is not a thing — there is no “domestic terror organization” designation — and the president doesn’t have this power. (State does terror designations!) So media: Please make all that clear in any coverage. This is a random tweet on White House letterhead. That’s all.

Protest, resist, yell, mock, organize. Dissent and dissent LOUDLY. We live under a fascist regime, not a successfully totalitarian regime. These people are not bright and they are not competent. They will lose.

Bronzer Aged Pervert

The Charlie Kirk memorial is a combined Evangelical mega-church service and Trump rally. Never has Christian nationalism had such a defining and legitimizing stage. This event amplifies evangelic beliefs as an American value like I've never seen before.

The top MAGA decision-makers are angry and scared about Kirk's assassination and because he was a big deal to them, they're acting as if everyone cares as much as they do. But we don't and they can't make us.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

SEND A MESSAGE TO PAM TELLING HER THAT WE CAN'T DELAY ANY LONGER, IT'S KILLING OUR REPUTATION AND CREDIBILITY

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Stipulating that 100% of this is violence, the physical violence is really frightening. There is no world in which ramming a car, breaking a window and assaulting the driver is necessary. Even if the subject was suspected of a crime, which this guy wasn't. There must be trials when this is all over

i would like my government supervisors to know that i now think slim fit is good, dress sneakers are great, and "fun socks" are cool

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

We are ruled by dumbasses and they need to be mocked mercilessly and relentlessly because they can’t handle it

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

7-ELEVEN CASHIER: Any plans for the day? ME: [nervous, too loud] Just mourning! Mourning respectfully! The appropriate amount of mourning.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

American media has been manufacturing parasocial reactionaries for decades. Limbaugh, Beck, Shapiro, Jones, Carlson, Hannity, etc. The importance of these figures is not ideological purity, consistency, inventiveness, etc. It’s that they keep you company in your cab, your cubicle, on your commute.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism