Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

ah, you're mad about the left. when you talk about "the left", are you talking about any significant group or even a particularly important individual, or are you mad at a post online ... "mad at a post online", i see!

when the creators of Idiocracy set out to imagine the dumbest possible future, even they didn’t anticipate that there would be this much Kid Rock

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

I am forced to conclude that if you grew up in a society with healthcare and gun control, you simply cannot fathom what life is like right now for most people in the U.S. It’s not just the current regime. It’s the full weight of a lifetime of knowledge that your life is disposable.

Gonna start yelling at people about the Dow every time I am in the wrong.

This is a Parker Posey character

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

“and then this motherfucker puts a FEATHER in his CAP, and you are not gonna believe what he called that shit. guess. just fuckin guess.”

If the people destroying the world are the same ones building the lifeboats, the lifeboats won’t save us.

President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Kid Rock played Warped tour Austin in '98, and everyone was throwing shit at him the whole time because he sucks shit, so my friend decided to launch a turkey leg at him and nailed his ass

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

These guys will be like, "The left live in bubbles and are out of touch with the average person!" and then be like, "No, I haven't heard of the most popular musician on the planet. Instead, they should hire this ancient irrelevant right-wing crank."

I just sighed the deepest sigh of my life.

I've been mostly away from social media all day... and just learned that the current WH office holder is still mad about the Obamas in particular, and Black folks in general. Utterly pathetic, and so is everyone who supports him.

Trump’s a fascist, but no he didn’t disgrace the National Prayer Breakfast. It *is* a disgrace. Yes it’s “bi-partisan,” if GOP dominated. It is also a private Christian nationalist event produced by an organization tied to 1/2 the dictators of the last 80 years. & literal Nazis.

Even if ICE did show up with guns and masks and their little Klansmen trading cards, I would walk right past them with my legal ID to go vote. And ICE isn't going to show up anyway. Just like the Proud Boys didn't. Because there aren't enough of them and the ones they do have on hand are lazy.

The US healthcare system is garbage. When I have a patient who has belly pain to the point of tears, vomiting and diarrhea with blood from both ends, and doesn’t want to go to the ER because of cost. We have enough money for universal healthcare but capitalism and the eugenicists running the country

The problem with being able to afford anyTHING is that eventually you hit the reality that you can't afford everyBODY. Because the best people aren't for sale. They have intellectual and moral standards that you have to reach to be with them.

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

There shouldn't be election debates with Republicans. Our response should be "It's generous of us to not make you live in a zoo"

People are asking a lot “how is this happening?” It’s happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades it’s happening — you can’t dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

For example the video yesterday of "ICE IS GASSING A DAY CARE RIGHT NOW!!" is the daycare right up the street from my house. I about shit my pants and raced out the door until I saw it was actually from Saturday. I already dealt with that daycare gassing, thank you. Please don't lie to me for likes

ummmm you don't understand, MY family came here legally. They had to meet rigorous requirements like, "get on a boat", and "don't shit yourself to death on the boat before it gets there"

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

"Are the guys who keep marching with swatiskas comparable to Nazis?" is a very stupid question, you guys

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Fuck off forever, you fascist dipshit. May the gaping maw in your soul be reflected back to you every day for all your remaining years.

one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces

Polishing the biggest turd in the river whole telling everyone it's a prize-winning fish, you've got to admire the sheer feckless stupidity of it.

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

“Come on, guys, we need you to help us salvage our Q1 profits”

If you're in healthcare and you are supporting anything ICE does, then you are a danger to your patients, full stop.

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

A decade of trans advocacy has taught me people believe lies because they want to, not because they don't know they are lies. They believe trans people will regret our transition because they want us to regret our transition. They believe we are a "social contagion" because that is how they see us

Minnesotans have been talking about that damned Halloween blizzard for decades but I didn't live here then. I missed it. To my eternal shame. Trust me- marching against ICE during a polar vortex is NOT to be missed. If you go, no one can ever "out-Minnesota" you again. Layer up. See you there.