the thing that’s so strange about the current american billionaire class is precisely the fact that they have chosen, as a class, to forego maximizing their own wealth in order to pursue cultural and political power, not as tools to further profit, but as the ends in themselves

to be kind of blunt, if the hardcore veteran activist organizer expertise that you bring results in "light a dumpster on fire, get mad that this is filmed" it's not really expertise anyone should respect, sorry. don't care how many little activism merit badges you have.

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals

Sorry but I think Jasmine Crockett’s campaign represents all the worst tendencies of the Democratic Party: cynical and shallow idpol, no vision or policies whatsoever, and extremely limited and narrow appeal. That she’s running that campaign in Texas of all places should be totally disqualifying.

"I refused to leave the hospital and sacrifice my patients, so the army punished me by killing my son. I saw him die at the entrance gate" www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

The fact that Vance and Miller - the most powerful members of the administration - are publicly socially intermeshed with open and unapologetic Nazis is the Chekhov’s gun of Trump’s second term, even if the press have refuse to acknowledge. Now it’s shooting us in the face.

Perhaps the most infamous moment of the 2024 campaign - an open effort by Vance to demagogue Haitians - was lifted directly from a specific Nazi source, which he openly reads. Zero curiosity from our leaders about any of it. Nothing to see here, I guess.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael. On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition. ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

People who claimed that both sides and sat out the election or voted third party effectively decided that to them the lives of, to date, 757,314 people, mostly children, were not worth saving.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove. donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.

The Founders (rightly) thought financial corruption was so concerning they banned it in the Constitution three separate times: the two emoluments clauses, and the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Starting in 2017, America decided it just kinda didn't matter anymore, whatcha gonna do.

there is an ingrained self loathing baked into the upper echelons of liberal society that just wants to be mocked as hypocritical and obnoxious by a reactionary that looks and talks like them.

a lot of american politics fails because politicians want to pretend their job isn't political, its fucking bizarre and inane

also an aside, a partisan political attack on our democracy was never going to have a non-partisan legalist solution, its a fundamentally a political problem

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

I think there's a legitimate social identity of despair in social media where you basically need to constantly perform (already existing but in a lesser form) despair in order to reaffirm yourself as part of the group

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...

Our entire political system is set up to funnel money from cities to rural areas. They are over represented in every legislature. And yet, they still cling to this nonsense. We should cut them off and let them wither.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

it's pretty incredible that for better or worse 'woke' was sort of organically on it's way out due to general thermostatic backlash and then the federal government went full klansman and brought it back due to negative polarization.

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

All the talk of "balance" in journalism produced a culture where constant sane-washing of the right isn't just allowed, it's expected and required.

It’s all gender it’s always been all gender I hope everyone who called us hysterical gets

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

I’m just so tired of all of these assholes getting to claim the mantle of Real Americans when I live in an America closer to our ideals than any of them

hey europe guess what website the trump regime will spin its greenland war propaganda on. it's the csam one! the one ran by the nazi that everyone hates! ban it. today! forever!

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Why doesn't the UK ban Twitter? Why doesn't Frey order the police to arrest Jonathan Ross? Why didn't Garland go more forcefully after Trump? The answer is that they're afraid that doing anything outside the narrow confines of "normal" will backfire.

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

trained police are allowed to react with unpredictable lethal violence and untrained civilians are obligated to behave entirely predictably to the threat of lethal violence

I totally get how the comments about 'fentystan' or jokes about cousin-fucking are bigoted and mean spirited, but you really have to understand that if you're an American from like SF or NY or LA or whatever the double standard about whose feelings you need to be sensitive about can be very grating

I hadn't noticed this but the victim is clearly trying to wave ICE through, and then they jumped her.

Rehabilitation may, unfortunately, be impossible

putting this in my "Online Leftism is just a subculture for acting out high school bully fantasies grafted onto loosely populist rhetoric, not a real political movement" evidence folder

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

continually tapping the "short form video is fundamentally evil and deleterious to society" sign