“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” —Charlie Kirk, April 2023

The Democrats? Useless. But everyday people? Angry and organized and taking collective action? That’s where the real power lies. That’s how we win. 👊🏽✊🏽🙌🏽

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.

Exciting campaign that is already working, with Disney's stock plummeting. Let's keep up the momentum!

Everyday the regime crosses yet another line. Time to say No financing for fascism. No dollars for dictators. No payouts for pedophile protectors.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

He’s so close.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

The call is coming from inside the (White) House.

I love how the second part of Banksy's newest mural, which is a comment on censorship and oppression, was done by the very people he is critiquing. Their response was predictable, and relied upon, and imho has created a masterpiece.

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.

The evidence keeps piling up: chasing the right into their terrain is a losing strategy. It alienates our base and makes their issues stronger. Democrats in the US had better take note. Escaping this authoritarian nightmare requires leaning unapologetically into our own story, not recycling theirs.

The evidence keeps piling up: chasing the right into their terrain is a losing strategy. It alienates our base and makes their issues stronger. Democrats in the US had better take note. Escaping this authoritarian nightmare requires leaning unapologetically into our own story, not recycling theirs.

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

Two things can be true at once: John Bolton is an unrepentant monster with an ocean of blood on his hands. AND the FBI raid on his home is a textbook fascist move designed to intimidate the regime’s critics and crush dissent.

Now that’s a hero roll

The attack on DC is not merely an attempt to intimidate, silence & control this vibrant, Black led city. That alone merits our collective outrage. It is also an attack on dissent itself - as DC is the center of protest, of people exercising our freedoms to speak against this regime.

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Texas Democrats just showed what it looks like to be a real opposition party in the face of a fascist power grab. No procedural handwringing. No pretense of business as usual. Just bold, unequivocal refusal to comply. Democrats in Congress: Are you paying attention?

In America we value our freedoms, including the foundational freedom to practice our own beliefs and raise our own kids according to those beliefs. This regime of the bullies, by the bribes, for the billionaires wants to control our lives.

This is what my cousin just got from her kid’s public school in Texas. What part of “freedom of religion” includes forcing the Ten Commandments into every classroom? My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*

I expected collapse to be terrifying. I didn’t expect it to also be this dumb. From Trump’s new EPA chief:

I don’t mean to brag, but…

The Roberts Court, in one fell swoop, has: 1) Allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood even for non-abortion care so to... 2) Rip away people's right to choose their care provider under Medicaid while... 3) Advancing a neoconfederate understanding of our civil rights laws. This can't go on.

If we spent half as much time and energy exposing what Trump is doing as we do reacting to what he's saying, Americans would be marching in the streets every day of the week

We’ve never seen it before because it can’t be done — but the Trump regime is doing it anyway. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress wring their hands about rules and norms and decorum.

Y’all are going to want to bookmark this. ⤵️

We’ve never seen it before because it can’t be done — but the Trump regime is doing it anyway. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress wring their hands about rules and norms and decorum.

Crucial data from @adambonica.bsky.social - and completely foreseeable - www.weekendreading.net/p/the-courts...

Democratic Leaders Tried to Crush Zohran Mamdani. They Should Have Been Taking Notes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

DC weather has me realizing I’m not built for hell. Gotta turn my life around.

I'm sure the Iranian people are absolutely yearning for leadership from the dude who spent his childhood riding ponies around Niavaran Palace while his dad’s secret police tortured dissidents in the basement — and who hasn't set foot in the country in almost 50 years. Democracy at last!

Total rando at the gym: "Hey, hi, excuse me, is it weird of me to ask what your background is to have such an incredible tan?" Me: "Yes."

Your regular reminder from me that a massive anti-corruption campaign could be a mighty weapon against these creeps.

Big mad about what this means for his Nobel Peace Prize.

*screams into a jar*

jk jk it’s all good now u guys 🫠

I’m very confident that just as Trump had no idea a couple days ago what he’d be doing today that he has no idea what he and we will be doing a few days from now.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Never in the history of the world has someone so devastatingly stupid held so much unchecked power. Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle. And mark my words: it won’t just be Iranians who pay the price.

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” —Fred Rogers

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong. What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.

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People keep asking me about the nuclear launch process and the President's power to use nuclear weapons, so I put everything you need to know in this helpful chart.