raging my way downtown

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said. Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%. Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

Blacks and minorities thought that Obama's election signaled that America was finally ready to listen. The Right thought that now that they'd "allowed" one of "Those People" to be elected, that Blacks and minorities would have to shut up.

"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." —Ignazio Silone (1938).

WotC on fire today with MTG FF

Are our headline writers trying to make us look like useful idiots?

If you (claim to) believe that opposing racism is the cause of racism, you have neatly given yourself an excuse not to oppose racism, and to oppose those who do. This is the fascist core of reactionary centrism, which ultimately aspires only to maintain a racist status quo.

Did he have his face dipped in dog shit this morning cuz it left a ring!

This man defies parody

Slow zoom in on this guy's face, add a piercing, increasingly high pitched noise, and it's just an A24 trailer for a horror movie called "How Everybody Died."

I’m assembling a team of the least media savvy political leaders in history

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

I forget who made this point already this morning but guys, it's *good* if the word "deportation" becomes associated in voters' minds with US citizen pediatric cancer patients. stop correcting the headlines.

normie dem politicians need to stand in front of a mirror this morning and practice saying “rogue agency.” say it as many times as you need until you can do it smoothly on TV

This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

you wanna talk about waste and fraud? trump went all the way to rome just to take a nap

Right now, DOGE / Musk / Trump appear to be violating Americans' privacy in two ways: 1. Stealing ("exfiltrating") data: transmitting it outside the government, possibly via Musk's Starlink 2. Combining data *within* the government into cross-agency mega-databases Both of these are illegal.

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

Imagine breaking the ncaa national football champ trophy in half and killing the pope in the same week.

We did not fail to see it.

3/ It appears to essentially abolish what we now know as the foreign service. Immediately ends the foreign service exam. Institutes new system based on things like "demonstrated charisma", "verbal authenticity", "alignment with President's foreign policy vision", et al.

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Also the Maryland AG should file kidnapping and human trafficking charges against the individual ICE agents. Sue them as DOEs until the AG's office can figure out who they are. Pit state LEO against federal LEO. And, FTR, ACAB always—except in this limited circumstance. INDICT THESE FUCKERS.

Atlantic Writer who has only ever written "wokeness has gone too far" op-eds seeing authoritarian government send masked secret police to kidnap students for what they wrote in the student newspaper: "getting some real 'wokeness has gone too far' vibes from this"

Just to remind everyone: this is *our* fucking money--locally raised tax dollars--that Congress simply won't let our government spend, for no reason other than spite. This is why DC needs statehood. But also, this is just petty, petty bullshit by House Republican leadership.

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

DOGE forced their way into National Labor Relations Board's computer systems. A heroic employee saved logs of their activities. Including a login attempt from Russia.

Yeah, it's the people describing him as the father of an autistic child who are "sensationalizing" this, and not the people who are insisting this guy with no criminal record is actually some sort of Super Terrorist Voltron who's worse than Osama bin Laden, MS-13 and Pablo Escobar combined.

[Watching Republicans act in line with dominant Republican orthodoxy since 1945]: What are you, a bunch of Democrats? jessesingal.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Stephen Miller must go to prison. As the architect of a conspiracy against America and against human rights. Miller is behind actions like this. I will work for any Democrat who runs on that platform. theintercept.com/202...

the fact that there are many details in the report that are just observably false is a good reason news organizations could, if they wanted to, deny it the presumption of proof and cover the president's health as if it's a scandalous question

Classic Jesse to be incensed at the person debunking transphobic nonsense rather than the people peddling it.

DAMN JESSE I WONDER WHY ANYONE WOULD NEED TO SPEND 40 MINUTES REFUTING COMPLETE HORSESHIT ABOUT TRANS ATHLETES

God he is just so relentlessly pathetic. "Baffling". Yeah why are they talking about one of the THE hot button issues of the moment. He knows exactly why they did it. The things he chooses to lie about are insane

i don't even think anyone who cites the cass report as an authority actually read it. it could have just been 12,239 pages of lorem ipsum and its proponents would talk about it exactly the same as they do now

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

I think about this 1952 Truman quote a lot: The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat

The Roberts Court for every Trump case: Stop overreacting. The law still exists. Just not in this case. Or the next.

@hueyli.bsky.social is absolutely right. The closest historical analogue to what DOGE is doing to our government right now is the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976 in China. We’ve got a long, dark road ahead of us.

"For Gilliam, totalitarianism isn’t (just) evil because it wants to torture and crush people. It’s evil because it has no mechanism for accountability." observer.com/2025/02/terr...

probably not the entire Neo-fascist moment, but large parts of it, could have been strangled in it's crib by taking the law seriously when it came to rich people and right wing politicians, rather than pearl-clutching about slippery slopes or the appearance of impropriety.

At some point there's going to be a serious reckoning over the fact that a large part of the reason for the surge in lawlessness was the Respectable Mainstream Press extorting the authorities into non-enforcement of the law against very obviously guilty rightist criminals basically just For Teh Lulz

Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

Let the record reflect Donald Trump did not spend the weekend in the office working to mitigate the deepening global crisis he gratuitously caused last Thursday. He spent it playing in the seniors club championship at some golf club he owns in Florida.