Friendly reminder: Greenland is actually Indigenous territory, not "other white people".

Flores in Baltimore makes an incredible amount of sense. (Also if we're being honest, his assessment of Tua ended up being pretty clearly vindicated).

A good illustration for what I was saying before about not shying away from taking credit. Dems at every level need to stop relying on national press to properly report on the reforms & fixes they make. Move aggressively to in fix things and then take a victory lap for even the most minor of wins.

it's very annoying to see white people pretend they were born yesterday and ask why media is ignoring the drop in crime. you know why! now what are you going to do about your racist AF colleagues????

corporate media and centrist pundits are largely ignoring the drop in crime because their focus on crime during and after the George Floyd protests was about racism 🤷🏾‍♀️

"they're treating us like we're black lives matter"--is a direct quote from a jan 6 putchist and white woman whining about the kid-glove pushback her lynch mob was receiving from capitol police for trying to murder members of congress and overthrow the republic

Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

So it's a concentration camp.

Going to use this as my queue to climb up on my soap box and again proclaim that the prequel trilogies were actually good, and Episode VII was absolute basura.

“...how did Black feminism become a longstanding historical tradition? In part, by shedding light on the ways Black women’s bodies have been routinely exploited to preserve white supremacy, and by providing a liberatory framework to build solidarity across communities.”

In a frankly bizarre interview with the New York Times, Dan Goldman says he's not ready to conclude that Israel has committed any war crimes in Gaza. Not genocide, any war crimes at all.

dog spit up after drinking water too quickly and I accidentally stepped in it with no shoes or socks on so if you'll excuse me I now have to go hack my foot off.

Since I follow F.D Signifier, I get a lot of these video essay recs. This was one I didn't expect to be that interested in, but it's quite good.

This is why I’m pushing for a state escrow account that holds federal funds before sending them on to Washington. If Trump wants to steal our tax dollars that were legally appropriated by Congress, then we should just be paying ourselves.

If ilhan Omar had a "favorite philosopher" who said something like this, the media would literally hound her into resigning. But they don't even report on the fact that the sitting vice president loves this guy, a disgusting anti-semite

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

As an OR native I'll always be incredibly grateful for the existence of Tillamook products. The ice cream, cheese, butter. All phenomenal. But we have to start being honest with ourselves and admit that their yogurt is simply, not good.

Democrats having no clear roadmap to dismantle the Orbanization of US media organizations and social media platforms needs to change. Breaking up Big Tech, oligarch captured networks, and taking a sledgehammer to corrupt mergers that Trump approved is a winning argument, and there's no downside.

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

The most “vote blue no matter who” people in my life, the most Defend Democrats-minded people I know as recently as the end of 2024 are now exclusively out for blood and demanding Schumer’s resignation and for Dems in Congress to do total obstruction. Its crazy how far from the base the party is

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

“He’s just making content!!!!” Uhm do you know the death toll for US Aid ?

All it took was one (1) Jokic injury for the basketball press to turn on the 65-game rule, and it happened like clockwork.

This is what so many white liberals ignore when discussions happen around Black culture & music happen. The exact same vernacular, clothing, and style which is now considered normie behavior was previously treated as deviant and grounds for punitive correction when it was confined to Black spaces

It is kind of wild living in the United States after rap went mainstream, while having a working memory of what it was like before that. Doubly so because while a lot of vernacular like “baby mama” was popularized, the stigma attached to the communities closely identified with it remains.

Happy Unrivaled Day to all who celebrate.

lovely little logic loop here. the left have accurately described reality, but i still think they're wrong, so what if it was somehow in fact the left's describing of reality that perverted history to make them right. quantum politics. no fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!

The Rooney Rule is a great example of how you can place all the formal procedures you’d like in place, if there’s no actual will for following through and enforcing them, they’ll simply act as a risible fig leaf.

At this point, someone hating on Doechii is a litmus test for misogynoir. In my opinion.

If they weren't going up against the Texans, I'd actually be pulling for the Steelers to go on a Cinderella run if for no other reason than it would make the people calling for Tomlin's head absolutely miserable.

This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather

I don’t know starting to think he might not deserve it.

I remember back in 2012, it became a minor story in the Beltway press that Ornstein & Mann (two prominent polisci scholars with a lot of pull among House reps) decided to sound the alarm and publish a book explaining that the modern GOP was making the entire Congressional system unworkable.

This exact thing should be replicated in every major city. But also: Democrats need to start internalizing the fact that they'll need to loudly broadcast the affirmatively good measures they enact in every single instance at every level. No more of this "we don't take victory laps" business.

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

Look guys, I’m not prone to swoon. I’m really not. But this is ridiculous. What am I supposed to do? Am I made of stone?

He built his entire 1st campaign around "Build The Wall" and then spent this last election having his supporters wave "Mass Deportation Now" signs. And I'm still expected to believe this kind fiction? The endless grace which continues to be extended to reactionaries by some is rather staggering

Again, it’s clear a lot of these people are trying to work out their inner issues concerning their masculinity and we’re all going to suffer as a result.

Scrambled with cheddar or fried hard in a sandwich.

Seems like they feel no need to give plausible explanations because they clearly don't *have* to. They're getting everything they want. That means the lies get bigger. It becomes less and less likely that you'll get the truth.

Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel. There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.

Term limits allow lobbyists to run the show even more than they do now. My answer is to end the influence of lobbying by ending the private funding of campaigns. Just go all the way. These are public offices. They should not and cannot continue to be privately owned.

Yeah people were running that damn "We Are Young" song all the time on my campus. Also this whole stomp clap discourse is making me feel even more ancient 😂

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.