So, as I was saying:

This is a fantastic piece on how central the politics of humiliation are to understanding Trump and the MAGA movement. The right is currently engaged in an all-hands-on-deck effort to *publicly humiliate* everyone who they dislike or assumes dislikes them. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

I have a new favorite Reddit post.

“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry

1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat

Ivy League institutions were/are getting billions in federal grants but Black people never got paid reparations!!!

As in the 14th Amend Sec. 3 insurrection case, & the Trump immunity case, this Court when dealing w/Trump continues to rule as though they are facing a hypothetical scenario rather than ruling in the context of an actual executive whose conduct demonstrates the worst case scenario of abuse of power.

Blame every single Republican. Call them. Start with Speaker Johnson @ 202-225-2777 There's also a contact form at www.whitehouse.gov

Trump is not our king, he is not our boss, he is our EMPLOYEE and he needs to LOSE HIS FUCKING JOB.

I'm a Black woman who can trace her family history back over 200 years and, I'll tell you right now-- if they try to find excuses to criminalize and deport African Americans, I promise you I will act such a damn fucking fool that they will have to knock me upside the head on camera to get me to 🛑.

Such a relief to know the mother and her three kids (including a 3rd grader) from northern NY who were handcuffed & disappeared by ICE are being released. Worth noting they were sent to detention camp in Texas and ICE doesn’t provide transport home. Their amazing community has arranged for travel.

Watching deportation videos has big "packing lunch in a pail so you can go watch the slave ships arrive in the harbor" energy. If you get off on that, you're fucked. Fuck you.

I feel like tomorrow is going to be a bad day so let me just go ahead and say this right now so that everybody can be mad that's going to be mad

Disinformation has destroyed this nation. And now we have a clown in the highest office who should have been impeached and in jail running it into the ground. There will be no manufacturing jobs coming back to America. Who would do business with us?

That is most of the dream, yes. But this isn’t about understanding economics. These people understand America’s most stylized economic fact: any American economic growth that doesn’t benefit white people at the expense of non-white people is not “economic growth”. They’re saying they’ll die on it.

This embroidery in Evanston, IL, isn’t the quickest-reading sign of the #HandsOff protests, but it sure does capture the public mood.

Hi, hello. In order to grasp the significance of Trump crowning himself a King, you have to understand that he is literally carrying out a plan crafted by Curtis Yarvin, a right wing extremist, to overthrow democracy and replace it with dictatorial rule by a monarch-CEO.

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

202-224-3121.

Every morning when you wake in your cot in the backrooms of Trump World Industries, deep in the bowels of TeslaSpace Town, where you are required to live and where you work 18-hour days, don't forget to thank Trump for ensuring you wouldn't be forced to endure a woke education.

Trump delaying the TikTok sale so his accountants can figure out the follower deficit between him and Charli and divide it in half

Impeach Trump.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled the lawsuit of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D student detained for writing an op-ed, should proceed in Vermont — denying the Trump administration's motion to move the case to Louisiana. We will not stop fighting until Rümeysa is home.

BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.

This is the beginning of a massive fall of MAGA. No amount of division, fear mongering, lies, and cheap lines will overcome the fact that you just took many people’s prosperity just because it makes you feel powerful. Mark my words, the beginning of the end.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Same

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

Elon Musk decided to turn a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin into a referendum on Elon Musk. You’ll never believe what happened next.

BREAKING: Susan Crawford has WON the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race!!

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

BREAKING NEWS: ELECTIONS STILL MATTER!!! CUT THE NIHILISM AND GET TO WORK!!!!

Is this your mandate?

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

25:05, Senator Cory Booker yields the floor.

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.

A fired HHS worker asks a senator about layoffs that are hurting services for “people with disabilities” and asks what he’ll do to help them. Once the senator is safely behind his staff in the elevator, he ignores the suffering & replies that the worker is a “clown” who “deserved” to be fired.

Bottom line: newrepublic.com/article/1934...

"I've got a chainsaw... Nothing can touch me... *record scratch* What?! They despise me? I'm so confused!"

McGovern says ~69M women who are married + took partner's names don't have a birth certificate matching their legal name. "Nothing in this bill guarantees they could use marriage licenses ... to prove their ID," he says. "It's about taking away the right of women to vote, plain and simple."

In House Rules Committee hearing, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) rips the GOP for moving forward with the SAVE Act, a bill that makes it harder for eligible voters to register to vote. "The SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill," he says. "That's all it is."

"Ekaterina Diestler?" OK.Sure. I'm positive that name just somehow rose right to the top of contestants with no meddling whatsoever.

You have one job, Wisconsin.

We need to find someone who can follow Elon Musk around and berate him constantly in the style of the mother on "Throw Mama from the Train." "Elon broke his di-ick" in the same tone as "Owen loves his mama!" would break that fucker within days, regardless of truth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC1D...

White people who couldn't be bothered to read the room will most certainly be invited to read me telling them to go choke on a dick when they decide I am overreacting because I tell some nerd to go fuck himself when he tells me to read history books I'm qualified to write. Zero chill left. Zero.

the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda

First they came for EVERYONE.

you cannot bend on trans rights because maybe you're next, but also you cannot bend on trans rights because they are human beings with dignity and inherent value and throwing them or anyone else to the wolves is abhorent