You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

There are few illusions that are stronger than American Exceptionalism.

""He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father." RIP, Alex Pretti. apnews.com/article/immi...

..."his parents say." 💔

"The Vice President keeps telling everyone that these people will have full immunity. And what I'm telling you is: they will not." Walz 🔥

Good for Walz for speaking the truth on the neverending lies from the federal government. Say it. #Minnesota

Man, I cannot tell you how much I resent not quite knowing if it's real or AI with basically any visual media snippet at this stage. Great development.

Must be nice to be able to just buy your chosen citizenship(s), I guess. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Quite interesting to see how many entertainment accounts across social media have to be unfollowed due to their glowing Brigitte Bardot obituaries. Yes, she was a model, an actor, an animal rights activist - and she was also a fascist.

Mark Cuban is such a clueless douche canoe. 😅😳

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

Heute vor 35 Jahren wurde Amadeu in Eberswalde von einem rechtem Mob so brutal attackiert, dass er wenige Tage später starb. Er war 1987 aus Angola nach Deutschland gekommen, auf der Suche nach Sicherheit. Sein Tod zählt zu den ersten bekannten Opfern rechter Gewalt nach der Wiedervereinigung.

“When you are a minoritized person in this world, you gotta be mean to get people up off you. You gotta get people up off you.” A message I heard today.

95 Democrats voted for a House resolution that honors a white supremacist and misogynist, calling him "a courageous American patriot" and "fierce defender of the American founding and its timeless principles." WTF is the matter with you, @housedemocrats.bsky.social? www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

Capitalism and fascism really are a match made in (nondenominational) hell.

“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states

Also, it is time to stop calling actions like the ones by Columbia University or Paramount or #Nexstar Media or ABC, etc., "capitulation" or "obedience." It is the enthusiastic embrace of fascism. They couldn't wait, really. #JimmyKimmel

Don't tell me that "people didn't vote for this." They did. 47 and company were extremely clear about what they were going to do in office, including exacting "revenge." People enthusiastically waved "Mass Deportations Now" signs at campaign rallies. And dude was in office before... #Kimmel #Fascism

I'm sure the Free Speech (TM) folks who spent the last 20 years yelling about the evil censorship perpetrated by sarcastic social media replies or protesting undergrad students will get on this issue any day now. deadline.com/2025/09/nexs...

Catching up with the Kash Patel and RJK, Jr. hearings, and man, fascism is so deeply, deeply stupid. Evil, murderous, and revolting, yes - but it's also the dumbest mofos on the planet in charge.

The grifting never stops.

#Berlin Wir feiern trotzdem! 🥳 Morgen (Samstag, 23.08) ab 14:00Uhr am Hausvogteiplatz Kommt zahlreich! 🫶🏾 #AntonWilhelmAmoStraße #Amofest

Deutschland, wie es leibt und lebt.

Ein Pack im AA... www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Lol *tiny violin*

Throwback to a post I wrote in 2013: stoptalk.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/o...

Oh, look, actual censorship. You know, the one where a governmental agency silences constitutionally protected speech. Any "this Stalinist thought police person censors me by contradicting me on social media" folks who wanna weigh in? Didn't think so.

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A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.

MY. BEST. FRIEND. IS. IN. TOWN. - everybody cheer with me, please!

What a depressing #AJLT series finale. One saving grace of the original series was the centrality of the protagonists' friendship. But decades later, the end and moral of the entire tale is that people will be happiest in their nuclear families/relationships, and Carrie is by herself now. Great. 🙄

And this is what happens when the terminally trolling, misogynistic, and racist "men's rights activists" who harassed, e.g., feminist activists throughout the 2010s are in charge now. Too bad that said feminist activists were just "too sensitive" and totally exaggerating the dangers back then.

If you watch Hitler speak he seems so fucking silly, and it took me a while to understand that this part of how fascism gets as far as it does. It doesn't just look silly in retrospect. It looks silly in real time. So silly that Serious People refuse to take it seriously until it is too late.

Good. In the long run, there needs to be a new federal Voting Rights Act that outlaws all such practices - that won't happen with the current SCOTUS, though. In the short term, given the extraordinary danger, fight fire with fire.

This is literally it. Whenever I've inquired further into a person's vehement opposition to, e.g., inclusivity or basic feminist goals, it has inevitably led to a breathlessly told anecdote about how a white woman or a Person of Color was really mean to them once. And now they want revenge on all. 🙃

The "slippery slope" was more than ten fucking years ago. This is fascism (regarding which especially Black feminists have been "overreacting" for the exact same time frame, coincidentally). FFS. I'm done. Good luck to everyone who isn't a fascist or an enabler.

That poor sandwich.

The Philly *police department* dropped two fucking bombs on a Black activists' house forty years ago. What do you think?

i think if they’re just straight up using the nazi fonts and stuff we can skip the rest of the big umberto eco list

Imagine my surprise. Who woulda thunk that creating a tool with biased data would infuse the tool with bias?

Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

My question for Justice Sotomayor on her claim that you cannot retroactively take something that you’ve earned away by constitutional amendment is whether she thinks the thirteenth amendment had the power to end slavery.

The current US government is a white nationalist and Christian nationalist, authoritarian regime. apnews.com/article/wome...

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