in retrospect, dumping the Epstein files directly online to be pored over by the whole "I read this on the Internet and it vibes with me, therefore it must be 100% true and accurate" crowd is a very effective way of delegitimizing and defanging the entire file

Exactly how much white supremacy, public executions, epic corruption, and overall incompetence do Republicans have to condone before Democrats stop running for office based on their ability to “work with them?”

Ossoff is not an alarmist.

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

I wrote a thing about how virtue and community support seem to be incomprehensible to MAGA folks.

#1 most predictable development of 2026: the usual suspects begin teeing up for "the terror troops aren't diverse enough, we must ensure the terror troops reflect the full diversity of the communities they terrorize"

(Jan 1863) Copperheads coalescing around 5 restrictions on slavery: Repeal the Fugitive Slave Act (big) Maintain Missouri Compromise line for slavery in territories Families to be sold together only More training for overseers Slaves permitted to read the Bible HUGE VICTORY FOR THE UNION!

the purpose of Christian compassion is to let it be weaponized against you. you are meant to die of it if necessary.

i'm seeing an increase in tankies in my feed friendly reminder for tankies - please, remember to go subscribe to all of y'alls many, many blocklists the revolution is counting on you to do this sincerely, everybody

Right now the dream of Nuremberg trials, truth and reconciliation councils, etc. is mostly serving the same purpose as a line like "History won't judge these fascists kindly." It's a way of appealing to a more just future in order to avoid the work of justice now.

@tonipreckwinkle.bsky.social Toni, you are listed first among the Democratic Youth Wave PAC's consultant team, as listed on their official website. Does this distasteful fundraising campaign reflect your values and those of the Cook County Democratic Party?

My life long establishment Democrat voting grandpa is ready to see ICE agents get Mussolin’d from streetlights and telephone wire poles. It seems to me that the Democrat leaders are misunderstanding the rage felt by their voters.

Anyway, I stand with the people who say "ICE is anti-American" and mean it aspirationally. I consider myself a patriot because millions of people have sacrificed themselves for the promise of a true multiracial liberal democracy and I think that promise, those as of yet unrealized, is not a lie.

My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade. Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents. #PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis

Jesus placed a child in the midst of his disciples, took him in his arms, and stated, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me." But ICE? kidnapping children. What is happening right now is demonic. This is evil.

Trump loves to use delay to break up the resistance of his opponents. He told you he psychologically NEEDS Greenland. You’ve been warned

Live view of the Air Force One pilot.

If the ICE funding bill goes through it’s because every single senator was fine with it. Each senator has a massive portfolio of options available to them if they want to stop it.

yes! to the anti-ai crowd: copyright. is. not. your. friend.

A: invading Greenland is bad, it would shatter our alliances B: how *dare* you C: so you only care about the neoliberal world order B: that term was imposed by colonialist oppressors, its true original indigenous name is Kalaallit Nuunat C: fuck the Global South, right?

I would have believed this once, but the boat bombings completely destroyed my faith in military leadership. They rationalized them as legit military targets... and then, deliberately violated two of the oldest and strongest laws of war: perfidy and attacking shipwrecked mariners.

jesus tap-dancing christ on a pogo stick if you gave me $1m to craft the most Senate-brained sentence possible, I wouldn't even be able to get close to this

I've just drafted an impeachment article against Donald Trump for threatening our allies with illegal seizure of territory. Send this to your members of congress and demand they introduce it.

If you don't see how that's good actually, congratulations: you have fallen victim to Kant's Categorical Imperative, where a thing is either RIGHT or it is WRONG It's an easy way to move through the world. No need to consider context, you can simply follow the rules and be moral all the time

Gavin "Mike Bloomberg" Newsom

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

unraveled is a good source in these times if you haven’t already followed

Doing more digging on the list dumps I’ve been able to find of this and yeah the “leak” angle here is complete bullshit. It’s a scrape of anybody that has had ICE, Border Patrol, FBI in their linkedin profiles combined with a dump of Brady List databases.

do you think Democratic leadership isn't meeting the moment? you are hereby found guilty of ALL THE ISMS the court sentences you to receive a strongly worded letter courteously requesting you to report to bluesky jail at some indeterminate point in the future

If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

A truck has driven into anti-IRGC protesters in Los Angeles. The vehicle had "NO SHAH" written on it.

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

Minneapolis folks: If that snow builds up at all, use it to fortify your protest with snow/ice emplacements. Our Ukrainian friends showed us how it's done.

some days this is a fine place to read stuff other days I read stuff here and want to just go live in a shack deep in the woods because everybody sucks and nobody's worth fighting for

Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party…

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

This place is morally superior to Twitter for reasons that don't need to be explained on here. But I think the sense that being here is a moral act in and of itself (it's not) gives a lot of people permission to lecture strangers about things that are dumb and also frankly none of their business

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

These people are not slick. They're not savvy. They're not thinking two, three or four moves ahead. They did a raid and kidnapped an adversarial country's leader. Now they will attempt more things like this because it worked once. It's not any more complicated than that. So yes, maximum insanity.

Politics isn’t actually about an analysis of the present, politics is about reacting to past trauma

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to say mean things about free speech absolutists - matt taibbi

Just discovered a painting that really hit me, especially here in the Christmas season. For those not Christian, after Christ was born, Mary and Joseph had to flee to Egypt to protect their baby from political persecution.

Not pointing at anyone specifically, but some FBI docs being released are basically tip reports -- people contacting the FBI with information. Not fake documents, but, the info in them could be 100% false, including from cranks or people hoping to hurt Trump back in term 1.

with the Epstein-Nasser letter, we have reached the "we have irrefutable proof, so surely *this* scandal will be the end of him!" stage of the latest scandal not to be the end of him

The White House is now citing "national security" for everything it does. Seriously, check out these headlines. It's just the last few weeks. If you know authoritarian history, then you know how menacing this is.