Sorry to be bougie on Main but what does Brooklyn have against tablecloths

We gotta start somewhere

"The people, it turns out, are far more courageous than their leaders." This is the lesson of 2025.

Nobody talks about out how hard it is to be silly right now

ICYMI yesterday: I need your help   I re-launched my newsletter at a new platform called “Steady” – and most importantly, I officially started my new life as a full-time independent writer.   I am extremely excited this moment has finally come. And I am utterly terrified.

Like all unsolicited advice, unsolicited encouragement can also be toxic. Handle with care.

“Where the electorate is is that they want to support Democrats who are bold, who are standing up, who are fighting against the administration (…) I don’t think the general electorate is looking for permission from elected leaders to vote for someone or not.” -AOC nails it

Good

Going to repeat myself, but a functioning society needs mechanisms to impose consequences on powerful people who lie and bear false witness.

What could go wrong

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

One of the arguments for Dems caving is that the GOP will use a shutdown as an excuse for cutting spending and... buddy, what are you even talking about? For months now the Trump admin has simply disregarded the law, ripping everything apart and stealing personal data. It's already happening.

Gib einem Mann einen Fisch, und er wird für einen Tag zu essen haben. Lehre einen Mann das Angeln, und er wird einen Angel-Podcast starten

Vorankündigung: Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 finden erstmalig die Heidelberg Gender Lectures statt. Mit Gastvorträgen von Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim), sowie Beiträgen der Heidelberger Gender & Queer Studies. Mark your calendars, das wird wundervoll!

Such a petty little bitch

War criminals

What, no presidential immunity? SMH

Elections have consequences

me: maybe i can gain clarity by going over my notes my notes:

A few details are off but yeah

Der Journalismus ist so kaputt in Deutschland. Wenn Flaggschiffe wie die ZEIT nicht mehr in der Lage sind, eine offensichtlich propagandistische Inszenierung als solche wahrzunehmen und einzuordnen, müssen wir uns auch nicht mehr über Bild und Nius aufregen.

My old neighbourhood. As peaceful as it gets.

Arrest and convict this war criminal.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

right now, corporations assume that Ds will never do anything to hold them accountable, so they might as well play ball with the fascists bullying them. when there are incentives on the other side (like, the kimmel boycott), they are more likely to reconsider.

Especially now that they’ve raised the prices #NotGoingBackToDisneyPlus

Democrats just generally neeed to start issuing a lot more threats

It is called forced disappearances and is blatantly illegal and a signature of authoritarianism.

A win to build on

He launched a more powerful defense of journalism than the vast majority of mainstream journalists have and that's an indictment of them.

the nobel prize has a chance to do the funniest thing possible,,

CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns. As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.

Firing Colbert was also not a business decision

Trumps Angriff auf "die Antifa" ist leider kein Witz und wir sollten ihn auch nicht so behandeln. Stattdessen sollten wir uns auf ähnliches in Deutschland vorbereiten und Solidarität mit Antifaschist*innen in den USA organisieren. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

My optimistic take: Trump Regime is a house of cards. It demands the collaboration (and cowardness) of so many to keep this unpopular & dangerous regime in power without accountability. Once our pathetic Business & Media & Political Elite start to break against the regime, they will all break.

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

Last year Jack posobiec’s wrote a book called “unhumans” that’s main argument was that democrats and more broadly anyone left of Franco was a degenerate who needed to be eliminated with genocidal brutality.

Maybe the broken escalator at the UN was the rapture — in the end, no one made the cut and Trump and Melania didn’t make the cut the most

‘…designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.’

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

They hate women and want us to suffer That’s what to make of the ridiculous “medical advice” from our dumbass government

“The Trumpist right has baited the media into inflating Kirk’s cultural and societal importance far beyond that, into deifying him as akin to a world-historical martyr—and into exaggerating the hold that Trumpism has on the culture writ large.”

again, fwiw—the neoliberal ideology of free markets is entirely compatible with, and interdependent with, white supremacy, because both rely on the myth of meritocracy.

Pretty much all I can do bro

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

My God

Chicago's ICE protests are clearly having a big impact.