And this is why liberals always lose to fascists. They're so busy trying to preserve institutions that they never look up to see that the barbarians are at the gate and already set fire to those very institutions. You either fight these bastards or they will never stop.

The US is about to pull another Venezuela with Cuba by engaging in military strikes and kidnapping Raul Castro. There's a substantial likelihood that it could collapse the Cuban state and turn into a civil war with a refugee crisis in the hundreds of thousands fleeing by boat to Florida.

It's not dominating the headlines because it was a Muslim church this time, and even journalists only care when it's an attack on Christians.

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Most corrupt administration in U.S. history

Just checked and there is no option to disable default AI search in settings which is... a choice, to be sure. "search query -ai" still works, but fucked if most people are going to remember to do that. Really glad I switched to duckduckgo years ago.

Every god damn shooting it's the same thing now, right wing X accounts fabricating blatant lies that mass shooters are trans without any consequences. It's been years of this ever since Uvalde.

Fuck this. #fuck

At New College, Chris Rufo's project to purge the school of liberal professors has resulted in a catastrophic decline in rankings while spending has soared. This was the predictable result of letting a bunch of incompetent, corrupt reactionaries run a college. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Black American should not be given reparations for hundreds of years of slavery. Here’s why the January 6 rioters should be given reparations for a couple months in jail for committing treason

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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ICE agents were directly told to violate the constitution, and the agency tried to hide that fact. Here’s a source: apnews.com/article/ice-...

Last week some of the wealthiest people in the country had tantrums because there’s small changes being made to the tax system. (Not enough in my opinion) while we have disabled people being thrown off the only support they have. While charities are running out of food for people.

The only characteristic of Trump that I find personally relatable is his extreme contempt for evangelicals that support Trump

when I say things like “this is downstream of Dems not believing in anything” people jump into my replies and say Dems believe in abortion, fighting racism, and LGBT rights, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

There was no press conference under way with Trump present making it official: God hates us.

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Please stop saying Donald Trump or Melania's dark past is surfacing. It's not. It's been here the whole time, right in front of our faces and we normalized it and ignored it. The White House is occupied by a bunch of grifting criminals who trafficked children. Call it what it is

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"As they rushed into his apartment...he felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his ankle, knocking him to the floor. He screamed as the dog tore the flesh from his thighs, hip and wrist. Down the hall, agents took a mother and her 16-yr-old son at gunpoint..." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Yes, it's very destructive that he killed USAID, and consequently millions of people, but Musk's most disgusting and devastating legacy might still be him Genghis Khaning his way into humanity's genetic code by having dozens of kids all of the frickin place.

Gov. Gavin Newsom portrays himself as a resistance leader—though in his budget proposal, he is once again attacking Medicaid funded home care that helps disabled people live independently. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing 1947 - Present

It’s so cool how all customer service everywhere has been replaced with LLM chatbots that don’t work and just piss you off, and if you manage to connect to a human somewhere on chat the responses are so heavily scripted and stilted you may as well be speaking to an LLM chatbot

Iran is run by religious lunatics *that the U.S. put in power* when the U.S. overthrew their democratically elected, secular government to ensure cheaper gas for the U.S.

The Pentagon shakedown Congress isn't talking about www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-pentag...

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

I’d argue that this was the week we learned of the biggest Trump corruption scandal of all.

Nothing like ringing in America’s 250th with a full military-style occupation of the capital. Senior Trump administration officials announced today that there will be a surge of law enforcement operations across Washington, D.C. this summer as the nation marks the 250th anniversary of independence.

Across the board, conservatives literally hate everything that makes America great Their dream society is what Russia is today. An absolute fucking shit hole of racism, oligarchy, sky wizard worshipers all empowered by a rural constituency of morons and trash

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Supreme Court actually made a decision that didn't set civil rights back 100 years, shockingly refreshing.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Also, this weird attempt to rationalize the decent into authoritarianism erases the fact that for trans people, immigrants, and a lot of academics fully fledged authoritarianism is already here. A lot of people have already had their lives completely ruined. They're not only halfway to it.

America, where it's illegal to be homeless, but perfectly legal for private equity firms to buy up millions of houses and apartments and rent them back at outrageous prices, causing a rising tide of homelessness.

And the tech companies wonder why people hate them so much.

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

They're really trying to speed run going back to Jim Crow.

What wonderful timing, when there's already set to be a global famine due to nitrogen not flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.