🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump is not leaving legally or peacefully. Republicans will be all-in. Time to start preparing.

This has gone beyond touching the stove, we’re shoving our whole damn head in the oven

He's totally become in actual fact his own caricature of sleepy joe

Fascism feeds off rot and corruption and takes over parts of liberal democracy as it dies off. ICE in airports is an escalation of the efforts to extend the presence of fascist violence and oppression into every aspect of our lives. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/inescapabl...

Final note: this is going to make "abolish ICE" even more popular and mainstream

The vibes are increasingly like a mixture between “Veep” and “The death of Stalin”

“The wealthy cultural elite who run the media really, really wanted Trump to win” was a much better way to explain what happened in 2024. And the things we’re learning from the Epstein Files give some pretty solid evidence as to both how and why. The anti MeToo backlash was EXTREMELY important.

Seems like ICE agents have been ordered to go unmasked at airports. So, a good time to photograph as many of them as possible, so details like tattoos or how they arrange their pouches or patches can be matched to faces later after masked abuses.

Doesn't have to be a big old civil war, I'm just asking for [stupid hand moves, spicy voice] a little EXCURSION

"Ohhh do you really think he's a nazi just because he has a nazi tattoo" well kind of but also even if he didn't the reddit shit about black people and rape victims shows that he's a fuckin piece of shit! It's disqualifying! Don't overthink it!

"Oh I've had it with these woke purity tests" nope, nope, purity tests are good, we should not elect racists & misogynists, they will sell us out. This is basic shit!

Also, what's he even talking about in that second screenshot? Here's the clip of Ta-Nehisi Coates doing that same thing in 2024 on CBS Mornings. There's really no need to elevate and applaud Tucker Carlson of all people here. bsky.app/profile/dipl...

Will say it till my head falls off: There is no safe level of exposure to content on X. No one is immune from its effects. One day you're a paragon of progressive thought leadership, the next you're telling readers, "Tucker Carlson is one of the most talented figures in all political media."

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

It's a strange thing, because Americans cannot imagine the reality of being bombed like we do to others. We got bombed, so to speak, by another country, once and it completely changed everything. And yet we nevertheless live through constant daily barrages of gun fire that we metabolize as not war.

It cannot be overstated how weird & groundbreaking THE MAXX was upon release. It was this crazy culture grenade, bridging the Venn diagram between mainstream comics & Alt (not indie) comics. In an era of anti-heroes, The Maxx satirized that, redefining what mainstream comics could be. RIP Sam Kieth.

We need to dream of a future. Not just passively believe in it, we need to actively shame people for formulating the position There Is No Alternative. It needs to become socially disadvantageous to promote that kind of thinking. Build models of the world you want to live in every day.

Going to post this word for word with Trump's name swapped in there when it happens and no one will make me feel bad about it

RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.

"communities with vegetable bans had 30.4 percent fewer Black, 28.5 percent fewer Asians, 7.8 percent fewer Hispanics, and 12.6 percent more white people than the population of their state. Those communities were also richer, with a 73.5 percent higher median income."

Nothing screams “we’re just winging it” like having to buy oil from Iran while in the middle of a war with Iran.

I pick my college kid up on the weekends, we grab some coffee, come home and talk about our week while doing a page each of a sticker book. Then we hang them on the fridge and cook dinner.

Widen your gaze and look upon Lebanon. Nearly a million people have been displaced by Israel in the past 3 weeks. They've been told not to return. That's ethnic cleansing. The last time Israel occupied Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah was born. What horrors will be unleashed now?

"USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025." did the US Navy post a profit last year?

While this would be an unusual outcome for a civil fraud trial, I believe he should be given the death penalty

Reminder that the mobsters fabricating charges of antisemitism to extort colleges in one of the most expansive racketeering scams in American history are literal, sieg heiling Nazis.

Sitting here as a Black person, thinking about how I am not allowed to say “I told you so” in a few years when the guy with the SS tattoo turns out not to be a key ally for multiracial democracy

As always, "how are we going to PAY for it?" is an expression of priority, not of capability.

I will leave you for the evening with this thought: Nazis bad

I don't know, guys, feel like I'm seeing more casual antisemitism around here in the past three months than I did in the previous 39 years of my life.

People with bios that say “I Punch Nazis” declaring that they aren’t surprised by Joe Kent revealing to Tucker Carlson that Charlie Kirk was killed by Israel to provoke war with Iran. People have no ability to critically assess information presented to them online anymore.

From a piece I wrote about how every death is not a "death" but a murder. And how the conditions have been purposefully created to cause massive suffering, including but not in any sense limited to systemic murder.

Similarly, I have no patience for Graham Platner constantly talking about how Susan Collins voted to send him to Iraq. Platner joined the Marines after the war started. Collins simply didn’t vote to send Graham Platner anywhere. He sent himself.

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

We’re told there’s no money for universal healthcare or to end hunger in this country. But somehow $200 billion more for war will likely move through Congress without question.  Not another penny for another endless war.

Please remember that the national debt does not matter to the media when the president is a Republican.

as a Black man i want yall to know Blackness has nothing to do with this misogynistic mess

As long as there is mass media people who are stars of the silver, TV, and phone screen are going to be popular. Don't really know what you do about that

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

AIPAC is straight up evil, tbh

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

I genuinely have to stop wasting time here but the thing is, right, every EV that already exists just keeps getting cleaner as the grid itself gets cleaner. That's like the whole point. Whatever mental framework you have which is "ideal" is the one we *are in fact working towards as we speak*

America has to address its compulsion to coddle and enable white men. They cannot remain a protected class of wide-eyed innocents that is also in charge of every fucking thing.

It’s crazy how all these people are literally cartoon villains.

The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density. Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.

Years ago, I made a joke about billionaires on Twitter without mentioning anyone by name, and this guy, whom I've never followed and never exchanged any messages with, blocked me. So I guess he uses the time other people use for introspection on seething resentment instead.

Let's presume this ridiculous lie is true. It would only make his failure to prepare for it that much more inexcusable.

Criminalizing reproductive health care takes an ominous new turn (paywall) as California doctors are pursued by prosecutors in Southern States where maternal death rates are rising fast because of post-Dobbs laws written by ignorant legislators.