BREAKING: Don't fall for what Blanche is suggesting - DOJ is NOT getting rid of the whole bogus slush fund deal; it's still giving Trump $1,776 billion AND still giving him (and family) a broad civil release of liability; all it is NOT doing is using the $1,776 to create a fund for J6ers and others.

This is why the Democrats’ nonexistent resistance is so problematic. You can’t just downshift from fascist plunder to earlier administrative hoarding. You have to aggressively reform and redistribute resources in order to escape the death spiral. The longer we avoid that the worse it gets.

When you finally see capitalist incentives all point toward monopolization, hoarding of resources, and the inevitable liquidation through a series of booms and busts, you don’t question motive any longer. You dont see good faith mistakes. You start understanding the real nature of these things.

A lack of class political understanding obfuscates the obvious truth: The wealth and oligarchical classes are plundering what’s left of representative government, social programs, and resources. They’re not there to govern. They’re there to steal.

This was always the point of promoting “dangerous” and “hurtful” ideas as the pinnacle of free speech. That’s why social conventions against open bigotry was the singular focus of “anti-woke” crusaders and the like.

Isn't showing up uninvited where everyone hates you and causing nothing but problems because you're a far-right racist the best way to honor Israel

Another core belief is that if you just got married and you're sexting other people while your new wife is undergoing fertility treatments, well, you're a huge piece of shit who should not be running for anything other than your life.

Everyone should read this! Sherrill and Spanbarger are just the recent examples of electing "centrist" Dems and what absolute failures they are. They are why we can never have nice things. We must vote in more progressive representatives who actually work for the People.

When your team is doing poorly because the coaching staff is making bad decisions and the front office seems to be working for your rivals, why would it be worthwhile to spend time thinking about the rivals instead of fixing the problems in our own organization. We already hate them. Okay. Let’s go.

Profiting off human misery. Abolish ICE and private prisons and fund our families instead.

Most "working class" people don't have jobs handed to them by their mommies who are their sole clients. As for serving "admirably" -- he signed up with Blackwater, he mocked an actual heroic soldier, and he's bragged about desecrating corpses. Mediocre white men are DESPERATE for a hero, I guess.

Economists call this diminishing marginal utility. The first dollars change your life. The billionth doesn't. So the argument stops being about consumption and starts being about power.

An indisputable indicator of media bias is that for the last 11 years almost every story about Democrats in the mainstream media has been told from the POV of what Trump and Republicans say about them

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

these creeps WANT to be called nazis

“The Trump regime isn’t targeting Abrego Garcia for punishment because they think he is some sort of master criminal. They want to punish him because he’s an everyday guy who somehow managed to force the US government to bring him home.”

Ahh no wait sorry let me fix that

This is so fucking disgusting.

An helpful way to think about how much "A.i." we should have in schools is to ask yourself how much cocaine we should have in public schools.

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

After he did it they voted for his judges

One of the great contradictions of the times we are living through is that the people who have seized complete control of the government of the world’s largest nuclear power ARE THE SAME LOSERS WHO CAN’T EVEN BOOK MILLI VANILLI.

ICE is not reformable. ICE is not retrainable. It must be abolished.

the thing is the existing law is *literally Jim Crow policy*, the only reason they banned state public unions was because the then-Dixiecrat government flipped out about a potential integrated hospital union in the 40s bsky.app/profile/spic...

good on senator kim for standing in harm’s way. i said it in 2020 and it’s truer every day: i don’t want to vote for a politician who won’t get pepper sprayed for our rights. get out there and try. try something. stand in their way. make them move you.

And not charge more to affluent white people who can go somewhere else, but target people for whom shopping for groceries is less elastic.

All the people who confidently told me that my views on urbanism, car culture and exclusionary school districts would evolve once I had a kid were wrong. Don't project your feelings of bad faith onto other people!

I think that if allowing Nazis into the conversation was necessary to fostering a free and open society, it would have created a free and open society by now.

The idea of winning votes by running candidates that appeal to bigotry is so obviously wrong-headed. A voter who is going to make their bigotry the priority is just going to vote for the most bigoted candidate. You win by differentiation, not by being the weaker version of an existing flavor.

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

… and bullshit in a soothing voice is actually worse than shrieking bullshit.

No it the fuck was not.

I'd start by talking about what sort of president would actually be anti-fascist, so we understand what that is, so that we might start expecting and demanding those qualities instead of settling for yet another Democratic president who fails to be anti-fascist.

my boy sundar ain't the first brown dude to start blurtin out white supremacist eugenics lines 🤦🏽‍♂️

Presidential assassination attempts that didn’t get close happened in the past too, but you heard about them less because previous presidents all thought strength was shrugging “you can’t phase me, nothing can,” while this president thinks strength is whining “I’m such a victim, soothe my feelings.”

Trump makes big threats he transparently fears to carry out Trump lies that there’s major progress in peace talks, lies that Iran is making concessions, media reports it as fact Iran reiterates its position, contradicting Trump’s lie Trump makes big threats… How many times do we have to do this?

i have told people i know point blank that musk has hundreds of thousands of deaths on his hands and provided links to reputable sources. i did the same with the CSAM stuff. it deeply frustrates me that they just act like its not real

Eat shit and, for the monsters who did this to six innocent people, expect hard times.

Right. I think both OP & I are trying to articulate that Bezos’ correct critique that taxing him wouldn’t get cash into the right hands intentionally disregards that that’s entirely a function of the policies his ilk have worked to achieve & managed to kick into high gear once Citizens United passed

We are so close to pitchforks. These aren’t religious fundamentalists, these are kids watching older generations sell out their future to make themselves gods

Tonight I hosted an arts event for 160 people at the kids’ school. I either want to sit in silence for a week or cry from exhaustion/joy. Maybe I will do both!

/26 But I digress. This gets worse and worse. And even when we get a different administration, DoJ will be permanently crippled by this. You can’t get that trust back. There need to be severe consequences. Personally I think a lot of this is less truth-and-reconciliation and more pock-marked wall.

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

Ladies and gentlemen - I give you CENTRISM. No WONDER we can’t have nice things.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

the fuck it will

Haiti had to pay for the privilege of not being enslaved for decades news.un.org/en/story/202...

I'm sure Adam knows this, but in case you don't: The only people in America to get reparations for slavery were white slaveholders living in DC, who were forced to emancipate the humans they held in chains in 1862, for about $300 per person.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing