It’s tempting to look at this and hear the David Bowie lyric “This is not America”, but it is, on a Friday morning, in a suburb of Chicago. We stood holding signs and flags, chanting and singing. ICE tear gassed us, shot us with pepper balls, physically attacked us. This is America, that is me.

Good thread:

He was an advocate of violence against his political opponents and took positions like “the civil rights act should be repealed,” “the Jews are replacing white people,” and “Ukraine is an evil country and we should let them die.” Kirk’s entire career played a nontrivial role in getting us here.

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

They’re human scum, and their movement makes every dipshit that adheres to it a worse person who negatively impacts everyone around him.

I hate the Republican Party, I hate the lawless Supreme Court, I hate the Trump administration, and all I desire is that they suffer individually and collectively. Whatever Democrat promises to make this happen has my vote for literally anything.

For the record, this is why I HATE 'vibe based politics'. "Demonized if I don't accept certain things" is a very persuasive sentence to the median person if you do not clarify what those things are.

Shoplifting is bad because it raises costs for the majority of New Yorkers who don’t shoplift.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

just as centrist pundits once trekked to red-state diners to seek answers for trump’s rise, they must now do the equivalent for mamdani: join an illegal polycule sublet in the mckibbin lofts

Solidarity.

it’s all a fucking joke to these dipshits. our allies supported us, many gave their lives, and it’s all a fucking joke to this clown. fucking pathetic. we are well on the way to becoming a global pariah state and we fucking deserve it at this point

I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

I strongly believe in a true abundance agenda: -Open borders (goods + people) -UBI funded by land value taxes -Zoning Reform -Gov't investment in renewable energy I think this agenda could make the country more prosperous with minimal market disruption/redistribution It polls at probably 12%

The question we should ask anyone who’s considering voting for Cuomo is “would you let your daughter in Intern for him?”

I love this app most of the time but every time there is violence against Jews in the United States there are two options: say nothing or disable interactions it’s pretty bleak

My take is that anyone who is deported by Trump that doesn't have a violent criminal record should get a green card, a plane ticket back to the U.S., and a hundred grand in compensation.

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

fundamentally it is dangerous and irresponsible to teach Americans they can vote for fascism without economic ruination and it's kind of distressing people can't see that

we should've publicly executed at least a dozen people after the housing market crashed and we are paying the consequences for not doing that now

white collar crimes need to be treated as crimes. if they exceed a certain dollar value they need to be treated identically to attempted murder or murder.

we should've hung ever confederate officer and elected official and basically every adult male of the planter class

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

The people whining about how they’re getting yelled at for driving a Tesla should try biking for transportation so they can see how you get treated when people actually hate you on the road

These are innocent people, seeking asylum, who have been shipped to the comic book version of a totalitarian labor camp, with zero process at all, based on a deeply xenophobic administration noticing their tattoos. It's fascism outright, at home, and history will damn the Democrats who are silent

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

I hate this administration and everyone who voted for it

I will always support the independence and autonomy of my Canadian neighbors. Using economic threats to pursue annexation is immoral. I believe in liberty and justice, not in “America first.” I support any actions taken by Canada in defense of such values and oppose any taken by America against them

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

Beacon of Light, Beacon of Hope cc: @jeremyzorek.bsky.social @milesintransit.com

Terminal rentier brain.

On the same podcast he says he’s [not] a Nazi, Musk makes a classic Nazi claim about how empathy (social welfare programs, immigration) is suicide for civilization (he means white culture). Compare with this transcript from Nazi Fritz Hippler’s 1940 propaganda film “The Eternal Jew.”

there continues to be this strange sentiment that Canada is obligated to not hit back at the America economy during this trade war despite it being an attempt to try and force us into the union

Happy STFU Friday, friends!

this is the perfect summary of MAGA -a bunch of classless moron influencers celebrating the Epstein files -the Epstein files are actually completely redacted because they would reveal that a bunch of right wing politicians are pedos -the very same day, Trump frees a serial sex trafficker

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Hatred of the idea that men--techbros, wannabe alpha males, racists, etc.--might be constrained by social norms and punished socially for things like...being assholes...is one of the major grievances animating this coup.

the other thing is that the right isn't going after corporate trainings, they are going after the entire edifice of civil rights law. do bhaskar and faiz thing the civil rights act of 1964 is a distraction from class solidarity?

I hope that the "burn it down" wing of the left that sat out the election has some practical plans for protecting immigrants, BIPOC folks, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, the environment, and other vulnerable people. Ironic commentary is not a plan.

The useful distinction is “doing-things-lefty” vs “doing-nothing-lefty” The centrist Dems that insist on being nice to the republicans and always moving right are, functionally, doing the same thing as the “no change until the revolution” internet communists

i think whats fascinating is the extent to which this is expansionism for the hell of it. unlike with say israel or russia or hungary theres no longstanding territorial claim, cultural conception of self, religious imperative or security justification. its just the thrill of dominance

We should create some new countries for everyone who believes democracy is pointless and cringe, politicians are all the same, the state is always bad etc and leave the rest of us some bandwidth to deal with actual problems. You guys have fun in your auth-right autarky, I would like climate policy.