Forgive me for being furious whenever my white colleagues seem to be able to commit all manner of journalistic wrongs and be rewarded with multiple income streams while I am left to wonder how the hell I'm going to pay my already exorbitant ACA premiums as I float my living expenses from my 401K

Democrats squandered the energy a massive, multiracial civil rights movement. They did the wrong thing both morally and politically. Then they blamed activists for loss of support.

There IS a time to make the jackboots really hurt you and that time was 5 years ago we are in very different times CUZ LETTING THE JACKBOOTS HURT ON US THE NEWS DID NOT WORK AND IN FACT MADE A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST WANNA SEE COPS BEAT UP MORE PEOPLE IN THE STREET

The brutality of police in America was made plain as day in summer 2020. Less than two years later:

People's Dispatch: "🇪🇨 Indigenous Ecuadorian leader speaks out about the attacks from the right-wing government amid the national strike in Ecuador 'We are community members, we are farmers, we are mothers, we are professionals too, but we are not terrorists.'

The replies are mostly white AI guys upset because people are mean to them about their shit product.

"intended to shame" We need more shaming of bad actors in our society. Trump's shamelessness is what got him in the White House in the first place.

The roadies I know who trash e-bikes are dorks. They should be all for getting more cars off the streets, but their egos can't handle normies keeping up or zipping past. Self-defeating, childish attitude.

This is the main issue I have with so much of the coverage around e-bikes. It's not that there aren't legitimate issues. But there is a panic around e-bikes and crickets regarding the daily toll of cars. And that's because the harm of cars is just accepted. It's baked into our society.

Liberals watched cops brutalize people protesting police brutality for an entire summer and then decided cops should get more money. Now liberals watch ICE brutalize people protesting ICE brutality and decide they can't possibly be Real Cops.

America should listen to Black people

SYBAU

"Trump and his lieutenants are taking sadistic glee in slashing projects in blue states. Guess they’ve forgotten that their supporters live in them too." No, they just don't care. No one has more contempt for Trump fans than Trump.

Those people don't like being reminded of their complicity by the people who were right all along.

Yeah this is the part about "stupid gotchas that reinforce every racist MAGA premise" so tbh I don't think Adam is the one being dumb here.

Here we see why liberals are worthless in the fight against fascism.

(whatever that means)

If you really think about it Jay is the Real Victim™

“systems that reward outrage only make the problem worse”, says person rewarding Jesse Singal’s performative outrage with another platform on which to perform it

It's worth preserving The Norms because once you're voted out for not passing popular legislation you can use The Norms to fight the fascists who beat you.

Wingnut welfare.

Make Fascists Afraid Again

I say: "message received"

How has the "calm down" crowd done with predictions vs the "this is dangerous" crowd since 2015? Imagine still doing the "Trump being Trump" hand wave in fucking 2025.

I do plenty, and I didn't fat shame anyone. Get off your ass and do something instead of virtue signaling on social media.

The judge must not know about the cops in Klan hoods who targeted Black people with impunity.

From Assata's 1998 letter to John Paul II: "It is my heartfelt belief that all the people on this earth deserve justice: social justice, political justice, and economic justice." What a huge loss. 💔

Hopefully the first step in making Israel a pariah state.

Never forget that these clowns will not save you from fascism

Meanwhile, food prices are rising and Congress has cut food assistance for an estimated 4 million people. Eliminating future food insecurity reports will only hide the cascading impacts of tariffs, mass deportations targeting food workers, and cuts to food aid.

"Burt Bacharach once asked what the world needs now. His answer, then as now, was simple: love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. On Tuesday night, it will be Jimmy Kimmel’s turn to decide if he can offer a measure of what we so sorely need."

Mamdani will be Trump's biggest political target, and anyone who wants to run in 2028 needs to back Mamdanis plays in that fight. Or Democratic Party primary voters will tell them to fuck off.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

Suddenly it's incumbent upon Mamdani to reassure "Jewish voters" (which ones?) that he's not a raving lunatic and bigot despite him never having said anything bigoted whatsoever and merely believing that an apartheid state objectively practices apartheid. Suddenly it's about "concerns!".

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

Vaxxed?

In the US fascists don't need violence or coups to take power again because white liberals give them a pass. Confederates were back in power within a decade after our Civil War. The result: Jim Crow, KKK terrorism, lynch mobs, Black Codes, police brutality, mass incarceration and, eventually, MAGA.

The fascists don't believe you deserve free speech. They want you eliminated from public life. It never ends well for pickmes.

The wealth will trickle down any minute now it's only been 45 years these things take time.

Some people say it's because they are scared. If true then you'd think that after the GOP leader sent Nazis to the Capitol to murder them, they'd get over that fear and do whatever it takes to remove Republicans from power. Instead they capitulate harder.

So then why did you vote for this guy again?

You can not peaceably remove a Fascist from power, only violence or the threat of it by implication through mass mobilization have successfully done so.

So just to be clear, we all haven't forgotten that the current President whipped up a mob and tried to have them murder his political enemies at the Capitol, right?