Vance is a political leatherface, willing to wear whatever skin is convenient, absolutely uncaring about who he has to hurt along the way. Underneath whatever skin he’s wearing at the time, there’s nothing concrete, just an inchoate desire for power, whatever it takes to wield it.

live troubleshooting steps: - is it my wifi - is it the vpn - is it our app - is it their app - is it our pds - is it our relay - is it everyone else's pds - is it their api - has the discord said anything - have the homies - is it my phone - is it a cache problem - is it dns - it's above me now

While deeply proud of my governor, it continues to beguile me how it seems so few other elected democrats can see and say the same thing Pritzker says here. It’s pretty obvious to anyone paying attention

If he were serious about this, he would be going "Hell fucking yeah I am shutting down this government. Have you seen them kidnapping people and throwing them in concentration camps? They don't deserve a single cent for their crimes against our republic and should be in prison."

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Protesters were tear gassed, shot with pepper spray bullets and some detained by ICE officers outside of a facility in suburban Broadview Friday morning. blockclubchi.co/3VslkAr

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

free speech libertarians have always meant it in one very specific way: I, personally, should be free to be an asshole without facing any social consequence for my behavior that's it, that's all they care about

Dr: are you high-risk? Me: absolutely, and to what or whom is up to you

It's simply not possible to unilaterally dial down the temperature. Charlie Kirk himself said worse things than ANY of the shit that people are being fired for, ABOUT POLITICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST DEMOCRATS. It's simply not. Us. Doing. It.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Remember, every time they clutch their pearls over something someone said about them, they are lying hypocritical shitbirds.

I guess Trump really did think of Kirk like a member of his family.

Probably the most tragic part of Charlie Kirk's death is that Trump's name appears prominently and repeatedly in the Epstein files.

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

I am not afraid of Donald Trump. I am not afraid of Tom Homan. I will stand up for the people of Illinois.

Love this from Pedro Pascal at Cannes: "Fear is the way that they win, so keep telling the stories and expressing yourself and fighting. F*ck the people that try to make you scared and fight back. Don’t let them win"

Good to see Schumer react seriously to Qatar bribing Trump. And can't help but note that the prevailing argument for nearly 5 months was Senate Dems can't possibly cause delays like this—in response to rights violations, usurping power of the purse, you name it—so stop making unrealistic demands.

Incredible that @bencollins.bsky.social can even stay in business when reality is serving this up for free

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

Reminder: Impeachment is the legal, nonviolent route to removing a President. It is the path that the Constitution provides to protect democracy. Impeachment is the remedy when a President commits impeachable offenses. It's that simple.

May Day protest. Chicago. Chicago is a union town! THOUSANDS. Maybe tens of. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501chicago.bsky.social

The American Dream is that this is a place where anyone, even a black dude named Hakeem, can wind up as House Minority Leader and be a bland seat-filling accommodationist.

I was JUST saying to myself, "self, I'd love to watch a c-tier fashy-apologist comedian playing a caricature of an even dumber person interview a charisma-less damp walnut going through a very public midlife crisis"

You're a fucking debacle

I maintain that if Trump wasn’t so insistent on tanking the economy, we would be in a far worse place. Guy can’t even do a fascism competently

Snatching defeat from the mouth of victory once again. What’s the angle here, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? What are you going to do INSTEAD of keeping this in the news cycle?

This goes for almost anything: ask Trump to explain something. Then ask a clarifying question. See if he can talk in an explanatory way on literally any topic for 3 minutes. I bet he can’t

But you sent a strongly worded letter, right? So it’s all good? No? It’s not all good? Is another strongly worded letter in order? Chuck, start taking real action or get out of the way

What are we even doing here @duckworth.senate.gov ? At this point any vote for anything the GOP wants should be in exchange some sort of concessions. Don’t give anything away for free

And look: I wrote an entire article about how much hope we have due to the fact that fascist power is more brittle than people think. But the takeaway isn't that their fall is inevitable. It's that we have a job to do. We have to wrestle and fight as hard as they did. Hopium leads to the opposite.

Hell yeah JB

We could have had this in the White House; at least Minnesota gets to keep him.

incredible, he's actually going down, what a perfect end to the night how much is Poilievre cursing Trump out right now, he's got to be fucking livid

🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

Shoot this directly into my veins:

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

get their asses JB. fuck them up

Get ‘em JB

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

People calling him the Woke Pope and he was like fuck yeah on the way to the grave

Imagine being so stupid you just voluntarily destroy the economy the same time you're trying to impose your social agenda. Just a grab a bag of incompetent freaks.