Anyway, here's what this all means. US soybean farmers have two options. Grow something else, or get welfare checks forever. There is no third option.

OK I finally had time to sit down and watch Hegseth pretend to be George C Scott pretending to be Patton Cutting through the bullshit: here's what he wants to change (and my analysis as a veteran):

He wants to shoot a lot of people Fifth Avenue, and on any other street in the land where anyone shows up to resist him.

There is, of course, nothing in the constitution permitting the government to "shut down." This dumb idea is based on a non-binding departmental memo. Like another dumb idea we're living through now. But the first things to go should be: White House amenities and Congressional travel.

Coal is dead ppl stop trying to revive it it's fucking dead get over it

And now the john roberts clown court has decreed that Congress is optional anyway. So why would they bother putting in all that work when they could be out scouting for strange?

I understand comedy is hard work and it's tough to find a paying gig. But if the only people you can get to pay you are the 9/11 and bonesaws regime, maybe you need to workshop your set a little more.

Why do you lie to American people? “Clean CR”? Give me a break. It’s dirty as hell, and working families are the ones who get buried under it. Steve Rattner: GOP doesn't talk about dismantling Obamacare but they're ... youtu.be/H_Oq-FnU5oQ?... ...

He's posting slop videos about magic beds. Imagine if the media was as concerned about this obvious and pronounced mental decline as they were about one debate performance.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

For all fascist and fasc-adjacent people, the only way they can avoid a miserable, sad, empty life is to do the long hard work of becoming a better person. This is the one thing they desperately don’t want to do. Lazy!

We keep each other safe. If you see ICE or if you know someone who’s been detained, call the PIRC hotline: 1-888-622-1510. Make sure you’re using the CLEAR model (Count, Location, Equipment, Activity, and Report Time) when you call.

Fascists are stupid insecure people who are trying to posture at being smart and tough. Sad thing is, all they need to do is actually trying talking to people and listening instead of trying to power play and they’d be fine. But because they can’t, we all gotta deal with this violence.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

Been thinking about this a lot recently . . . If there are no serious repercussions (like, not just losing an election), then there will be no disincentive for this behavior. 🤷‍♀️

do companies like disney and home depot know theyre allowed to fund oppositional media to push back against the lunatics in power intentionally destroying their businesses?

Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it

In the event parks and other former "federal" lands cease to be managed, states must be ready to take up management permanently. The revenue from the lands & tourism will far surpass the costs of staff and maintenance. We should keep it local anyway.

The right has spent decades telling Americans that immigrants are murdering, marauding rapists coming to kill their families and destroy their communities. They encouraged and supported vigilante posses in border towns. They suggested letting Border Patrol shoot on sight. Their brand is violence.

If Sinclair and Nexstar are allowed to bribe their way into corrupt mergers, we must make it a priority to break them up into smaller pieces than they are today.

LOL hulu, are you *sure* this is the right moment to try a price hike?

Disney should call their bluff, find them in breach of contract, and sell the broadcast rights to someone else.

I really don't know why someone would jump in my mentions here trying to start some kind of shit. I will (if I'm feeling patient) take a moment to explain something to them, but if they insist on being stubbornly ignorant, they're gone. Every dumb thing they wrote, gone. Why do they bother?

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

It's pretty ironic for so-called FCC Chair Brendan Carr to be whining that he didn't threaten or coerce broadcasters; he was taken out of context! How dare we listen to his words! It's just funny because he himself engaged in willful misrepresentation of Kimmel's remarks in the first place.

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

Somehow I doubt Tylenol is implicated in the Epstein files.

If we'd had autistic people making government policy instead of violent narcissists, we wouldn't have had all these problems for all these years.

It's honestly so fucking funny that they banned guns at their bloody-shirt-waving contest, to memorialize a guy who valued guns more than children.

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

We need to normalize the reality that he's not legitimately in office, and every action taken during this interregnum will have to be voided. Every "executive order," every pardon, every appointment, every bill. All of it, instantly nullified. This is the singular path to revive the constitution.

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats. So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk was willing to sacrifice your children to his delusional misinterpretation of the 2nd amendment. He wanted to kill you and your family to feed his insatiable god of death. Rational people begged him to stop inciting violence. I refuse the state-mandated mourning for a dead asshole.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

October 14th is a day of remembrance for every decent dead person you can think of. (Definitely not that guy.)

The governor needs to close this facility and detain every "agent" until they can identify which of them participated in these crimes.

Don't be chickenshit.

If you're a trans person, you should prepare for the possibility that every groupchat and gathering is compromised by FBI informants attempting to enrage and entrap you into doing something incredibly stupid that they can arrest you for.

Approving a giant media merger in exchange for cancelling a TV show is bribery. And any such mergers will be revoked (at a minimum).

They are hiding behind their rage and grief to avoid looking at what they are doing Their grief and rage is real, and it very hard to hold space for that when our grief and rage is belittled and dismissed, every time Their feelings are treated as facts, ours treated as punchlines. For years

They're reacting as if Jimmy Kimmel had threatened to read the Epstein files on live TV.

Conservatives do not understand people need to process our grief in different ways (for instance: wondering abstractly how many lives could have been saved had someone removed Julius Streicher before he helped kill millions). Conservatives view it only as an opportunity to cause more harm.

Worth noting even the "true believers" aren't safe. The fash eventually turn on each other, because they are all weak, shitty people, powerless against their own insecurities.

"Their need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural."

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”