Remember, these people are completely venal as well as stupid and evil.

Some douche just blazed right through the intersection in front of me in spite of the "stop for pedestrians" light being on and of course he was driving a Tesla with vanity plates.

This clip needs to go mega-viral.

Here's an idea: let's find someone knowledgeable and qualified. We have more than enough loudmouth know-it-all celebrities in politics already.

An excellent thread punctuated by a key insight: one of the most important things a leader can do in a moment like this is calm the waters. The man in the White House does the opposite of that.

I didn’t think “he was a bad person but in a decent and stable society we don’t murder people for being bad” was a hard line to walk but it does seem there’s plenty of people falling off either side of it

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino leading an FBI manhunt in the heart of Mormonland sounds like the setup for a Coen Brothers movie

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

I'm sick after seeing the video of Charlie Kirk being shot. Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.

A day like today always helps sort out the decent human beings from the assholes.

I'd wager that Charlie Kirk never had a single kind thing to say about Zohran Mamdani, and yet Mamdani has the decency and moral vision to abhor his death and recognize the dark reality it represents. This is the kind of leadership we need.

Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind. No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.

In this scary moment, it matters for each of us to affirm that political violence is wrong and will destroy our democracy.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Absolutely awful. Political violence is inexcusable regardless of the target.

Trying to imagine Gandhi or John Lewis or Lech Walesa complaining that they were too tired to protest and laughing at the idea. Nobody ever said defending democracy would never take work. Suck it up.

The idea that Dem demands in a shutdown fight need to focus on some discrete and plausibly gettable policy win is total before-times thinking. The issue is he is trying to make the US into a dictatorship and no Congress loyal to their oaths would give him a single dime so long as he's in power.

We are in the "weak men create hard times" stage of the cycle.

You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.

Same energy.

Every so often Bluesky shows me a post from someone that makes me think "Christ that person is annoying, why am I following them?" and then I realize I'm not, I'm just on "Discover" mode. I quietly take the option to preemptively mute/block them and save myself future interactions.

Somebody needs to explain to Muriel Bowser that trying to Lando Calrissian this shit isn't going to work.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

It's hilarious that Jeanine Pirro turn out to be the first prosecutor who CANNOT in fact indict a ham sandwich.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana A quote I find myself thinking about a lot these days.

Alt for great justice

It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.

This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.

Can somebody explain this Cracker Barrel logo controversy to me? MAGA seems big mad about it and I can't for the life of me understand why.

There are few social media behaviors lamer than posting a take designed to be provocative and then blocking anyone who disagrees with you on it. If you don't want the heat, you really should stay out of the kitchen.

I'd prefer the DSA to the fascists, but honestly I don't want either in charge. No thanks.

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

Big if true.

Trump is legitimately going to provoke a secession crisis at this rate.

Completely abhorrent. I wonder how this guy feels about the Nazis saying similar things about the Holocaust?

BREAKING: THE WEAPONIZED SANDWICH CONTAINED SALAMI

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

TFW you don't hear the question and recite the wrong moronic talking by mistake as a result.

The Trumpcession is going to be a doozy.

You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying." It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.

It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine. Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Heartbreaking: the worst government you know just enacted a good policy.