So it does in fact seem that a willingness to excuse a nazi tattoo eventually involves excusing other abhorrent behavior as well!

This guy has been a "progressive" for all of five minutes and hasn't held office. His "record" is: prep boy who wanted to kill people, became a mercenary to kill more, got a Nazi tattoo, spent time abusing women and posting misogyny, then ran for Senate. When did he "transform"? A week ago? A day?

I put on some music to distract myself from the news I had just gotten and all it did was serve as a film score to the news I had just gotten. I used to think every single song was about romantic love but at my age that’s not at all what they’re about any more.

Absolutely wild use of the police passive tense here, too.

This thread is a delight

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i would broadly caution against the “[kink] is only okay because it helps people deal with [related trauma]” for a number of reasons. i don’t really like to think of the sex i or anyone else has as morally unacceptable *unless* ive paid some kind of trauma tax earlier in my life.

personally I think anyone should be able to change their name for any reason ever and society should just adapt for that. you will not change my mind

Is it good when a literal king has to remind Americans that even his monarchy finds all of this groveling a little gross?

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

It's only going to get worse as normie liberal Israelis drop out of politics from despair or make reverse Aliyah to the true promised lands (Brooklyn and Berlin)

Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha, there it is

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

What Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett is referencing here is Obama's 2012 statement that, if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin Feels absurd that a prestigious law prof is out here making posts with layers to the disgustingness!

I started this thread yesterday on Coretta Scott King for her 99th birthday. Every day I'll continue it. “Not enough attention has been focused on the roles that women have played in the struggle." she told a reporter in 1966, "Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement.”

the anti-trans to anti-neurodiversity pipeline continues to flow. it is obviously absurd anywhere, but it's so detached from reality in Ireland, where we have a massive backlog of children seeking autism diagnoses and no public provision of adult diagnosis at all

Everyone’s right about the racism of this, but also… … “the only reason Obama’s children don’t try to kill the president is because they’re icky girls” … is WILD.

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

Kosovo was the first time I realized that all the proclamations of “never again” were bullshit Even so, the continued destruction of Palestine feels like a unique shock because so many people who claim to care about human rights are actually supportive of it

Platner in sum: “My Nazi tattoo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my Nazi tattoo”

oh great we’re still doing the whole “the Jewish part of the Bible is the evil part, not like the true Christian part which is all about loving each other!”

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign. Pass it on.

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

Imagine not having push alerts on for our greatest poster

FUCKING LEAVE SUBSTACK NO SHIT THEY SUPPORT NAZIS IF YOU BIG PUBS LEFT SUBSTACK THEY WOULD HAVE LESS $$ FFS a lot of us already made the leap because we believe that fighting fascism is more important than doing the easy thing and complaining about it hey support NAZI-FREE liberatory writing:

Rewatching Real Genius (1985) tonight and I have to say it ages pretty well. I’ve been noticing how much 80s nostalgia overlooks how much of the media had themes of anti-war/anti-military industrial complex, especially toward the end of the decade. This movie isn’t even subtle about it.

Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.

Come for the story, stay for the photos of children being welcomed back with balloons and rainbow arches and hugging teachers they haven't seen since January.

NEW: After months of being too scared to leave their homes, more than 500 children have returned to in-person classes at Columbia Heights Public Schools, a huge moment of celebration for school leaders in this Minneapolis suburb once swarming with ICE agents. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

On this, the day of the Confederacy's surrender, remember that we should have hanged every last one of the bastards.

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This might be the largest party lead I've ever seen among the double haters www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/p...

Apropos of nothing in particular this happened 8 years, 5 months, and 5 days before the US declared an end to its war in Iraq.

Can you imagine if it happened while he was giving an address to the nation

the sit-in lasted 25 days and the wikipedia article has me actually crying rn.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

Protests (especially when held on a weekend) are a low-investment way for people to dip their toes into civic engagement outside of the voting booth. They also tend to be fun and positive, which is what you want for newbies

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

On the possibility of the US seizing Kharg Island, William Hickman had some things to say in a 1983 edition of the NWC Review, which I will quote in this thread. 1/n www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44636275.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A8a508e9d69a5df5858735196a1452802&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1

per the kav hayashar when you deprive someone of their wages you are taking a piece of their soul (because of the toil they expended) and the piece of their soul you have stolen cries out to heaven demanding vengeance. i bring this up for no reason in particular

just a helpful hint to all you university administrators getting some bad press out there: this is what many zoomers see when they look at college now. if you don’t want to keep bleeding money, maybe consider not oppressing the constitutional rights of your faculty, staff, and students.

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

It's telling to me that on the same day the Cesar Chavez revelations have dropped I have someone in my mentions trying to defend Al Franken. Sexual assault should never be tolerated anywhere, but especially in halls of leadership. If you cannot stand by that principle you cannot stand by anything.

It used to be that I didn’t name my rapist for the same reason Dolores Huerta kept quiet: I felt responsible to the minority community we are both members of Now I do it to protect myself but whew when I wrote this a few hours ago I did not know how triggering today was gonna be

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

The African-American veterans who gathered at Thaddeus Stevens' grave in 1886 to pay their respects did not do so because they knew they embodied the zeitgeist of the nation or rode the arc of history to its apex, but rather because they knew they didn't. The cause endures.

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta