*haunting minor-key reprise* “The record company’s…gonna make everything…all right…”

This is true ofc! But also, it’s becoming a really common propaganda technique to just say “OH you live in an echo chamber“ because it forces the other person to stop arguing with your position and defend themselves against charges of being a Bad Person

in recent news I have finally learned how to separate the art from the artist, a process that requires a filleting knife and a deft hand

"Everyone needs to turn down the rhetoric," said Big Brother.

“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

We used to have weekend warriors; now we’ve innovated weekend wars

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

*me, after finally convincing myself to pronounce gif the way the creator intended *: i think i have a jambling problem

I’m going back to revenge, not because I think it’s justice, but because I think it’s closer to justice than what we got from the “remember, revenge isn’t justice” people

This guy is a professor? They let him *think* for a living?

I’m sorry but what is a USian? Are other countries subjected to having a unwelcome demonym forced on them in the name of social justice or is it just for us?

Not a single one of these psychos cares even a little bit about the people being bombed. I hate them all

The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

So much of our Discourse seems propped up by “psychology accusations“ in which the operative theory people are employing to understand the world relies on a mental state that the theorizer doesn’t share, but needs their opponents to have for the theory to hang together

They’re dead because you and your party sent a death squad after them and their neighbors, idiot

Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult

watch us, bitch

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

I think liberals are going to have to reckon with the fact that you can’t replace child molester billionaires with “good“ billionaires. This wasn’t a network of otherwise unrelated pedophiles taking the world. Our system was only winnable by monsters, or created monsters.

If 26 Americans or Israelis or Germans were murdered today, it would be the top headline on every network. They keep telling you “the war is over” while this happens, because their idea of a peaceful, “normal” order is one where Israel gets to mass murder Palestinians at will.

Incredible to me how many mainstream democrats have talked themselves into the position that the growing chorus of voices criticizing their choices as enabling fascism are both worthy of sneering condescension and also not real, thereby proving that they’re the best choices

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I thought about this a lot when we were all pushing to get kilmar abrego garcia released. I'm glad we got him back but literally NO ONE should be sent to CECOT. They should have ALL been brought back. Never accept an inch. Never accept their framing. Bring everyone back and abolish DHS.

Y’know, I was just worrying that the moment the heat went down one degree, there would be a bunch of status quo liberals ready to declare victory and hand all the tools of ethnic cleansing back to the people who were doing it, ensuring that this situation is not addressed and will happen again

Shotguns for the Storytellers A poem for all victims of secret police.

It’s pretty wild to love America as a sort of amorphous almost religious concept but simultaneously hate the people of America so deeply

That’s what that one guy said about Elon, he loves humanity but doesn’t love human beings. What’s the fuckin difference man? Human life isn’t an abstraction from the thing you claim to love, it’s the thing itself. If you harm Americans you hate America, if you harm humans you hate humanity.

the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

My new video comes out tomorrow, but if you donate any amount of money to the National Immigration Law Center, I will send you the link right now. tiltify.com/@yacobg42/su...

Am told a group of activists had barricaded themselves in San Diego’s City Hall demanding Mayor Todd Gloria meet with them to set new standards for how SDPD responds to calls related to ICE.

If nothing else these past days have made every high-powered political thriller of the last fifty years look incredibly stupid

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social 1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange. 2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.

There's also been a shift in character in activism. In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact. In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I was already broken and then the Liam Ramos thing broke me again. But the other form of broken is to think it’s fine and at least I’m not broken like that.