And yet so many people keep seeing this and keep just rolling over for them. I don't know how they look at themselves in the mirror.

Including in the hemisphere. You could light a very interesting firebomb with a compare-contrast with Canada's primarily focused on indigenous people (and Indians) racism and Mexico's semantics games with dead Indigenous rulers while erasing the modern cultures and Black Mexico outside one leader.

L’Shanah Tovah to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah. May this new year bring you good health and prosperity.

Why did THE ASPEN INSTITUTE just remove "...Free, just and equitable society" from their mission statement? The left is their previous mission statement. The right is what they have now. This is shameful and pathetic caving to Trump and MAGA. Shameful.

These guys literally did cite this scene forgetting how it ended. Didn't even go well for the big purple guy in the movie, and it always goes much less well in the dumbest possible way in real life.

Also he did this not over a comedian, but over *Jimmy Kimmel* and the Oompa Loompa still lost.

IN TRUMPIST AMERICA, DRUGS PAY FOR YOU

Newish: Common Cause Nebraska filed a lawsuit seeking an immediate injunction to stop the state’s Secretary of State from giving voter registration data to DOJ.

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

Particularly if they're going to make the fucking Kreminology references (which were both partially right and wrong as the brief period of relative openness in the Soviet archives showed). And next to these guys the USSR at its worst was a tighter-run ship. Bar in Hell, but...

Power doesn't ask and rarely demands and something tells me the makers of Tylenol aren't just going to roll over and let HHS try and panic people into not buying their cash cow.

This is correct and it needs further emphasis. They 100% dream that they can do it, they are fascists whose governing ethos, such as it is, is 'we have the guns, obey or be shot.' Reality, as it always does, doesn't care a damn what the dreams of would-be despots will it to be and does as it wants.

Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live

Let me know when Anarchists can actually run an area without shooting random kids.

this is up there with any of the worst things trump has publicly said in either term in office

BREAKING: Our opposition and upset over Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air have led to Kimmel coming back. Let's organize that much noise for reporters like Mario Guevara detained (despite being here legally) for filming police & ICE:

make them bleed for at least a quarter or two, long enough that they have to answer for it to wall street

they're afraid www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Guys, we libs just got the goddamn Mouse to submit.

There are no Sinclair (or satellite) stations in Louisiana but these are the areas with Nexstar channels:

Unfortunately the hazard of actual fascism in power is that under no circumstances will the fascists allow such a prospect to happen, so even if people sincerely delude themselves they can avoid it, the juggernaut will barrel straight for them regardless.

Here's a thing I've learnt from the past hundred years: staying quiet will *not* save you

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

What you have to understand is that they only believe the vesting clause grants a huge scope of essentially royal inherent powers when their team holds the office. Just as President Biden didn't have those powers, somehow, neither will President AOC.

Right below the quoted post above are some advertisers for Los Angeles. I searched on here and did not find any readily for my area, but if anybody knows of any, please share them here and I’ll boost them.

That's one of the many, many unknown unknowns of the entire Trumpist experiment. Society abandoned the views of Charles I for good reasons (not least starting a war and losing it). The gamble that they can be resurrected in the 2020s is a very big one and unlikely to go well for anyone on any side.

it has only very recently started sinking in with my friends who probably share the rough politics of OP’s friend here that trump really *is* evil at an entirely different order of magnitude than any republican who came before him in living memory, but at least it *is* starting to sink in

the bargain of, let’s say, fairly stable, small-d democratic capitalism is that the average person gets better living standards and wages and doesn’t have to think very much about politics, and i think everyone involved in politics will come to regret the choice to change the terms of the agreement

Whenever I read this book, and I've read it four times by now, I read it not least to remind myself that it's a one-off in treating Russian imperialism like Spanish, Belgian, or American. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

So now we’re going to have a third right wing ratfucking social media platform people won’t admit they’re addicted to but will insist they can’t get off of?

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

the reason that there are several romances like this in Tolkien is not just because of medieval chivalrous norms and so forth - plenty of adultery in medieval stories, after all! - but because he had lived it.

Tolkien asked her to wait for him and then had no contact with her for five years; on his 21st birthday he wrote to her asking her to marry him and she immediately broke off her engagement with someone else and agreed.

Tolkien and Edith met when he was 16 and she was 19 and rapidly fell for each other. They were both orphans under guardianship, and Tolkien's guardian, a Catholic priest, did not approve of the relationship for multiple reasons; he forbid Tolkien from seeing her until he was 21 and 'of age.'

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

I don’t think anyone left of Pinochet said anything as savage about Kirk as referring to his funeral as “a time of whatever.”

This is why "The Good Place" works in the 21st Century, contemporary humans aren't at all surprised to discover the afterlife is run by idiots who are just doing what's always been done without understanding why because that's been our experience observing all our supervisors.

I think part of the reason people have trouble accepting how openly fascistic the Trumpist movement is, is because they don't use the aesthetics of the 1930's Nuremberg rallies. Rather, it's a knowingly campy simulacrum of those aesthetics, which disarms criticism through the conscious irony of it.

We heard you like irresponsible journalism so we did some journalism from our national platform as irresponsibly as humanly possible about a community going through a major crisis, pls subscribe

If Trump has a heart attack or something similar in office and we see people partying in the street, outrage over those images is gonna define right wing politics for a long time.

“Evil corrupt theocracy that is also 100% right about the evil demons” is a funnily common setting in genre fiction, but most of it doesn’t really acknowledge this sort of tension. “Yeah man, my bad about like casting our lot in with the Ruinous Powers thing. Fr tho, how was I supposed to know!”

i think the interesting avenues for storytelling here are drawn not from people’s ignorance of Real Demons but from the theocracy being so miserable and oppressive that throwing your lot in with the Spine Devourer is actually tempting. fascism creates its own enemies and so on.

you don’t hate the media enough

CircleKirk 2025 is a gallery of the vilest people in the USA being vile, but honestly, it's a Sunday afternoon and I'm just killing time for an hour until AFV is on. Dog videos and 'ow my balls' are better than anything in Arizona.

Given their frustrations in Utah I was fearing they'd come up with a different spin on the same monomania, so thankfully that was too paranoid.