The border “crisis” was largely a TV narrative, and we need to be fighting back against it now. Demilitarizing the southern border will only make us safer. Over policing doesn’t work. The Rio Grand valley should be an economic powerhouse and instead it’s a dead zone split with barbed wire.

How many GOP votes would it take to make Massie speaker of the house? He’s a crazy person but he’s crazy in this one very specific way that would save a lot of people.

At a time where First Amendment rights are being attacked, I’m still desperate to find a solution for the bad-faith media apparatus. We have to make libel and slander laws much broader. Litigation seems the only tool against Fox and Newsmax who lie hundreds of times a day.

If ICE and Border Patrol tactics are this stupid and chaotic in US cities, can you even imagine how stupid and chaotic they are at the border? How much of our “border crisis” has been CBP stepping in front of cars to kill “drug smugglers.” Reject this narrative.

Demilitarize the Mexican-American border. Kill the profitability of coyote smuggling. Recognize Mexican IDs. Not everyone coming to the US wants to live here, some want to work seasonally and go home.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

I feel more indebted to my neighbor who baked me one loaf of bread than I do to my employer, who’s paid me thousands of dollars. The power of the gift economy is constantly overlooked, and we wonder why our communities are miserable. PS: Read ‘The Serviceberry’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer

New coinage from The Downballot Discord: "margin bro." Definition: A polling analyst who only looks at the margin between the top two choices and ignores undecideds. Mildly pejorative. Usage: "The Dem is at -5 favorability!" "He's at 20% fave, 25% unfave, 55% don't know. Don't be a margin bro."

we're at 653 now ...

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

I shocked people think this was even a question? Zohran clearly had to cash in a lot of favors to get so much so quickly. This being the most obvious price-to-play. This is why I said Leftists can’t hold power because they can’t compromise. Zohran is actually governing, this is what it takes.

In Minneapolis, masked federal agents, dressed as soldiers, have fatally shot two American citizens. Both were victims of an occupation. The lurid fantasy at the heart of the gun rights movement is playing out, but the leading roles, as they were previously imagined, have been reversed.

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

My company got rid of all playback speeds above 1x on training videos. Rude.

Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it

They should stop making new games for like 25 years so I can start to catch up

When you set up your own bullshit win conditions and still utterly fail. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

If it hadn’t been for MeToo, way too many of these Epstein names would have still been Democrats. Republicans welcomed them with open arms.

We have a LOT of Dems to replace. We can’t do it all in 1 voting cycle. I’m no expert, but it seems to me like our biggest personal payback will come from a LOCAL focus, supporting the state reps, Congresspeople & Senators WE ACTUALLY WANT instead of just shitting on the people who are there now.

The Matrix (1999) Dirs: Lana and Lilly Wachowski #oneperfectshot 📽️

The “illiberal Left” is not a real threat to America, they don’t make up nearly enough people to do anything. But they are really annoying on the internet.

Coming soon. Tell your friends and remind your enemies.

Remember when Trump sat next to the Prince of Saudi Arabia and when questioned about the American journalist that was literally chopped into pieces, and Trump said “These things happen.” Yeah that was like two months ago.

Every single time a MAGA responds to one of my comments my first question is always “what?” Like these people can’t speak.

I don’t really understand why we need ICE in America when they already passed the Lakin Riley Act, requiring local police departments to turn over undocumented immigrants who commit minor infractions to ICE.

strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November

CBP are America’s IDF but we aren’t ready to admit that.

Beyond the “gotcha” response. I’ve found it a lot easier to explain these events as weather systems. You wouldn’t run a car in our house. Well, all the cars running at the same time during the day creates a weather system that moves North in the winter, dislodging globs of cold air from the arctic.

This continues to be a problem across the whole internet. We are unable the restart conversations with new people but instead carry over our frustration from other arguments and then find ourselves snapping at the people who bring us bad news.

Any time there is a protest in my home city, all the local racists start talking about agitators getting bussed in from Atlanta and Chicago. We’re at a point where any use of a bus is seen as anti-American by the conspiracy Right.

From a 1995 lawsuit about masking laws “Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.” - Jeff Berry, Imperial Wizard of the KKK.

Peaceful protests work. That’s why it’s so important for the Right that Renee Good was an activist who attacked ICE. Because the truth that we can all see, plain as day, is much uglier. MAGA lives perpetually under threat. All violence feels justified to them because it’s “the only way.”

Being white is, like all racial categories, socially constructed and falls apart the closer you look at it... that's also true of being Black, and I dearly love being me, my Blackness, and my people. Race is quite nonsensical when you turn it over enough. But this country has made race matter.

Leftists really looked at the option between Corporatists and The Neo-KKK and thought “well at least the racist guy is funny.”

George W. Bush dominated my young life and now it’s like no one ever voted for him.

The internet suffers from the same issue as the Bible. Books in the New Testament start with an intro about who the book is too and who should be reading it. And then a bunch of other people come in and cherry pick parts and act like it was addressed to them.

People act like we need a full military to “secure the border.” Bro, when was the last time a CPB agents was actually harmed by a cartel. Not to say the cartel are weak but they aren’t so dumb to be our guards at the gates. We could secure the wall with better paperwork but MAGA wants blood.

Row crop agriculture was the industrial revolutions solution to food production. I really don’t understand why all of our local farms are geared only for exports and grow so little of the food we actually eat.

How many times has the goal post moved this last year alone? It went from “the Haitians are eating the cats,” to “all Venezuelans are Tren de Aragua,” to “we are only going after the worst-of-the-worst” to “the Somalíes are all fraudsters” to “American citizens in a car are ‘domestic terrorists.”

Border Patrol is made up entirely of people who left active duty in Iraq the military and thought, “let’s keep this shit going!” The type of military guys that feels the rules of engagement is for pussies and the law is “gay”. Abolish ICE but more importantly DISMANTLE the Border Patrol.

Barack Obama was the 44th white president.

White Trash and rural Appalachian peoples are not a part of the White ruling class. Lumping them together is an oversimplification can empowers the ruling class.

It’s fascinating to me how much trouble the Trump admin is having in generating a riot. Targeting Minneapolis, Chicago and LA was a huge miscalculation because those communities are already organized.

A lot of bad news in the world but I just got watch Wrexham score two against a premier league team in a 5 minute span 😭😭😭 #askwxm @robryanred.bsky.social

The extremes of our country have been convinced that we are already in civil war. All violence feels justified when it’s directed at those you feel want to harm you. It’s like they are willing to be the first ones to start shouting but they are looking forward to that day.

This is not a defense of the attacks on Venezuela. But if you know anything about humans and elections and you can look at this chart of Venezuela’s current political breakdown and you don’t think there’s anything suspicious about that. You are being willfully ignorant.