Maybe not permanent, but I am blocking Bluesky on my browser. Social media gives me more mental anguish than I can handle sometimes, and the world is full of more than enough of that all on its own, so why even bother.

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

people don't secretly yearn for Yarvin Thought if Blake Masters and Ron DeSantis ate shit. what happened is a guy who built a career over 40 years where his last name became a shorthand for "success" exploited America's weak party system and got lucky.

"sorry establishment libs you just can't handle the heart of darkness that lurks within America that won't be undone by your love of norms" is this fake savvy posture that is, ironically, just as much an act of self-soothing. the reality is both more complex and also dumber than that.

they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time

This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

If you are neutral in times of milk hotel injustice, you have chosen the side of the milk hotel oppressor.

big strong savvy gavin newsom apparently doesn’t even have the wherewithal to stand up to ben “i have never satisfied a woman in my life” shapiro

On Wednesday night, my partner and I drove to a movie theater halfway between our house and Carson City so we could see Wicked: For Good before it left theaters in our area. Fuck all the way off.

a queer woman lightly mocked an ICE officer so they shot her wife right in front of her. now they’re trying to justify it by making it a capital crime to mock them in many ways that’s a core tenet of right-wing ideology: Lesser People should be forbidden (by force if necessary) to laugh at you

They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

Gavin Newsom has terrible political instincts. Cozying up to racists like Charlie Kirk. Attacking trans kids. Defending billionaires. When left to his own devices he always picks the wrong path.

They lie about their jobs because they know their jobs are reviled by the public. They know they’re hated—that people will think less of them if they know they work for ICE—and it bothers them. Which is good for everyone to remember. They’re ashamed. They’re miserable. They’re LOSERS. Remind them.

The resistance libs were women (or were imagined as women) and so it became a liability to be seen to take them seriously, and a mark of status to treat them with contempt.

Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

who exactly would they be protesting? the whole point of protesting israel on campuses is specifically that the united states and universities (see: the place they are protesting) actively enable their commission of genocide

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

there are sandwich guys everywhere for those with eyes to see

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Anyway it would be cool if the left was willing to organize around women’s liberation, because the right is definitely organizing around misogynist contempt.

I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.

I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

OK, this was enough of The Website That So Overwhelms Me With Everything Evil In The World, Past, Present, and Future, That It Gives Me Panic Attacks for today! Until next time!

there’s really no reason to think anyone who supported anything short of abolishing ice the past ten years isn’t going to go straight back to We Just Need Better Training when a dem is in office again. better to make that politically untenable before the campaigns even officially start

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"

And remember this: the MAGA need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Remember too: Illegally crossing the US border is a misdemeanor. All this for fucking misdemeanors.

always worth reiterating that riley gaines actively ran cover for her coach who was accused of abusing and assaulting multiple women on the team while she made a small fortune crying about lia thomas being a predator

People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents. But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

Just left voicemails for both of my senators, and they are hearing from me every day from here on out. This is an intolerable situation, and this is ICE on LIMITED RESOURCES. In a few years, they will be the most funded wing of the federal government. THIS WILL ONLY GET WORSE!

If you are a veteran, this kind of visible presence at anti-ICE protests is really valuable. These clowns all want to play dress-up soldier, so actual soldiers mocking them to their faces is devastating.

It feels all the more politically necessary to embrace my queer identity as forcefully and loudly as I can, so, for the record: I use both they/them and she/her, and I don’t especially care which it is. ANYTHING BUT HE/HIM 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💜

Both Clinton and Harris warned voters very explicitly about all of this, but it was very important those warnings be twisted to suggest they’re a little too strident, too emotional.

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

Going to a protest today was the absolute best thing for my mental health, being around other people reacting the same way as I’ve been went a long way to making me less insane.

As a low-femme, not-especially-passing 6’4” trans person, all I can about is this: If this happened to me, the New York Times and CBS would run hit pieces about me. And it would work. I would be used to justify trans genocide.