The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.

it is not ageism to say that a person who is 25% likely to die during the next two years should not be making our democracy contingent on her healthy survival

Our council district organized an ICE-watch. We have block captains & potluck organizers where we sit in folding chairs in someone's living room while 2 very sweet guys train us w/handouts in neatly made blue folders. We all eat homemade cookies. We're all dumpy and middle-aged. This is politics.

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

Our tax dollars at work.

These are some demented people, man

it's a bit of a challenge of language as liberal can mean either of those, sometimes i think the lib haters aren't sure themselves but when they start on "being at brunch" & other gender dog-whistles, it becomes clear they're not just venting against the dipshit columnists

if the 'normielibs' you hate are matt y or klein, fine, good even but that's not it - i think they mean the pussy hats, the warren voters, the grandmas protesting ice & fuck off - they've done 1,000 times more than edgelord posters

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

It’s hard to articulate the rage I feel towards the use of tactical gear. Why does an ICE agent in an airport need a Bkue Force Gear dump pouch? Why does he need a dump pouch at all (except to hold his snackies, obviously). The GWOT operator cosplay is exhausting.

Some really bad things are happening on the global online “left” and I’m still waiting for any prominent account to care about that more than their follower count and call that out, because I know goddamn well they see it too.

The energy crisis caused by the Iran war is worse than the combined effect of the oil shocks in the 1970s, the leader of the International Energy Agency said on Monday, warning that it would take time to resolve even if the war were to end soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/w...

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

This👇

Candy is being crushed at heretofore unseen levels.

Treating literal Soviet propaganda posters as gospel truth. What can I say man, tankies always gonna tankie. Meanwhile if you’re interested in an actual feminist history of The Soviet Union, I’d highly recommend @juliaioffe.bsky.social’s new book Motherland.

Pass it and make him veto it, you worms! Make him cover his own tab!

If I were Secretary of Transportation, I would spend every waking moment recruiting air-traffic controllers, increasing their pay and benefits, getting them in-house massage therapists, forcing airlines to stop increasing flight traffic. Sean Duffy, however:

This is the sort of ingenious policies you get when you elect a guy who bankrupted multiple casinos.

Hard to avoid the impression that the Trump people are doing as many terrible things as they can as fast as they can because they are afraid time is running out for them

Even if Trump backs down now, he will still have: - replaced an old Iranian leader who was negotiating with a younger one who won't - strengthened Iran's theocracy and wiped out any chance of internal dissent - proven USA cannot wield its vast military, so it is functionally worthless

Conservatives before 2026: No, you cannot have information related to my gun ownership, vaccination status, health history, biometric identifiers, financial transactions, etc! Conservatives in 2026:

a "special military operation" you might say

HOWLING

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

It’s long last time for European democracies to recognize the reality that Orban’s Hungary is a fifth column and an avowed enemy of liberal democracy and work out a way to expel it from the EU.

💥 Russia: Massive Ukrainian drone strikes blew up vast areas of the Port of Primorsk, Russia's largest oil export terminal that processes 1.0-1.5 million barrels/day - 100 million tons of oil & oil products per year. 1,000km from Ukraine.

It’s long last time for European democracies to recognize the reality that Orban’s Hungary is a fifth column and an avowed enemy of liberal democracy and work out a way to expel it from the EU.

The antibiotic one is a really good example of American decadence these days b/c undergirding all of this, is the belief that there’s not really gonna be any consequence for a choice or if there is, someone can bail me out out of it (I can go to the hospital and they’ll make it all magically better)

Chris Murphy: "We're gonna give Iran $14b to fund this war with the US? We're gonna give Russia billions to fund their war with Ukraine? We're literally putting money into the pockets of the nations we're fighting. We've never seen this level of incompetence in war-making in this country's history"

We're making tourism great again by deploying our most alcoholic child molesters to America's glorious airports

Chris Murphy: "This is nonsensical. This is what happens when you put real estate developers and talk show hosts in charge of American national security."

Please somebody do a supercut of all of Trump's phony claims about Obama giving away the store to Iran....

The Trump regime hid the evidence in the Mueller report just like they're hiding the evidence in the Epstein files now.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter whether you're doing the work for the regime out of loyalty or fear. What matters is what you do, which is the same.

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

I think this is what the cool kids call an escalation spiral

He should legit face a capital trial for the Caribbean boat murders alone.

Maybe the most depressing conclusion I’ve come around to in the past decade (and there are many) is that trying to teach & promote widespread “critical thinking” has been a complete and catastrophic failure. Most of the population is not capable of it, and it is socially disastrous when they try.

Absolutely this. They need to rein in the executive and reorganize the judiciary as well.

An enormous exercise in national self harm. Xi and Putin can’t believe their luck. Maiming ourselves to own the libs.

The words of an authoritarian

💯. The entire point of war is to use military force to achieve a desired political end state. These morons had no desired political end state in mind beyond distracting from the Trump-Epstein Files for a few weeks and making them feel like Big Manly Men.

Like these dipshits don't even have clear political objectives for the war, let alone any remotely coherent strategy for how to use military force to achieve those objectives.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Lots of things you could say about threats of potential war crimes from POTUS, but this does not sound like a man in control of the situation.

UCLA fired me for much, much less. See now, THIS is “celebrating” someone’s death—the factual critiques I posted about open bigot Charlie Kirk were not.

💯. The entire point of war is to use military force to achieve a desired political end state. These morons had no desired political end state in mind beyond distracting from the Trump-Epstein Files for a few weeks and making them feel like Big Manly Men.