Damn. I've been thinking a lot about what one person can do...

Um… Fuck Yeah????

Oh, HELL YES

I think a lot of the world looks at the US and sees 330 million spoiled, stupid rich people and I wish it was easier to explain why that's wrong to people who've only seen New York and maybe DC or LA, but you can never convince them that they don't understand the whole thing.

The tragedies too btw. Me in 2006; If the Greek - Troy war even happened it didn’t last 10 years and it surely wasn’t really about the Spartan queen banging the Troy crownprince. Me in 2026; Seen some far crazier shit happen than that.

"oh you think i don't deserve a peace prize?" *shoots random danish guy* "how about now?"

Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

To add to this, almost all of the U.S.’s problems are linked to its hatred of Black people and that it hates Black people more than it loves anyone else. Our laws and policies are largely based on making sure Black people (and sometimes other groups) don’t benefit even at the expense of others.

If you can't write a grad school application on your own, you absolutely should not go to grad school. That's actually a good sign that it's not for you. There are other things you can do with your life.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

They been calling everything white genocide except uh terrorizing Minnesota

Our values and our laws are not bargaining chips. We will always defend New Yorkers, even in the face of federal threats to withhold funding.

Progressives HAVE been weighing in. -universal health care -streamlining immigration processes -universal basic income -more funding for childcare But no one wanted to listen.

Whether it's Trump creating his own personal Gestapo that murders unarmed civilians or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both presidents made the nation deeply uneasy.

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue

One of the most telling ways of how we ended up here is Americans are fine with terror as long as they don't have to make eye contact with it.

there are *so* many people who cower before trump's threats, and jerome fucking powell is out here on youtube going, "all of this is corrupt horseshit, they're doing it because i won't bail them out, they're all liars"

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

Horrible. Arson attack today at Mississippi’s largest synagogue, on Shabbat, destroyed multiple Torahs and left parts of the building in ruins

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

They want us to stop using the words fascism and Nazism and racism because there is a reason those words exist and they are the reason

There won’t be a White House when Trump is finished. It’ll be Mar-a-Lago North. Trump’s planning to add a 2nd story to the West Wing to “restore symmetry” after his ballroom is done. And we’re supposed to believe it’s paid for by private donors who expect nothing in return. Nothing to see here.

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

These guys have to be stopped

Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.

ICE is killing American citizens the right way. by Ezra Klein

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

my second grader is *obsessed* with everything dave pikey does. our house is overflowing with captain underpants and dog man and all the spin-offs www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/b...

When you learn how many "they should have just followed orders" people are in this country, then you begin to understand how we arrived to the point of a federal fascist takeover.

They have and they have and they have

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

I’m glad white people on here are reckoning with what it means to be an American and whose fault all of this shit is. As a Black woman? Nah. I’m not taking part in the “we” blame that seems to get tossed around when white people fuck shit up in the name of white supremacy. Just… no.

My real question is after losing their healthcare, paying $25 bucks for eggs, paying more in tarrifs and watching trillionaires and oil companies thrive from pure, object grift, will white Americans still let racism keep them from happiness or is it worth it as long as y'all have someone to hate?

@theonion.com doesn’t miss.

Fucking hell. This administration just wants to torch everything good and salt the earth.

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

Holy shit. Just not even trying to hide it.

as a christian, the "problem of evil" is definitely hairy but two millennia of theology have turned out some compelling ideas that have helped me grapple with that question. but the problem of why it seems like so many christians are so uniquely bad... yeah, that's a tough one.

Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.

No matter how dumb things seem, they can apparently always be dumber: "Mr. Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some on the Trump team that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff"

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

The total failure of elite accountability. An 🇺🇸 tradition dating back at least to 1865 & Appomattox. The reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics is because there are never any legal or personal consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics.

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

People who think Kurosawa is “homework cinema” need to be slapped around a bit.