"It's gauche and uncivil to accurately describe me" is a core view of today's fascists

I look at Trump just killing people in boats for fun, typing out his whims on Truth Social, ordering people around with no actual authority and I think that TikTok guy was right.

I saw a guy on TikTok talking about how he didn’t believe the Civil War was actually about slavery—that was too easy and let enslavers off the hook. It was about being omnipotent, about being gods.

The part that makes me the most angry is knowing that, if we somehow survive this, a bunch of white liberals will try to help these jackwagons with redemption. They’ll come up with some bullshit Lost Cause equivalent and our side will pitch the tragedy of brother against brother.

For those who don't understand, preventing people from getting jobs because of a disability, even when they can perform that job with reasonable accommodations, means they want disabled people to lose access to income and become reliant on family if we have any; if not, they want us to die.

I know the person that wrote this headline was cackling.

FOX LA's Bill Melugin ran a story about a cop claiming a barista at Starbucks put a tampon into his frappacino. After police investigated and reviewed security footage, it turned out a towel fell into the blender. It was clearly not a tampon, too, but that didn't stop BIll.

Also, Sinclair and Nexstar aren’t even claiming that their preemptions have anything to do with ratings, they’re *explicitly* because Kimmel engaged in speak they don’t like

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?

I hope we don't stop giving these recent lynchings attention. There still needs to be some noise made around them.

In terms of people who would make the world a lot better if they got knocked down to $10 million, Larry Ellison is almost certainly top 10, and it's a crowded field.

Anyway,

mRNA is amazing

Yesterday there were bullets left on the doorstep of my local LGBTQ+ center (one of them had a homophobic slur carved into it), and afterwards 1000 people gathered in my neighborhood to mourn a Christofascist podcaster who said gay people should be stoned to death

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: Civilian men are increasingly posing as ICE agents -- wearing plain clothes, masks, unmarked vehicles, to kidnap, threaten, and sexually assault immigrant women. #AbuseofPowerWatch

The Catholic school board banned the Survivors' Flag? Fucking monsters. I'm not saying this is "residential school denialism" but it sure is waddling and quacking quite a bit.

is it just me or is JD Vance getting way more face time around big events than Pence did, or most other Veeps?

ooookay this is a nightmare???

Journalist Mario Guevara, from detention: "May God grant that…love and mercy overcome the racial hatred that is dividing this beautiful nation, and that the American people understand that calling oneself Christian includes respect for and support of foreigners. At least that’s what my Bible says."

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

Lemmie be brutally honest for a second. Even if the Trump regime falls and all the GOP are voted out of office, we have a real fucking problem that isn't going to go away any time soon. A large number of (mostly but not exclusively) white men have been radicalized into an internally reinforcing mob

How can you actually understand 2014-2024 with only white cis male interlocutors? [You cannot]

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

Thread. The new McCarthyism is, and has been, tearing through education for years. These are just a sampling, and they have been the rehearsals for purges in places like late-night TV.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

I find it very funny Hades 2 is launching on bissexual week

🪡 In the past 2 weeks, there have been multiple acts of violence against marginalized people that have been perceived as retribution for the death of Charlie Kirk. Dennis’ choice here to single out Kanan - who is extremely well known in the community as a trans activist - was extremely dangerous.

BREAKING: On the last Saturday that Ismael Ayala-Uribe was seen by his mother, she described him as having pale skin and bloodshot eyes. He told her, “Ya no puedo más, amá” (I can’t anymore, Mom). lataco.com/death-confir... By @eltragon.bsky.social , Aisha Wallace-Palomares, & Izzy Ramirez

Law & order Gave us our violent borders We named the land Drew lines in sand And now we spill our gore there

my parents called me today to ask how I was, and if I felt safe. I didn't really know what to tell them. do I feel safer in Washington than Texas? hell yes. do I feel *safe*? no. Honestly, I am very careful about where I go, and I have reverted to hypervigilence when out and about.

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

This is terrible.

saw this tile pop up on the cooperative extension homepage and did a double take, and then did another double take

Interesting that the barricades appear to be provided by Cook County, given that last week Cook County Board President Preckwinkle released this statement on what's been happening in Broadview.

We had the "goodwill and common sense" compromise in sports. Conservatives lied repeatedly about it. No one bothered to look into whether they were telling the truth, and now we're here. Same exact thing happened with youth gender care.

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

has anyone done a deep dive into those curtsey animated ads on YT that (in a singsong voice) are like "these are the signs of untreated $x thing in men" where $x is anything from low performing at work and ADHD to sex addiction or masturbation addiction? they started off with ADHD (from what I saw)

Go update your LinkedIn settings.

I think it’s telling that the cultural touch point for authoritarianism and fascism in the United States for so many white people are the fictional events of The Handmaid’s Tale and not the actual history of the United States.

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

Your favorite podcast grandma recently lost a leather bookmark she got in Ireland 30 years ago on a trip with her father. She is so, so sad about it. Hoping to replace it for her, but I've scoured the Internet with no luck so far. Anybody got any ideas? Similar to the ones in the photo (sold out 😓)

Just a reminder that in addition to canceling Disney, you should also cancel Paramount. Hiring racist transphobe Bari Weiss as head of CBS News and actively denying that Israel is committing genocide are both really harmful.

Think about how quickly the attack on free speech happened, how quickly anti-"cancel culture" rhetoric turned into repression. This is the same dynamic that happened with all projection of the right. "Crime" while being a mafia. "Grooming" as they target children. It will happen with antisemitism.

I share King here to make that point because it's clear that there is crossover occurring, and it has been since October 7th and Musk's takeover of X in particular. Deny it all you want, it's there and it's spreading. But most important here is that our debates on Israel have distracted from it.