This story reflects why I reject the “polite politics” of moderation. This is a letter from 1954 to the Texas Board of Education decrying the Brown decision. Aside from the overt double-take of “whose sweat and toil?!?” Is something that jolted me from my complacency… 🧵

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Republican politicians are a bunch of sniveling weirdos who can’t win a popularity contest to save their lives. That’s why they use bureaucratic fuckery and minority scapegoating to tip the scales.

I got a sneak peak at oath that Hegseth is going to make his general's recite next week and in turn the rest of the officer corps. "I swear by God this holy oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to the Leader of the United States...

Even if we took what the indictment claims at face value (and you shouldn't)... this would be complete fucking nonsense.

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I don't imagine that the former National Guard Major had much respect to begin with but I bet the GO & CSM group chats are hilarious.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Remember when Republicans would big-boy-baby cry about the government "picking winners and losers"?

@lisaroyal.bsky.social what a steal right?

On this day two years ago we adopted this sweet little goofball.

pretty much what is happening right now

Where's the money Homan?

A convention goer wouldn't do this

No, I will not celebrate this evil, vile, man who knowingly distributed hateful lies, intending to fuel hate in others. If you think he's so great, own his words. Own his entire body of work. Be proud! Go on record yourself saying "this is what I believe" and post it. Anything less is cowardice.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Free? "There is no such thing as a free lunch"

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Visiting the Stasi Museum in 2018 and seeing the evidence of East Germany's invasive domestic surveillance helped me realize why Germany has such a stricter attitude about privacy than the rest of Europe. But coming there from the United States in 2025 left me with new and uncomfortable thoughts.

This level of incompetence is astonishing.

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

I don’t know, when one of your presenters advocates executing homeless people and everyone else in the studio doesn’t look at him aghast, I reckon your country’s in a very dark place.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

The only way you didn't go crazy from computer is if you know what really whips the llamas ass

This is Winston Smith’s job in “1984.”

2018: Protesters at a Charlie Kirk campus event are confronted by masked attackers wielding poles and metal flashlights while chanting Nazi slogans

Don’t ever let the Trump Administration tell you they support the First Amendment. This is a shocking violation. The United States Government has no authority to tell people in this country what to say or not say.

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

This is Holly. She won't fall sleep until she's been given her stuffed cow. 13/10 sweet dreams Holly (TT: hollythebluestaffy__)

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Caller: ". . . Yo, you know I had to call, you know why right?" DJ: "Why?" C: "Because, yo, I never ever call and ask you to play somethin' right?" DJ: "Yeah" C: "You know what I wanna hear, right?" DJ: "Whatchu wanna hear?" C: "I wanna hear that Wu-Tang joint"

Washington Post (June 28, 1940) — Chancellor Hitler visited Napoleon’s Tomb, a rare journey outside Berlin to a tourist site in Paris as he attempts to showcase his efforts to unify Europe.

also if you get called for jury duty DONT TELL THEM YOU KNOW ABOUT JURY NULLIFICATION! for that screening process you are the most white-bread milquetoast cop-believing motherfucker in the room until they actually select you, okay?

We need everyone who's willing to come aboard—as long as nobody gets thrown under the bus. But I wish more "centrist" types who are now saying, "WTF? Half my friends turned fascist!" would ask themselves when that really happened, question their earlier positions, and stop asking the left to change.

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Google Gemini Internal Monologue: eh, close enough.

Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasn’t true. You just mean you didn’t think he’d go after white people.

Coppola: "[Apocalypse Now] is more of an 'anti-lie' film, in that the fact that a culture can lie about what's really going on in warfare - that people are being brutalised, tortured, maimed and killed - and somehow present this as moral is what horrifies me, and perpetuates the possibility of war."

Sure, as long as you don't call the cult followers deplorable reprobates

usually you have to work harder for evidence admissible in the hague

Lars remembers