easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

He put up the bat signal and I’m here

Just saw a ~60 year old woman at this protest in a Zohran hat and a “Warren Has a Plan for That” t-shirt. The left-lib alliance is here if you don’t look online lmao

elite liberals who don't have reactionary right wing family from the South are completely ignorant of the ways in which you can say "I am racist" using a lot more words that don't technically parse as "I am racist," and it's why they constantly get taken for a ride by ppl explaining their votes

We elected Bill de Blasio - a proud Red Sox fan - mayor of New York TWICE! Because 1) people don’t actually care that much and 2) people who do care would much rather you stick to your fandom than pander!

Opening a consultancy and getting rich just by explaining to politicians that the single phoniest and most repellant thihg you can do is claim to love both teams while everyone will respect it if you accurately say you were raised to believe their team is an instrument of Satan.

Ken Klippenstein is constantly reporting on threats to trans people using needlessly sensationalist wording for the sake of getting more clicks which makes trans people who see it and don't read further terrified they're going to be unpersoned at any moment and I for one am fucking sick of it

I think a thing that makes a lot of online discourse bad is that shame is a fine motivator to make someone not do something but an awful motivator to make someone do something

being unable to grasp that one of these things is *significantly* worse than the other, in every possible way, is completely disqualifying for anyone who even wants to post about politics, let alone be involved in them

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my therapist says that I’m using the bad events going on in the world as an excuse to continue not living a full life (in a long line of excuses) and uhhhhhh sureeeee. yeah. sure. that sounds about right. she’s good at what she does 🤷🏼‍♂️

not to make everything about me but I do very much resent spending my 20s trying to have success making content on the internet, finding that success at 28, only for the app I found that success on to turn into state media by 30

my brothers made fun of me when I made him the face of my fantasy team this year, but who’s laughing now? (still them… my team is awful)

this made me think of what the most Jake Christie-appropriate funeral I could have and the first thing that comes to mind is that my family needs to get at least a handful of relatively obscure character actors to show up

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

the first election would be more lopsided now but this meme still applies

they want us to fear them and they want this primarily because they can't actually do much to curtail our speech other than scaring us. there are far too many people who hate this president and everything he represents and won't be silenced for them to lock everyone up.

if I’m going to be 69 (sigh, nice) when this is all over I gotta be real I might just opt out now

Sarah Palin at the 1987 Great Alaska Shootout:

I hope he’s making some ultimatums. I don’t wanna get let down, but if ANY big star would understand the weight of this moment, it’d be the one who fled Pinochet’s Chile as a child and has a trans sister.

I sincerely apologize, I should have realized it would be the other Hulk. Shouts to Tatiana.

the thing that makes him “dangerous” in the eyes of the right, imo, is that the root of his political transformation is being a good dad, mostly importantly how his son’s major health scare as an infant radicalized him on seeing healthcare as a human right

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one

my controversial opinion on all of this is that Jimmy Kimmel has some fun bits and can be a good interviewer

Lot of people acting like this is the end and anyone with any tenuous connection to left wing politics will be shot in the streets, but continue to go to their day jobs and keep posting instead of doing the rational thing of converting all their money to Swiss francs and fleeing to Latin America.

What if your entire identity and career was optimized for a social and political context that no longer exists?

I mooch off my parents' Disney+ (and, uh, I think telling my dad to cancel it in protest of fascism will be a non-starter), but I had this to cancel

I’m not holding my breath, but some of the big names in the MCU could show some backbone here.

the worst thing of all is that I experienced everything tonight at citi field watching the Mets lose

sorry but at some point you have to stop being concerned about appearing cool and detached and actually start believing in things, even if it means defending the rights of stupid people like jimmy kimmel

not to bring up the email signup thing again but this is why you don’t scare people about dumb and meaningless shit and why if you are someone with any meaningfully large personal following, this is much more important, it filters out poorly

He correctly gets a lot of shit for his politics, but I’ve always thought this Sorkin line from Studio 60 of all places was extremely apt.

i think fundamentally the story of 2024 and the reaction to this admin is a bunch of people's whose entire lives are predicated on stability necessary for liberal democratic capitalism to function standing in a circle holding hands chanting "worse things aren't possible"

“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states

when you have to choose between stopping the slow creep of authoritarianism or getting approval for your merger and you slowly stand up and announce "I have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders" as you let the country burn

It'd be one thing to watch democracy slowly collapse because some evil geniuses took over, but we're literally being forced to watch a bunch of people with more power and security than any of us can imagine in our wildest dreams just crawl on their bellies and beg to be kicked in the face again.

I think what is most upsetting right now is that this administration has not had the skill to do much of anything they are trying to do. They crumple and scurry away when people stand up strongly to them. And most of the richest & most powerful people in this country just rolled over like cowards.

I would like us to be able to live in a pluralistic society where people with conservative or retrograde views of the world can live in peace and security, and within their own homes and voluntaristic communities, do their own stupid shit. But the enemy has a vote and they don't want that.

so much of the protest discourse swirling about feels like the lefty version of loading out in tactical gear to go to the lowe's

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Eric Adams remains weirdly good on issues he doesn't care about

JD Vance demanding YouGov hand over the identities of that 36% so he can tattle on them to their bosses

If you actually believe this then that's the ball game, it's over. This is the end goal of what they want, don't give it to them preemptively

as someone with little to no power, it depresses me every day how little people with actual power are willing to wield it

I think this is true and I think a lot of it is that to describe it accurately would force them to think about what might be required to defeat it, and that’s scary. And it is scary! I’m scared when I think about it! But it’s irresponsible not to think about it!

So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

Trump: We are going to round up democrats and (eventually) kill them because they are all terrorists Democrats: Thank you sir, we can’t wait to work with you