It’s important to note that when someone talks about “Meme warfare”, the right wing “warriors” are mostly astroturfed or foreign accounts duping MAGA and pundits who think America politics boils down to their X feed

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly." The duality of man is incredible.

Trump in his RNC speech said “Inflation is a country buster. You can go back to Germany from a hundred years ago.” He cast himself as that which comes after Weimar. Yes, everything cannot be mapped onto 1920/30s Germany but when they choose to frame it that way themselves…

You can really tell these people are serious about crime because the guy to Sortor’s right committed voter fraud in Pennsylvania

Live look of everyone who made free speech their pet issue over the last decade:

You can take the reporter out of the Daily Caller but you can’t take the Daily Caller out of the reporter

It’s genuinely mind-numbing that people thought they shamed Leo into being quiet about this. He’s the Pope and Tradition is on his side when it comes to the humane treatment of migrants

People have a hard time seeing Trump as a fascist because of his bumbling idiocy (as if you have to be good at it to truly have fascistic ambitions) but I don’t see how you can hear the things this guy says and does and come away thinking he isn’t a fascist

People have a hard time seeing Trump as a fascist because of his bumbling idiocy (as if you have to be good at it to truly have fascistic ambitions) but I don’t see how you can hear the things this guy says and does and come away thinking he isn’t a fascist

If you’re curious how MAGA will react if evidence comes out proving Trump raped minors, here’s a preview:

Hannah Arendt, in ‘The Human Condition’, on the what we lose when we lose the power of the public realm:

If you’re going to confuse the city of man with the city of God, you’re going to need some grace to save you, so going full Pelagian is definitely a choice

A lot of people who hate Jason Isbell & The Drive By Truckers for their explicit progressive politics love Zach Bryan (Navy Veteran who isn’t explicit about his politics), so I’m sure there will be some backlash. But it may say something about how the ICE stories/images are turning off normies

The same guy who tweeted this is making anti-ICE music. Vibe shift?

I remember first hearing about it… in a church… from a pastor

Taylor Swift has entered the “Shakespeare’s religion” debate, and she has landed on the side of Shakespeare as crypto-catholic, highlighting the doctrine of purgatory in Hamlet:

“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”-Tony Hinchcliffe, Madison Square Garden Trump Rally October 2024 It was just a joke though, guys… relax…

It’s pretty wild that there’s a non zero chance that Trump’s team is showing him AI videos of cities burning down:

Gave $75 Billion to ICE to physically and emotionally abuse immigrants though

The guy who literally made the StopTheSteal hashtag go viral…

There has never been a more appropriate “If I had a nickel every time…” moment than this

Just a couple days ago, people (including believers) were angry at the Pope for rebuking the US for how it treats immigrants. But we have more to fear than words, if we keep up our Sodom and Gomorrah act

Sorry Ulysses, you just don’t have what it takes to lead an army

From Arendt’s 1971 essay “Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers”:

A ringing endorsement of One Battle After Another (filmed in California) from our President!

The irony is Kimmel showed more respect for the dead than Trump, the churches using AI-Charlie videos, and all the other right-wing influencers who are using him as a prop

This praxis stuff is kind of easy. All I had to do was change the channel to ABC.

“He went his way/down among the lost people like Dante, down/to the stinking fosse where the injured/lead the ugly life of the rejected.” From W.H. Auden’s ‘In Memory of Sigmund Freud’ (Freud died on this day in 1939)

everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

A good reminder of how a man can give a flawless Gospel presentation one day and justify war crimes the next

Hannah Arendt on staying woke:

The federal government is giving me mixed messages on how woke Tylenol is

So he wasn’t suspended by Disney because of ratings?

Obama, Biden, Harris, Hilary, and Bush have all done a better service to Kirk, his family, his friends, and followers with their statements of public mourning (even if routine, still important) than what Trump has been doing.

Charlie the Great!

But I thought it was the new public square and was necessary to be on for anyone interested in serious political praxis?

Trump posting evidence of his impeachable conduct on main so that there’s no dramatic “how high does this go” tension to fill out an ‘All the President’s Men’ style film with

It’s amazing to see the “put that reprehensible Kirk quote in context” crowd say that Kimmel was lying. Kimmel was being partisan (bc he didn’t talk about finger pointing from the left) but he wasn’t wrong about MAGA trying to score political points by pointing the finger to everyone else.

There is no better starting point for thought than laughter; speaking more precisely, spasms of the diaphragm generally offer better chances for thought than spasms of the soul. -Walter Benjamin, ‘What is Epic Theater?’

Follow leaders who won’t say stuff like this about you after you die Kirk went all on Trump to the point of playing a pivotal role in busing ppl into Jan 6th and the guy he went all in on couldn’t care less about him after he got assassinated. I don’t even mean this as joke: that’s tragic.

Once again, they are not even being subtle but that want stop the usual suspects from obfuscating MAGA’s explicit contempt for the Constitution

The contempt that right wing pundits have for their own audience is stronger than any contempt anyone left of center has for those same people. Because what do you mean you think your followers will believe that Brendon Carr is an imaginary state actor?!?

it’s very funny to make a distinction between cancel culture and what this is, which is clear government supression of speech. cancel culture isn’t anti first amendment, but this specifically is! which is worse!

An extremely unpopular President with a rapidly fracturing coalition. Despite media entities, other corporations, and law firms falling over themselves to show how subservient they are, MAGA is a paper tiger

*looks up the antonym of anti-fascist* *Oh no! This can’t be good!”

An epidemic of gullible marks

Right wing tech and finance bros getting what they voted for: lower prices… on coke

They are fighting over his “true” beliefs like Charlie was Lenin and they are Trotsky and Stalin

Just days after a Fox News host called for euthanizing homeless people, there have been two mass shootings at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis within just a few short hours.