The grooming accusations are even more offensive because of the epidemic of school shootings. Every educator in this country has decided if, when, and how we'd give up our very lives to shield your children. Some of our colleagues around the nation have paid the ultimate price...

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

I think what these "big brain strategists" fail to realize is that if you don't want to support rights for trans folk, we are not on the same "team", your person winning the election isn't a win for me if you're not supporting rights for everyone

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

You know what they say: if you want to win a war, just give up on every battle, let the enemy dictate terms, and let your people die and surely you'll take it in the long game!

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

if you're willing to sacrifice some groups for your personal safety, i'm going to assume you'll sacrifice anyone. Either we all get humanity and rights or none of us will. Because nobody is voting for another centrist Dem trying to move the party right. that shit is over.

I don’t know, but Pritzker kinda seems like the guy

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

Maybe the saddest thing about Stephen Miller is that I genuinely think he's everywhere right now—the sudden face of the administration—because he imagines himself as having a political/leadership future of his own. Makes his loathing of democracy make a bit more sense, I guess.

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

I read Liu’s “post-liberal arts” thesis differently. Data science isn’t a break from the liberal arts but their evolution as a power/knowledge regime. The university still forms subjects, just now through data, optimization, and self-surveillance instead of reason.

Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

Someone should teach Stephen Miller about universal jurisdiction.

For Ezra Klein—and folks of a certain technocratic-liberal persuasion—there can be no adequate explanation for what's happened politically since like 2015 or so. If they sound broken or stuck or like the talking house in that Bradbury short story still cheerfully repeating long after nuclear death…

the "abolish ICE" people were right

Autism, actually, is good! There have, as far as I can tell, always been autistic people. They have always contributed to the rich tapestry of human life, passing down immeasurable gifts. I wouldn't want to live in a world without autists. I reject desperate scaremongering.

the strangeness of the current moment lies in how the administration is consolidating authoritarian power while also being extremely weak

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Folks have been in Ms. Gandy’s mention of late telling her it’s fine to register for a protest. They call her various names mostly having to do with cowardice. But she’s not telling any one not to, she is telling, or trying to tell them, about the nature of the threat.

i honestly think the level of energy these guys have about getting people to RSVP to a protest doesn’t make any kind of sense unless you take into account that most of the people saying “don’t RSVP“ are Black women and then you see they’re just dunking on Black women Then the energy makes sense

Every day is like a cross between “Who Goes Nazi?” and “…the Aristocrats!”

A thing I'll never get used to is how many people who take the threat of Trumpism and rising fascism +/- seriously still don't really imagine any kind of radical rupture with the past, still don't believe civic safety is crumbling, still trust that we're operating against a liberal state apparatus.

YOU. ARE. WHITE.

Because mass media circulation was new, it could be used to shock a public into an emotional reaction which motivated a political action on behalf of the marginalized. Wil, if you read ANYTHING King says about non-violent protest as an exercise in consciousness raising, you'd get this point.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

If you genuinely believed what you were told about the nature of the American state and its institutions, and you are in horror at what's going on now, consider why you believed something that turned out to be this false. What illusions need to end? How does the way you see society need to change?

i would much prefer to have this be a nothing ever happens administration that is constrained by political pushback, both from civil society and within its own party, and then ousted through the electoral process, like that's what should happen but woof, man

Contra this, saw someone (correctly) describe our situation as the administration wanting to skip to the steps at the end of an authoritarian consolidation when they haven’t even managed the first ones

DJT wanted Kimmel off the air, and his government found a pretextual excuse to demand his removal. ABC cowardly complied, and the First Amendment recoils in injury. We are in a dangerous place, and it's getting more dangerous by the day.

Yeah, I freely admit that I lacked the imagination to realize that the sharp, biting commentary of … Jimmy Kimmel … would lead to the moment that marked the end of the American experiment.

So as things get darker... you're going to have white men who are used to belng not only listened to BUT IN CHARGE trying to shove their way to the front and not advise you, but TELL YOU how things Should Be Done. Those asshats will get you dead or arrested. You don't have to play ....

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

Hey, did y’all know fascists actually don’t repress, through lawfare and violent force, political action *if it’s normal*?? /s Let’s be serious: takes like the one below want to pretend we can delineate and thus protect certain allowed forms of protest and organization. That’s not how this works!

Nowhere did I say don't go to a protest. I just said don't sign up for one. And white men have lost their fucking minds in my mentions.

Liberals think that lists *are* what politics is about, what politics is. That’s part of why they can’t deal with being told not to leave a record of their participation in protests unless they want to risk repercussions.

Is it ok to say I fucking hate this? Fucking edgelord shit in disguise. It's bad enough cosplaying as God and frequently acting like it gives you insight, but in a time where several genocides are actually going on why are you making jokes about replicating the "worst" one. Maybe it's just me

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

it’s so wild the 2025 Dems have a worse moral compass than bill kristol

Choosing empathy doesn't mean you must feel empathy for anyone who is threatening you. I have empathy but I do not grieve the person who was killed. I have empathy in general, and I will not allow them to steal that from me. There seems to be confusion around this simple idea.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

One of the most dangerous factors in the world today is how we hold individuals responsible for what groups do and groups responsible for what individuals do, in a back-and-forth cascading funhouse of mirrors. The shooter's politics matter sociologically; his wrongs are his own.

I'm interested in the question of why it's so difficult for the Ezra Kleins of the world to square, "He was an awful guy—but no one should die from political violence." We don't need to pretend he was virtuous or a positive force. If anything, in reverse, that risks implying some DO deserve to die.

Here at the department of WAR we’re focused on LETHALITY and the WARRIOR ETHOS which is why we’re ignoring a conventional attack on a NATO member so we can drone strike boats in the Caribbean.