Got the, 'keep politics out of the office' email today 😒

Is it possible Pam Bondie actually said no to pardoning Maxwell? (not in an integrity way but in a, "that's craaaazy, we can't get away with that" way?)

Who doesn't like bonbons?

it's becoming harder and harder to root for humanity

Only a fucking leftist would sincerely argue that we need weaker leadership in the executive.

'Guys, when I legitimized a posture of hate that was only en vogue due to political forces aiming to do material harm to a marginalized community, I had no way of knowing those political forces would continue and expand the material harm I was legitimizing...'

Pennsylvania has the nation’s highest per capita rate of people serving life without parole. More than a decade of abolitionist organizing helped pave the way for a state supreme court ruling that could shift the momentum. theappeal.org/pennsylvania...

You don't have to respond to everything you see on the Internet. Shutting the fuck up is free and useful.

I'm going to start a cult. The gist of it will be that aliens exist and have been waiting for the "Evolution of Human Nature" before making contact. Humankind is an under-evolved species. And the final Evolution, Nature, is extending the instinct of self-preservation universally.

The thing about Trump being a showman is that politically he's losing all leverage. This could become a real test of how much of a true believer he is in a scary way.

I haven't had a good deviled egg in years. I don't even know if I like them anymore. I remember liking them growing up but every time I remember trying them in the past decade I've been utterly disappointed.

Maybe I'm naive but I don't think liberals want to see a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East. That said, their is something sick about those that both: * call the potus a belligerent and irrational madman AND * taunt the whole taco Trump thing about chickening out of loosing nukes

They'll always blame constituents for having standards before they ever, ever blame a politician for flagrantly failing them. It's never the fault of those in power or authority for losing - it's always the fault of those they refused to listen to for not supporting them anyway. I hate it here.

If your discourse about the US bombing and murdering around the globe actually revolves around a what if Harris won, you're snitching on yourself. You don't want to stop the bombs, you want to feel better about them. You don't want to end imperialism, you want it frosted with vague liberal ideals.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

"The only way to engage in politics is by voting" - Enlightened by the CIA

One of the most annoying rhetorical devices in discussing current events is, "This wouldn't be happening if an election had gone another way..." I don't believe your name is Dr Strange. You can't peer into the multiverse.

"I believe in protecting human life. Especially the lives of children. So yes, I support bullet proof vests for school shooters. I want someone to tell them to stop shooting up schools. I don't like them shooting up schools. But that doesn't mean I want them to get shot." - Ro Khanna, probably.

The press loves to call Trump charismatic. Maybe he is. Like Hitler. Or maybe it's doublespeak for calling his followers lemmings. And maybe it's easier to believe the masses were just magically charmed into goose-stepping over graves.

I cannot overstate how important and incredible it was for Brandy to play Cinderella. To say nothing of her being THEE teenage icon Moesha. She was black America’s sweetheart — in addition to being the vocal bible. It’s so funny you started your post with a black signifier tho and that is shade.

People always try to take comfort in the fact that the past has always led to the present and the present to the future. “Human history is full of ups and downs, but here we are!” I don’t think people understand how fragile human life on this planet is, how easily it could all end.

Or that the powerful majority desires the end of humanity. Whether it's Christo-fascists desiring to see Revelations in their lifetime or the techno-fascists racing toward the singularity in hopes of immortality and commodification. NTM power has never been more removed from individuals in history

No empathy for the miseducated?

It's not respectability politics, it's message discipline. There are no safe spaces in organizing.

If your "leftist critique" is to blame progressives that placed 3rd or lower for not dropping out, for not dropping out instead of the lack of ranked choice voting, the millions of dollars spend, the unaccounted billionaires and millionaires doing the spending, the captured media environment, etc...

Sometimes I feel like I only have a favorite color because I'm supposed to. I know people are going to ask and at some point I answered blue. I love certain things that are blue but I never want a blue car, I don't want to paint my room blue. Hell, I don't want or have a blue phone or case.

crime =/= harm - which is why it only matters politically if the *crime* rate is high because it is actively weaponized.

Sanctions, embargos are a form of collective punishment.

What movie do you consider perfect?

These alt-right kids might play dumb in front of authorities but they know what they are doing. They’ve probably been Nazi-posting on 4chan since they were 14.

If you want to see big changes, you're gonna have to start helping individuals. It's not counter-intuitive because everything is connected. The folks in power know that, so they do everything they can to keep us struggling alone. Don't enable it. Give up dreams of wealth so we can all stay alive.

Dems just do not have the voters they want and it fucking kills them.

“Fund the police” was Biden’s *applause* line in his first joint address to Congress. It was written to echo LBJ saying “we shall overcome” in his joint address as a lifeline to a movement under attack. I really don’t bring it up enough.

Speak belligerently and throw big sticks.

Gamers acting like they are going to stop buying games over dynamic pricing...just like they were gonna stop pre-ordering incomplete games, buying dlc, paying for games that required needless live subscriptions, abandon pay to win...sorry gamers but y'all are captured and it's just a little funny.

It's funny we talk about Iran's terrorism when for the last few years all I've seen is the US randomly kill Iranian citizens, make up excuses about why it was justified, threaten that they'll do it again if they feel like it, lie about peace efforts only to then kill unarmed Iranian soldiers...

I'm quirky in like, I support a wealth tax only until we have an estate tax of 100% over like $300k.

A lot of liberals are mad but they really just want respectability back in the white house.

I think when Trump said his father was born in Germany, he was a little confused but also remembering his father fondly as a nazi.

We are not at war with Iran. And Trump is not in the Epstein files. Israel is not a genocidal apartheid state. And Trump has never sexually assaulted a child. ICE agents are not violating constitutional rights. And the billionaire pedophile sex trafficking stopped when Epstein died.

If Kamala Harris had won, we'd've had boots in Iran 8 months ago, instead of masked ICE agents, it'd be autonomous drones bombing apartment buildings where immigrants might be, Titans would have won the superbowl, a virus would have wiped out the global supply of green grapes. So, yeah. They are.

It cannot ever be understated that running for the highest executive office in the country and your current job only has TWO constitutional duties and you are actively ignoring the second one was never a good look.

I believe in the value of possibility. Of potential. But not the virtue of it. Where there is potential for good, there is potential for evil. Radical love for me is about empathy for the human condition and pouring love into that potential beyond reason. Sometimes it's tough love. But it's love.

DC resident arrested for attending tenant organizing meeting.

If I could have any inconsequential superpower ever, I'd want to be able to pull polls across time and populations. And maybe realities. Just for my curiosity.

I truly believe there is a point of no return: A set of conditions by which power concentrated at the top becomes cemented beyond repair. I'm not a fortune teller so I have no idea when that point will be met. I'm not even certain of the conditions. But I know one must me autonomous weapons.

some kind of false dichotomy between accelerationism and incrementalism seems to have somehow been set up in so many people's minds and it baffles me