I mean, yeah she’s hoping to get arrested by the IDF, that’s the point. Do you think the number of signatures on the petition the Selma-Montgomery marchers brought to George Wallace made a dent, or was the point to reveal what Alabama police were like to the world?

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Something I’ve heard recently from some people who are still active there is that it has gone back to normal or that it’s a functioning platform again, and I don’t think that’s right at all. I just think people have become comfortable with it

It’s almost impossible to figure out how to bear witness to horrible things while also knowing those things are absolutely getting off on controlling your emotional state and my only advice is that they remastered Final Fantasy Tactics with some really nice voice acting

BREAKING: Donald John Trump, celebrity billionaire and the 45th and 47th President of the United States, has died. He was 92. He is survived by his wife Melanie and his son Baron

If a high ranking Democrat ever said "the NFL sucks" it would be looped endlessly on the news as proof of how out of touch Dems are for the next 40 years.

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

I was married to the guy and I read her post and had some weird body memory reaction and was like, did he possess her? Why are we repeating history?

lol irl

there's no longer any way out of this but through, and in this regard i think the regime is becoming its own worst enemy. it's starting to bring a sense of clarity to guys like murphy and theo von

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

honestly it was pretty funny when the right was pretending that charlie kirk was a revolutionary civil rights leader when his whole deal was barely winning arguments with children

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

it also contributes massively to the perception (and reality) of government dysfunction they pass one major bill a year, with 735935 pieces of random bullshit crammed into it, and nobody - including themselves - really knows what they are let's go back to passing actual individual bills

trump's project 2025 denial was, like, a bit. he wasn't even really trying to sound sincere. and yet media played along anyway.

I feel like Joseph Heller had their number back in the 60's in Catch-22 and I still think of this quote whenever I hear farm owners complaining about socialism or benefits or taxes. It was a short little aside but it stuck with me for like 25 years.

You know that guy who rammed his truck w American flags into an LDS church and murdered 4 people before setting the place on fire? I can’t find a single story about his politics Help me out here if I’m missing something

They like Trump and want to help him

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

there is no point in funding the government if the mad king is just going to unilaterally impound whatever congress appropriates that he doesn't like. there is no deal to be had.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

Conscription is fundamentally at odds with the firmly held conservative principle of never being inconvenienced in the slightest way

absolutely incredible things are happening. someone should write a poem about it

is there any way we can just swap a bunch of useless dem senators at the national level with the dozen dem state senators in chicago who have been running around to mobilize their communities and confront ICE directly

call his bluff. let him tear the rest of the scaffolding down around him. we are either rebuilding or not, one way or another. stop playing ball with him

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

they're gonna turn every remaining facet of government interface into a manosphere podcast, ie, a dumb white guy telling everyone who ostensibly works for him that they're gross pieces of shit who deserve all the bad stuff in their lives because they jack off too much

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

It’s probably a good thing that comedy is going to have a reckoning about comedians pretending they’re dangerous or edgy when their definition of those words is that they whitewash repressive government regimes for money but also make gay jokes

heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle

god willing, in a few years, we'll be in a golden age of ironic 'couldn't have happened to a nicer guy' drops

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

time to get on the phone and look at the Things That Make Me Mad for a while

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

bro we are so cooked

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Ah man we’re screwed

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

They don't want Dem votes because they need them to keep going on a tyrannical crime spree. It's because they're useful to pretend it's all normal and legal, that it's something other than a tyrannical crime spree. They want the appearance of legitimacy. Nothing is worth giving that to them.

i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in

The "TikTok was already a china propaganda tool" people don't understand how much worse this platform can and will get under billionaire technofascist control in a country that just butchered all of its privacy and fraud regulators

Honestly think the only way to solve the condescension problem is to stop insisting that we have one. It's very obvious why your opponent would call you condescending for being smart and right; stand up for yourself!