this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”

So. Kids being racist in public. 25 years ago I was kind of a dumbass. I'm still kind of a dumbass. But I was back then, too. IN THE YEAR 2000 I argued FOR Confederate flags and I immediately regretted it. @ashtonpittman.bsky.social put it in the paper. www.mississippifreepress.org/i-looked-lik...

I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.

There has to be one (1) person in Maine who wants to reform the courts and doesn't have any Nazi tattoos, there just has to be

One thing about saying Democrats should do this or that messaging is that there's nowhere to do that messaging right now. Major social media platforms work for Trump, the networks are scared of him (or taken over by his lackeys). Dems can say whatever they want but there is no megaphone effect.

Is Israel aware of that?

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Go ahead and use public money. It’s a national security risk to allow a Trump-constructed building to stand within the White House compound. It’s going to be jammed with surveillance devices up to and including pervert peep-cams. You’re letting Jeffery Epstein’s best friend build? HERE?

👀 "We rule on facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda. I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority's order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur."

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

highlight of this article is ken burns burying a street interview tiktok guy in an early grave www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

DoD has adopted this position wholesale now and frankly every commander who has done so needs to face an Article 32 hearing when this is over with, and any JAG who has gone along with it needs to be disbarred Big boy crimes need big boy consequences, at all levels of the chain

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

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish). He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

Not sure it’s to Bari’s benefit to go off of what other people think of you.

The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Ann Arbor

various 70 plus years old I know have expressed opinions like "I would strangle Miller with my bare hands" and "the old people should do the bombings because we have less to lose"

Amazing how all the serious and professional organizers I follow are overjoyed and energized by today, and the armchair edgy revolution types are demanding to know what if even accomplished to mobilize 7 million people and produce hours of morale-boosting footage of NORMIES saying "fuck you, man"

The lead story on The Washington Post today is about the No Kings rallies, and it’s already drawn 5,000-plus comments. I was browsing the top replies, which come from all over the country but hit similar notes: the rallies were peaceful, unifying and focused on protecting democracy and rule of law.

D.C. #NoKings 👑

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

So the Dallas ICE shooter was an unemployed, online, loner, gamer dude with no friends who was politically unaligned with any particular ideology except the white male internet brain rot.

If you’re attending this weekend’s #NoKings protest, make sure you Know Your Rights! The @aclu.org#NoKingshas this handy guide and graphics. https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights

PSA: don’t block the DHS account on here! first go through the “following” list of the DHS account because it’s a good list of other accounts to block too. THEN block the DHS account

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

It's important for prominent Democrats, especially those running for president, to loudly promise they'll throw the full weight of the DOJ into prosecuting illegal acts committed by Trump officials during his administration. If people fear a prison cell, they're more likely to abandon the GOP.

Speaker Johnson: What are you hiding? You’re more interested in covering up what happened at the Epstein Mansion than protecting Americans’ health care.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

if you are a US citizen doing nothing illegal the people sneering/screaming/scolding that you shouldn't do this are confusing their own mental illness with Opsec.

lol people HATE this post so much but actually you can safely do this There’s going to be several million people at these protests. If you’re not doing crimes, if you’re standing with a bunch of retirees in front of the mall or wherever, you can take the picture and share it.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

The GOP is having an absolute aneurysm about these protests, and they haven't even happened yet. Make a fun sign! Bring some snacks! Let out some cathartic yelling! Exercise your First Amendment rights!

We’re taking on the scam PACs. From the small business owner giving $5 to the young person donating for the first time, all donors deserve to know their hard-earned dollars are going to electing Democrats.

Brace for inevitable "I can't quit Twitter here's why you're a bad person for suggesting it" replies

Excellent, clarifying thread:

"[Trump] had a meeting in the Oval Office yesterday to give $20B to the Argentinian president...He won't even engage with congressional leadership to open government and stop health care costs from spiking." - Sen. Tim Kaine bluevirginia.us/2025/10/wedn...

So Steve Scalise, did the people at the Boston Tea Party “hate America” too? Pretty sure they didn’t like kings much either.

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

🧵: Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.