I could not ask for a more perfect representation of the core fascist philosophy: the anti-intellectualism of moral nihilism conjoined with a lingering sense that power is all that *should* matter and any exceptions to this crude worldview must be furiously destroyed.

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.

Agree

This all makes their charade to “protect children” by hurting trans people all the more obviously farcical

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

She made a whole ass child with the guy who runs it and NOW she's concerned?

centrist libs are not only thoughtless dullards, they are *extremely proud* of being thoughtless dullards and assume that anyone with a modicum of basic forethought is ripe for mockery. Trouble for them that it is difficult to mock something you are too stupid to comprehend correctly.

this woman is currently pushing HARD to ban teens from social media "to protect them" even as they're older than the victim of her own avowed CSA — sorry i mean "secret moment when romance became a real love affair" for context

they'll spend a lifetime supply of ink over the titillating scandal, and how horrible it is to accuse a Real Woman (tm) of being a tranny (still recounting the lurid accusation in details, of course, as if it wasn't obviously made up shit) the woman is an open sexual predator and a groomer

People are confused by 2 decades of all software being a platform where you work to render data to big tech. Software that supports you and gives your community tools is not personalized, it's just not corporatized. The point is to build software to represent a collective framework b/c that's power

Are you now or have you ever been paid in woims

Y’know, every time I unmute dr hancox-li’s account I regret it. I always think my annoyance with her will be fleeting and she always draws it back somehow

*wearing sunglasses* yeah man Mattie Lubchansky is so awful dude. You should hear the things she says on the No Gods No Mayors podcast. Or even worse, her appearances on The Worst of all Possible Worlds. Yeah the Into the Woods one is premium, so.. no it's Patreon dot com slash worstofall.. one word

Complaining about blue sky is like complaining about a venue when it’s down the street from the set of The Green Room.

Whenever I see someone getting out over their skis on a foreign policy take I remember Caitlin Flanagan confusing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khomeini and then claiming she was actually expressing a profound truth.

I said this to a friend yesterday and will repeat it here. A lot of people are going to be hyper-focused on elections this year but if that's not your ministry, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HYPER-FOCUS there. There's so much other organizing work to do. You can focus your energies and attention there.

You can tell there are important and stressful geopolitical things happening because the queer online stress response is to argue with each other over the most inane possible shit

Sky Marchini is finding out what I learned a long time ago: people do not want to hear a nuanced take about the petroleum industry while their country is manufacturing an unpopular war I hope they will learn what I came to later: the nuanced take is always a distraction from the broader trajectory

Imagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.

it seems pretty obvious that there's no future for the left where we don't have a clear and central position that international law should be extremely real as far as the united states is concerned

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

"It looks weak" said a Democrat who wishes to remain anonymous

How soon can we get Mamdani to pry Newsmax out of the fucking taxi cabs? It's a goddamn humiliation that tourists land at our airports, can't take mass transit into the city, and then have propaganda and lies blasted at them from state-controlled channels.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

Dem messaging bingo: - accepts framing - [thing] is a distraction - "those liars lied to us and we demand that they come and lie to us again" - words not used: impeach, illegal, unconstitutional - tone-deaf to anyone left of the farthest right

Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.

Any hope of saving this country necessitates consequences for these people.

if you leak to me i certainly won’t pull this shit

Pepperidge Farm remembers way back when Yglesias got his start blogging the war drums for WDMs

There is a part of me that Strongly believes he did this because he was jealous of the attention Mamdani was getting

So when can you start

Dr. Janell Green Smith was a highly respected Certified Nurse Midwife She died due to complications during labor "That a Black midwife & maternal health expert died giving birth in the United States is both heartbreaking & unacceptable." From a statement by The American College of Nurse-Midwives

weird how much power mitch mcconnell had when he had no power

I made a playlist

Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes. Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.

We're really close to $10,000 raised for Black Zine Fair. It's 50% of what we need to raise. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

I don't even know what to say. I'm horrified at the human suffering represented by the deeds of nations and the powerful. I'm horrified that I don't know what can even be done.

ill have to think about this but it seems a reasonable lens to work from at least

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

If you want to lose all faith in humanity the grok subreddit is the place to go

For today’s drawing we’re back to mythical creatures because they’re fun and I can make them neon lol. I tried out some alcohol marker brushes on this one and I really like how she came out! I continue to highlight and shade in an exceedingly reckless fashion 😂🎨 #drawing

"I’m a girl from Gaza… despite everything, I stand up again and rebuild myself step by step. We’ve lost so much, but my spirit is still moving forward. And honestly… I need your presence. A word or even the smallest support from you can lift me up again🥺🙏 chuffed.org/project/1536...

We need a politician to run on throwing all the private equity guys in a big oubliette

If it’s a person you *know in real life* and *know to be able to consider some pushback*, it could be a valuable learning opportunity to correct some misconceptions about socialism and teach the value of expensive clothing with more ethical practices in leftist thought, but this works too

shout out to my favorite mute list, which does a really concise and elegant job of improving the timeline by reducing general terfery and also smug idiotic British politics more broadly: bsky.app/profile/did:...

This brainrot is more responsible for the rise of authoritarianism in the US than any of the wokeness it will not shut up about