The faintly bewildering sensation of watching someone draw a spectacular illustration of how they allegedly cannot draw

i don't think we should reorient our entire society based upon the overblown grievances of angry Americans in the aftermath of a global pandemic that caused two years of moderate inflation

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

CHOP/CHAZ has been memoryholed because of how awkward it was for those initially enthusiastic about it

The way you build a coalition is demonstrating your own commitment to its principles. If you can’t bring yourself to support Mamdani how can you ask anyone to support someone you like over their strong personal skepticism? Suffer a little to gain a lot

It’s true that the obligations imposed by VBNMW fall most heavily on the left - they are a minority of the coalition - but the principle applies to left and center, equally, and it’s especially ridiculous when moderates, who stand to gain the most, fail to live up to it

Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office

The most powerful response to a fascist is “be so fucking for real” in total spite of the fact that the actual appears for the moment to collude with the fascist in his self-estimation. But the power to kill is not the power to awe.

The fascist wants you to feel “how can it be possible for such a clown to have the powers of a monster-god” and it is your duty, privilege, and joy to instead feel “this fuckin’ clown thinks he’s a monster-god.”

if you're calling Gavin Newsom 99% Hitler I think it's fair to say you don't know what Hitler is

I don't think that Dems should be above criticism; in fact I have criticized them quite harshly, in national press, in the last month. But I do think that one thing needs to be FIRMLY established as completely nonnegotiable: in 2028, we're voting for the Democrat, not MAGA. Zero compromise on this.

i don’t think dems will have the numbers they need to actually dismantle DHS or even just ICE after the midterms, *but* they can spend two years tearing into what’s likely to be a megaton of malfeasance and fraud at DHS and line it all up for a dem AG

I'm like "you must vote for the Democrat in 2028 under all circumstances" and you're like "oh but what if they're a socialist?" what part of UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES is so hard to understand

This is delusional to a degree that’s disturbing. The liberals and progressives on this site and elsewhere who are feeding these sorts of delusions, for the sake of earning clout and retweets, need to have a really hard think about the impact of the disinformation they’re spreading.

Do you... know what Republicans are doing to trans people? What?

If someone tells you something that turns out to be very false in a way they probably realized when they told it to you, that person need to be a little mental blacklist

A useful exercise to perform occasionally is to ask, pretty rigorously, "Who have I caught lying to me recently?" and then not trust those people anymore

Without furries you wouldn't have this gem though:

It’s also not true. It’s apples to oranges. Both Obama and Clinton levels of deportations were fueled by rapid border removals. Trump, through brutality and defiance of the law, has managed to halt most border crossings. Deportations from the interior are at record levels. That can’t be done nicely.

To me this is treasonous. This statement all by itself is treason against the United States of America. You don’t get to pick who votes. The people who vote get to pick you—or not.

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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

This is why I will never trust tankies nor take them seriously.

i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.

As little as three days ago I was hearing about a local school district that simply could not keep the masked men away from their parking lots. Nonstop harassment

ICE’s continuous harassment of schools, forcing parents to stand out in front of their children’s school every day, collapsing attendance, transforming schools into de facto aid distribution networks - for me, that’s probably their most unforgivable premeditated crime here in Minnesota

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

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Yes! Rather than chasing Trump's policies, they should chase his strategy of shaping public perception.

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

fr fam

If ICE and CBP don't want to be called secret police, then don't wear masks.    If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.   And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Anyway I would like to know what happened here

ICE guys have also been observed going in and out of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office for days. Hm. And HCSO cars riding alongside ICE convoys. Hm.

A Minnesota mystery: White House claims that “local law enforcement” has been cooperating with feds to stop observers. Local agencies claim nothing has changed. Observers report no new cooperation from MPD, SPPD, Ramsey Sheriff. But Hennepin sheriff has suddenly started pulling observers over.

Roadblocks to government action by organized groups of citizens is good when the government action is bad and bad when the government action is good.

"... to act out these paradoxes, whether it is kidnapping a foreign head of state, whether it is threatening our allies to colonize Greenland, whether it is looking the other way in a genocide. Hypocrisies are vulnerabilities, and they threaten democracies globally."

"I think what we identify is that in a rules based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability, and so I think what we are seeking is a return to a rules based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the West, we look the other way for inconvenient populations ... "

you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

How did this one random sub-agency of DHS become America’s secret police force, with a larger budget than many entire states? We’re so stuck on this absurd theoretical debate over “do we need immigration enforcement” that we missed Trump building himself a vast paramilitary army

This is just unconscionable man

We should just reform ICE in such a way that every single agent is sweeping minefields in Ukraine by spring of 2029.

Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.

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