They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

Who is Tron: Ares even *for*?

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Furries all around the world outraged at being grouped in with Kirk and Miller

"Since 2002, right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terrorism plots in the United States, according to the Anti-Defamation League." -- so call them out as liars when they say otherwise www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

I really think we underestimate how much of Trumpian bullshit isn't so much him thinking, "I'll tell a lie now" as it is him thinking, "I will manifest this into reality through the power of spoken positive thought"

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

One thing I am realizing about this administration-- not just Trump, but his underlings-- is that they all think running the country is functionally the same as being able to have everything they want, all at once, immediately. There is no strategy, just naked expectation of instant gratification.

Who's "we" here, Stephen? Who's "we"?

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Holy cow, I had no idea there were pictures of the landslide from the air!

Look at how round this bird is!!! Bird of the year!!

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Every once in a while, you come across an acronym that deserves genuine applause

PMC class consciousness is genuinely wild to see materialize

this is the one thing I miss from cable teevee the indecision lock is so real, and eventually with cable you'd be like oh I just want to see this one part and would get sucked in.

Who would win: the Society from Pierce Brown's Red Rising saga vs the Nine Houses from Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series? Discuss

*Kindest* reminder everything you're experiencing rn under American authoritarianism that *feels new* is not new for Native people. I'd really recommend you start connecting with members of your local tribe by attending open events and listening to what the elders have to say. We know this well.

*Every* US president should be tried by the International Court every four years, and forced to submit to judgement regardless of if they won re-election or not. We are the Empire. Someone needs to watch the watchmen, and if you want great power, you better be ready for great responsibility.

The fundamental reason that Trump is going to fail is that to succeed as an autocrat you have to help somebody. There has to be some sizable constituency of people who are better off with you in power. Trump, on the other hand, fucks over his base so hard it has to be intentional somehow.

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

it’s nosferatu but with muppets: thread

Somewhere, Stephen Baxter awakes in a cold sweat

The only thing about fascism that's good for the arts is its collapse & defeat We're about to make some damn fine art, gang

AW GODDAMN PORNBOTS HIJACKING MY ACCOUNT. Shoo!

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.

Big brass balls. If there’s some “crisis of masculinity” in America, it boils down to man-children who lack the cojones of this polite, soft-spoken, badass accountant and therefore fail to understand that “showing up for our neighbors” is what being a man means if it means anything.

Ken Klippenstein is a reprehensible motherfucker. Yeah, he has semi-reliable sources (not *reliable* ones). He is terminally irresponsible in his reporting and glues a bunch of suppositions and penumbras into shit designed to give people anxiety attacks.

Focus is on trans suspects, it’s a focus on making trans people suspected of criminal activity into enemies of the state. Still alarming and an escalation that will come for all of us

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Having read Klippenstein's blog, I'm still kind of at a loss as how what they're proposing could *actually* be wielded against trans people in any real, organized way. What's the plan here--arrest Laverne Cox for existing? Sue the NCTE?

I don’t feel safe, so let’s explicitly nullify the contract between the states and the federal government and between the government and the governed. That’s the sort of thing that will lower the temperature.

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them. I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October. But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.

another reason the commentariat is glazing Kirk is because his most hateful areas of rhetoric—towards the existence of trans people and the presence of Black people in elite institutions—are also the areas where many liberal elites broadly agreed with him

Having been working on this in therapy, I think people need to come to terms with the fact that no matter how much you catastrophize, there will come no certainty or comfort at the end. What you’re seeking is “for it to be over,” which is not a thing that can be thought or spoken into being.

it'll be really funny, appropriately stupid, if the turning point of this administration is Jimmy goddamn Kimmel

if you are making a joke about how this will never happen you are part of the problem, it's 2025 and we live in Extraordinary Times you are allowed to dream bigger

If Wheaton, of all places, the home of Wheaton College and a shit ton of reactionary right wing churches and people, kicked out ICE, then hell has truly frozen over

just going to say if you’re cancelling disney+ or another streaming service to boycott ABC, please consider donating that money to any of the trans people needing mutual aid right now. finding work as a trans person as hard. a lot of us are fighting for survival every day and even $5 helps so much