anyway. Kat Abughazaleh has to look at that NJ-11 result and smile a bit.

he thinks he’s cute

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'd almost forgotten how annoying this doofus is. And wow, 6-7. Clever stuff! A boring message from a centrist who let Trump win isn't how I'd start off a "progressive" hub for young people, but who am I to judge the team that lost every swing state to the dumbest people on earth?

It’s striking how the majority of Democrats want to abolish ICE and yet the leadership refuses to even touch that position—even though we have seen repeatedly that the key to winning is mobilizing and energizing the base.

Discovery Channel wishes!

Ross Douthat once claimed that more sexual agency for women is going to cause the extinction of the human race btw lmao

I have a big story about sex workers coming out next week and they are salt of the earth heroes doing the Lord’s (public health) work, it’s enraging how much stigma is heaped upon their humble dreams of survival compared to the whims of the depraved ruling class

This is an underdiscussed issue in left spaces where it is unfortunately still socially acceptable to discriminate against sex workers. Rather than being treated with respect & nuance they are made a prop by terf groups & Christian rescue orgs, it's maddening. Decriminalization now. Support SWers

"the perfect is the enemy of the good" mainly comes up when the "good" thing on offer is extremely not good

There's "everything's not perfect" and there's "how can you pretend any of this is good". Your faction's lack of any standards whatsoever has ballooned into a problem that can no longer be ignored.

I appreciate the optimism here but the reality is that the executive will just flout 7 and 8, and they may flout any judicial attempts to enforce them too. The problem with creating new rules is that DHS literally just doesn’t care about them. Reasonable people can disagree on this but, yeah.

I say without one iota of humor that the democratic party needs to be completely dismantled top to bottom and reassembled into something with actual values.

Y'all notice how none of the powerful people on epstein's list have been arrested, by the same western liberals and conservatives who love to shout "LAW AND ORDER" when they wanna heavily punish working class people for "stealing", or doing unlawful things that pose a threat to capitalism?

love to wake up and see that someone has worked themselves up into such a nasty crashout about me overnight that they told me they hope my cat dies a slow and painful death. truly love that for me

You called her a nazi, said you hope her cat dies a slow and painful death, and you're taking the high ground on morality of words?!?!?! How are you ANY better than the monsters on the right?

you're defining demanding better as leftist purity testing and then admitting liberals don't want to do that

"As the enlightened centrist, I can see how BOTH sides are equally inferior to my vast intellect and morality. Look at both of them squabble while I sit on the hill and KNOW. I'm so smart. If only these idiots would stop misunderstanding and throw me a party so we could fix the world."

😃: you gotta check out this game, i was amazed at its exploration of morality and the consequences of our decisions the game: Will you destroy the world? [1] Yes (😈) [2] No (😇) [3] Come back later

20 times as many quote posts as reposts. This man's reign of incompetence is coming to an end and I am HERE for it.

Trying to wrap my brain around people saying "you can't argue movement theory with this guy, he is on the ground in MN" and then in the same breath getting mad at other people on the ground in MN doing tactics they personally disapprove of

And frankly calling it "arguing movement theory" is excessively generous at this point. The person in question is willfully and self-servingly offering up misinformation about very basic terminology and practice of protest in ways that can materially endanger other protesters, and not just in MN.

We're past the point of "over-confident white guy opining cluelessly" and well into the realm of "bad actor deliberately muddying the waters to shirk accountability and play victim"

Have these men considered the possibility that viewing potential romantic partners as recipients of their genetic material might be the very thing that makes them unappealing to the opposite sex?

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

2/n

I would really, really urge you: if this is not your work, if you have not been in this stuff for years, stifle your urge to speak over the folks actually running these groups, actually putting these protests together, actually responsible for keeping people safe. You are speaking out of turn.

Friends, acquaintances, strangers, enemies... Stop adoring celebrities. They have never deserved it. Their money and fame insulate them from the real world. AND they tend to use those things to achieve the most disgusting goals. All of them.

nothing against markiplier; if anything i think more influencer guys should use their massive piles of risk-free money to just make the vanity projects they want but let’s not act like this is some kind of win for the little guy lol

Here's hoping all landlords meet ruin. They are all soulless parasites.

Neil Gaiman attempting to sidle back into public after being buried in a pile of nauseatingly well-documented sexual abuse allegations is gross. Doing so by denying everything, linking to some guy's substack post, and limply teasing a new novel is so gross it's kind of funny

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

if you enjoy my work, consider getting yourself a painting. Its what allows me to continue doing this 🙏🎨

Communists seeing their claims about the global bourgeoisie once again proven right only for the public to go “omg Alex Jones and the conspiracy theorists were right!”

I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole. (1/?)

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

So what you're telling me is that Chuck Schumer is in fact willing to fight hard for things he believes in? Well goodness, perhaps we could identify things he doesn't care about by examining the things he doesn't fight for.

For anyone swept up in the recent Stancil stanning: THIS is who he is. He is always right. You are always wrong. He doesn't listen. He doesn't learn. He doesn't care.

My name is Phil. I saw my shadow this morning. That is all. See you next year.

These pigs know the California state legislature passed a law clarifying this EXACT ISSUE and they still keep threatening journalists

If your "hot take" has been said a gazillion times by people, it's not a hot take. I'm so tired of hearing/seeing "Hot take, the Beatles were the most overrated band ever"

pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ

Okay so just, is everyone with a modicum of power a pedophile or at least fine with hanging out with them? Is that what we’re learning?

Never again. If the things you require me to sacrifice "for the greater good" are my healthcare, my safety, my bodily autonomy and my right to exist as an equal human being in your society, then it's not the good at all, and your party can burn to the ground and the nation along with it.

one of the things that 2024 proved was that many Americans now refuse to just hold their nose and vote when Dems are doing the same evil as Republicans and that shows tremendous growth. it also means the end of the Democratic Party as we understand it within the next 4 years or so

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

if you'd like context lol

So say them all, it is unrealistic to ask for a Dem who doesn't support ice or genocide. So stop voting for them.