I think he should probably drop out at this point but its so fucking stupid you cant like Norse stuff apparently because its retroactively Nazi and I guess you just have to give them whatever they want to claim.

they’re taking the whole thing down, holy shit

The scandal pace is such that even nominally very well informed people can’t possibly keep track of them all, the Indonesia stuff would be a presidency-killer 98% of the time and i didn’t see anybody here even comment on it

China routinely has protests where the government reverses itself, being an authoritarian state does not mean that the public is completely powerless

Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

I know a lot of transit managers, and I don't know any who believe anything like this. They all know about the problem and want to help. The problem of US transit agencies is they are: 1. impoverished 2. bombarded by competing demands. 3/

the republicans seeing people in inflatable frog costumes dance to upbeat music:

The New York Times today: "Many of the stark warnings ... - which were issued loudly during the presidential campaign by the people who had once sought to restrain the president - have proved true." The New York Times when those warnings were issued: "Put it on A12"

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

"carpetbagger" was a term used to slander Republican white schoolteachers and investors who were working for an egalitarian south. it's a marginally less polite way of calling someone a n-word lover.

sanders famously takes himself extremely seriously as well, there's a great quote from a profile about him from a friend something to the effect of "love him, voted for him many times, if I was stranded on a desert island with him I'd kill myself after two weeks of lectures about healthcare policy"

It honestly blows my mind how this is all in plain sight on.ft.com/4hxfyrD

Whatever your thoughts on Will Stancil, there are entire neo-Nazi group chats dedicated to him specifically because they believe that he as an individual must be destroyed for their movement to succeed. You should reach at least that level of hate by Nazis for me to take your resistance seriously.

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts. We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Let him cook.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

put it on a t-shirt, it's my agenda for the first 48 hours of my tenure

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but unprecedented numbers of immigrants are dying under the second Trump administration. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

If a Democrat doesn't promise retribution, I don't think he or she is winning the primary. We need to make them fear reprisal.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

this reactionary turn is one part disciplining labor for having the temerity to talk back and one part trying to arrest a perceived social reproduction crisis by disciplining elite institutions.

The proliferation of online disinformation targeted at women, which falsely claims that the most effective forms of woman-controlled contraception are dangerous, is an underrated part of the right’s weaponization of epistemic collapse.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

one thing about the dialogue between Klein and Coates is that Klein is speaking out of a place of fear and cowardice and Coates keeps trying to gently suggest he not crawl on his belly like a craven worm.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

EZRA KLEIN: this is a thing I have been struggling with. I don't want to live in a country where people making under $30,000 per year are harvested for their protein, but we do live in a country where 40% of the people want exactly that. And I must admit, the long pork is indeed so tender and juicy

MAGA people watching that Lord of the Rings dude slowly biting into a juicy tomato while his kid needlessly dies a painful death: "Ah, finally, we meet the good guy!"

79. American citizen.

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

this is also why I find all the dooming and “well this win isn’t actually a win” stuff so frustrating they’re doing a full court press to convince us that they are everywhere and unstoppable and there’s no point in fighting back in any way, don’t accept that framing

Again their entire plan hinges on the mainstream press pretending context doesn’t matter and institutions must be definition be seen a legitimate and neutral and they have been eager to oblige.

The world would be a better place if we instituted a ban on people who went to private colleges, or even just Ivies, from holding any position in media, PACs, the DNC, etc. I’m not saying it would be fair, I’m just saying from a utilitarian perspective…

JD capitulated early.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

The revolt of the bosses achieving exactly what it intended. When will the working class learn to be skeptical of the psychic wage? When will they learn that they are themselves the ones who pay themselves the wages of whiteness after they are picked from their pockets?

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then, well, 👇🤷‍♂️

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