They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

Mask off

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

I know the hypocrisy is their only consistent feature and I shouldn't let it bother me but this has been driving me NUTS.

If you’re talking about the Midterms or the 2028 Presidential Election you’ve lost the plot at this point.

I’m so tired of blueanon shitlibs trying to make everything about the Epstein files and not the very blatant fascism we’re currently experiencing.

I remember when I used to go DAYS—WEEKS EVEN—without thinking about the President of the United States because I wasn’t worried about him starting a civil or world war, making a gestapo police force, or ripping our constitution to shreds.

And it turns out that all the 2nd Amendment fan-boys who insisted that school shootings were a necessary tragedy to ensure the gun rights needed to fight tyranny were on team tyranny the whole time.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

I’m finding it very hard to live with the knowledge that our nation’s highest military official recalled career generals from their jobs around the globe just to tell them “don’t be fat,” while somehow I still have to teach today.

Yep. It does. Not. Matter.

A lot of people need to expunge the word "distraction" from their political vocabularies.

Remember, the same government deploying masked agents to kidnap people off the streets and disappear them to foreign countries without due process demands you not call them fascist…or else.

Btw "everything is a distraction from Epstein" internet people & "everything is a distraction from health care policy" official Democratic accounts, eventually the overrepresented-on-Bluesky people who care most about collapse of the constitutional order & ethnic cleansing will lose our minds.

I can’t believe how depressing it is to watch this. I know I’ve said it before, but this sucks.

ICE is abusing/torturing/disappearing/killing people using our tax dollars and in our name.

I always thought when it was time for a mid career change of profession there would be professions left.

its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

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Kimmel off the air is not cancel culture. It's state censorship. The FCC Chair abused merger approval authority to do it, and the president touted it saying no one should be allowed to make fun of him. Don't play into the BS that complaining students or social media posters are equivalent to govt.

Absolutely and it always has been

What the fuck guys. We can't let the media keep spinning it that the violence is coming from the left. People are calling you fascists? Well maybe it's because you keep saying the most fascist shit imaginable.

Really, Google Gemini can do everything? Then let's see it fuck off

Really the only thing I can do as an old man is to work harder learning Spanish and find the courage to speak it in public

It's been a while since I tried to give AI a task, but I thought it could handle this one by now and I wanted to see how it did: I asked it to find me some options for an article regarding environmental law and/or history for my students to discuss this week. 1/

1/? Meanwhile, white men have committed the vast majority of the stochastic gun violent events in this country for decades and no one says a word. But if you have been paying attention, you would have seen this coming. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-mulli...

Oh ok so now Trump will be (unfavorably, like Obama was) on the cover of the American Rifleman every other month for ten straight years while it's packed with articles fantasizing about Pam Bondi showing up to take a transgender person's guns so the NRA can defend their rights, yes?

YEP. But they're fine with paying to hurt people. Another way of looking at this is that some people think you should be generous with help and be careful to punish only those who deserve it. Others think you should be generous with punishment and be careful to help only those who deserve it.

I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.

Thank goodness for the people I derided as “gun nuts” preventing a tyrannical government from sending soldiers into American cities to crush dissent, just like they said they would. Oh. Wait.

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 🧵 Texas Senator Eckhardts is preparing to filibuster. In Texas, you can only talk about the subject at hand. She needs material to speak about. Please write an email with your thoughts on redistricting to her. Say how it affects you, the vote in general and/or our very democracy!

Wow. With a test developed by Prager U no less. This guy is real dedicated to making Oklahoma the stupidest state fastest.

Timmy: Dad, why are there masked people with guns walking around our neighborhood? Dad: They’re bad people who’ve been recruited by our bad government to do bad things. Timmy: Isn’t our government supposed to be doing good things? (1/6)

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time

Yep. And this goes ALL the way up to the people who invented it. "What if China makes a world destroying robot? We better make a world destroying robot first JIC" is literally their reasoning.

i'm kind of blown away by how obvious it is if you're, like, literate. at all. i don't even mean for books, i also mean for movies. i mean that if you have understood things at any point in your life, this is obvious. so it's weird to see people act like they don't understand it

If you cannot convince people that the government kidnapping people off the streets and conducting a takeover of the capital is full fledged fascism, they are never going to be convinced. Not until the boots are kicking down their front door.

This is a segment of the population, along with the NRA, that has been very quiet as we are experiencing the heavy handed, authoritarian government that they always screamed that they would fight until their guns are pried from their cold, dead hands. One word describes this phenomenon; racism.

Yep. Then they actively voted in tyranny.

I live in rural Missouri, population 480. I travel to DC a few times a year. The President is lying.

Are we letting our criminal leader, who already tried to stay in office past his welcome once, build a fortress of loyalist soldiers around his house?

I will never forget the employee appreciation event where folks got up to present awards to their colleagues and introduced said award recipients with speeches they claimed were written by ChatGPT. Multiple people did this. I work at a COLLEGE.

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?