Things I’m meant to not call political violence Brutalizing protestors State-sponsored murder of Black men, women, children Funding a genocide Using the war on drugs to extrajudicially murder 1/X

who would the New York Times and Wall Street want in charge of New York's fire department: an upstart young firefighter or a serial arsonist? The answer may surprise you

Yes Trump is worse. But we've been saying ICE must be abolished for 20 years. Now that you see the reality, will you remember your neighbors when the Democrats are back in charge?

Sorry I’m late I was looking for a fork to stick in an outlet www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Most people in the US equate health & being ablebodied with morality & wealth (among other things). Which is super ironic given the vast majority of the population is eugenics-ing themselves and their families into poverty.

These injuries were not inflicted by ICE or federalized guardsmen or imaginary agitators. They were inflicted by LAPD and LASD, under the direction of a supposedly democratic mayor, against people who came out to protest peacefully against fascism and racist kidnappings of our neighbors.

i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

this is such a good representation of American Christianity

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

borders and states aren’t real, anybody who wants to stroll into the U.S. should be able to do so whenever they want, I don’t fuckin care

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

if biden gets a single day of treatment in a hospital for his cancer, he'll have enjoyed what he denied thousands of Palestinians with cancer over the last year and a half, because he insidiously helped israel destroy every cancer treatment facility and virtually every healthcare facility in Gaza.

It looks like all these war criminals will die of old age never having faced a trial

We are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. Commuter rail, we are often told, operates at a loss. But we spend even more on street and highways, and take in little direct revenue from them. Yet no one ever says they are operating at a loss.

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers theonion.com/ice-ope...

Does anyone else remember how WILD The History Channel was? Every other show had a “Ufologist” or whatever?

“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position

The essence of the modern Democratic establishment is that it's better to be popular than to be morally correct instead of vice versa, and the problem with that attitude is that it's a complete abdication of responsibility. You cannot crowdsource your ethics without condemning marginalized people.

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the many implications—all horrifying—of the Trump administration reviving seemingly unconstitutional Red Scare–era laws to abduct and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, without due process, in retaliation against his protected speech. slate.com/news-and-pol...

GAVIN NEWSOM: So, again, you were talking about the importance of- EDGAR THE BUG WEARING HUMAN SKIN FROM MEN IN BLACK: SUGAR WATER GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, sugar water. And my party hasn't acknowledged how much people love sugar and water. My son was shouting SUGAR WATER at me the other day on xbox.

today it's the edgier portions of pro-palestinian activism, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", a year later maybe it's "the climate hoax". you draw the line here or not at all.

ICE can deport green card holders for engaging in and/or inciting terrorism. Trump will likely use this to justify the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant They've chosen him as their first victim because the Dems are unlikely to defend him They're testing the water. They will do this again

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Does anyone else remember smarmy libs in 2020 talking about how they weren't a cult and would definitely criticize their guy? Because I am watching a bunch of blue wave jerks celebrate harm against Palestinians with ghoulish fucking glee and I'm turning into the fucking joker.

The comments saying this man deserves this treatment because he (or other Palestinians) didn't vote for Harris are infuriating because (a) HE CANNOT VOTE, HE'S NOT A CITIZEN; (b) collective punishment is morally repugnant; (c) genocide is wrong; (d) human rights aren't transactional;

every time the "what can we do to connect to young men and pull them off right wing paths" convo comes up i keep thinking "have the suburban libs decided to pull back on making it illegal for kids to exist in public yet? because that'd be a great place to start"

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

Sure would be great if all the boomer dads who spent years reading WWII books instead of going to therapy had any kind of pattern recognition skills right about now

Curtis Yarvin is an oily little Nazi dweeb who’s trying to subjugate you and everyone you love - and Musk and Vance worship at his cloven feet. Know and damn his name.

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

(cw suicide) i probably think about this image set more than anything else i saw on tumblr a decade ago. That's Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy btw.

The median Republican in DC was radicalized because their university wouldn’t let them major in date rape

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

simple point i tried to convey in the post I just shared. if someone does a nazi salute at a political rally, i don't need to do a critical biography or do some deep dive on why they did it. if you want a research project, sure, whatever. but that doesn't matter. They did it. Thats all that matters.

afrikaner doing a fascist salute on the stage on mlk day is i think a pretty perfect encapsulation of where we are in america, thankfully our media is pretty prepared to cover it

There's an queasy undercurrent of glee in a lot of the "BUCKLE UP YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD IT'S GOING TO GET" posts from people who are almost certainly going to suffer the least. Like they're kind of excited to get back to being outraged every single day because that's their online personality now.

Some of the Sinophobia on here with regard to TikTok that’s coming from self-proclaimed libs is…well, not all surprising.