Let me say something very directly. We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country. Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

This is really something. Mark Warner, one of the more moderate and cautious senators in the Dem caucus, says he'll vote No on ICE funding:

Here is why. We were all warned he would do it and then we ELECTED HIM. We did not listen to the warning.

There was another way we could have avoided electing him. To be honest. But nobody wants to hear that they should have voted for less evil.

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

HE HAD A VALID WORK VISA.

Three more years of this because it’s what we voted for.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

This country is going to become threadbare with conflict. & while some will find the fight cathartic, like a gratifying endgame for the pent up stress we have been under, I can’t help but feel it all helps Republicans in the long run, to demagogue violence, and win the next election as a result.

So many people would be alive if Kamala and been inaugurated a year ago. Still believe your vote doesnt matter?

CHARITY IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT

We will keep fantasizing about “sources of power outside elected office” while those in elected office, who actually have power, use it. How does that make sense? Our priority should be to govern. Not to run charities!

Instead, progressive voters wait to complain about the general election and call them BOTH EVILS AND LESS EVIL. When they could have picked the nominee in the primary. It’s stupid and unforgivable. But DONT ACT MYSTIFIED about why centrists win. It’s because we ABANDON progressive candidates.

If we want Senators who are not like Slotkin, & governors who are not like Whitmer, there are options in the primary. Hill Harper wan against Slotkin in the Democraric Primary & he was for Medicare for all, abolishing the filibuster, and a literal union member! But people didn’t vote in the primary.

When Whitmer won her primary for Michigan governor in 2018 she beat Abdul El-Sayed, who was endorsed by BERNIE and AOC. He was RIGHT THERE ON THE BALLOT but people did not vote for him. Moderates win because progressives ABANDON THE PRIMARIES. Not voting has been a bad strategy from the beginning.

It’s because we leave the primary elections to moderates, by not voting in them. The reason moderate & centrist democrats are elected is because of the abandonment of the primaries by the people. The refusal to help pick the nominee, so they can complain about the general election both being evils.

Exactly. This was not necessary.

They impeached Clinton for one lie about one bj.

just watching moots I mostly know from silly sports threads go "my soul is prepared" mode. normal weekend

I mean, yeah? So why don’t we vote in the primary to replace them with non-centrists? What’s the reason we skip the primary more than any other type of election? Is there no burden on the citizen when it comes to who we elect?

If you voted for Kamala Harris, I'm wishing you a very happy Friday and wonderful weekend!

Good morning to everyone who voted for Kamala Harris.

A preventable nightmare that did NOT have to happen.

Correct.

Like, it’s a smaller issue. But it’s part of the bigger issue. The President INTENTIONALLY cut training in half for ICE ONLY, & not any other federal police. That was on purpose. Why is the President allowed to personally decide how much training a federal agent gets? That should be against the law.

ICE are Gestapo. ICE are domestic terrorists. ICE are criminals serving a criminal. ICE are empowered abusers. ICE are cold blooded murderers.

Governor Newsom Is Correct.......

My future Senator, I hope.

Ughhhhhhhh what a stupid system

Thanks for the feedback

Actually we could have not voted for this very easily sir

Is it an authorizedpower of a state governor to order the arrest of a federal agent? This is a legal question I know, but google is not helping me very much on this

I can’t watch the Minnesota news without constantly going back to how much this could have been prevented, by not saying Harris being the less evil was a reason to elect Trump. The less evil is always the better choice. We didn’t think that way for some reason. So now the INNOCENT MUST SUFFER. ?

Okay. Suggest a specific plan for him that you support? I’d like to hear it! If there is a specific mechanism he can use to ban ICE, then let’s hear it. Is it a lawsuit?

A quote from the public works division of Portland Municipal. 🪏

You misspelled "BORED".

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

I was propositioned by a 44 year old woman should I say Y or N?

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

It’s 9:45pm, and I’m perhaps a little bit drunk on a Friday

I agree there is a difference between funding and aiding a genocide versus watch one happen under our nose and not intervening to stop it. My view, and I mean this sincerely, is the difference is extremely minimal. Same as small scale individual failure to stop an assault of one person.

Third episode of the PITT! Second season.

I’m not a socialist anymore. But I’m not as centrist as people think I am, at all. Left of Warren, somewhere around Bernie.

Oh hi, I’m off work tomorrow. Anyone wanna flirt? And drink? And flirt?

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today