Let's see if we can get at least $500,000 for something that repudiates all that shit, shall we? gofund.me/2f12393af

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."

Danseuse espagnole, by Joan Miró, 1945, 📸 by Max Molina

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

What if, and you're going to want to sit down for this, Trump only pretended to care about those voters when he needed their votes?

This is sickeningly disgusting. The old media is dying while the new works its way into greater life. Subscribe and donate to publications doing the necessary work right now instead of running interference for fascists and dipshits. First off, @liberalcurrents.com, which is currently fundraising.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Elk Bear Moose Crocodile Manatee

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”

It’s a manifestation of Murc’s Law. The press has no problem judging Democratic initiatives on their own merits, but Republican failures might have succeeded in orthogonal ways that our coastal elite brains just can’t understand!

Who cares? Why are the political leanings of a 24-year-old newsworthy?

Legally, morally, and practically, the office of president of the United States is vacant.

Workshopping my new character, The Sarcastic Trucker

Elon Musk will now make 24x more than every pro athlete combined, annually:

To be fair, it is absolutely true that sitting around doing nothing is, qualitatively, the best work of their careers.

In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.

There’s a whole mass of people who have a psychological need to write off anyone with power as corrupt in order to justify their own disengagement.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Our beautiful undefeated Philadelphia 76ers who we’ve always believed in.

VJ Edgecombe Chasedown BLOCK on Paolo Banchero

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

Thank you for providing this public service.

Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

The Left continues to think they can mobilize Americans on the principle that "America is bad and has always been bad."

baby squirrels look like if an acorn dreamed about becoming an animal

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

Pete is trying to incept decades of cable news conditioning into the minds of some of the most serious people we have.

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

Another infuriating win for the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles where they scored 31 points and never trailed on the road against an undefeated opponent

It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.

“There were two gangs-the Jets and the Sharks. They would face each other in the streets, snapping their fingers and singing show tunes in an aggressive manner. I am still in therapy to deal with the trauma.”

Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??

I added the music

PTA’s One Battle After Another deserves all the praise. Give the best artists the money and get out of the way. Can’t wait for MAGA to pick up on the fact that the most Oscar noms will go to an explicitly anti-fascist movie that overtly clowns white supremacists as soulless dorks and freaks.

Mockler: I'm pretty tired of conservatives gaslighting about the current political environment and Donald Trump's rhetoric when all of this escalation can be traced back to his entrance into American politics.

Some people never let go of cool kid posturing when it comes to music. Since we millennials are the first generation to stay connected to youth culture into our 40, the posturing is hanging around. If you can’t feel joy when someone is singing Say It Ain’t So at karaoke, you’re dead inside.

Alan is an essential observer of rising American fascism. Those of us with the will to look see it all around us every day, but few offer his blend of clarity and conviction on the topic. IG is pushing me to follow Kirk/TPUSA while a reels scroll reveals disturbing and opportunistic hagiographies.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)