This little mantra is symptomatic of a deeply pernicious revisionist campaign to radically narrow the scope of the Establishment Clause, usually supported by a lot of incredibly shoddy & dishonest amateur history.

More things in life need to operate like the Pizza Hut Book-It challenge that used to give kids personal pizzas for reading books. If I read Brothers Karamazov, I think that should pay my mortgage for the month is all I’m saying

"I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you." The clear point is that Republicans have turned Congress into an body that does not engage in oversight, that operates to protect the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends.

The fact that the most corrupt, incompetent and degenerate people this country has ever produced are mobilizing to attack socialism is important and revealing

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

A great way to not fear being called racist is to actively work to be anti-racist. Instead, Republicans repeatedly try to normalize racism and eliminate the obstacles to discrimination.

sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man

Andy Ngo is a threat to our communities and makes kill lists of journalists for atomwaffen nazis.

i know i know but in todays political climate no other president would be able to even joke about not knowing what they were signing without getting fuckin pilloried and for this fuck it is just another oh lets just humor him monday

i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

all the evidence is that there aren't really any actual practical harms caused by immigration and in fact there are a lot of benefits, its a political problem that would be completely solved by people just being chill, but if you say that you're "dismissing reasonable concerns"

My piece for @thebulwark.com on far right podcaster Auron MacIntyre. www.thebulwark.com/p/far-right-...

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

we spent the last century reinventing the physical experience of womanhood to the obvious and vast benefit of humanity and I don’t think we should give any of that back voluntarily

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

LOL, the Trump admin just shut down the newest Claude model for *everyone* because Anthropic has no way to ensure it can't be accessed by foreign nationals in the U.S. Wouldn't surprise me if the underlying cause was Elon Musk telling Stephen Miller to do this because nobody wants to use Grok.

This is just history repeating itself. These people are making the same arguments Nazis made in the 1930s to justify limiting the number of Jewish students allowed to enroll in German universities.

It’s like watching ridiculously bad sketch improv, except your life is going to be quantifiably worse because of it.

This man fled Texas for Cancun during the Big Freeze wherein 1000+ Texans died of exposure. He left his dog behind. When caught out doing this coward shit, he blamed his kids for wanting to leave.

Riley O'Neil, bicyclist killed in Bridgeport crash, remembered at vigil: 'People loved him' (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/09/r...

Our Mayor could have taken a limo to a front seat. But he is taking the subway to the bleachers. He is one of us.

Imposing martial law on midtown Manhattan so an incontinent bigot with dementia can fall asleep in public during a basketball game is truly wild.

Thinking about how Renee Good was killed standing up for her neighbors and about how Bari Weiss cut her teeth driving out arab professors and justifying anti-black violence.

Bari Weiss somehow manages to be one of the most repellent people in an age dense with such filth

In my experience, the kind of professional women being derided as "HR ladies" are more intelligent, more competent, & more decent than any given 50 of the pissant manbabies out there deriding them to impress one another.

RIP Riley O’Neil.

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

There's no respect for life without respect for death. In a pandemic era where we're told to move on from grief, return to normal, we're coerced into believing life is endlessly reproducible if we can just bring people back from the dead. Life is not an infinite resource to be profited from.

no ai did not do that, corporate mismanagement and republican economic policy did that

If the 60 Minutes thing is proving anything it’s that a lot of people in positions of power think there is no crime greater, no injustice more profound, than being called out for being incompetent when you’re clearly fucking incompetent

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

Finally listening to this series, and it's so well done I never want it to end

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

We need to encourage dudes to buy cargo bikes if they're having a midlife crisis.

This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

Trump is just the useful idiot tool of a corrupt/incompetent/degenerate elite

Why should I pay taxes, if all representation is gone, and Trump never has to pay taxes again?

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!" Bikes (electric or non) can replace (dare I say it) transit trips. Especially in dense cities depending on where you're going. electrek.co/2026/05/18/w...

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

This is outright theft from the U.S. Treasury by MAGA fascist criminals.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.