in 2024 i was always hearing "it sucks, but dems have to follow the polling" on immigration, which had them backing extreme far right wing bills on the border. now that there's been a huge shift to the left in polling, the response is "how about 1/100th of what you guys want". funny how that works.

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

Could a Democrat, any Democrat, release a statement actually thanking the people that have been out there doing the fucking work instead of this constant scolding tone for the love of God

The problem was not labeling Trump correctly as a fascist. The problem was not treating him as one. They still aren’t! That creates a gap where you’re warning people that things are on fire, but instead of evacuating or getting water, you’re casually sitting down with a cup of tea.

The civility police lose their minds when you accurately describe a racist person as a “racist” but this is nothing. Imagine if a Democrat talked about red states like this.

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This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

"[T]he problem with the media depicting Maher as an important leftist satirist is that Maher isn’t important, isn’t a satirist, and isn’t a leftist."

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

It’s difficult to put into words how evil this is, but to erase the horrors of ICE and monster ICE observers by saying ‘supposedly marginalised groups’ contradicts Maimonides: ‘to destroy one life it is as if they have destroyed the world; to save one life it is as if they have saved the world’

They are levying war on the American people, and it is impeachable. Call your Representative tonight. Then call your Senators. Be relentless. ☎️ (202) 224-3121

There's only one thing I really miss about Twitter now that it's a repugnant sinkhole of Nazi child pornography, and that's the ability to publicly shame corporations into behaving better. 🧵

If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.

The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

Democrats should run on the fact that their opposition is literally killing Americans and destroying the country. It’s not hyperbole. That’s the message they should be blasting out to media every day. They are killing Americans and destroying the country. They hate our freedom. They hate democracy

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

If you want an orderly transition of power eventually and not "J.D. Vance gets kicked to death in the Oval Office along with quisling Dem Senators" you gotta show that order is going to produce something other than impunity.

If everyone just lets this go, that's the ballgame. Anytime they want to kill someone they'll just say the FBI is handling it.

Impeachment is a political act. Removal isn't the only benefit, and if you don't attempt impeachment for an impeachable act, you're telling your voters that it's fine and failing to uphold your oath of office.

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

If officials can’t bring themselves to arrest someone who is captured on camera from multiple angles killing someone in cold blood, they should just step aside so someone with a backbone can lead

all those votes for ICE funding. all that support for the laken riley act. all that support for an immigration bill that would've violated international treaties on asylum. supporting the wall. and what do you get for it? this 'savvy' strategy doesn't even get the votes. never does.

Every member of Congress should draw up separate articles of impeachment for a different impeachable offense. Once those articles are rejected, draw up new articles of impeachment for those involved in rejecting it, and articles of impeachment for a new impeachable offense, or the same one again.

never want to hear again about how abolishing ICE isn't "realistic"

That video shows a murder. Full stop. I hope that folks have learned enough to know that the Nazis are going to kick into high gear with their propaganda. Leftists need to be DISCIPLINED in messaging and action.

any time jan 6th "NEVER FORGET" stuff rolls around is so funny cuz the reaction from regular ass people was shock and loud condemnation and that action had to be taken and the reaction from the most important electeds directly threatened by it was "daaaaaamn, that shit was crazy! what's for lunch"

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The thing we need most is to care. It doesn't matter that much what you care about, but just believe that it matters. Unironically be enthusiastic about something. Just have a thing that ties you to reality. No irony, just love it, whatever it is.

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

When is Congress going to stop kicking all their problems to voters and actually just attempt to do their jobs?

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.

My wife is amazing, and she bought me a cheese making kit for Christmas. There are a lot of steps in making some of these cheeses, and the one we have decided to make first is the most complicated one. We spent $14 on 1 gallon of milk, because we need non-homogenized milk. In the US, hard to find.

meanwhile the critique of popularism is "your own base will hate you for betraying them, people who really believe in this stuff will go full fash rather than support your half measures, and the waverers will take your capitulation as proof the fash are right" bearing out pretty well so far

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

By the time the first impeachment articles were introduced, they mirrored almost exactly the language of the first article drafted. It literally gave us full control of the conversation.

I'm not an expert in the kitchen, I'm sure plenty of people have a lot more experience in cooking than I do, and could tell me plenty of things I'm doing wrong. But if you're making gumbo, you need a dark roux. And this is an exercise in patience.

THE LAST UNICORN (1982) remains one of the most perfect films ever made. There is no other animated film like it...before or since. A mature and subversive fairy tale, melancholy and beautiful...a film about life, death, hope and regret. Sad and beautiful.