Why is Newsom great? He refuses to tax the wealthy. Says they're part of "the big tent." Still sucks up to AIPAC and Israel despite the ongoing genocide. Threw transgender people under the bus a year ago, cozied up to Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon, and is attached to corporate money.

Are you fucking KIDDING me? You people brigaded Parker Molloy, one of my favorite people on here, over an ANIMAL CROSSING joke? Fuck you losers. Supreme worm shit. Over a fucking video game. You have the brains of leeches.

Beware any Democrat who is silent about fascist crimes but vocal in attacking progressive policy.

it's so weird that there are still people who defend chuck schumer on here so many "we don't have any power, what do you expect him to do" and "we've tried absolutely nothing strategically unique and are all out of ideas" type of folks who seem extremely happy to wallow in powerlessness

It's been an incredibly tough year, but losing my job due to transphobia and being unable to find work for 8 months has been one of the hardest parts. Financially my family is in dire straits, and any small amount you can give will be appreciated forever. www.gofundme.com/f/support-da...

Conversely, they could NOT pass things - like the $900+ billion they provided to Trump one month ago explicitly earmarked for his wars of conquest (with a side helping of trans segregation, ofc).

That's exactly the playbook they ran with trans people. Getting fans folks fired from jobs, doxing, harassment, death threats etc. There's an entire cottage industry of right wing influencers who do this for clout and money.

keir starmer has said the child sexual assault imagery on x is 'disturbing' but that the government isn't going to do anything about it. just in case you needed reminding that the 'online safety act' is about state surveillance and censorship and has nothing to do with keeping children safe.

hegseth announcing this after carrying out a historically illegal military operation is enough to make you lose your mind

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

The Trump regime is already admitting they plan to attack countries like Greenland and hinting at doing the same to US states. This is lebensraum, this is fascism. We let it grow and now it's here. It's here and it wants to stay.

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

If you don't perceive the fact that they don't even feel the slightest need to obfuscate or manufacture consent anymore as an escalation, I don't know what to say to you?

Leak to indie: news buried by corporate media algorithms and propaganda that causes people to disregard indie news Leak to corporate: just buried.

Everything is awful, but this morning I saw a teen trans girl goofing around with two cis girls of the same age in the Wawa. Just being silly in the candy aisle before they bought their sodas. Like any other Teen Girl Squad. So, it's not all bad.

Once again, Democrats, well done.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

this is a good article on how Carol’s queerness is central to Pluribus, but doesn’t really grasp what it means for trans people which is wild because it addresses how there’d be no queerness in the hive but kinda misses there’d also be no transness it’s one of the things that haunts me the most

gonna need white middle class liberals to do some work and take some risks- don't ask me to get thrown in a Florida men's prison for protesting if nobody's gonna care. don't ask POCs to get tossed in the concentration camp in the glades if nobody's gonna care. we can't do this shit alone.

Democrats' feigned surprise of "Donald Trump and the Republicans lied to us!" isn't the most disgusting part of this, but it's close

I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.

When quislings like Schumer use the "distraction" line, let it be your call to stop using it. It's not true, never was, and ironically is a distraction itself from the Democrats utter abdication of their duties.

minorities should not be expected to care about the discomfort of bigots.

Dear Folks, Even if Congress had approved last night, it would still be an international war crime!!! Civility, Decorum, and Procedure are not excuses for committing international terror. YES THE USA IS AN INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!!! Wake The Fuck Up

The Mayor of New York City @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has released a statement:

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

One month ago Chuck Schumer voted to supply $900 billion to the Trump regime's war machine in exchange for segregation laws for trans people.

23 days ago Seth Moulton voted to supply $900 billion to the Trump regime's war machine in exchange for segregation laws for trans people.

Thanks for the great breakdown @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

When the Trump regime started murdering Venezuelan fishermen for fun and the media went "cool!" and the Democrats went [shrug!] they knew they could do whatever they wanted from now on.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Now is really not the time to sow distrust and punch down on independent media. It’s particularly galling to do in light of how we’ve actually gotten news and information about the latest global conflicts and federal corruption in the U.S.

I also think it’s embarrassing that U.S. mainstream media loyalists are fixated on Substack writers when, let’s be real, the significantly more influential + profitable sources of secondhand reporting are podcasters, YouTubers, and TikTokers

Where's your articles of impeachment? What are you waiting for?

‪"For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." Zohran Mamdani 1/1/26

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Remember all those times I talked about the Guatemalan Civil War and Jacobo Arbenz and liberals blocked me or hurled slurs at me? Good times

Never forget that if the last fifty years have shown us anything, it’s that war is terrorism with better public relations.

The toppling of Saddam's statue was deliberately orchestrated by a psychological operations group. In a document it said "our TPT (tactical psyop team) saw the statue of Saddam as a target of opportunity and decided that the statue must come down. 1/2 www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

nuclear non-proliferation is effectively dead in the water. welcome to the 2020s!

none of this is legal. none of this is normal. feel free to tell anyone who says otherwise to fuck off.

Amazing how the president convicted of 34 felonies keeps doing illegal shit. I mean, who could have seen that coming?

I'll spell it out: Offering that Maduro is bad but the strikes and kidnappings violated legal procedure, is discursively like closing the back door to Trump while opening the front door. You concede the moral case, and offer a legal one that nobody without a lanyard knows of or gives a shit about.

Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty

also yeah if you live here it's a "we," it doesn't matter your opinions or who you voted for, part of living in the imperial core is understanding we all benefit from this violence even if we abhor it, and taking responsibility is the bare minimum to actually be anti-imperialist from inside

So yeah. Trump's targeting NASA not just to help his racist mate from South Africa, but to set back our ability to understand what's happening to our own fucking planet by 100 years. History will remember this the same way it remembers Emperor Aurelian burning the library at Alexandria.