I could not be less surprised that Ryan Grim is pushing this. Let it go, man. Your guy is a rapist. He’s not going to win. And this shit is a disgrace to any good work Drop Site has ever done.

I’m taking note of who’s making excuses for a rapist and I’ll hate you until my dying fucking breaths btw

#ReparationsWON is an amazing testament to the power of organizing, & should serve as an inspiration for reparations from other law (including immigration!) enforcement moving forward.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

It's almost like Americans as a whole are desensitized to police violence and our state killing people, what with the whole swimming in it daily thing.

"she asked for it"

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston Street yesterday. It's Using the Same Script It Always Uses. migrantinsider.com/p/ice-killed...

These white men aren't defending another white man. They are defending themselves.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Ten months ago. If you don't know his name, please learn it and remember it today.

Lorenzo. abolition is the centrist position.

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

Give her this much: She’s at least willing to take my work and launder it through the party’s dark money press shop. And ODP is finally cutting to the chase and calling him a conman.

this is a good savvy question. i'm back pocketing this question

Rahm Emmanuel (checks notes) just called for sanctions on Israeli banks involved in settlement construction in the West Bank. This probably means all Israeli banks

if you insist on ignoring the obvious moral argument against pushing rapist candidates on the populace then just know you're REALLY taking your chances with left-leaning voters who don't approve of rape. republicans mostly aren't squeamish abt it but they're never going to vote for your guy anyway

A new law might change how the “Conservative Safe Spaces” mandated at Ohio colleges operate: columbusunderground.com/new-law-woul...

This is laughably corrupt, even by Ohio’s standards This proposed bill gives the illegitimate conservative campus centers full autonomy over hiring and salaries, full independence from unis, and full revenue from all courses offered They’re gonna require all students to take 1 course too! Racket.

idk if it's possible to understate the amount of damage done by rfk jr and the forces he represents

The foundational lie of Trumpism (and I’m using that word precisely to refer to the ideology of intellectual types who defend him), from day one, has been the claim that good character is a “luxury belief” and nothing more than cover for the wealthy to punish the poor. This belief is evil.

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

Yes, you were correct. But you were correct TOO EARLY. I was incorrect until the proper moment - right now, long after you - so really I’m the one who got it right. You still suck! ⬆️ From supporting the Iraq War to championing Platner, this has always been a particularly obnoxious form of cope.

MAINE CHARACTER SYNDROME

ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating

looks like ken's being a little bitch on twitter

Man I really hate that it’s totally normal already that we have secret police

Heavy ICE activity continued across Chicagoland over the July 4 weekend. Rapid responders reported at least 7 detainments (that we know of) yesterday alone. Outside the Will County courthouse in Joliet yesterday, onlookers also recorded an agent pushing one young observer to the ground, hard.

thanks a lot to everyone who worked hard to take what freya and i did last year to the next level at this years ai for good conference today! i will be sharing more about todays action that interrupted the CTO of amazon as soon as i can, but i can already confirm that it was a success!

If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

TWO successful football hate watches today, Platner’s career is over, and Mitch McConnell is braindead

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

I reiterate something I have said before, which is that far from having *less* power, central party apparatuses need to have significantly *more* power to unilaterally vet and reject candidates. It is ludicrous that the Maine Democratic Party is powerless to expel Platner.

“he worked for Blackwater” was the most information anyone ever needed to know what that dude was about

i don’t think it’s coincidental that a lot of the people in left media who have continued to back platner primarily consume their news information through X

the thing that fascinates me abt platner is that he seemingly thought he could just run without any of this shit coming up and looking really fucking bad on paper

perhaps we get over the 'we must nominate a white guy' brainrot and put forth candidates who have GOOD RECORDS. people will truly be like Slotkin is our best female candidate and also a woman can't win! no, you're nominating shitty female candidates lmao

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'

I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is a Democratic Party primary for a flippable Senate seat amidst rising fascism

You telling me a bi bimmed this bap

Finally turning to my next piece. Probably won't get it out till mid-August cause of all the other stuff I have going on simultaneously. I don't think people have really internalized how much non-defense discretionary has fallen in recent years. This has most of our long-term investment funding.

A coalition of oligarchs is still a coalition of oligarchs, regardless of sect or official system of governance. The difference between having a president or monarch is not that big. The same dependent hierarchical structures remain.

Id take it further, I would argue that pain is the goal here. The more I think about it, the more I see the need to jail and institutionalize as a manifestation of the need to punish difference. The impulse to institutionalize disabled people overlaps and is born of the same anxiety/disgust/anger.