I think it's time to read the epilogue to Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay, on fascism and aesthetics web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I love how the MAGA reaction to Bad Bunny includes telling everyone how he called Trump "un mamabicho" and then helpfully providing the translation so that everyone can laugh along.

New Yorkers: After voting for candidates who will fight for affordability on the front of your November ballots, flip↩️your ballot to fight for affordability yourself by voting YES on Affordable Housing Ballot Measures 2-5!

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

There's no win here in the usual sense of you make a compromise and then pass it on a bipartisan vote. That's for when what passes is actually binding and followed. The choice is lawlessness and unconstitutionality with only the GOP voting to rubber-stamp it, or the same thing but with Dem votes. /x

Looks like the administration is not yet done dismantling the US higher education system & remaking it in its image The lost research, lost innovation, and loss of talents are immeasurable. Their reckless vandalism will harm all Americans for generations. Germany still hasn't recovered from 1933.

This needs to become a huge story

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

Why isn't Governor Hochul demanding his arrest by NYPD?

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Looks like it’s going to be a two-peanut kind of day!

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

I’m probably more tubular left or bitchin’ left rather than radical left

When I adopted the leopard from the pet store the salesperson assured me the last owner had a face

He also gutted the VA of at least 150 psychologists and 500 social workers. I'm sure they weren't doing anything important.

Chris Armitage lays it all there. Dem Governors and Attorney Generals have avenues to act! We need to call and ask them to do this. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/how-democr...

Hot weather when it’s supposed to be fall is uniquely depressing.

I think they sense they're unpopular and have limited time. Authoritarian measures must be *fully* in place before the midterms, otherwise they'll lose a free and fair election and face a massive backlash.

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

I'm sorry, what?

My partner stumbled across some of Grand Central's old, pre-pandemic benches today. They've been locked in bench jail! Free the benches. Let people sit, MTA. Turn Grand Central back into the public space it was before the pandemic.

The deputy director of ICE, 28-year old Madison Sheahan, who got her job because she was Kristi Noem's body woman, recently told a reporter, “I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job. Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?” nymag.com/intelligence...

“Better to accept that this is all coming, and decide what you will do about it, than to be surprised into acquiescing to it because you didn’t think it would get this bad.”

not sure how much more mobility innovation I can take

I saw some bathroom graffiti that seems to sum up this cultural moment: All dick, no balls.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Portraits of the disappeared outside 26 Federal Plaza.

So when are we going to learn the names and stories of the two detainees murdered while in ICE custody?

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

AI workslop is a great term lol

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

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The real way to help children with autism and neurodivergence is to FUND SCHOOLS. Fund the welfare state. Create opportunities for parents to have an education and well paying jobs. More EAs in school, more doctors. Our society is anti-child, and this is why so many children are in burnout.

GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE, FOR FUCK'S SAKE

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

I know this is redundant, given that they're ICE agents in the first place, but any man who would knock down another man's ladder while he's up on a roof is a real sack of shit.

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

This’ll all get worse before it gets better www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Abusive, meme-addled creeps. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/18/b...

The UK strategy on Trump is unprincipled and dangerous, what’s the word? Oh, right, appeasement.

There's nothing really profound going on here. Trump is leading a fascist takeover. Business and media are for the most part enabling it. We can defeat Trump but we need to be operating at a much bigger scale than we currently are. And the goal has to be to remove him from power. Before 2026.

Don't worry guys, I have a genius plan to stop political violence. Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence. Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding. Step 3: Crash the economy.

"Assault rifles turn survivable injuries into fatal ones. They turn small tragedies into mass tragedies." – Dr. Tim Kummer, first physician on the scene at the mass shooting at Church of the Annunciation. You can read his powerful testimony below, in full. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/17/l...

"He reported that Russian authorities at Moscow airports were waiting to arrest them on their return amid reports suggesting that documents from U.S. asylum files may be reaching Russian authorities." www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/16/r...

The quota incentivizes arresting the *opposite* of what Trump promised. Tracking & arresting a drug gang takes time and it's dangerous. Raiding a large workplace or sitting outside courtrooms is easy and safe, so ICE does that. And there are no consequences for improper arrests, so grab everyone.