Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities. If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.

Introduce yourself with four spaceships

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

If the sub stays wrapped, you weren't attacked.

Cheney died because he was a precog and saw this coming and it killed him.

Shorter Johnson: If we don't hurt poor people, Democrats won't give in.

In light of gerry-mania, let's talk... ✨proportional representation✨

I guess the thing that can be said about this is, not every state/city has a min wage that high, so while it wouldn't raise the effective min wage literally everywhere, it would help those whose min wages are the lowest, who most need help, reducing disparity, hopefully w/o backfiring electorally.

Describe a character in Greek mythology the way someone trying to defend a politician would. I’ll start. Oedipus: Like you’ve never had sex with someone and regretted it later

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

I thought Platner's license plate "ASSMAN" was a Seinfeld reference. Whoops.

Did you somehow think my very general statement applied to this specific tattoo?

"Republicans need to stop obsessing about ruining the lives of trans people" "You mean deranged groomer freaks?" "Right, my bad. The deranged groomer freaks need to stop obsessing about ruining the lives of trans people"

Americans would be wise to understand what the Stasi was. The East German secret police "sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life," with files on 6 million citizens, more than 1/3rd of the population. The Trump regime is building its version of the Stasi. 1/2

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)

A whole lot of people are coming for @angryblacklady.bsky.social today for saying "do not put your name on a list of people attending a protest, what the fuck" with responses like "you're just discouraging people!" and "but they already know who you are!" and "DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN" etc

I can‘t believe people are getting so mad about @angryblacklady.bsky.social saying that you shouldn’t register for a protest. Just show up. Don‘t register.

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

Literally nothing you wrote demonstrates my supposed support for Kirk.

Charlie Kirk was a man so deeply committed to freedom of speech and enlightened, reasonable debate that you are not allowed to quote anything he said ever again.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

I’m so tired. I’m so very very tired I put in so much work and yet you still say this shit

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

At first I was like why? What is it about this guy that makes them hound him like this? But it’s obvious that he’s just a symbol to them, and the whole point is that he doesn’t get to be a symbol of them being beaten.

Republicans never tell their voters not to vote. That is purely democrats on the far left and foreign operatives who target democrats, especially but not exclusively, Black voters with that nonsense. (*2026 midterms)

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The President doesn't have the power to *force* a vote in Congress. Your "refutation" is that Presidents have requested votes, & that Congress has voluntarily complied. That's not the same thing! I never said they can't ask, nor that Congress must refuse. Only that it's not possible to *compel*.

...that digital technology will inevitably make things better, even in 'better' is never precisely defined." — David Golumbia, "Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology."

"This is how cyberlibertarianism works: it is not so much about party politics as it is about controlling the terms of discourse and the conversation itself. This ensures that only rightist political formations ever get on the table and all concerns are subsumed under a general faith...

Tech fascism, like the tech libertarianism that birthed it, specializes in hijacking left-wing ideals, repackaging them as right-wing ideology, and selling the resulting sludge as “moderate/centrist/common sense.” The roots of this go very deep. Keep an eye out!

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave. F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Want to keep the USPS in the hands of the public? PLEASE like and share this ad far and wide! The U.S. Mail is NOT for Sale!

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

The year is 2025. Elmo is a Nazi. The president, also a Nazi, is being taken to task for his prolific history of child rape. The richest man in the world, also a Nazi, has released his chatbot which instructs people on how to break into people’s homes and rape them. The chatbot is also a Nazi.

It is incredible what an economic fool this fellow is, I get how he managed to bankrupt a casino He sincerely believes tariffs are a form of national income, rather than a tax. But for reference, the United States actually makes about $2,542 billion ($2.5tn) a month. In GDP. You know, production.

This is a great list that keeps getting better as more get added.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...