Just wondering if any music journalists are going to ask Al about this, or instead mindlessly keep on repeating that he's some great leftist ally.

I would love to know how MAGA thinks "we laugh at everything" immediately followed by "you may not laugh at us" makes any sense to anyone. They put themselves in an untenable position enforced only by violence, which nobody can buy into. Submit to it, yes, out of self-preservation. Buy into it, no.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

This is the exact reason we say “don’t comply in advance”

Trump cannot talk about crime: he cannot say a single thing about crime, unless he is talking from the perspective of the lifetime career criminal he is. He can’t say “they” - he can only say “us.”

Good thing Trump doesn’t know that Canada would fold in 30 seconds if he wanted to take it.

Oh great, Kyle Gass is bootlicking now too. TBH I prefer instant bootlicking over think about it for a year and then bootlick.

Concentration camp. Not "detention center" or some sophomoric "cute" name. They are concentration camps; call them that.

The neoconservative theory of change is that you can cripple a country's national economy via collective punishment and induce mass protests about the economy which you then in turn use as evidence of discontent with the regime for a casus belli to topple it.

The king’s two bodies and the king’s two rotting hands.

wrote about the much-deserved death knell of the world's worst architecture project for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Dems gave Netanyahu a standing ovation. They love and support this shit, like actively love it.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

if it’s too difficult for any single person we’ve elected to congress to say, “not one dime for the child stealers”…

Democratic Leadership will never cut funding for ICE state-sanctioned terrorism without extreme pressure. That’s why a coalition of creators (w/ a reach of over 20 million followers) & organizers are presenting them with an ultimatum if they don’t whip their caucuses against this DHS funding bill.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

So many people are just waiting for this one thing to happen.

not this again

The question is: if tacking hard right and seeking to pick up non-existent moderate Republican voters keeps losing them elections, then why do they keep doing it?

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

If you want to meaningfully resist fascism, you need to make peace with inconveniencing yourself and being inconvenienced by others. Fascism relies on you privileging your individual comforts over others' basic safety.

“Clown face, clown face, clown face” sums up the whole thing pretty well

Never forget or forgive these two guys. One enabled Trump to come back, the other enables everything he's done since. Both as morally rotten as any Republican.

The irony of boomers constantly carrying on about "participation trophies" when most political in-group power structures are tied to social initiations and humiliation rituals.

Mayhem should have titled their new album Lady Gaga and done a Dog Eat Dog / Warrant thing. Instead it's called Grand Magniloquent Awfulness or something.

Dressed in shark inflatables. This would be glorious

it's so important to remember that 2025 wasn't all bad news!

The only way to beat fascism is with socialism. This truth is why the centrists always side with fascism. They'd rather see concentration camps than an end to capitalism.

On a personal level, I notice leftists are being a bit vicious to each other right now. I understand why - we are under attack and feel lost and hopeless - but try not to lash out against your comrades and loved ones. We need each other.

This is pure Nazi shit.

Very easy to say life should be constant strife and struggle if you have so much money you will be forever insulated from the consequences of your actions.

Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."

Fuck Ford for suspending the guy: people should tell Trump to go fuck himself wherever he goes. wfin.com/fox-politica...

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.

These dumb assholes are going to fumble the easiest bag once again.

If you are rich you love Trump. He is carrying out a revolution on your behalf. This is why Democrats love and support Trump. Majority of congress representatives are millionaires.

Jobs still demanding a hard copy of the application: WYD? Deranged behavior.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

MSM in 2016: Whoa all this fascism is so cool and stylish, look! MSM in 2026: It's still cool, right? Some have doubts, but not us!

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.

When the audiobook starts playing music.

Starting the new year with a renewed hatred for all things Gen AI. So I drew a knight slaying a dragon, can you spot all the hints that the monster is AI? 🌞

I hope y'all are gonna be Socialists and Communists, cos the only people that have ALWAYS defeated fascists and fascism, again and again, have been Leftists (socialists and communists). We've defeated fascism before. We will defeat it again. And this time, I hope for good.

Fukuyama rolling out of bed every day realizing that he is world famous… for having the wrongest possible take on our times.

Palestine is not a single issue. If a politician supports the use of overwhelming violence against a civilian population abroad, they’re telling you what they think is acceptable to use against you at home.

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

AFAICT (and i'm not an expert), 47 days is less training than any police officer in the united states — and that's *excluding* the extensive field training and evaluation most police officers are required to complete. that's a point that can resonate with people who don't mainline ICE horror stories