As someone on the spectrum I am aghast at these fascists crediting my mom’s use of Tylenol rather than my own ingenuity and dedication.

Did you know the rapture mythos is rooted in antisemitic Christian Zionist propaganda?

“What happens in Lamar, will not stay in Lamar. The same people, organizations, & groups successfully lobbied the Texas legislature for laws they believe will make it easier to criminalize educators & librarians, & for them to remove books”

Sauron emerged from the primordial Middle Earth-devouring darkness of the venue’s green room with a deep sigh. After a rousing performance of his first song of the night, his eye filled with blood. You could hear a pin drop. Voice quaking, he said, “He died too young. This one’s for Charlie.”

At this point I can’t help but wonder if legacy media corporations are giving a glow-up to the fascist to win over the nebulous “middle” with a show of performative civility…or because they’re owned by frikkin billionaires who are in fact benefited by fascist policies. Never mind, it’s both.

Performative civility is off the charts.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

You know the world is chill and definitely not facing a global rise of fascism when newly elected popes are saying stuff like “Evil will not prevail.”

An Augustinian in the Vatican? All I can say is: Watch your pears, cardinals…they’ll steal your pears.

Eliminating funding for the research of diseases such as Ebola seems to suggest that we're all very comfortable with people contracting, and spreading, Ebola without any access to treatment or cures.

State terror

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

If you thought changing LCSH was bad, wait til we get a full-throated crony as the new head of the LOC.

Birds of Prey

you'll never be rid of him

They think “great, more shit to blame on minorities.”

DING DING DING

This is the "stock prices can be manipulated" part.

A new report reveals the vast majority of those demanding book bans are organizations or officials — not individual parents. It’s NOT a parent’s rights movement at all. It’s an astroturf campaign that these orgs are using to gain power over Americans. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Elon’s sharing his ketamine.

Reminder: The Department of Government Efficiency is not a Department, no matter how much the media names it as such.

I have to assume the next step in genetic modification after creating a larger grey wolf, if China hasn’t already done it, is creating a hornier panda.

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am very, very weak, but they are two different things.

The constitution is deeply flawed, and ignoring its messiness gets us nowhere. Also, you’d be better off prepping for this scenario by getting your PR messaging sorted out rather than hoping the court will save us.

So in other countries, you can DO that?

Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.

One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.

Two things: 1) We should not do war crimes. 2) When this administration breaks the law, we should use it against them, including their national security crimes while doing war crimes.

I prefer my war crimes when they're classified secrets. What is even going on here!

All the prayer-talk in this chat is especially wild when you consider that God doesn’t even have security clearance.

My guess is, they’re gonna use this to track people who show up at Tesla dealerships to protest as “potential threats.”

The greatest weakness of the American Public Library system is its fragmented nature. The people trying to destroy libraries have been refining an attack playbook and only have to get lucky once to topple a service but libraries have to be lucky every time.

It seems clear that ICE, Homeland Security, & all departments involved with immigration have been given quotas & guidelines on how to fill them in a way that targets those unlikely to be sympathetic to the current US regime. They are surely working with police in some areas as well.

So, like, is he of sound mind or?

I finally watched Godspell to see if I’m a fan of Stephen Schwartz beyond Wicked, and I can now confidently say some composers only have one once-in-a-lifetime musical in them.

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

Sorry, the white South African accent is just an Australian accent with a mouthful of peanut butter.

Disabled people have been screaming warnings about this. Listen to them!

They said they were coming for us and now they are coming for us. Sending so much love to all of my colleagues in this extraordinarily challenging moment. I will do what I can to have your backs, you have a friend in me.

I’m a man who experiences loneliness, and I am not an incel. I say this because it’s hard to say I experience loneliness, and I think that difficulty is worth my listening to. If we’re going to talk about toxic masculinity, let’s talk about how it’s actually toxic—not evil, but poisonous for men.

If a pee tape was released today, half of Trump’s supporters would claim it was doctored and the other half would suddenly acquire a taste for lemonade.

A half hour ago I had the thought “I should bleet that we’re entering the Age of Unenlightenment, that would be apt and clever” and then I had the thought “Wait no, that’s actually garbage. Don’t say that.” You’re welcome!

“Little bunny foo foo, hoppin through the forest, scooping up the field mice and boppin em on the head” Sir, that is straight up psychopath behavior.

The amount of psychological warfare being waged against entire communities of people is a lot right now, especially as it’s experienced in an individual level and waged by a whole-ass federal government.

"“It's always shocking to me how much we talk in the national dialogue about what teenagers should or shouldn't read when I've never once seen them have a conversation with a teenager about it,” Homer said." 📚 www.worcestermag.com/story/entert...

"HAHAHAHA, your face is getting eaten by leopards, that's what you get for voting for the Leopards Eating Faces party lol you fucking dumbasses, lmao" --Me as my face gets eaten

100%

Don’t look to the stock market to rebuke fascism: Markets love fascism. Sure, they quake at short term instability, but over time they love capitalist authoritarianism—why wouldn’t they? Hey, maybe that’s a sign you shouldn’t hitch your politics and morality to markets.

And that’s called (say it with me) *white nationalism.*