Every time I forget I follow this bot I get slapped in the face with it with some cursed headline

This is right on target. Woof.

You’re right. It can so much worse.

My former employer, the Chicago Tribune, was mocked recently for an editorial saying we should be "happy" the Vances are expecting a baby. This thread recalls odd Tribune editorials of the past – praise for Mussolini, opposition to Black voting, a denunciation of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton. 1/14🧵🧵🧵

i'm so old i remember when Hillary tried to make healthcare easier and the GOP screeched at her to stay in her lane

Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mikey.

Holy shit. This absolutely nailed it.

Al Green is a treasure and acting exactly how the other representatives should be.

These are the people the oligarchs are banking on? This is some freshman in philosophy class logic just before he’s embarrassed by the professor. We’re so cooked. Smdh

Wife, this morning: man, the QAnon crowd has been quiet since the Epstein files came out. Did they realize that maybe the real pedophiles were the friends they made along the way?

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

Greg Gutfeld is a buffoon. And that pivot to Clinton showcases how desperate they are to minimize all of this. While both are their late 70s, only one is currently responsible for running the country for the next three years and it isn’t the tenor saxophone player. 1 of these is not like the other.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Seen in Minneapolis

DA Krasner understands the assignment. Would love to see him in a federal or statewide role.

Then it’s not fucking fraud, you goon. “There’s a tea kettle orbiting the Earth, I’m sure of it. I can’t prove it, but I know it’s there!” This is what you sound like. It’s bananas isn’t it.

Listening to a podcast this morning reminded me of something we need to talk about more. Not a lot of people are currently happy with how ICE is conducting its abductions and internments, often equating that to the gestapo and WW2 Germany. But there’s a closer, homegrown comparison: Jim Crow laws.

The fascism is a distraction from the fascism is a distraction from the

Just over the past 72 days, two non-white Democratic members of Congress have been attacked, one of them by a Trump supporter who threatened him with deportation. Does JD Vance have anything to say? After all, the GOP VP is always so keen to attack "left-wing" political violence.

We have to assume that every masked ICE agent is A murderer until the feds disclose which ICE agents are THE murderers.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

This is why we can't be satisfied with a drawdown in one area.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Mamdani: "To first take a moment about Mpls. It is horrific what we have seen there. And I think that there are too many Americans who are being asked to not believe their own eyes, not believe their own ears, not believe their own realities." (This interview was conducted before Pretti killing)

1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...

today the fascists killed a nurse who did good work for the people in his care

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

This is the stuff that gives me a modicum of hope. We got a ton of work to do, but this makes me feel like it isn’t going to be so much of an uphill battle.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless…. Remember this. ~ Robert Reich

@durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov I’m really hoping that this story isn’t accurate. At this point, if it isn’t clear that ICE should be fully defunded due to their behavior, resign. We need folks who won’t aid and abet fascists.

The one thing authoritarian leaders usually have going for them is the general apathy of the majority when they make a move solely against a marginal group in society. But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.

half of the top few replies start with “brother”, “my friend”, and “homie”

If you are waiting for a sense of conscience to kick in, you are fooling yourself. This will stop when we make it stop.

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

What he says…

If you want Democrats to be “measured in their response” at THIS moment, you stand for nothing.

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT SATE YOUR THIRST.

Is there one of those Dr. Manhattan memes talking about the US starting a war for oil yet?

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza. It's 25 degrees outside. Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!" Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

Rest In Peace. 🕊️ Isiah Whitlock Jr. 9/13/54 -12/30/25 Sheeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttt!

Mitt Romney was apparently visited early by 3 ghosts.