worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

i think the fairest solution for everyone named in the Epstein files is to just send them all back to the island and never let them leave. and then we send in the wild dogs,

I remember hearing about his story last year. A travesty. www.11alive.com/article/news...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Absolutely. I keep thinking about on Stacey Abrams' podcast, Samantha Bee said basically "all of these people have fuck you money and none of them are saying it." And it turns out money is not a good incentive for that, community is.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

It's wild how many people are confused by the basic power of empathy and community

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.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

we’re a city with a crisco budget because they can’t stop us from rioting in good times, we’ll fuck up Santa Claus, we don’t back down from literally anything a white man threatened to shoot me in the street and I called him a fucking cracker because to be Philadelphian is to be unafraid

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

I guess this post escaped containment, so here's the local media with the partial, constantly updated list of closures. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

They shipped off a five year old wearing a hat with rabbit ears to detention in Texas.

british guy: i hope americans are ready to be hated lib american reply: i'm so ashamed of my countrymen, i hope that the british don't hate me specifically Hamburglar: i haven't stolen anything since i got sober

Again, Nazi comparisons are tired and overused, but the cope in the Third Reich was "Wenn das der Führer wüsste" (literally, "If the Führer knew of that").

*ICE smashing my windshield and pulling me out of my car on my way to drop my kids off at preschool* this is just a distraction from the fact that avocados are $3

Every time I see this man, I wish all the more ardently that we were subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. I have never shipped a man harder with The Hague.

Apparently the catch is that people who write opinion columns in major outlets will describe "abolish ICE" as interchangeable with "open borders"

And listen. ICE doesn’t care about your passport anyway. They detain US citizens constantly. None of this is actually about immigration. It never was, but they aren’t even pretending anymore.

You aren't actually overreacting other people are sleepwalking.

Everyone I see this, I think about how much I hate Bush and every spineless politician that set this shit in motion in the wake of 9/11

american liberals are fine with millions of deportations as long as they happen quietly and the police don't hurt any white people. proud of it, really

their masculinity is so fragile they will kill you for giving it the tiniest little poke

The problem with asking Democrats to abolish ICE is not that they can’t so it’s pointless; it’s that they don’t want to and there are plenty of people who would rather not expose that.

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Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos. You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Transition is a form of ultimate total bodily autonomy and these are people who get off on total subjugation, on total power over someone else's body. Opposing transness is a currently socially acceptable way to support pedophilia and rape

billionaires are CATEGORICALLY people who are comfortable making selfish, cutthroat, cruel decisions for personal gain and to the detriment of functional society. i do not recognize the legitimacy of their demands and i will have nothing to do with them 🤷‍♀️

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

The authoritarian inversion of language and reality is accelerating. freedom of speech being redefined as a right to spout fascist lies and stochastic propaganda while defining pro democratic speech as “authoritarian and dangerous speech” is part of the ongoing process and the machinery of fascism.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

Oh for the love of Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

we need another billionaire undersea implosion to keep our spirits up

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

My Platner take is he got the tattoo because he existed in a social structure where it was normal and there were no negative consequences for doing so. He knew what it was and it speaks to a lack of strength of character that we don't need in yet another senator.

Servo partied HARD with The Band That Played California Lady

It's really sad that entertainment overall has become a landlord economy. The people who own the platforms make the money. The people who provide the labor make crumbs in comparison.

I’m happy no one got arrested but when they consider it a real threat to power there will be arrests so it’s important not to judge the success of a protest by the lack of arrests

hope everyone has a good time committing regicide tomorrow

this is what happens when the country spends 40 yrs glorifying manufacturing jobs, which, let’s be fair, are shit jobs. it’s loud, repetitive, dangerous. the only reason any american would work them before is they paid well without a college education. and that’s only because of unions.