If you have no skill or desire for hard work, you can make up the difference with luck, but there is no amount of hard work that can make up for just never getting a chance

"Where Nixon had to contend with a Supreme Court that rejected his claim of absolute immunity and a Congress that stood ready to impeach him, the other branches of govt these days have no interest in reining in Trump. He can do a Watergate every week safe in the knowledge that no one will stop him."

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

there was a large enough pro-life Dem caucus in the House that it almost sank Obamacare! basically all of them lost their seats in the Tea Party wave, and we’ve only seen congressional races get more nationalized since then shitty policy stances aren’t enough to win over these voters

the right wing writes more coffee-based fanfiction than the AU section on AO3 does

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

This is how i feel about Quibi. I could have stopped it

tim taylor: we all know that gender is a performance, al al: i don't think so, tim. that's a common misreading of butlerian theory, which refers to the linguistic "performative act," e.g. naming a ship. however, the symbolic interactionist school does understand everyday life as dramaturgy

The Democratic party that could have stood up for Palestine would have absolutely bodied Trump in round 2.

Yoda: yeah hi sorry but I didn’t even like this guy before he was evil and the last time I saw him he was killing children Luke: thank you for your wisdom Master Yoda Yoda: no I’m saying it’s bullshit I have to sit on a log with this guy Obi: yeah I wasn’t going to say anything but he murdered me

I’ve finished setting up my government-mandated shrine to St. Charlie Kirk. I will pray to Him every day that I can become more and more racist in my remaining years. As required by law.

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Stephen Colbert: "Nexstar has a major merger coming up before the Trump administration. A company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through? Has that ever happened before? I'm being told not to answer that question."

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

all fascists are cowards, if you tell them no they run scared, if you try to appease them they sense weakness and attack harder

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money! tough!!

Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

Much like Target there are certain things that every middle class politically active liberal has enjoyed using but know they don’t actually need

In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less. The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

talk to them, Mickey

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

They'll look to the soy boys and shout "save us!" and they'll whisper... "we may enjoy soy-based products, but we do not consume nearly as many soy beans as the entire nation of China"

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

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to recap liberals freaked out at criticism of biden and israel on tiktok. democrats caved and pushed for a tiktok ban. trump won. he sold it off to right-wing interests, meaning that along with twitter it will be a digital version of fox news.

"...no evidence presented of a desire to terrorize the public, inspire widespread fear, engage in a broader campaign of violence, or to conspire with organized terrorist groups... targeted and discrete killing of one person - is very different from the examples of terrorism set forth in the statute"

"I can make you better at doing your work and also give you more work to do" is not a great value proposition Does it remind you of anything in the modern world 🤔

This is one of the reasons the Bombadil chapter is important and underrated. Tom: I've got yellow boots, a blue jacket, and a hippie naiad girlfriend who likes my singing. Bucket list achieved (if that even means anything to a possibly immortal nature spirit who may be old as God). Ring: Oh, ffs.

people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

Sorry but thank you

I've been seeing a lot of doomposting today and this is the most important thing right here. Miller and Patel are stupider than we even imagine and the US is VERY large in more ways than one. Don't comply. Don't carelessly blab. Hell, doing nothing is takes less effort than kowtowing or panicking.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

Guy who tries to be a free-thinkong contrarian but instead of saying the usual Nazi shit he's just constantly ranting about how "dogs aren't like they used to be" and "doesn't anyone remember when dogs used to talk?"

I would argue that, if one person only knows someone by his uplifting Christian seminars and another person knows them by their outspoken Nazi bigotry, that the latter person does in fact have a complete picture of said individual

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

There's a fun fantasy Republicans participate in where the basically-global polarization on education is just downstream of university professors being really good at indoctrination. Are econ professors all Dems because they're pinkos or because Republicans keep coming up with dumb econ policies?

our enemies seem insurmountable but closer inspection reveals them to be weaker than they ever have been. Scrambling and terrified and confused; their warriors are cleaning garbage and hunting down mean tweets, their generals are drunks, their leader is dying, their very words burst in their throats

He was a man of words. And while his words may have been almost universally directed towards propagandizing the disenfranchisement, dehumanization, and outright extermination of myself and many I hold dear, they were typically delivered in an even tone with a smug smirk, which is what's important.

i will never for the life of me forget the front page Fox News website headline that suggested Freddie Gray, a black man from Baltimore who died in a police van trip, had intentionally injured his own spine to implicate the cops. thinking about that again recently

The cowardice is such a galling element of it all. You ever meet someone who'll say the worst stuff about you - you should be banned from public life, you're a danger to children just by existing - and then shake your hand and smile, as if you should be glad he thinks you're one of the good ones?

Violence should not be used against free speech, is the refrain. So explain why they use ICE to violently detain any immigrant for speaking and steal them off the streets in front of their children. The Republican Party has openly embraced violence against speech.