"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Congratulations to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries who successfully delayed the war powers resolution so nobody would have to go on the record about whether they support blowing up Iranian schoolchildren.

the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing. they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran. for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation

You probably can’t personally stop the war in Iran today. Is there something you can do for your neighbors hiding from ice? For a trans person in Kansas? Any local aid orgs or rapid response networks? Phone banks? Anyone already doing good shit that just needs a hand?

THEY MURDERED 60 KIDS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU FREAK

If true this will increase the chances Iran actually decides to develop nuclear weapons, on account of Khamenei being opposed to doing that.

democrats in a nutshell; they don't want to impeach the president for launching an illegal war, they want to retroactively give him authorization for bombing iran

Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches. This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.

Like I wanna know who was blowing up Venezuelan boats. Who were the actual people pulling the trigger? They shouldn't ever feel welcome in society.

With all the bullshit going on, I would like to add that only placing blame at the top isn't right. Just following orders isn't an excuse. If an American soldier admits to involvement in Iran, they should be ostracized for it. Respect the troops? Lol, no. We don't have to respect these assholes.

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The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

I need everyone to brace themselves for the fallout of this, which is going to be dems embracing Anthropic as a #resistance corporation, and likely Open AI as well. they're already shoving this shit down our throats, now they'll try and claim its to "own" trump.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

The President singled out racial minorities as the source of fraud in the United States and the first line in recaps is “he stayed focused on the economy“ lol

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so genuinely: uh, what was Merrick Garland doing with the Epstein files, given uh, it's brought down a royal and multiple Euro politicians/

Mamdani makes cuts to library funding :( as reported in the gothamist “If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson” gothamist.com/news/taking-...

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It's always telling which arguments someone chooses not to engage with anymore. Because the core of the argument here is that "electing even transphobic Democrats would be good for trans people," what if it isn't, man. What if your premise is simply wrong. What now.

USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair. USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries. They are giving you actionable information.

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feel like this is one of the bigger labor stories of Our Current Regrettable Age variety.com/2026/gaming/...

you have to USE impeaching Noem to make a BROAD public case to dismantle DHS.

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“don’t give them what they want” they are manufacturing their justifications post-hoc. they are already doing what they want. you are not responsible for the actions of your oppressor. you are only responsible for keeping your neighbors safe and that will always be seen as defiance

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

It's always the people who are not willing to take any risks that think that other people's risk-taking is not radical enough.

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

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

is it a sometimes fun habit that sometimes does some good? sure. is a future without it some dark horror in which something great was lost? dude.

the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine

And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD." People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.

A big part of the "ICE and Border Patrol guys could never make it in the military or a real police force" rhetoric is just cope that allows folks to keep pretending that cops and military don't have large numbers of violent, sociopathic toolbags themselves. They do.

The point here is to believe people when they tell you who they are. Gavin Newsom hangs out with Republicans because he likes hanging out with Republicans. This isn't 4-D chess. He wants to hang out with Ben Shapiro and Steve Bannon. When he says he agrees with them on things, it's because he does.

they are horrified that public opinion is turning against ICE and pro immigration because they are also personally bigoted and don't like immigrants.

like, if Schumer and his minions could do whatever they wanted, they'd go back to the draconian Obama deportation policies and pour millions and millions into border security and maybe create some path to amnesty for some especially respectable undocumented people.

like, they are committed to infinite border security and deportations as a positive good. they think trump is doing it wrong, but they are worried that one of the downsides of the policy is that people will turn against ICE, which, again, they support on the merits.