THIS. I get it offends delicate centrist decorum to acknowledge this, but a core tenet of white-wing supremacy is that causality is for rubes and suckers. Nothing they do or say can ever have consequences.

Seconded

So the “closed” daycares…were closed during the last week of the year, during which most daycares are closed. And the doors were “locked,” which they are at every daycare. And they wouldn’t let in a “journalist” with a camera…which they wouldn’t do at any daycare. Got it.

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

The truth in one sentence. One infuriating sentence.

A new report on civic freedoms concludes that "the US is no longer a functional democracy." Congrats everyone. And a *special* congrats to the Harpers letter signatories, free-speech warriors, and "anti-woke" crusaders. You saved us from woke! Great work.

Status update on House Republicans and a health care plan, after this morning’s conference meeting: “The consensus is we need to come up with something,” Rep. Ralph Norman says.

A great deal of AI hype is coming from con artists who understand exactly how much easier it’s going to be to use the same cons over and over once they achieve their dream of a world in which nobody understands how anything 1) works or 2) has ever worked.

Within the Souls of the Awkward and the Overlooked Often Burns Something Radiant, Charlie Brown

Every Era Has a Currency That Buys Souls, Charlie Brown

The Suburbs Dream of Violence, Charlie Brown

Hell Is the Truth Seen Too Late, Charlie Brown

When Obama was elected Mitch McConnell brought a new thing into our nation's politics, a sort of weaponized nihilism: he didn't care how much the nation suffered, so long as it hurt Obama. He literally told his caucus that their only goal must be for Obama to be a failed President, at any price.

text messages that start with “i’m not crazy” are guaranteed wild rides

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

i have thought of this scene when i read the news every day for the last decade

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law. They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights: "To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mister Fabulous faces the day with resolve. Lucky needs a few more minutes.

The last decade has reinforced the wisdom of a great line from a bad movie: “You know the first rule in dealing with the devil?” (Speaker shoots guy he’s talking to) “Don’t.” —from 1996’s “Solo,” in which Mario Van Peebles plays a killer robot. It’s a dumb movie but it’s right.

They don't miss 2002, they miss being ten years old. I was 29 in 2002. America was deep in the process of Losing Its Goddamned Mind. POTUS was a moron pushing for violence, backed by jackals out to destroy civil liberties. The internet was destroying media. How different does this sound?

Scholars of the 50s and 60s, now’s your time to remind people of how the FBI infiltrates left-wing groups and foments violent action.

just got my dna results back ☹️

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan.bsky.social on this site) said it perfectly:

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

there is this whole clique of people who simultaneously insist that liberals should have tougher skin and stop getting so upset about slurs and then also lose their minds when i say harsh words about their work or person