@govpritzker.illinois.gov why are your employees in the State Police singling out clergy for brutalization and arrest? Are you sure you're still in control here?

Democrats have seen how successfully the Labour Party nuked their own voting coalition, and want the same for themselves

"Look away" by Chicago being the top song of 1989 is making me feel crazy. how do I have zero memory of this massive hit song? I was listening to Casey Kasem every week back then!

Dems learned nothing from Fetterman turning out to be a right wing plant (maybe it was the stroke!), and have shown no interest in doing anything to ID future Fettermans They got a freebie this time with the Nazi tattoo & racism, but look at them still supporting the guy

Hell yeah proud of my State Senator Hoan Huynh for standing up to these freakshow terrorists. Now he just needs to get on Bluesky so his people can tag him!

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list. Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

it's super unsubtle the way center-right corporate media thinks progressive good faith popular reform is a bigger threat than the complete demolition of democracy at the hands of authoritarians

If the general public is going to stay informed as the US descends into fascist chaos and state-sanctioned terrorism, it will be because independent journalists risked their lives and their freedoms to bring us the truth. Seek out the indies doing this work. Read them, promote them, fund them!

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

I for one think it's a good thing that Charlie Kirk, a fascist liar and inciter of violence and terrorism, is dead, so now he can't do that stuff anymore In the fascist/centrist response to his killing, you see them building the rhetorical architecture to label anti-fascism as a terrorist ideology

Hannity should have simply explained to the farmer how much more profit his bankrupt farm will make after it's bought out by a global agribusiness conglomerate for pennies on the dollar. As a conservative, he should stop complaining and be happy to sacrifice for the greater good (shareholders).

there is a massive capitalist incentive to ensure American fascism lasts as long as possible with the least amount of pushback. We are lambs being led into an abattoir and the elected leaders in the opposition party are willingly walking us in while sharpening the knives

Independent local media for the win

Responding to a credible threat of terrorist violence against her own constituents, Tammy Duckworth accuses Trump of "stolen valor" because he is dressed as an army commander in the post. An embarrassing failure to meet the moment from my Senator.

Donors pay both parties, but not so they always come out on top no matter who wins an election. They pay Democrats to lose, and they pay Republicans to win.

More and more people are saying it: Democrats are bad actors who literally want Republicans to win. Wouldn't it be nice to have a real opposition party? We can start building one in the next primaries!

Speaking of Trump Democrats, Fetterman has been weirdly silent lately

Was surprised to see my congressman, @quigley.house.gov among the group pushing this. Congressman, any comment on this call from your organization to "find a middle ground" on immigration by "increasing financial and operational support" to the US gestapo? Are we really still doing this?

One of the panels at Socialism 2025 featured a long-time brilliant organizer and comrade Paula Rojas who said at one point: "Some of us in this room will be imprisoned or killed in the next few years." It was a room full of activists and organizers & it seemed to quiet the room.

My all-time favorite "distraction" was when Trump accused Barack Obama of treason, and Obama himself dismissed this, a credible call for HIS OWN EXECUTION, as "just a distraction" Pretty sure he'd still be saying "it's a distraction" and calling for bipartisanship on his way to the firing squad.

It's interesting how freely companies admit they've been eating tariffs, i.e. deliberately reducing their profit margins in violation of their fiduciary duty to shareholders. How many shareholders even realize they're being robbed to prop up Trump, I wonder?

"Libertarianism" in America was always about giving conservative authoritarians like Musk & Thiel a nicer name to call themselves. That word is so poisoned now, and they think you're so stupid, now they've invented "Liberaltarian" in an attempt to continue the charade.

Housing = genocide is an example of something I'm seeing more of lately: conservative/"centrist" astroturfers no longer understanding what they're pretending to be. They know they need to lie about their beliefs, but due to their own deepening ignorance, none of it quite makes sense anymore.

Wow they just admit freely that a bunch of companies have been deliberately tanking their profit margins to prop up Donald Trump. If I was a major shareholder of one of those companies, I might have some questions about that, and maybe a lawsuit!

More and more people are saying it: Labour is previewing for us how Democrats will govern if given power again absent a MAJOR intra-party realignment in the next primaries.

It's a great question, even Obama himself dismissed the accusation as "just a distraction." Which, sure, is true in a narrow sense, but it's also MUCH more than that. They can't quit bipartisanship, even with the GOP credibly threatening their execution, while actively executing other Democrats.

"Downwardly mobile elites" typifies the laziness and contempt behind the new reactionary identity politics mass media is trying to push on liberals. also LMAO at all these "respectable" both-sides centrists being reduced to doing mask-off Rush Limbaugh bits about moochers and welfare queens.

I used to agree with the basic game theory logic of voting blue in general elections, but that was a strategy for a democracy with a functioning social contract. Now that that's all gone, explicit anti-fascism is the baseline. Anyone who can't manage that needs to switch parties or quit politics.

I call this philosophy Lennonism, from "You tell me it's the institutions / you better free your mind instead." It's a nice thought, that if we could all just have better personalities, that would somehow bubble up to a more equal/free society. But of course it was always just the institutions.

I think "moderate" Dems once used mass media to triangulate the center, and when mass media suddenly went from center right to hard right in just a few years, they had no plan B when Steve Bannon said, "Democrats don't matter, focus on the media," this is the dynamic he was talking about

For those who may have been unclear on the subtext, Texas Republicans have helpfully drawn these districts to show an arm reaching in from rural areas to grasp the urban areas in a literal claw.

There's plenty of fair criticism in this article but please, let's stop presenting articles in fascist-aligned media as evidence of unpopularity or controversy when those publications will try to generate unpopularity and controversy around any figure not aligned to an establishment

Both parties are committed to "border security," which is the idea that money and ownership should be able to travel freely around the world but working people should be fixed in place by the threat of force, subjects for life to whoever owns capital in their region.

Pride is more than just a word.

I love seeing this comparison because the state of Labour is a DIRE warning for Democrats. They're imposing Trumpism on Britain against their own voters' will, just like the Democrats want to do here, and the main thing that will stop both is booting corrupt representatives.

I wonder how many, if any, conservatives noticed the messaging pivot from "climate change was made up by liberals to control you, look at the snow!" to "climate change is real but actually a good thing"

"I will not say his name, he shall remain omnipotent. We were heading to school. During this time we were in middle school. Boys wanted to look fresh. Blues Clues backpacks to match our shoes. He chose to wear a Pokémon backpack with Pikachu shoes. We lied about the girls we kissed." #poetry

I got the need for it at the time (trying to find a profitable model for entertainment journalism after the old ones had ceased to make money), but this is true. Helped kill both the journalism and the art forms it covered.

Obviously, I disavow I disavow ICE and police every second of every day

A sincere thank you to Chuck Schumer for explicitly stating that the purpose of the Democratic Party is to keep their own voters in line, not to express their will. I've been trying to explain this shit to people for years!

Parliamentarian haters will be eating some serious crow after she single-handedly stops the fascists from enacting their agenda

Hey Bluesky, let's play a game, shall we? It's called "distributing these photos as widely as possible." This man assaulted community members and threatened journalists yesterday. We sure would love to know more about him. Recognize him? Please contact us!

"real" people will have private security who can sort out the issue anyone else can be kidnapped easily at any time now

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

The attack on Padilla shows the emptiness of Slotkin & Fetterman types' argument that the party needs to be "tougher" in some kind of performative, culture war way. If "toughness" of that kind is a good thing, the side willing to beat up US senators will always have someone "tougher" than you.

Regime change is also the stated priority of every police union with a democratic mayor, and is often stated by officers themselves as a justification for brutality They see themselves as an occupying force

yep, bluesky is the only major platform not institutionally committed to pretending All This isn't happening, therefore it will always be under attack, both from propaganda outlets aligned with international fascism and bots owned by the same, which don't help the problem either

Hassan looks tough and competent in this questioning, but she voted to confirm this idiot! Sucks she couldn't have asked this stuff at the confirmation hearing. Thanks to her, this fascist nitwit has absolute power over her constituents' lives, against their will.

We're in the aftermath of a literal fascist coup and they can't stop doing culture war against their own side. Not appearing in this article? The word "capitalism." Anti-capitalism gets magically transmuted into a personal rejection of capitalists. Oh no, the "activist class" thinks you're cringe!