if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

If you're comfortable with the guy wearing a Blackwater hat then you are many things, but you ain't a Democrat.

Sit with what this says to the descendants of enslaved people. March 25th at the United Nations: 123 countries voted YES. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted NO, rejecting the idea that slavery is a crime against humanity. 13 million people. The defense? “It wasn’t illegal when we did it.”

I was a foreign exchange student in HS, went to Italy. A friend came back with me and wanted to go to the Grand Canyon. I am from MO. My mom said "let's go!" And we drove out to the Grand Canyon. That friend never proposed we meet up because she was going to be in NYC.+

A protest without demands isn’t a movement—it’s a moment. We’re not here for vibes. We’re here for action. Because this is what’s at stake: - A rising authoritarian threat. - A president acting like a fascist dictator. - And a whole lot of people saying: absolutely not.

Not a problem on this website, but look at those 4 recalls we just posted and imagine getting throttled by an algorithm while trying to notify the millions of people who potentially own one of those products. This is why we can't sleep at night.

I was a foreign exchange student and the 2ndary school I attended in Italy had this as a full wall mural when you walked in. It was the only art, the only thing on the walls except crucifixes if IIRC. It seemed like an odd choice for a high school.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

Nobody gives a shit about climate change anymore all the activists have moved on to more cool and edgy causes. Their will be exactly zero sit ins at politicians offices over this.

Trump is holding TSA pay hostage all to try to disenfranchise tens of millions of American citizens over delusions of voter fraud. Rein in ICE. Pay TSA. NO to the SAVE Trump Act.

I'm gonna get a lot of use out of this meme moving forward, aren't I?

I can’t even imagine why Big Pharma would prefer maternity wards closing. It seems Big Pharma probably earns revenue in maternity wards along with most healthcare facilities. Since everything is a conspiracy now, I would tell my voters that BIG PHARMA is selling DRUGS in HOSPITALS.

Any Democrat who votes for the first part after they've announced the plan for the second part needs to be tarred and feathered.

Fun to see that he can’t even imagine using this Senate rumpaspringa to enshrine any protections for anyone who isn’t a Working Class Real American. Truly the tribune of the people.

look, things suck, everybody is allowed to feel hopeless once in a while, but I do think you have some responsibility to limit the contagion caused by offgas from your personal slough of despond

Sean Duffy should be impeached and removed from his cabinet post.

I wasnt alive then but, yeah, if Trump didn't occassionally bring up the UFC fight he plans to have at the White House, I would not even remember this was a significant anniversary.

Trump made a strategic blunder by putting ICE in airports. This is going to backfire. I hope Republicans in Congress caught this segment on Morning Joe. “This is a self own.”

Every time we develop demands for a demonstration in the Trump era, we have to wrestle against with, what is the point of making demands if we know they won't do them. We make demands because we have the right to. We do it even if the likelihood of them being met is low to stake our ground.

I argued that Trump must resign...and that we should all call for him to resign. there actually haven't been that many calls for him to resign in comparison to 25th amendment and impeachment. I think that's a mistake. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-must...

That half of them are wearing sneakers and hoodies, one guy has airpods in... and the 1st 2 look like the should be in high school (minus the full sleeve). This is obscene and ridiculous at the same time. And if course they are doing *nothing*.

Yeah it didn't take me long to figure out that these guys' motivation was basically "how can I bully people in such a way that it appears virtuous?" And they settled on "but I want free doctors and college so actually I'm a Good Person"

I don't think you want to be reminding people that Republicans once had backbones, Ted.

Whatever your political beliefs, you should want them to become "normie" because that's when you win. In politics you don't get any points for liking something special and exquisite that nobody else gets to touch. You want your most annoying middle school teacher to agree with you.

Heinrich - who, as a reminder, is part of the *Senate Fight Club* who want to elect people like Platner because they say establishment Dems don't fight Trump enough! - is voting for Mullin because he's a personal friend. I'm not kidding. That's his stated reason.

Is it weird that I trust the lady who told Trump to pound sand on kicking trans kids out of sports, over the bro who thinks his Nazi tattoo is no big deal?

Warren will be 80 at the end of her term and Sanders will be 89 at the end of his, but obviously Mills is disqualified by age

Markwayne Mullin confirmed as DHS secretary 54–45. Rand Paul was the only Republican to oppose the nomination, while Dems John Fetterman (PA) and Martin Heinrich (NM) voted in favor. Fetterman & Heinrich need to be primaried in 2028 and 2030 respectively. We can do and must demand better.

Modern conservative masculinity is deeply submissive with a lot of them have a humiliation kink. The rest of us are noncpnsensual participants.

What my Gen Z kid is wearing

Don't forget the momentarily light labor market in 2021-2022, where workers actually made up some ground re:wages and had some power. Elites immediately threatened everyone with AI and went all in on Trump un the Bosses' Revolt.

removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines

Just a reminder that for a hot second in the 1990s, white nationalist militants were a primary focus of the FBI. They didn't do it particularly well but at least the focus was accurate. And the 9/11, and Mueller re-focused that all on Muslims and propagated racism and xenophobia.

“Ideology-free populist who can’t be trusted” is one problem. Handing Republicans a giant whatabout that will resonate with both media and less engaged voters is another. It’s not tattoo proves devout Nazi. It’s why would Dems want to muddy the picture on who’s pro- or anti-fascism in this moment?

Stop turning it into the totem of your hatred of Israel. It just is a gateway to antisemitic rhetoric to do this. There is no gain from doing so in clarity of understanding. Take the W of changing attitudes on Israel in the Democratic coalition and don’t blow it by making it skeevy

AIPAC was never the reason for the bipartisan pro-Israeli stance and it’s bad vulgar Marxism to take it as the explanation. You can tell that this is the case because they’ve still got money yet now the best evidence we have is that their contribution hurts people’s prospects rather than helps it

Tips from a Jew who wants to see Israel abolished and replaced by an egalitarian state with full political and civil rights for all residents of its territories: -"Zio" is a slur, in any context -"Zionist" is a vague term that you should really try to define before you go throwing it at people

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

The guy who ran his campaign did a whole piece on how he still believes in Fetterman-ism and the entire party is coalescing around his second attempt at it in Platner.

This is why blaming his stroke rings hollow to me, his politics aren’t a function of his personality alone but of an active movement which will happily publish their goals of electing more Democrats who hate Democrats.

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

An endorsement from Bernie should be the kiss of death at this point. Not because his policies and so radical (ffs, they aren't), because he's produced an alarming number of candidates that went from Progressive to Trump in less than a decade.

lots of leftier-than-thou leftists played useful idiot for a neo-segregationist campaign because upwardly-mobile minorities are """neoliberal"""

We are very deliberately choosing to push all our public money into policing and military and away from social services and we should be clear eyed about why

Thanks to HR1, 20,000 people were kicked off of SNAP in one small state this month. Nearly half of ABAWDs (able bodied adults without dependents) on that state's case load. This is devastating to those individuals but also to local communities.

I was in Minneapolis, talking to a local organizer and he told me, "it is really important that was don't have 'a leader,' a leader is inevitably going to have some fault or failing that will cause division within or weakness to the outside."

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

movements don’t need heroes. history should never be built or taught around great men, or women. the collective is why change happens—that is what should be celebrated.