““The presidency, the White House is supposed to symbolize the world’s greatest superpower, but instead they acted like a $2 tabloid.”” I might run out of gift articles but this deserves your time. There is no bottom. These Trumpers will become Nazis — if you let them. #resist

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Playfulness, like action, is an antidote to anxiety. Maror Mamdani is a tremendous leader because he seamlessly pairs the two, and this creates a sense of confidence that is participatory. Contrast with Trump's "only I can save you" message, which keeps him squarely in the power-over position.

this is why i think there needs to be legal accountability for republicans in congress. they swore an oath of office

One would hope that media outlets eventually understood that many of their readership woes stem from having no standards for conservatives. But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

i know simulation jokes are old as hell, but are we sure this isn't a simulation

Trump won because people simply did not believe he would do what he said he was going to do! That's the most maddening part about the popularism debate. Trump's policies have ALWAYS been unpopular AND HE WON BECAUSE VOTERS SIMPLY MADE UP THEIR MINDS THAT HE WOULDN'T ACTUALLY DO WHAT HE PROMISED

1/You know who gets a bad rap in constitutional law: the Anti-Federalists, who get defined by what they were against rather than they were for: locating sovereign powers in the people—to speak, to assemble, to deny bathroom usage, to have grand juries, to make a MF to get a real judicial warrant.

One of the reasons I think we have to deal with conglomeration of media is that it was OBVIOUS this was what Trump was demanding and while those of us paying attention knew this, very few people were being told that this would happen.

one of the core values of the US Republican Party is tolerance and (sometimes celebration of) sexual violence. you don't elect a rapist to hold rapists accountable.

Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things

So...this gives me WEAPONS denouement vibes. But Texas, amirite?

Reminder: Johnson is an election denier and voted against certifying the 2020 election

The indictment of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers revealed that they had a cache of weapons, entered the Capitol in military formation, and were prepared to harm lawmakers. They were all pardoned and no doubt many of them are now in ICE

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

I 100% do not trust mainstream democrats to roll back whatever horrific shit Palantir is doing. It will take folks like AOC pushing them.

this admin negatively polarizing themselves against gun ownership to own the libs has to be one of the dumber political things they’ve done yet

They had one freaking job.

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Step 1: Trump begs voters in the Fort Worth area to back a GOP candidate in a special election in a red district. Step 2: The Dem wins by double digits. Step 3: Trump pretends Step 1 didn’t happen. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The Mel Brooks tribute, everyone just looks so joyful to be there.

I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

To help you keep track today in Minneapolis: -ICE tear-gassed children, adults and abducted a legal observer from a park. -Tear-gassed people at an Alex Pretti memorial. -Are drive-by pepper spraying folks. Including myself. I was wearing a stole. These are intentional acts of terror.

But — to give one, literally, small example — Liam Ramos and his dad are back home today. They are losing. That is why Trump is lashing out. They and what they are doing is unpopular, in addition to being legally and morally wrong. They are righteously opposed. They will lose.

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.

We need to realize this time that a good portion of the damage from the Biden debate was our collective freak out, and preemptively apologizing for ourselves, and we can neuter that by telling the press to go fuck themselves if they try this shit.

Reminder that you do not have to be white to be a fascist or, more specifically, be an active member of a fascist paramilitary force. it’s complicated but not unusual in these United States.

NEWS from @propublica.org: The two federal agents who killed Alex Pretti are Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Ochoa joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014. Both are from south Texas. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Worth bearing in mind that a huge number of people on the ground have been working tirelessly and for the most part thanklessly, for many years, to make it happen

Just reading through the Epstein emails and thinking about the notion that "MeToo went too far." How about we put all the world's men on a remote island and have them justify re-entry into decent society one by one, judged by a jury of women? That would be far enough.

Absolutely losing my mind over Ava, THE ROCK'S DAUGHTER, quitting WWE despite them offering her a raise to keep working a pretty cushy kayfabe general manager gig and then the day after her contract ends she posts this

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

This is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.

Two things can be true: we’re a competitive authoritarian state with all sorts of efforts to put a thumb on the scale of who has power AND we have sufficiently free and sufficiently fair elections that every month we see the party in power lose.

Usually dictators are more subtle about looting the treasury, because gross corruption is often a part of what gets them overthrown.

Every medication and fluid here has to be administered at a different rate that is safe and appropriate for the pt's current and chronic conditions. Every single one of those pumps will run out at different times, and not a single one can run out even for a few seconds without serious pt harm.

I really wish we could take some of the negative valence off of “performative” because performance is tremendously important right now especially

Someone sent me this the other day. worldwarwings.com/women-pilots...

The idea of a feminized society is driving me nuts. Beyond the military; nearly every institution in our country was designed & implemented by men, any input by women was ignored or absorbed without credit. Everything that women are allowed in this country is diluted & passed off as a mere copy.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

there’s been an assumption that when Dems take power again they will keep ICE funded at these ridiculous levels forever and they are now on record voting to end that they’ll need to go much further than that but it’s a start - and I sure don’t see the politics of ICE improving between now and then