There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

Hold up. Why would he be surprised by being confronted? Are you telling me that our senators and representatives are not calling out this bullshit regularly? What exactly are you doing at work @slotkin.senate.gov? @peters.senate.gov?

“Aspirational security line setup” is a hell of a phrase. 😂 #sadtrombone

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Me watching all these QR announcements coming out for gigs sooooo far away 😭 #happy4Utho #come2MI

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Good morning to everyone who agrees that we need to tax the church!

More and more since the 2025 started, I’ve only been able to fall asleep to astrophysics audiobooks that describe to me how truly huge the universe really is and how we really are just absolutely meaningless flecks of dust clinging to a pebble floating in an endless ocean.

My sweet Lilly. 19 years is a long relationship by any standard. And it’s rare and special to enjoy the love of a pet for that long. She has brought me joy through so many life changes, so the pain of witnessing the changes she’s enduring as she nears the end of her long life is nearly unbearable.

Due to the political coup and lawlessness in Turkey ⚖️ Protesting against the government of Erdogan, Trump's best friend, Turkish youth held up a banner in Elvish in front of the courthouse 📢 The banner reads: “Though Sauron's hunters wait, the people will never surrender!” 👊 #Trump #Resist

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

Germany had its own January 6-style attempt at a coup. It also failed. But Hitler was sent to jail. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

The FAFO schadenfreude aside, it's really insane how many people seem to sincerely believe in their heart that politics is just a game people play to amuse themselves and isn't something with very real consequences for real people who may have intensely vested stakes in the outcome.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Ban abortion Ban all gender based healthcare, research, education and jobs programs under the premise of [very real] transphobia Defund social safety net programs Defund the department of education Collapse the economy and restrict the job market They’re forcing American women back 100+ years.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

My theory is that a lot of people call earnestness cringe because they’re uncomfortable with their emotions around earnestness & they can’t be arsed to deal with it

Seriously friends, 99% of my cases are things nobody ever hears about. 99% of my activism isn't shit I post about. Assuming people only do what you see on social media isn't just inaccurate, it's actively harmful.

Yet in the next breath they say they love him because he ‘tells it like it is’ or ‘says what he means’. Clowns.

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

Oof. Do not recommend this.

My evening thought is that I suspect a great many Americans, in the period after 1989, grew very used to a world in which it didn't matter *that* much who they elected (to them). They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace. But it always mattered.

I could not be happier about this! 🥰

me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’

This one hurts my heart. 💔 He had much much higher profile roles, but The Saint will forever live rent free in my head. RIP Val Kilmer.

I keep thinking about this. The fact that @booker.senate.gov inspired the US — the world even — with his speech today would have been more than enough on its own. But now it’s in the congressional record.

Some will say a speech doesn’t mean much. I respectfully disagree. Words matter and rhetoric matters. Yes, action must follow but words inspire. Words can even change reality, create new realities. There’s a mystery to the power of the spoken word. What Sen. Booker did today was important.

Imagine being a total failure in your first 72 days at work, and someone gives you over 25 hours of straight criticism. Cory Booker is a hero.

Attorney General Pamela Bond trying to get the death penalty for Luigi is maybe the best example I've ever seen of how if you kill one rich asshole with a gun you go to prison but if you kill millions with a state or a company you live out your days in a mansion Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Breaking Thurmond's record while talking about the Civil Rights leaders being called home is an incredible moment in America. This is one for the history books.

My favorite part about this whole thing: 24+ hours of impassioned, inspiring speech! I’d be incoherent after about 3 hours. 🫣

Bless Cory Booker for staying up all night to speak out against these evil morons. This is the kind of fight that we are all looking for.

Bad people don’t even have to have power over you they just need to make you believe that they do so you’re too afraid to fight at all.

Senator Booker is still going 👊🇺🇸🔥 www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

A reminder that the entire purpose of the Records Act is to keep government accountable to its citizens and there is no reason to use a private chat on auto delete unless you have the opposite goal.

What Cory Booker is doing - where you stand up in a space & speak & are seen & disrupt everyday business - that's a demonstration. They call that a demonstration. What you do is you show up. And you keep showing up. And keep showing up. It's a thing. You can do it. It's a really useful thing.

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

Loving this "I do not yield" energy happening today. It needs to happen every day. #IDoNotYield #CoryBooker #15HoursAndCounting

Good morning to @booker.senate.gov only. 🥰 Thank you for standing up for the country you swore an oath to protect.

Nobody feels more persecuted than those who have to suffer a slice of the inequity and intolerance they serve to everyone else.

Anyone know if @slotkin.senate.gov or @peters.senate.gov have joined in to support @booker.senate.gov in his filibuster? If they haven’t so far, I’m hoping to see them do so. https://www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2VbdLS4?si=vrEbwjOMIIczBp1k

To everyone saying to “ignore” what he’s saying because “it will never happen”…you are why we lose.

France is moving far too fast against Marine Le Pen. by Merrick Garland

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov .