I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but this is why we hsti abolish ICE and dismantle the DHS. Giving them more laws to break won't help

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

Regardless of your personal political beliefs, on a basic psychological level the message "yeah we suck but what are you gonna do, not vote for us?" does not drive voter turnout.

Holy shit

Once a week there's discourse about the stupid voters who didn't understand in 2024 that democracy was at risk. Well what about members of congress who don't seem to understand that even today? Are they acting like we're in a crisis?

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

I feel like a lot of these sad bastards are treating this duty like some last hurrah. One vacation of sadistic and libidinal pleasures before the hammer of reality comes back down, one way or another.

I hope Thaddeus doesn't turn into a centaur. I really hated those things.

Most media headlines right now are like "We are laying off 2/3 of our staff and also the president is our ombudsman now" but somehow David Brooks got two new jobs in one day

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

Malice afivethought

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This is Democrats giving up their leverage, which will allow Republicans to kill even their limp "reforms" and in a few weeks we'll just have DHS funded

Classic mystery fans! I just discovered this very silly trailer in which Philo Vance from The Kennel Murder Case (1933) meets Nick Charles from The Thin Man (1934). The gag is, they're both played by William Powell and the main difference between the characters is the jacket.

I don’t think we have a new wave of Nazis. Yet we used to not have every platform filled with them. For decades, they were stuck in small corners of the internet. So what changed? Billionaires and bots, that’s all

Still haven't cracked the code on "shot lasting for more than 2 seconds" i see.

you know what time it is columboheads

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

A few weeks back ICE agents ate at a Mexican restaurant and then *detained the restaurant's workers* and they're complaining about how they can't eat out anymore?

"Who's city is it Chief? Bovino: "It's our fucking city." And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.

None of these guys actually live like this, it’s a social media aesthetic they maintain so that if their start up does make it thy can pretend it was grit instead of luck that got them there. This is actually a model how thy want other people to live, particularly their employees

Right-wing media have called women protestors “neurotic," “brainwashed,” and even “human shields for the party machine.”

So what is the Democratic Party position, exactly? That ICE and DHS are preparing to steal the midterm elections, but we're going to keep giving them more money as long as they wear bodycams?

there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now

This just makes premeditated murder a possibility.

(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)

"I'm cool with the Holocaust as long as it's not all in my face."

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

The funny thing is, the precise opposite is true. The standard the left holds Dems to is actually very low, they just can’t even meet that low bar. People on the left were excited about Tim Walz for a few weeks just for actually attacking Republicans and promoting free school lunch and childcare.

No one else wanted to bike in this shit? Odd. I should be working for the post office.

Maybe it's because i expect nothing but I was surprised by even this extremely tame reference to, y'know, everything.

This is probably too obvious to mention but it's just so wild to defend guns as a god given right but whistles should be a thing you can ban.

there is a post from the US gov 'department of war' on here that includes video of them actually murdering people and threatening to murder more people & it's been up since november

The Trump "softened" his stance thing is so so old. This one is from 2024, about abortion. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

You can't reform this shit. This is a death threat.

This is Blank Check, it's about filmographies of directors who have massive success and are given a blank check to make whatever crazy passion projects they want. Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce (baby). Today we're discussing the swan song of Brett Ratner...

"yeah i'm a cybersecurity expert. signal isn't safe don't use it. privacy isn't even actually real at all, the governmemt has an orb that shows them what you're doing at all times. anyway just use discord or email or something normal."

This was great! Have loved Ron in his appearances in Bob’s Burgers, his character on Loot, and his standup. Just a super kind, earnest, human being who got done dirty on #TheTraitorsUS. Saw him do stand-up a few months ago and I highly recommend snagging tix if you can - he’s touring this year too!

If i were in Congress, let alone in a deep blue state, I'd feel pretty embarrassed to get my fucking lunch eaten by the goddamn Vatican.

this is a 100% fascist impulse it's also pretty much foundational to a conservative upbringing, imo: they're repeatedly abusing their kids into obedience but also teaching them to worship and pursue status above all else thus: a throng of people who crave status/power but all they do is lick boot

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Whitney Cummings was always a despicably unfunny pick-me asshole.

It's so crazy that the Democrats can't do anything when they are in the minority to the extent that they may as well not hold office at all, and then, as soon as they have the majority, they can't do anything because they are being procedurally blocked in ways that leave them just as helpless.

Be a real shame if one of the many journalists who follows me wrote this up and it went super viral and people followed him around throwing National Geographics at his head

And that's the thing that gets me: there's no real evidence that making these changes does anything. bsky.app/profile/cunt...

Now that TikTok has changed ownership in the U.S., it's as good a time as ever to again say how much I truly hate algospeak euphemisms like "unalived" and whatnot. I wish people would knock that off.