Fuck it, maybe I’ll feel better if I simply stop having hope

Being pardoned by trump is retroactively a crime

At the end of this there should be no permanent members of SCOTUS and no Republican Party.

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

do think a lot of american politics is afflicted by a curse of "worse things aren't possible" when they actually are which has led to no less than three generations of political leaders who think the bottom can't fall out

People need to be angrier IMO

Someone should really come up with a check list for potential 2028 Democratic Party Presidential candidates with regard to how they'll attempt to prosecute the innumerable crimes of this administration, reform SCOTUS, & rebuild the institutions that Trump tore down.

powerful democrats for the most part are institutionalists who've experienced career success by conforming to those institutions. trumpism is psychologically crippling to them bc it implies these institutions can fail and you can experience history. they want to experience employee of the month.

What I don't get is why Democrats always seem to be caught so flat-footed in these situations. Like they hadn't even discussed amongst themselves how they would respond

This would be fully a good thing at this point. Break it up!

We must break American democracy in our favor faster than the GOP can break it in theirs

drives me nuts when people say prosecuting the leaders of this regime is a pipe dream. all the other democracies in the world don’t seem to have a problem doing it. we can do it too.

Wrote about the role of imagination in beating back the authoritarian menace. badfaithtimes.com/the-american...

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

A big reason the White House press corps deserve to be locked in the ballroom mausoleum with him and burned alive is that they never, ever defend their woman colleagues from this continual degradation.

One of the most consistent realities of US history is that the federal government needs to enforce democracy in the South otherwise white southerners will take political representation away from as many people as they can. Still a reality today

My primary thought, as southern Republicans drop all pretense and scramble to grab more power, is that if the rot runs deeper than we thought, so must the needed reforms.

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Let’s not even beat around the bush. Black people (and other groups like native americans) DESERVE to have EXCESSIVE representation in government, as justice for the sins of a past America.

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Trump and the hantavirus has me reluctantly reupping The Tweet

guys I went on threads and it’s not great BUT they’re equally freaked out about politics as we are so that’s good, kinda

It was an all time historical mistake to allow the south statehood(s) again. They should all be colonies of the north to this day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_l... USA should try a lil civil law

Idea: states must have an equal or greater number of majority-minority districts, by percentage, to the % of population that is minority/nonwhite. Example: if a state has a 38% POC population, then at least 38% of their house districts must be majority-minority

It ain’t just boomers. I thought, being born in 1996, I lived in an America that had left racism behind. Nope! A terrible lesson to learn.

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alright I gotta get outta this fuckin country

It’s important to remember that conservatives are not the same as you and me. They’re lesser. They are backwards, cruel, vindictive barely-people and in a just world they’d be forced back into their damp caves forever.

Every historian worth their shit that studies fascism & domestic discord is so funny because they’re all the nicest people alive & they all come to the same conclusion which is that yeah you just gotta kill these guys. Can’t leave one alive.

I’m on the side of let them secede With one big caveat We would have to do a lot of “property swaps” to get the good southerners out of the hell down there, and meanwhile force the northern republicans south. Or just build a shit ton of free housing too.

Go on TikTok and search for any news story, any video, any event, any theory that can be milked for shock, horror, or gloom (and therefore views), and you'll see it being immediately digested by a thousand creators trying to use it for content, like a rodent swarm eating every bit of a dead animal.

The south of the USA is full of some of the most evil freaks on the planet, and by that I mean the white people down there. The Union played far too nice back in the day

God forbid we treat the people who regularly vote for a death cult party appropriately Idk how hard it is to grasp these people are near exclusively the problem

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

A million and one. We can’t have ties.

This is the core of why I support court-packing (and other reforms), and have for almost ten years now The Court that we have now is not actually performing what I see as its vital functions. It is incapable of performing those functions. The things we would wish to preserve have already been lost

It’s so funny to use a parade of horribles argument about attacking the court. They’re already doing all the horribles! The cost of attacking them is rapidly approaching zero.

The answer re: gerrymandering just came to me. Obvious in retrospect. Federal law passed that MANDATES competitiveness. Meaning: maps must be drawn to have the MOST district races projected for a tied result, as possible. Within less than 1% wherever possible, within 1-2% wherever possible, & so on

a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

expansion and reform of the supreme court has to be a litmus test moving forward, every candidate must be asked and must go on the record in support

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

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