This is rich. Fascists at Sinclair vs compromised liberals at Disney. Who will win???

This reminds me of when I was walking to my Freshman dorm and there was someone fifty feet away doing hammer throw towards me.

The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer

we are the only usable social media platform — no, mastodon does not count — that is not controlled by a passive or active ally of the government

font!!

I miss Better Know A District.

I don't believe that crap, they paid off the officials or threatened them with tariffs.

I'm bored with these headlines like "Trump official isn't a commissar" Trump appointed a commissar, the Senate approved a commissar, everyone is acting as if she's a commissar. If you have an issue with that, you are too late. It's not enough just to get rid of one of them, they must all go.

If you were one of the many people who flipped for @staceywescott.bsky.social's excellent photographs outside the ICE building in Broadview Friday, you might like reading her walk-through of the morning and the process of making that picture. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/t...

it's why they wanted Trump to win, so it must have been why he won. The flawless logic of America's brightest minds

I am classically liberal, I don't like PC culture, I love debate, I'm a white male heterosexual. I hang out with some of the wokest people in the country. If I don't think woke is a serious problem I don't know *who* would think that, unless they were opposed for exactly the wrong reasons.

The UK did the whole "If God wills that [war] continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword..." and their right is like "y though?"

this barely even made the news! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

So now we’re going to have a third right wing ratfucking social media platform people won’t admit they’re addicted to but will insist they can’t get off of?

No one wants to admit it, but one of the easier ways to turn up the virality on your post is to go from "[popular thing] is true" to "no one wants to admit it but [popular thing] is true"

There could be nothing less shocking. The president is opposed to civics and he is constantly threatening to destroy people's careers, occupy their cities, and put them in prison. His party believes in this principle top to bottom. To speak the truth in a classroom now is an act of defiance.

I am going to pour a bit of cold water on this as I read a very good paper pointing out some of the problems.

He's a Nazi but this is still a more accurate description of the event than you'll get from the media

Casten is right and I think that in order to show grace and empathy we first have to strike in them the Fear of God, or such an endeavor will for a hundredth time be thwarted by the parasites that feed upon our good graces.

So IIUC, the position of the UK government is that Israel's actions in Gaza are so grave that there must be immediate recognition for a Palestinian state, but also that if you wear a shirt that says "Palestine Action" you are supporting a terrorist organization and should be arrested.

yep

you guys

who was it that was arguing on here a few weeks back about how the right wing never writes history or whatever

Got to use my favorite example for why translating the Bible is complicated today for RCIA: "butt dial" and "booty call" are literally the same phrase

i genuinely want to know how they got here. www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-ai...

It's pretty instructive how much goes into trying to make sure people think "marches and speeches" and not "a garbage strike that actually threatens power" when ya say Nonviolent Resistance.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

Social media is the sea peoples

Ahhhhhhhhh

*Schumer, bluffing at high-stakes poker with a worthless hand* Dealer: You already showed everyone at the table your cards, you know that right Schumer: ALL IN BABY

unclear to me yet if the powers that be actually overplayed their hand on kimmel, but what i do know is that it's always correct to boycott the mouse

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Inability of the older generation to speak in the coded language of the younger generation and making dumbass misreadings in order to terrorize them seems to be an infinitely repeating theme.

yeah i read economic theory

Absolutely shattering details in this Sun-Times piece chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Have they considered putting a base where people might actually want it, like Taiwan? Or is Trump to scaredy cat for that?

Trump is very good at diminishing the credibility of the United States to effectively zero.

X: 1 Caeser BlueSky: No Caesers

the biggest tempest in the history of teacups

This is why we fought an independence war btw. People were tired of getting dragged around constantly by the king's authority.

It may be past time for Democrats to develop some kind of party security apparatus. I'd take that job.

After all the breathless eulogizing, crying, and flag lowering, Trump's national approval dropped. The status quo is a package deal and people are saying no.

And here's the thing: a LOT of these people are going to be real mad in the coming months and years about how aggressive Black people are going to be about calling the members of the US establishment racist. But who you choose to HONOR reveals who you are.

300 miles each way. 30 MPG freeway. 20 gallons of gas. $67.70.

by this rule mr beast gets to lie in state at the capitol rotunda

Amazing thread 🧵 from Politico global security reporter Dave Brown ✈️ x.com/dave_brown24...

A propos of nothing, just thinking about this Liberation Day post about what happens when our political leaders no longer have common values (or any values at all, for that matter)

I’m crying 😂