what a legend lmao

Definitely the only two choices are servile obedience to a fascist state or roving *leftist* death squads, which have never once caused problems for a civilian populace.

"What if the military comes?" The work continues. "What if the military turns on ICE and joins with the People?" The work continues. "What if the military sides with ICE and oppresses the People?" The work continues.

"we deserve better" then back someone better. ffs, refusing to vote is just gonna make this shit keep happening. if you want better candidates get behind them. it's still too early to call who's gonna be president.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

the President is illegally raising taxes because people don't like his plan to illegally spend billions of tax dollars illegally invading allied territory

Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

Bluesky posters will be like you “you think massive universal legal resistance with total support from the population works? that pales in comparison to my strategy, winning a shootout with an ICE army” and then not win a shootout with an ICE army

the Stancil thing really does drive home how much greater import some people place on having a completely correct billfold of opinions than actually doing something worthwhile in real life

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

They really need to think about methods that are "militant" but not "toting weapons around the street". Militancy involves discipline, coordination, logistics, defining objectives and strategy, and constantly evaluating the situation. The civil rights movement was militant af.

Many Dems think they can’t win with “ideal” policies bcse the voters they want to win over won’t support them unsegregated. Sanders seems to address that reality by using terms like “identity politics” and “bread and butter” issues that trigger the same senses as Trump’s “America First”.

My political journey since the mid-00s has been gradually understanding most of the people I thought would be reliable allies were aloof and self-involved and ultimately didn’t care about who got hurt, just as long as they got to make their angry statements.

And for what? Nobody has anything to show for it but Billionaire Bond villains and D-List suck up "journalists". America has sold democracy away to a white nationalist carnival barker who they can't believe has swindled them even now.

There were so many times during the election where I turned to look at the people around me, unphased by the possibility of loss- human rights, hard fought civil liberties, equality was becoming a word to be scoffed at. Neo-Segregationists like Kirk were eroding our ancestors work in real time.

People who didn't see those losses as an existential threat didn't treat it the very real threat its become, and its not the oblivious that pay the highest prices in a government run by unmoored christofacists.

I mean, here we have a feel-good story of ordinary defiance. Pushing back against hate. But you, the reader, may know (as I did not) who Mark Harris is and that his husband is in fact legendary American dramatist Tony Kushner. This would be like if Saul Bellow or Joan Didion told you to get fucked.

sing, muse - of bling and wode for the wine moms; of glittering armor and libations of nectar for the Karens, the Heathers, the Sharons, the Ethels; of moral travels from The Notebook to The Anarchist Cookbook; of their hard-fought victories against the cruelty of their neighbors’ enemies

Happening Now: Hundreds of protesters are holding a noise demo outside of the Graduate by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Drums, guitars, pots and pans are in-tune to "fuck ICE" and "ICE out" chants. Riot police are currently in the lobby.

My name is Mary Peltola, and I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for fish, family, and freedom – and that begins with fixing the rigged system in DC that’s shutting down Alaska. We need systemic change if we're going to lower costs, save our fisheries, and fill our homes with abundance again.

since time immemorial, all great civilizations which have abandoned the wine mom have fallen mesopotamia, assyria, egypt, greece, rome, britain, and now washington

There’s a non-zero possibility that this sort of epistemic closure is a big piece of the male crisis in America.

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

they're doing it for gender, imo

Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. The fact that Maduro is a dictator who committed grave abuses does not suspend the Constitution.

it's very comforting for people to believe that there's a shadowy cabal of people who are shaping the world exactly to their will. but in reality, even the most powerful people exerting all their might can do little more than a gentle push to get things moving the direction they want.

So many Trump pundits strike me as being something like Ptolemaic astronomers adding ever-more epicycles to their model to explain the observed motion of planets, unable to abandon the central geocentric assumption. In this case, the assumption is that Trump is in full possession of his faculties

Look it's simple the Dems need to invoke 'the doubler' rule wherein all their votes count twice, boom easy impeachment and veto overrides for everything (I'm not doing the math on this if it's wrong imagine I said tripler)

Republican gets elected President. > Starts saying/doing racist shit. > Cuts benefits for the poor. > Cuts taxes for the rich. > Dismantles democracy. > Crashes economy. > Starts another war over oil. > Cuts funding for sustainable energy. If only we could have known somehow before the election

American voters will lose more than just elections if they don't vote to get every Republican out of congress as they can in 2026. They will erode any chance we have at fair and free elections in 2028. And that is because too many of you apathetic assholes don't vote like your lives depend on it!

Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state. In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order. This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

And another thing I’m worried the media will do in 2028 is frame every question to Democrats as “how are you specifically going to fix everything? Why haven’t you fixed everything yet? Aren’t you being divisive and looking backwards by saying you’ll undo and investigate everything the GOP has done?”

bluntly it is because the only women they will allow to give them orders are in porn

GWB: I am not paying a lot of money just to shoot a rocket up a camel's ass. Trump: Let's just do a Battleship thing and I'll call out coordinates and you bomb them.

wouldn't put it past these ghouls to have the extent of the objectives be "let's kill brown people to own the libs"

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

If you are outraged that Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate in TX, but insist that a racist, Jew-hating, rape-victim-blaming, ex-Blackwater mercenary, self-described communist with an effing SS tattoo is "a great candidate" for Maine, you just might be a racist, Jew-hating POS.

Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.

ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

if article 2 can just, by fiat, nullify a section of the constitution, and article 3 rubber stamps it and article 1 stands by and allows it, we don't have a constitution, we have the societal equivalent of an anime swordsman who just cut us in half but we haven't fallen apart yet

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.