About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

Good news for transgender people at MIT. Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms. The latest from reporter S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

People are confusing their own tedious self-importance with effectiveness. The animal costumes are a genius move. It should be adopted by every protest.

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

In some ways this is the government now

The thing that was obviously going to happen has happened.

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

This is probably the end of freedom of speech and expression in the US. Burning a flag is inciting a riot. Insulting Trump or a Republican is inciting a riot. Ditto blasphemy or being trans in public. Every action becomes a federal felony if the DOJ doesn't like it. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him. (…because he literally incited an insurrection)

The existence of even one Catholic convert dismantles the central lie of religion, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it. See I can make bullshit, nonsense arguments too, Heritage Foundation.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

I have taken the freedom of speech that was in the Constitution and which you were probably using for peaceful protest Forgive me the courts said they were so agitating and so irritating

it’s often talked about how elon musk is an annoying piece of shit but the worst part is that we have to take a guy with the name “elon” seriously. what a dumb name

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

"Maybe you can look into that, Pam" -- Trump directs Pam Bondi to try to stop a planned anti-Trump rally in Austin

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.” The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

"We took freedom of speech away" is probably the most honest thing Trump has said or done in a long time

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion. It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community. www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

I’m looking forward to some of the brownshirts accidentally force-femming themselves in an attempt to go undercover.

Ken Paxton’s plan

oh my god I'm watching someone watch a live twitch streamer waterbirth (like inflatable pool in the living room, a bunch of WoW streamers sitting around watching) the future is so stupid. does this count as hot tub streaming? someone in the chat said "W push" lmfao

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I love this State's insistence that its the most "free" or whatever when it appears to be the exclusive freedom to be just a cis white guy named Reagan or Kyle who lives in total suburban misery with his giant truck that grinds the skulls of children into powder.

Next citizens up are special needs then gay, then the elderly & the infirm, women who won’t have children, anyone not Christian, people who speak out against the government, and finally? Whoever they want.

For those of you who don't understand: cancer is something that has to be removed in its entirety, or it will grow back. This is 100% the AG calling for the absolute genocide of trans people.

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

In a press release, Texas Attorney General calls "transgenderism" a "corrupted ideology" that is "a cancer on our culture." This is openly genocidal rhetoric about trans people from a sitting AG.

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

They tried to kill this woman because she annoyed them and they are charging because she lived. Her being alive is an assault on them.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children. That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth. slate.com/news-and-pol...

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

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The 90s had a lot of missteps but the then-earnest belief in diversity and multiculturalism brought on by post-Cold War optimism was one of it better fruits

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The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

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