Definitely worth reading the whole thing but really comes across that noem and lewandowski are openly corrupt sociopaths who are made for each other

This is the correct way to report on these boat strikes

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

His brains are cottage cheese.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

Left Behind cosplayers really go to the next level huh.

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

I wrote a bit about corporate cowardice in an age of fascist attacks on speech, and the bravery that independence can lend those who speak. www.the-reframe.com/independence...

Just to illustrate how much worse it's got, I have received more abuse over the past year and a bit - including death threats and a large volume of antisemitism - for what I write than in the previous 15 years of covering migration and the far right put together.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Harrison Butker serves punt for the Chiefs and this makes him a man hero

god told Harrison Butker to miss the kick and even though Harrison Butker did not understand god’s mysterious ways Harrison Butker missed it because of his great faith; unfortunately for Harrison Butker god is a bit of a scamp and was doing it for the lulz

Shat Maw www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

America mourns with … sparkle canons and the Village People.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

Charlie Kirk was not a "civil rights" activist, he was a neo-Nazi.

I sincerely encourage Riley Gaines to do precisely that.

It’s going to happen someday and people are going to celebrate and anybody who wants to scold that celebration had best be prepared to fight.

I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.

Grandiose Nazi talk from pallid gollum-looking white fascists is a perfect way to honor Kirk’s legacy.

I swear you threaten to invade and occupy and colonize a country 7-800 times and they get all bitchy

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

There are two apocalyptic fantasies I see floating around these days. One is about rugged individualism and destruction of social responsibility. The other, which I vastly prefer, is about community care.

Kirk’s phrase “false God of a race-obsessed modernity” has a certain ring to it, but I don’t think it accurately describes MLK’s vision.

Growing up in DRC, I was a big fan of termites fried with butter and salt. Good with rice.

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

I mean they are comparing Kirk to Martin Luther King, Jr., whose legacy and name Kirk specifically smeared. It really is wild.

The New York Times is the most influential source of right wing propaganda in the entire world. This shit is just absolutely absurd. We’re going to see our rights gone and be killed because of this newspaper.

THE NATURAL is, in my opinion, pretty good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY is, in my opinion, not half-bad. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

you cannot negotiate with a tiger when your head is in its mouth

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

I wrote a bit about corporate cowardice in an age of fascist attacks on speech, and the bravery that independence can lend those who speak. www.the-reframe.com/independence...

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

So we are at the satchels of cash stage of corruption I see.

The Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution. When a court has corrupted itself, and flaunts its contempt for the law and the judicial system, it ceases to be a court. I don’t know exactly what to do about that, but I do think that as a country, we need to recognize that and act accordingly.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree about. Their proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion and mass murder. The only way to oppose political violence and avoid further political violence is to contend directly with that fact.

will every pundit who mentions ICE today begin with stern admonishments that violence is never the answer, because it sure seems like ICE sees violence as the answer

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing. Not distressing. Full tilt disturbing.

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

Describing insufficient evidence for prosecution as a "roadblock" is a VERY weird way to phrase things but then again, I'm not an editor at the NYT

You guys to beat donald trump the democrats should run donald trump, expand the tent