Dressed up as Buzz Lightyear, entering from stage left: I’m proud of you, cowboy.

Vile: Mike Johnson just said GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using sleazy new language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is very much alive. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2127...

Mine will be on the way as I’m already a supporter, but this reminds me to flex my new superpower of suggesting my library purchase it too!

Most paths to redemption do not involve gaining massive power and influence. Usually the opposite is true. A lesson it’s better to learn sooner than later, I have found.

Hey guess what! My book is available for preorder! Tell everyone! Don't not tell everyone! Read more about what to do about this breaking news: www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...

I think by saying "nothing is going to happen" you are basically ensuring nothing is going to happen. That sentiment is heard and understood by elected leaders who have the power and the means to make something happen.

"Maybe let’s be patriots of a country that doesn’t exist yet; A country still to come, where all those fine aspirations have been cultivated until they are, at last, and for the first time, actually true..."

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

I'd add 'supremacist' worldview. Reminds me of this outstanding essay by @juliusgoat.bsky.social

If you find a restaurant you really love, let it go. If it comes back to you, it wasn't actually a restaurant. Because they don't move.

"The American dream is dying because it never really existed as we conceive of it. There is no such thing as a man doing it on his own. Not ever."

The essayists are getting sharper, I think.

CERTIFIED COPY is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

I love when MAGA types publish a list of unambiguously good things as if they're unambiguously bad things. It's such a revelation of what fearful cowardly people they are. We live in times of radical abuses. We should all seek radical remedies. All I can say to this is Hell Yeah.

If you got on a plane and there was some guy in 1st class going "I don't understand all these knobs and dials, therefore I don't trust the pilot" you wouldn't give him any credence, but that's the way politics in America works because there exists no way to tell a white dude his opinion is nonsense.

This is probably one of the most important essays you will read this year. Please take the time to do so.

SALUTE TO AMERICA IMMEDIATE EVACUATION will never be topped.

i can’t stop laughing at this

Whereas yesterday’s weather was brought on by one quick prayer from me. I guess they just don’t know god like that.

The main thing Greg Gutfeld doesn’t understand is that it doesn’t matter in the slightest that Greg Gutfeld doesn’t understood.

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

Oh, I like this. Confederate flag images and portrait bonfires, another custom we can appropriate from the British to unify the country around punishing traitors

I wrote about living in a country that is hard to celebrate, and of an alternate vision we are invited to join and inherit, in order to make a country that would be worth a sense of pride. www.the-reframe.com/patriots-of-...

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

the quote is good but hearing him is something else youtu.be/wVzbSvWaMkc?... (you risk being transported directly back to the late 60s) and the energy in the room for the signoff at the end is also ludicrous; his ability to lower his volume when he knows the crowd will come back loud is insane

failed casino as counterpoint to MLK 'cash a check' kind of slaps actually re mountaintop speech, I like fred hampton on the valley

“Here we are: a quarter millennia into our life as a country. We look like a failed casino. It's what we should have expected. A failed casino is what we are. We even hired a guy who makes casinos fail as our leader in order to make the picture complete.”

Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.

"I'll tell you what I'm celebrating. I'm celebrating all the people. The human beings of my country, particularly those who have been bold enough to believe a different story, and to try their hand at telling it, to put their hands to the work of making it happen..."

I wrote about living in a country that is hard to celebrate, and of an alternate vision we are invited to join and inherit, in order to make a country that would be worth a sense of pride. www.the-reframe.com/patriots-of-...

And let's see if they actually enforce it. Will they ask members of the Republican Party and all other hate groups to leave? My skepticism aside, this is the clearly correct thing to do. I approve.

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Really don’t prefer to share this again but despite working as many gigs as i could land in June, i’m still $600 short of what i need to cover the rent that’s due and i have just a few days left. Any help you can give or leads on gigs and jobs (remote or in NYC) are greatly appreciated.

incandescent odium

lol my dude is incandescently mad

Preordering my book, FIGHTING IN THE DARK, on the cusp of the 250th birthday of the nation, might be a good way to posthumously piss off several to many of our founding fathers. I can't prove this using Science Fact®, but I feel it is probably possible. www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...

I do think it’s funny that all these independent thinkers end up regurgitating confederate or segregationist propaganda that is decades or centuries old. But it’s only because they’re not susceptible to manipulation like you sheeple

The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America.

RIP Mitch McConnell.

You will never get the commentariat to care about this even a hundredth as much as they cared as that time a college girl wrote an OpEd about rape culture in the campus newspaper in 2018.

Yea it’s a bit esoteric but he’s voicing the idea that the popularity of rap, and really all of Black culture, is really a plot to undermine whiteness being propagated by a Jewish conspiracy in entertainment.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I'll say this until I'm dead. The whole conservative project has been about the conversion of public spaces to private ones, ones where groups can be excluded all in the name of individual choice. And if you hear the phrase "tragedy of the commons," you know who you're talking to.

the excommunication of the convert JD Vance

It's very important to understand, fascists don't just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil. It's not that it's an unintended side-effect. It's the purpose. The ability to enjoy for yourself the exact thing you're able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.

Every single image from Trump’s deserted American State Fair looks like Backrooms 2: The Great Outdoors.

Settle down everyone. I saw Mitch McConnell yesterday and he was doing great.

1) I think there’s no greater use of TikTok than super nerdy deep dives into JRR Tolkien lore 2) if he was alive today, Tolkein could have a podcast and call it JRR Talkin’ 3) I should have made my pen name ARR Moxon.