Is it too much to ask that democratic politicians believe in America the same way that *squints* Vladimir Ilyich Lenin believed in America

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer: 1) boasts about the poor place he’s from; 2) boosts the value of agriculture; 3) celebrates small town life; 4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and 5) promotes marriage. And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.

It’s so funny to make the most intergenerational and family oriented halftime show in years to highlight how genuinely delusional (and fundamentally racist) MAGA culture war derangement is

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

genuinely thought that like people would overrate or underrate this show based on their place in the culture war but like this shit is outstanding

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

My old college classmate, a part-time TikTok influencer, just openly wondered on Instagram whether something's wrong with her TikTok algorithm. TikTok's sale to the Ellisons has been finalized. The best time to delete the app from your phones was yesterday; the second-best time to do it is now.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti. The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere. www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

For the 587th time: I am a single-issue voter for the next 2 elections. Prison for the people responsible for this shit. Down to the secretary scheduling travel and filling out paperwork. I don't care if it takes 50 years. I don't care if it's expensive. Charges and trials for every last one.

If you go to them and say "Actually America is bad and you're bad for liking it," they're going to ignore you. If you say "America is a promise and is good & we have to fight to live up to it, let's punch Nazis like we did in WWII" then more of them will join you, which we need to stop the fascists

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?

I mean yeah, a lot of them suck. Some of us from these bumfuck (extremely offensive, homophobic, and generalizing term btw) towns had the guts to stay and try to make things better for the brown, queer, and poor folks who don’t have the privilege of uprooting their lives. Sure, though, go off.

there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command

Get in, koalas, we’re feeding our Minnesota neighbors

"erm we can't get a conviction." fucking arrest the guy. perp walk him as a spectacle to make sure his name and face are broadcast around the world. make them fight his way out of jail. be so loud and obnoxious about it that it plants that seed of doubt in every ICE agent's head

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

this is where all the words Walz & Frey brought yesterday need to meet actual action, because people have pretty much hit the breaking point of leaders thinking saying mean things to the bad guy is sufficient

If the Dems started calling for the people to exercise their 2A rights to carry, we could also power entire cities with the energy generated from Republicans melting down

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

FCS national championship was the college football game of the year. Congrats to Montana State and if you're an Illinois State fan I am so so so so so so so so so so so sorry

CALL IT TACO MONDAY

False start son or botched snap daughter

Illinois State cursed Montana State with all the false starts by wishing on a monkey's paw that also cursed their own kicking

Absolute clown show

this is the greatest dumb game ive ever seen

WHAT IS THIS GAME

"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball. The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about. Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.

I can already hear @willbuikema.bsky.social saying "welcome... to a moment in history" just before rolling that kick footage in a few years

This should exist in every city in the country.

Other people are real and the United States should not murder them

might wanna bookmark this for a bit

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

"Mike Bobo and Pete Golding, matching wits" is a hell of a sentence

Georgia fans been talking like they've already lost lol there is SO much time left and Gunner Stockton is just shifting into Fuck It We Ball mode