The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I tend to think that it's a bad thing when the President lies about things we can all see. And it's *not great* that many in the media are so eager to let him play up those lies.

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

"You need an expansive political imagination, one that can anticipate the tyrant’s next move and understand its logic without obeying it." My latest: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Between this morning’s Tigers’ loss & whatever is going on with UM’s offense in this USC game, it’s been kind of a sucky day of sports fandom here in southeast Michigan.

The museums are being shutdown. Are we great yet? Everyone’s being fired. Are we great yet? Food is rotting in our fields. Are we great yet? The market’s crashing greatly. Diseases are now running rampant. At what point aren’t we great? Our military’s in line at food banks. So super great.

This seems incredibly problematic going forward…

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

📚 Librarians every single morning:

#health #healthcare #sience #GreedyOldPendejos

Exactly.

Hooray to our gritty Tigers for (finally) getting in the win ~midnight home time. Here’s hoping for another Detroit win tonight against the Mariners!!

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

I have said this numerous times: literally, our biggest enemy would use the same tactics to diminish our power & prestige as a nation.

Sod off, literally! 😂🐦‍⬛

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Shameful.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

(Thanks all the saints for the Tigers finally clinching a playoff slot.)

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

How exactly does this help the economy or bottom line for ordinary people who aren’t in the tech industry? (Answer: it doesn’t.)

What in the everlasting Gobstopper is this business?

The next time a shadowy conservative group publishes a 920 page playbook on how to destroy America, I hope we don't shrug off the party that spent six months warning us and elect the members of that shadowy conservative group to run the country.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Horrifying. Every trans person I know is the opposite of violent—they just want to live their lives without interference. Just like the whole “freedom” crowd, amazingly.

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.

“Ultimately, the critical takeaway is that the First Amendment prohibits government officials from wielding their power selectively to punish or suppress speech, directly or . . . through private intermediaries.” National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo (U.S. 2024).

The primary purpose of compliance achieved by government ultimatum to an individual is self-censorship and surrender by the masses.

Feeling his oats from the Kimmel firing and the Royal Family’s feting & felching, Trump just declared ANTIFA (there is not organized group) a major terrorist organization. Which means he can call anybody who opposes him a terrorist now. Sleep well, folks.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

This is a problem. I don’t have to do this too often for my faculty but it’s definitely a concern for some of my colleagues across campus.

Not exactly a shock. Also probably no coincidence they’re largely not gun owners either.

OK folks. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting on Friday to discuss Covid vaccines. If it is possible, I do recommend getting a Covid vaccine before then. I know due to out of pocket costs and prescription requirements in some states it is easier said then done.

The reason for the anger at posting Kirk’s words is simply that we are entering a fascistic world where the truth is dangerous and lies become facts. It is literally how fascism sustains itself. Turning bigots into martyrs and innocent people into criminals. And that’s why saying the truth matters.

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

Let’s get this straight, once and for all: Homophobia is not an opinion. Transphobia is not an opinion. Xenophobia is not an opinion. Misogyny is not an opinion. Racism is not an opinion. It’s hatred. — Are we all clear on this?

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Sincere and loving people do not react to the murder of a political ally by thinking, ”Quick — let’s find a new reason to hate trans people.”

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.

The birthday book is clear: there was a cabal of rich, powerful people (mostly men) whose fondest memories with Jeffrey Epstein involved trafficking young girls for sex—trading them like baseball cards—and one of them is the current American president. You’re cool with this or you’re not. That’s it.