In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has: • Demolished a large section of the White House • Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people • Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Also, a Democratic Congresswoman was elected almost 4wks ago. She’s still has not been sworn in. All to keep the Epstein files hidden.👇

All this cruelty and ugliness because these fuckers couldn't accept a country that elected a black president.

I have a reader in England (I know, shock) who really, really likes the Alien series. I have forgotten and cannot find their handle. If this is you (we've spoken before), please say something?

UPS says it is destroying parcels sent to US customers because the Trump administration is failing to process or clear the parcels through customs. In essence, no one can figure out what the applicable tariff rules are and how they are to be applied—amidst a deluge of contradictory tweets from Trump

The people (Tories and Reform) who tell you your rights are safe if we leave the ECHR as they’ll replace them with British laws also told you our trade, borders and NHS was safe if we left the EU because they’d negotiate amazing trade deals, take control of our borders and fix the NHS…..

I suspect a party platform of 1) turning back every Trump action and policy, 2) arresting every employee of ICE for involvement in or abetting of crimes against humanity, would do very well.

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans. Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies. Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

The text: "Just so we're clear, Americans are GROSSLY underreacting to what's being done to their country right now." I'd add - a huge number of white liberals don't relate to the issue because it doesn't currently affect them, and the Trump supporters are cheering on the violent authoritarianism.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone. The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.

When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs. You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

One reason the One Special Boy thinks he can just issue Executive Orders to do whatever he wants is because he keeps issuing Executive Orders & doing whatever he wants - in obvious violation of the law & Constitution - & no one who swore oaths to country & Constitution is doing anything about it.

In the beginning she was resisted, doubted, and even ridiculed for entering a male dominated field. She became a legend and role model respected worldwide. “It is up to all of us to ensure that every living creature receives the respect & recognition they deserve.” #JaneGoodall #ProtectWildlife

Swear her in.

Gosh, and after all that effort they made to suck up to the right wing, too. Why, they were down to only ever condemning liberal Jews. *tch*

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

All other massively embarrassing issues aside, “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military” is a clear call for the use of military violence against US citizens, just as all of this nonsense is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. What will the military do?

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Refusing to learn from history is a form of erasing it .

I'm really sick of this idea that "political strategy" means "suck up to bigots." No. There are genuinely terrible people who have the bigot vote. Maybe "political strategy" ought to mean stand up on your hind legs for once and declare loudly that this is bad, stupid, and wrong, and has to stop.

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Grimly intrigued to see how many rights we lose in the next 2 days while they strategize about how much to give away so they can keep the government open. Because heaven forbid we interfere with the functioning of a government dedicated to taking away whatever meager rights are left afterward.

A first-hand account of conditions inside the #Broadview #ICE facility. #Chicago

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.

Never gets old

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

#emoetry #panic #writing #poetry

Everyone: What's government doing about the cost of living crisis, the climate crisis, and the unfolding genocide in Gaza? Labour: "We will mandate people carry Brit cards". This government's priorities are painfully out of touch and increasingly authoritarian.

I can offer a suggestion: It's because laws are supposed to have teeth - mechanisms of enforcement, penalties fir being broken. And now it has become obvious that the government was itself only governed by the polite cooperation of people who still had some shared values. The US needs to do better.

On the same day it was revealed Elon Musk covered up for his father's sexual abuse of children, he goes on to spread the lie that trans people are sexual predators.

Everyday covering politics is like marinating in sewage

Some people are desperate for the Rapture as a way to escape the consequences for what they've done to this world. They have a mindset that is permanently stuck in the mode of a guy who knows he's getting fired soon so why not trash the place before you go.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

When Charlie Kirk advocated for us to be killed they called it free speech. Politely, we can exercise our free speech by politely and decently celebrating this decent, polite family man's violent death.

Screenshot: The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today's political mainstream media. ---- ... And people.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!

QFT: "If you want to grieve a fascist, have at it. But don’t expect me to show up at the wake. I grieve for the victims of Kirk’s rhetoric. I grieve for the political violence and that culture he celebrated. I grieve for anyone who had the misfortune of being in his orbit of cruelty."

“These people are full of shit.” Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social, who faced multiple death threats from people who've since been convicted, calls out Trump +allies for weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s killing against the left. Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's full interview: zeteo.com/p/full-of-sh...

Everything about what Israel is doing needs to be prosecuted, and the people doing these things need to be removed from any capacity to interact with the world at all. Forever.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

Well, I am just so fucking thrilled to know that a co-worker has been coming in to work for a week with Covid, no mask of course, carrying food around for people and interacting with everyone freely, not even because he wasn't feeling rough but just because he didn't care. 🤬

I'm old enough to remember debates as to whether Black kids should be allowed to compete against my (entirely white) school, because they were "naturally bigger, stronger, and more aggressive, and had less self-control." I've lived through *2* Lavender Panics about lesbians. Transphobia IS the same.

If you have previous for threatening trans people and allies online and in person and you post to hundreds of thousands of followers that they should physically attack trans women (or get a man to do it) that's a crime. Now, tell me what you think of Palestine Action supporters being arrested.