Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

The way Vance phrases it strongly implies that Reid is only a guest in this country and not a citizen with rights. Vance is showing off his white sheet with eyeholes cut in the pillowcase.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

I doubt any conservatives will watch this, but I address this to them anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeB...

"We’ve been here before, so many times, since the beginning of this current administration. And I expect we’ll be returning to it for at least as long as the current admin is in power, maybe more. So let me repeat the maxim we should all be living by: do not expect a moral stand from a corporation."

I will welcome anyone who says "I voted for Trump. I was wrong." I will welcome anyone who says "I voted for Trump, I was mislead." But "We didn't vote for this!!!" That dog don't fucking hunt. Donald Trump claimed he'd be a dictator on day one. He claimed he'd go after his political enemies.

It gradually begins to dawn that replacing web sites with apps distributed through easily-controlled chokepoints was a terrible idea

Well, it's been a while since I had the spoons to do one of these. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nhr...

The Trump regime has ordered nine top universities to agree to its demands or lose access to federal funds. Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.

History has many painful lessons.

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this: Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

It has become very clear to anyone paying attention over the last year that there is a top-down difference in how trans users are moderated vs how right wing users are moderated, not to mention the lengthy issues black users have cited in that time.

I just want to tell NPR: honey, you got dumped. Stop groveling. They’re not going to take you back. There are millions of other fish in the sea who will respect and want you once you stop self-sabotaging.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Important PSA! Charcoal is a natural absorbent. Unfortunately it's quite liberal when it comes to WHAT it absorbs, meaning: it absorbs ANYTHING that goes into your stomach and gut. That includes all the active substances from ANY kind of medication you take (incl. contraceptives, vitamins et al).

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.

This. I feel like I’m going insane. Whenever I criticize the party and a rando tells me that I’m an “online leftist” who wants to lose, I want to scream motherfucker WE DID lose I just WATCHED us lose and it’s CATASTROPHIC. bsky.app/profile/jaco...

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Johnson has no problem with Trump calling for war on American citizens. Johnson represents northwestern Louisiana, site of one of the biggest race massacres of Reconstruction. Attitudes haven't changed much there since. Johnson LOVES the idea of black Americans getting shot.

"We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Stop trying to frame segregationists as a past generational phenomenon instead of a continuous phenomenon

THEY DID NOT WANT BLACK KIDS IN THEIR WHITE KID SCHOOLS SO THEY DECIDED TO END DEMOCRACY bsky.app/profile/goth...

THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST COALITION WAS LITERALLY BUILT BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS WHO WERE UPSET ABOUT INTEGRATION en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pow...

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Stephen Miller rages about being called a ‘fascist’ but paraphrases Goebbels in speeches. He's a ghoul and isn't fooling anyone I know.

Sigh. Just recorded an opinion video about recent events (Trump's generals, Jimmy Kimmel) and uploaded it to YouTube. And then deleted it, because the microphone didn't record any of it. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow, dammit.

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friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

"Labour seem to have developed a strategy of getting ‘negged’ by Reform voters; shifting their policies in ever more socially conservative directions to attract such voters and somehow repelling them, and yet still, maybe, maybe this time will be the one." Sounds familiar!

Elon Musk portrays himself as intelligent, but ruthlessness, access to elite education, constant self-promotion, and pure luck have more to do with his economic success than intelligence. Musk can’t tell the difference between reality and wild conspiracy theories. That’s idiocy, not genius.

In the case of Musk and his buddy Peter Thiel, it's even worse than that. Both men are big believers in the Singularity- the idea that computers will replace mankind altogether, except for a small chosen elite (i. e. themselves). They're pushing AI so they can eliminate US.

once again people are realizing the Woke was load bearing

Because someone at NPR thinks Trump might try less hard to destroy them if they present anti-DEI oppression as the fault of those seeking equality.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

People need to stop being lazy and put in the work to out the AI bs artists. It is going to be a group project that EVERYONE need to participate in or we all fail.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

He's trying to purge Black men from the military by punishing those who can't shave daily. He's trying to purge women from the military by imposing body standards irrelevant to their ability to fulfill their duties. Hesgeth wants only white supremacists in the military.

"Why not agree to immediate funding, you negotiate ACA funding at a later date?" "Because Republicans won't negotiate those things! This is the same Republican party that just cut a TRILLION dollars from healthcare. Those are the people we're gonna trust to come to the negotiating table?"

Yep: "If our liberal enemies understood the threat to their civilization our ideas pose, they would be wise to take steps to crush us." - Gary North, Christian nationalist, in 1987

I get furious when I hear people say they didn't know he would do this stuff. Black people knew. Indigenous people knew. LGBTQ+ people knew. Latinos knew. Environmentalists knew. You didn't know because you didn't want to know and didn't want to listen to the ones who did know.

The fact this was not the end of Trump's entire political career was the beginning of the end of the United States as most knew it.

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

Quote of the day. “This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” Donald Trump to the assembled top brass.

Even accounting for every awful thing that has happened in American political history. This is an absolutely ground-breaking (derogatory) development in US politics. I don’t understand how people aren’t seeing this. Am I just old?

This morning was a disgrace to our military, a disgrace to our country, a disgrace to everything we have ever stood for or fought for or died for in the world. Disgrace and deep deep dishonor. 3/