Govt buildings are on fire across Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

Did you see the Friday sermon Khamenei gave? Condemned the protestors and doubled down. Claiming that his regime will never go.

Yeah, I love it when politician is allowed to sic their followers on other people to try and intimidate or threaten them into bowing to his wishes. That doesn’t have any analogues to our broader federal situation at all. For clarity, I don’t even think Mamdani is doing this. I think his supporters

There are updates from Tehran that people have gathered in the streets. The security forces haven’t fully recovered from last night. There’s still no connection in the country.

The question that once haunted my being had been answered: the future is not fixed, my choices are my own. And yet… how ironic, for I now find that I have no choice at all.

What’s hilarious about this photo is that it makes Hegseth look like the most limp-wristed, pathetic nerd of all time. I’ve known gamers who spent 16 hours a day playing World of Warcraft, and even they didn’t hunch over their computer like a weird pathetic swamp creature.

I was so worried last year that the Israeli bombing of Iran would result in the Iranian regime accusing regime opponents of being Israeli spies and launching a purge that would strengthen the regime. The purge happened, over 2000 people were executed. But it didn't strengthen the regime.

Your biggest worry now will be the Taliban and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is ruled by a crazed ultranationalist, who would love to carve a piece of your country out. The Taliban will be extremely hostile toward a secular Iranian government, and would launch terror campaigns like in the 1990s.

One day, the names of every subhuman cockroach being paid by ICE right now will be public. If the government, when this regime is toppled, declines to provide Justice by throwing every one of these ghouls into prison until they die, people will have to will seek the next best thing: retribution.

This is actually a pretty apt analogy, considering how it was betrayals of American values and society by Boomers that led us here in the fucking first place. It would be nice to see them actually try to make that right, before they’re gone.

Many people saying “well there’s finally video evidence” and? Have you not seen the near-daily videos of brown people being chased and zip tied and pulled out of their cars and beaten? Am I living in the twilight zone?

Republicans are the enemy. There is nothing else to add. Republicans are the enemies of the United States. Treat them accordingly.

There's a fucking ICONIC picture in this thread of a young woman lighting a cigarette using a burning picture of Khamenei And I just undid my repost of it because I'm legitimately scared for her safety if her image goes as viral as it would and deserves to Which kind of days it all

A day of unity? What about a day of fucking retribution? A day of Justice? When are we going to learn that sitting in a circle singing kumbaya while they murder is one by one isn’t a good idea? I had a lot of respect for you before this, Governor, but your response to this murder is a disgrace.

The Democrats got 17 Republicans to defy Trump & join their vote on a clean bill to extend the ACA subsidies for 3 years, despite Trump's wrath; yet this entire thread is a bunch of keyboard warriors, offering snide, contemptuous digs at Democrats. Aren't you all so clever.....

Today marks 15 years since Gabby Giffords was shot at a constituent meeting, in an attack that killed 6 and wounded 13. I am proud to cosponsor a bipartisan, bicameral resolution to honor the victims and their families today, and recommit to ending gun and political violence.

Stop. Fucking. Taking. Like. This. Where the have you been for the last ten years, Tim Walz? Are you serious right now? These inhuman ghouls calling themselves ICE have no decency. They have no humanity. They are gleeful in what they do, and they continue to tell us so.

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

Oh, look, the antisemites are blaming Israel for ICE shootings. They're always on time.

@domainunlimited.bsky.social nails it again

Mashad isn't just the second-largest city. It is supposed to be the conservative city most loyal to the regime. Home to shrines. Birthplace of Khamenei, declared "the spiritual capital" by Achmedinijad and the fanatical religious hardliners. This is a watershed moment.

You’re assuming he’s actually read Ender’s Game. This isn’t a regime of people who read books, and have serious thoughts about the moral, social, or philosophical concepts raised therein. It is a regime run by social media clout chasers. This line sounds badass (with no context) and is memable.

Our Governors need to begin calling up National Guard services and State Militias to protect those whose safety they are responsible for, from the murderous behavior of the Trump Regime’s Secret Police. What is the Second Amendment for, if not protecting people from the predation of inhuman ghouls?

What made these protests so much bigger was a drought, amplified by water mismanagement into a water crisis. And what did the Mullah regime do? Weird rants about how the "Zionists control the weather" They will do the same tomorrow. Blame "Jewish mind control" or something for the protests.

Every. Single. One. The kindest, most generous fate that these Nazis deserve, is to spend every one of the days that remain to them in a solitary confinement cell. No time outside, no interactions with others. Alone, in a box, with their thoughts, until they die. Nothing less is acceptable.

Good question for Kristi Noem.

We have a name for this murderous ghoul: Jonathan Ross. This creature belongs locked in a cage hanging in a public square until it dies, for children to throw rocks at while crows pick its bones clean. So does everything else that has accepted payment from ICE in the last 12 months. No exceptions.

His name is Jonathan Ross, per the Minneapolis Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

"The workers refuse to participate in the business because we disagree with the owner's politics" - ok. You're fired. This isn't complicated. And yes, that's true *regardless* of the politics in question. "Change your politics" isn't a labor organizing issue. Workers have no protection for that.

Like I think the thing that people are unconsciously revealing when they profess that they can "handle" it is that they have experienced enough trauma IRL that they have gone numb as a protective response and that is... not actually good for you.

Notably, the final thing I ask any of my mentees after debriefing them about work with a survivor is “what are you going to do for self-care today”? Vicarious trauma is real and denying that you experience it doesn’t make it go away.

It’s one thing to say “I have systems in place to deal with the negative effects of watching snuff films,” that’s reasonable. But “I can handle it” is actually a pretty disturbing statement!

NGL, if someone says “I can handle watching this video of a person being murdered” that’s a major red flag for me

They'll never admit that it's their fault. I've never heard so many BS reasons to justify their stupidity, whether it's because Liz Cheney endorsed her, Gaza-as if Trump was the better choice, or some other ridiculous reason why these self-proclaimed "antifascists" couldn't vote against the fascist.

There hasn’t been an election in decades where the GOP candidate was a better choice & it’s been 120 years since a GOP Congress passed legislation beneficial to Americans, but the electorate was so opposed to a Black woman POTUS & a Black man Speaker that we got stuck with Trump & Johnson-again. 4️⃣/4️⃣

There wouldn’t be any ICE raids or people being deported to Sudan or El Salvador, we wouldn’t be threatening our allies’ sovereignty or starting trade wars, we wouldn’t have abandoned Ukraine, and Thomas & Alito wouldn’t be able to retire without changing the balance of power on the SCOTUS. 3️⃣/4️⃣

The choice in 2024 couldn’t have been easier. Had she won, Harris would’ve had 2 months with a 51-49 Senate to get her cabinet confirmed before it flipped to the GOP & having the presidency & the House would’ve prevented the GOP from passing the BBB & CRs that slash funding for social programs. 2️⃣/4️⃣

Had voters used their fucking heads in 2016 rather than electing a conman, we’d have a liberal majority SCOTUS that could’ve overturned Citizens United, declared partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional in Rucho v. Common Cause, kept Roe in place & wouldn’t be the judicial arm of the GOP. 🧵 1️⃣/4️⃣

"The most important thing that happened tonight, we are no longer afraid of them. They are now afraid of us. They have always been afraid of us. But now we all know that they are afraid of us."

It's funny how these regimes always make these pompous displays and proclamations of fighting to the bitter end and last man against the entire world. And then they just pathetically bag up and sneak off into nowhere, hoping you don't notice them. Like people do after really bad sex.

Last time in 2022 the IRGC used Afghan migrants recruited, paid, and armed, to crack down on protests. But the regime did a mass deportation of Afghans earlier this year. lol.

The most shocking thing in all the footage and posts and messages from Iran, there is apparently close to no police or IRGC agents anywhere. They disappeared and are hiding.

boy is he going to have fun in Russia, world capital of useless drunkards.

Crowds in Iran are burning down IRGC buildings and seemingly no one is out there even trying to stop them.

they will keep killing liberal women until there are consequences Nicole Good will not be the last ICE agents CANNOT be allowed to walk away from this with impunity. arrests MUST HAPPEN or women's lives mean nothing to this country

The most important thing about war crime and regime trials isn't the punishment. It isn't if they end up in jail or hang. The thing that matters is the trial itself. To have what was done laid bare for all to see. That, for one, is why I keep telling people to read up on the Bosnian war crime trials

I have been seeing discussions about why people can’t call obvious fascism fascism and I am once again going to refer you to this @tompepinsky.com essay. People assume that if their lives feel mostly normal, it can’t *really* be fascism yet.

Oh look, a Spanish Nazi. How incredibly surprising.

so there's this weird wide spread antisemitic brain rot that somehow police violence anywhere in the world is somehow the fault of Israel, that police forces with little to no connection to Israel got trained (brainwashed) into violence by Israelis or just the Jewish mind waves from Israel cause it.