The key question in US civil society isn’t “Do you like Trump?” It’s “Do you acknowledge that Trump is a psychologically unstable criminal and bully whose existence creates a crisis?” Problem is, while many of our institutions answer “no” to the first, they virtually all answer “no” to the second

Tonight again, Iranians shouting from the roofs and windows of their homes "Death to the Dictator!" and "Death to Khamenei!"

The suspicion that arrested protestors in Iran were murdered through injections with an unknown lethal substance are being confirmed.

if there are two parties in a democracy, and one believes in democracy, and the other does not, sadly it only stays a democracy if the pro-democracy party wins, no magic set of rules can fix anti-democratic people running a democracy

Men who defend Jonathan Ross for murdering Renee Good are not safe to be around. End those relationships.

It’s not. But he is a tool, a sword, which can be used against this fascist regime. And we would be fools not to utilize every tool available to us in such an existential fight. When the war is over, we can beat those swords back into plowshares, or just toss them aside until they rust away.

Dunk all over the ones who are still supporting the fascists. And once this is won you can dunk on the folks like Hanania too. God knows he deserves it. But win the fucking war first

You know what's better than forcing people like Hanania to eat all the shit they deserve? Winning.

Folks, if Richard Hanania now wants to fight the administration, racism and fascism, you let him do it and don't grind his nose in all the shit he did to make it happen until after the fight is won. You don't trust him, you don't rely on him. But you don't shit on his claimed conversion. Yet.

Damn, "the voters" are quite angry with the Democrats for being in the minority. Do they not know how that happened?

we were supposed to be trapped in a technocratic rationalist system where everyone was disposable and everything was optimized for maximum efficiency and profit, while those who made enough money engaged in demented status games, not Just The Nazis Again

nationalism doesn’t make any sense for business, so i thought it was a dying ideology from the deep past soon to vanish forever. i didn’t think i was being optimistic, i expected a different kind of shitty future!

even though i did anticipate the fascist nerd politics turn i also was way too Marxist in my predictions of basically everything up until 2024 like i sincerely thought that corporations had enough informal power and were rational enough that… nothing currently happening could happen

tbf, we're seeing a lot of European solidarity right now. Which is good. The circumstances that brought it forward suck though.

Wow. What is in those files.

I wish I could quote this post a thousand times.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Do you see a reason to vote for her now, you fucking dipshit?

Lot of irony poisoned US leftists waking up to what “Amerikkka must be destroyed” actually entails and they’re not handling it very well

Iran is drenched in the blood of martyrs for freedom. Thousands upon thousands of people, some figures point upwards of 18,000, have been slaughtered by the security apparatus of this regime. I don’t know what to call this or what else to say. I haven’t heard from my cousin in over a week.

Agreed. This is an obnoxious criticism for him to make of the Harris campaign.

If you want to blame anyone for the decline of a once flourishing labor movement in NYC, you have to blame the Communist Party in the 1920s, which set as its sights capturing the movement from the Socialist Party to make it bow to the Kremlin. prendergastc.substack.com/p/a-century-...

Stancil is experiencing real life quest proliferation, where he gets too many main quest stuff to do any side quests

the intrinsic insecurely-masculine urge to walk next to your bros in a trenchcoat looking badass, for which our nation is spending billions and its soul to gender-affirm these few guys

JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS- JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS- JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS-JONATHAN ROSS. #Justice4ReneeNicoleGood ⚖️

I see a bunch of MAGAts who pretend to be progressive are demanding Democrats stop pointing out that Trump and Republicans are murdering and assaulting Americans in their fundraising. These people keep telling us they like Trump and want him to win. When will you finally believe them?

True. MLK was WIDELY feared and despised. He did call out White Americans across the spectrum. Peaceful pursuit of equality oversimplifies his complicated legacy. It's equally true that those co-opting aspects of his critique for radicalism while de-emphasizing CRT deserve to be side-eyed. 👀

Hahahaha eat shit you pathetic cowards. I hope all that freezing water doesn’t leave you needing to have your dick amputated from frostbite. That would be tragic.

Want to stop deepfake exploitation? Give its victims a cause of action against the deep-pocketed companies that made the AI, not just against the pseudonymous and likely judgment-proof incel losers writing the prompts. Promise you the companies would solve the problem pretty quickly

The entire Hamasnik movement in the west is predicated on the raging Orientalism of white leftists, who do not believe that any non-white people have any agency over their own choices. They can only react to the actions of white oppressors, and can never be responsible for their own actions.

Known White Supremacist and Nazi "CaptiveDreamer" has been stalking Mr Stancil. I do hope he will take some precautions against this. Good luck Mr. Stancil and stay safe. You are a true patriot stopping these Feds.

I believe they call this “regime sycophancy”. When are we going to stop pretending that there is a single “news” Organization in the entire United States of America that is something other than regime propaganda and the equivalence of state media?

We are already under a kind of military siege and a military deployment would mean we are under a somewhat more intense and visible siege. We are going to win regardless.

I’m hearing people freak about a military deployment to Minneapolis but it doesn’t change much. It’s scarier but the same. We still outnumber them 100 to 1. They have more guns than us either way. They can shoot us either way. They’ll probably be easier to find and follow if they’re in a tank.

I’m waiting for someone on the left to tell me how this is Kamala Harris’s fault. Damn those democrats!!!!

Trump is basically trying to turn Gaza into a gated community development with him as owner and developer. He's anointed him President of Venezuela, and now perhaps "Emir" of Gaza.

There are reasons you don't see leftists/progressives/uncommitted talking about this stuff. But you very often see democrats/liberals talking about it.

I really hoped the conflict between Kurds and Arabs in Syria could be resolved peacefully. Now there will probably be more conflict for years down the road into the future.

The Kurds made two big mistakes in Syria. When they took majority Arab towns they didn't allow Arabs to govern themselves. And they placed their bets on the Americans to defend them, despite Trump being president.

In Raqqa, it wasn't so much the Syrian army that took the city from the Kurds, but that the Arab population rose up.

A terrible update about #ErfanSultani. It appears the regime postponed roughly 800 executions, but executed Erfan. Hung for demanding freedom, dignity, and basic human rights along with millions of Iranians. May his memory be a spark that brings this evil regime to its knees. 🕯️ 💔💔💔 #IranMassacre

Rest in peace #ErfanSultani 😔💔

What makes this even more depressing is that Cassidy literally founded a clinic to provide uninsured residents w/access to free healthcare while also setting up another nonprofit specifically to vaccinate children. He's shit on everything he used to stand for...like so many other Republicans.

When you lose Piers Morgan.

He out-corrupted Netanyahu. Amazing.

Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends