JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents." Somewhere, our ancestors wept.

MSF forced to suspend activities in Gaza City: “We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” www.msf.org/msf-forced-s...

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The irony of indicting the one man who arguably hammered the nail into the coffin of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign...

Lmaoooooo

Just wait: Tylenol's gonna pay Trump $10M, and he's gonna come out next week saying that actually it's Advil that causes autism.

2. Sinclair was set to air a special report from its news desk on Kirk Friday night. It pulled the special at the last second and posted it on YouTube. Sinclair depicts Kirk as a prophet who has inspired a religious revival. It's very odd. popular.info/p/sinclair-s...

Demanded...whut? 🧐

Why are they so afraid of autism. Is it the swag. Is it the autism swag

Fired for refusing to fabricate evidence to help get someone else fired. That’s where we are.

AND she dated Kate McKinnon in college

Wait. Bari Weiss is lesbian?!

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

We already knew that the deceased was a "let us have a calm and reasonable debate about whether women should vote, the gays be stoned, and whether non-white people are subhuman mongrels" guy; the reaction to his death reveals how many OTHER people also were and are, and saw themselves in him

I think what Ezra Klein humiliating himself--and so many Elite Liberal Pundits leaping to his defense--demonstrates is how important it is to establish that if you liberally and nonviolently advocate for violent and illiberal policies, you yourself are blameless, guiltless, and without culpability

Once again, it’s essential to understand that these top media outlets are political actors with an agenda to delegitimate the left and prop up and protect the right.

Uhhhhh 1987 called

@imaniperry.bsky.social at the event! Didn't realize you were in the Boston area now!

JUST IN: Virginia State University is on lockdown, and Hampton University says classes are canceled, and students are urged to stay inside. *As well as Alabama State Stay safe 🙏🏾 www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

it doesn’t matter how loudly Dems condemn this, or even what the shooter’s actual motive is, the machine is already in motion and will invent its own fuel if it has to

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

The Dems need to stop falling all over themselves to disavow people who wouldn't even vote for them and it's the Dem's own fault they have yet to figure out how to articulate a platform/ideology (maybe bc they don't really have one). But worth pointing out wildly inconsistent media framings here.

Fascists never believe, never truly believe, the violence they stoke will be turned upon them. Charlie Kirk was a *terrible* person, and that should be talked about at length.

the white supremacists are not taking a break to mourn because they have people of color to fuck over

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So much discourse and disagreement over a shooting though we know neither its cause nor the culprit. Tells me this is less about this specific shooting. It's more about the occasion the shooting offers to hash out already existing debates, and about anxiety to get ahead of whatever comes next.

Not a dig at op but really. There are people who don't know that social media existed in 2001, and i don't just mean forums.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

bury this man politically please. he is not your ally. he is not anybody's ally because his sole focus is himself and no one but himself

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

The absolute irony of saying political violence is never the answer on the eve of 9/11 even after decades of politically motivated violence under the guise of fighting a “global war on terrorism” while living in country built on political violence that’s done more violent regime change than anyone.

Tomorrow would be a great time for reporters to interview faculty who Kirk targeted www.theguardian.com/education/20...

every time you hear someone try to launder false goodwill for a fascist like Charlie Kirk when talking about his death, please think of this.

Jesus.

Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete

you cannot control what other people post. you can only control what you post.

We are in hell.

All I got is worry about what this might mean in terms of backlash and whatever this administration and the broader Right will do to throw gas on this flame. That's all I got.

look at this bullshit.

We could talk about, by contrast, the strategic political violence Mandela and others in the militant arm of the ANC inflicted. Then there's...this

Look I'd like to submit an expedited application for an alternate timeline FUCKING IMMEDIATELY

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

This is important, but we still have a whole lot of federal agents here terrorizing our communities. In D.C., it's the feds who are doing the real damage as well. If we've backed off the troops for now, that's great, but please don't look away from the havoc federal agents are bringing to Chicago.

"Accidentally"

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

Last week, a coworker of mine asked a supervisor a question and that supervisor's response was "have you asked ChatGPT?" Girls, Gays , Thems and Theys, I'm officially fucking over it.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

@moreandagain.social did I just see you in a Mamdani tiktok video? 😅