Cory Doctorow has some thoughts on this matter. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

1) american century of humiliation 2) lmfao 3) literally no reason for any head of state to believe that the ailing geriatric pedophile mad king of the western hemisphere will not leak your most confidential cables to him on his shitty website 4) heads of state use signal to communicate 5) lmfao

Notice how when it’s time to talk to “real America” they’ll never interview a bus driver in NYC or an Amazon warehouse worker in Seattle. It’s always the owner of several farms or a very successful general store in Bumblefuck, Alabama who probably goes boating every weekend

If you’re gonna interview working class people in these rural conservative areas at least speak with the fucking farm hands who actually pick the crops! Not this jackass who owns the farm but doesn’t know how tractors work and just pays other people to know it

Farmers love to act like they have no idea who’s responsible for their problems, like this guy speculating it must be some Washington functionary because he loves everything Trump does. He can’t bring himself to tell the truth because he loves white supremacy more than his own financial success.

I uh, un-recommend Best Bus

I don't even think you could get this many Americans to agree that oxygen is necessary or that compasses point North.

Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.

There are anti-ICE signs on every business, every streetlight, every blank wall, in half the windows. Everyone is wearing anti-ICE clothing. No one talks about anything else, at the bus stop, at work, at the bars and restaurants, at the store. Total unity around one idea: ICE OUT NOW

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

there is a reason why the russians are basically only conscripting from bumblefuckov oblast east of the urals and spend eyewatering mounds of dosh on contract bonuses instead of just scooping up all the kiddos of the elite in Moscow and St. Pete, because that would be gambling with the mortgage

authoritarian states work very, very hard to make their people like them, they often spend more on graft and patronage than repression because you can only violently repress so many people before you're fucked

The media understood that Project 2025 was damaging Trump in the election and helped him spread the lie that he wasn't behind it.

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

It is really hard these days to over emphasize that these people are exercising the logic—albeit somehow even more ineptly—of the nazi state. They want everything to be assumed by the prerogative state and are telling us as much.

Deeply important to understand that Trump never jokes. All of this stuff that started as a joke and then became real was never a joke. He always says what he wants to do and people SAY it's a joke because they're too callow to acknowledge that he's the most ignorant, vicious person alive.

I will say right now that growing up in militia land we never, never successfully built the organizational capacity or popular support to pull off an honest to God revolution. What I'm seeing out of MN looks like exactly that. DHS is cosplaying civil war, the resistance is building *capability.*

This is probably the most accurate description. Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

like unironically the Democratic Party of Korea has handled Yoon coup exactly how you should treat a direct attack on constitutional government and democracy

the only thing Democrats should be saying on Greenland is "this is evil and wrong and if we do it we will be punished"

Europe hasn’t had the psychological break with this man doing 50 insane things every day. Even Dems suffer from normalizing this fucking madman. It takes outsiders to say “hey what the fuck you can’t do this shit.”

A little more specifically, people (including Democrats) have internalized the (phenomenally racial) idea that it's improper for Democrats to exercise power without asking permission from Republicans first

i don't even think it's dumb, tbh. if you're not plugged in to politics all the time you treat every political utterance as motivated noise and look for real conflict, actual events, and costly signals to change your mind.

Ya it was an insane failure not to jail Trump pre-trial from just about any angle. It was an electoral disaster for the reason you mentioned (voters didn't take it seriously as he was walking around free). It was also a national security disaster (see current events). And it was a legal disaster

Yep. Showing vigor and resolve, and also demonstrating that he was as bad as Biden and co said. Because if you're dumb, you might work backwards from what happened to "oh they were bullshitting, if he was really that bad he'd be in jail"

strongly believe the I think @theophite.bsky.social claim that the number one way that Biden could have impressed swingy Trump voters was by clapping Trump in irons

My dearest hope is that I will describe this era to my grandchildren one day, and none of it will seem real to them, because we beat these guys and fixed the damage. That, like me, they grew up in a world where Nazis were just historical clowns to dunk on in comic books - but more so.

our country would be a lot better if people realized Republican voters in Red states simply like their states being backwards, approve of Republicans keeping it that way, and would rather bomb churches than give healthcare to a single brown person

Im a red state Democrat from a state with one of the most propagandized GOP parties so believe me when I tell you most of these Republicans in my state are abhorrent individuals and I wish to make them pay for what they have done nothing short of total victory will suffice

extremely old canva era reconstructionist content shows how long i've been beating this particular drum

TREATS FOR THE STOVE GOD

Newsom is so dumb that he thinks it hurts Harris to say that she proposed abolishing ICE years ago

cooked. toasted. charbroiled.

Of fucking course it’s Putin

It's not just the St. Paul Doubletree. The Intercontinental in downtown St Paul is also shutting for now. According to the Pioneer Press, they're both operated by an indigenous tribe, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. FYI, ICE has been arresting Native Americans. www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/h...

Outrageous beyond words. Not even an investigation? The people involved should die in jail, starting with Blanche himself.

"infrastructure and distraction machines" is a great euphemism for "bread and circuses"

Black voters, as a whole, have long institutional memory. We understand that progress only lasts when it's enforceable beyond vibes and manifestos. People wanting to "burn it all down" have zero regard for who burns first and gets most deeply buried under the rubble.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

Though I think a big factor here is a mix of tribalism and wishful thinking. 'My tribe has become so evil that I must abandon it' is an extremely emotionally painful thought and so most folks will consider *every other option* before opening themselves up to that idea.

True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force

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

The billionaires want to make Greenland Epstein Island North--where the age of consent is as low as the temperature!

Separate from getting the legal standard wrong, the notion that it's *the Government's ability to make arrests* that is "protected" under the Fourth Amendment makes me want to throw something

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality