It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

You can want to stop the genocide and yet not be anti-semite. They deliberately conflate the two to make it impossible to be, just, you know, a human.

Any account blaming dems for what repubs have done and what voters did should be treated with suspicion. It's a midterm year and they've come here to suppress the vote.

the fastest growing gofundme I’ve seen in my life.

Social media was a mistake and now we're stuck with a dumbass president and every person who uses it suffering from some type of mental health condition.

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould, 1979

Buzz Grambo is on bluesky if you'd like to give him a follow and/or shout out! @buzzgrambo.bsky.social is another #AltCitizen finding their best way to resist and committing. Not everyone is able to do what he does, so we're thankful for those like Buzz who put themselves out there.

Watching Karoline Leavitt spew her usual misinformation and divisive nonsense makes me wonder, why isn’t there a People’s press secretary? Someone who stands at a podium, tells the truth, and gets covered too. Democracy deserves balance, not propaganda.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases. buff.ly/gXCFJBl

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

America had normal elections across the country today. An unpopular president’s party suffered a rebuke at the polls in sign that our system of democratic accountability still works. The dangers to that system are real and remain, but our democracy is not dead yet. It’s on us to keep it that way.

every election is going to be a change election until stuff actually starts to change.

I'd really like to see all the former presidents get together and on behalf of the People of the United States file a civil action against the current to stop the destruction of public property at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, DC.

Why does everyone imagine that what creative people want (and I use that term broadly to include most "skilled" intellectual labor) is to replace their creative process with a machine?

I'm sorry to put this in the framework of toxic masculine ideology and languages but I cannot help, in the most 90s way possible, but notice that everyone in this administration is such a fucking pussy that it's embarassing for everyone.

Been rereading old posts that I & others wrote on October 7. This thread was from November 2023, just one month after the attack. It contains thoughts that have haunted me since, and will for many years to come, I suspect. It’s about the role of graphically violent images & echo chambers of gore 🧵

Really sick of hearing @booker.senate.gov talk about “standing up” & not capitulating on @jenpsaki.msnbc.com Cory, we haven’t forgotten your votes to confirm Kushner’s criminal daddy and the bs GENIUS bill. Just another slimy politician! Jen, why don’t you ask him about those votes next time!?

“Thank you for your attention to this matter”

Driving a car requires training and a license, and then each car is registered to a specific owner. Why is it such a radical idea to do the same for guns?

When he actually does finally die, no matter how it happens, the conspiracy theories about it will live on long past we’re all dead. No doubt about it. That’s so fucking annoying to realize.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Tonight is one of the funniest in BlueSky history. I love how everyone is leaning into it hardcore like “fuck it, let’s get ridiculous”. We deserve it.

the “Casting” episode of The Studio on Apple is absolutely brilliant

Normalize telling Republicans that they are not pro-life. They are pro-forced birth, pro-gun massacres, and pro-dying because you can’t get healthcare.

I still painfully watch Maher every week. Shush. I still smoke too. Anyway, new to me, TX Rep. Wesley Hunt is one of the dumbest MAGA sycophants I’ve ever seen. I thought I knew of them all. Jfc how many more of them are there out there? 😵‍💫

It’s the “two weeks” shit AGAIN! lmao. And watch maga and the press fall for it as usual 🫠

Time for Democrats to start running on shutting down Fox News once and for all. It’s actively participating in the destruction of our country.

In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

We need to co-opt tf out of MAGA’s patriotic props. Wave bigger American flags, aggressively display red white & blue like we just left a Toby Keith concert on the 4th of July Bc when you strip away all of their performative patriotism all that is left is bad haircuts & hate.

Emotions are white hot right now. They must be acknowledged and respected because they're justified. And we must ALL take to the streets to protest the lawlessness and injustice. But before we do, PLEASE take time to read this.

I am just not taking notes on the ethics of violent protests from the guy who pardoned people involved in J6.

Maybe the problem with social media (and society today) is that teenagers and middle aged people were never meant to and never should have anonymous conversations with each other.

Maybe the solution is to raise funds for a HUGE marketing campaign to simply define personality disorders. I’m constantly shocked by the number of people who don’t know the defining characteristics of narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths and the overlaps nor spectrum between them.

Agreed. A long read but shows how the right creates a catastrophe to use as excuse for their lawless actions.

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

Hold on I’ve got something for this you’ll love it. youtube.com/shorts/9Kal6...

holy fuck does this scratch an itch

👏👏👏

I thought I’d leaned my lesson not to watch M Night Shyamalan anything again. I don’t know why I have it a chance tonight. TRAP on Netflix is terrible. Just bc someone did a good movie over a quarter century ago doesn’t mean we should keep letting him.

but don’t blame fucking democrats for this, blame your neighbors who don’t read the news because it’s too depressing and blame your friends who get their news from tiktok and blame your cousin who heard about something from infowars. this is a collective idiot problem.

I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."