At Westpoint

Yeah, they do. Because he'll sign whatever authoritarian nonsensical crazy his handlers put in front of him.

"She put so much effort into looking nice, because she was excited to take a step toward becoming an American, and I had to go home, and I had to put away the shoes that they took off her feet and gave to me in a plastic bag." JFC.

Congressional Republicans are like an abusive man who beats his family while telling them that if they love and respect him a little bit he won't have to beat them so badly, that he'll ease up on the abuse, knowing full well that he won't.

"There's more of us, but who goes first?" ~Dead Kennedys, "Riot"

🚨 This scene comes to us from Iowa. The man recording this atrocious attack on an innocent man makes it clear that he is a combat veteran, and explains that he is going to video their crimes and he is not to be touched: “I will knock you the fuck out.” 1/2

Intimidation and fear is their goal.

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Report from the front: F35s continue to circle overhead, engaging Portland’s notorious flock of Canada geese. The mayor has gone underground to city’s CIC (Coffee Independent Collective), where baristas are coding resistance messages into latte foam. Morale remains high; kombucha supplies steady.

this story was very emotional to report but i just want to say how much i appreciate all the replies saying it looks like the ICE agent is about to shoot his dick off

Fascist scumbags.

Fascists are fascists are fascists... Anyone who joins ICE/DHS in 2025 would have joined the Nazis in 1936. Your silence is fascism's ally. Resist. Fight back. SAY SOMETHING.

What is seen cannot be unseen.

This all indicates that the rate of warming could even be higher than I linearly extrapolated here, based on research by Grant Forster and @rahmstorf.bsky.social (who determined the global warming rate by corrected for natural variables), as the subtext included from the paper already warned:

For folks my age, this is an old, old lesson. Sub "J. Edgar Hoover" for Patel. Sub "CIA and DoD" for ICE. Sub "Nixon" for Trump. Sub "right-wing" for Republicans - because they didn't used to be synonymous. Officials may be lying. Always keep that in mind.

I have a fondness for juxtaposition between humanity's constructs and nature's beauty.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

As horrid as this may be, knowledge is key, and there is no telling how long these audios will be available.

it feels like there’s this big blaring red siren saying “they’re gonna do a trans genocide” and libs are seeing signs of it like censorship and health care changes and violent attacks but not connecting a single solitary dot

Facts.

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” ~~E.F. Schumacher

"It's one of the most hair-raising things I've heard from an elected politician, the vice president telling Americans to inform on each other....things are moving so fast." @chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Good morning MAGA snowflakes! What will offend you today?!

... I responded, 'If your wife and children say, "Daddy has become nicer since he began to do zazen," then your practice is on the right track.'" ~~Roshi Kosho Uchiyama, 'Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo'

😀 "The other day, someone visited me and asked, 'I wish to practice zazen [meditation] under your guidance. But because I live far away, I can’t come to Antaiji very often. I’d like to practice zazen at home. What should I keep in mind to avoid doing zazen in a mistaken way?' ...

Look, Kirk is dead, they caught the nut who did it, and the right-wing wants everyone to continue focusing on the different, mostly convoluted, aspects of that sordid distraction. Let's get back on track. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #FuckedCountry #FuckTrump #PEDOcoverUp #TACOpedo

Robert Wheldon, star of the funniest antifascist video of all time

"We are like senseless children who shrink from suffering, but love its causes." ~Shantideva

"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the...

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

I don't know why I'm even going to bother, but no it wasn't. It was hardly even brought up in the Federalist papers. The people who created the United States were almost pathologically fixated on the Roman Republic and Enlightenment-era Liberalism.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. "So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. "Explore. Dream. Discover.” ---Mark Twain

I cannot <3 this.

Breaking: Dictators Gather in China as Putin and Xi Orchestrate a New Axis of Power open.substack.com/pub/levremem...

"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong" George Washington to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp | Wednesday, May 28, 1788

When I got clean and sober back in 2022, I adopted 3 principles: 1. Be rigorously authentic, honest, and of service to others. 2. Always do the hard things. 3. Surrender the outcome with humility.

Ever since this cop flag was first shown, every time I see it my first thought is, "fascism."

Mark my words. When Trump finally kicks the bucket and his regime is roundly defeated, utterly destroyed, and their fascist malfeasance is pulled apart and drained like a festering wound, many of these sycophantic ass-kissers will snivel that they never really liked Trump and are glad he's dead.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

The Nazis were so proud of what they were doing that they kept meticulous records of their atrocities. The fascists that we're dealing with must know that what they are doing is wrong, or they wouldn't be deleting their doings to hide them. They live in fear -a weakness- of being held responsible.

Go outside. Do stuff. Do stuff that is hard. Do stuff that you might not be able to finish, but give doing the stuff your best. Learn from the stuff. Do the stuff again. And again. And again. Don't die.

Trump like the Goldmember villain from Austin Powers, but with a far worse sense of aesthetics.

It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.

Ghost pepper in the machine. I have a ghost pepper plant in my garden, and this is the second it has produced.

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination." ~~Edward Abbey