Two prosecutors are now going to have to deal with the question, “wait aren’t you the guys who lost the sandwich case?” for the rest of their lives.

Phrenology doesn’t stop being bullshit when you do it to someone’s face

They’re calling it the wolfiest wolf who ever wolved, folks. And the boy, he cries wolf, but nobody comes. Big strong men come to me with tears in their eyes and say “Mister Trump, your last three wolves were chihuahuas.”

I consider myself center-left liberal, I hate fascism with every fiber of my being, I have no real issue with Mamdani, but these people keep telling me I’m some kind of crypto-fascist asshole. *shrug*

This is big fucking shit

The level of commitment here is really impressive

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

This! When you say "Listen, Reagan and the Bushes and Trump are the same," you're actually reassuring low-info voters that Trump isn't a crazy choice, because unlike Bluesky folks, millions of Americans would vote for those guys again.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

I have reached a level of firm acceptance that at least three to four of my fellow countrymen and women are too fucking stupid to be citizens of a republic. And another three of ten are too stupid to care.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War

It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

The internet has made people think they’re all the stars of their own personal movies.

preach

Or Massachusetts can just set up a mandate there until Maine is ready for self government

Those who'd sneer at outrage over the White House fancy themselves slick. Ears to the ground. They don't concern themselves with frippery when there's a war to be won. Well they don't know a goddamn thing. Symbols are powerful, and politics is a game of using them to your advantage.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Happy Fallout Day, @radiofreetom.bsky.social . I’ve got to get back to Diamond City. Biggest town I ever saw.

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

I will make it a personal goal to demand this monstrosity be demolished when our dalliance with fascism ends. We will not be Italy, with its statues and monuments to Mussolini still in public view.

Sarah is the only person whose opinion of the Fairness Doctrine you should accept along with mine. She knows this subject.

have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away

😂

The comparison to the Tea Party is right -- not just in terms of the size of the protests, but the complaints they're making. The Tea Party began when a CNBC reporter and a crowd of bond traders threw a tantrum about Obama continuing the post-crash bailouts that Bush began. That was their "tyranny"

lol “No Kings” is such brilliant branding because Trump’s people are such inveterate reactionary shitposters that their only reaction is, can possibly be, “oh him being a king triggers you? Then yeah he’s a king, he should be the king forever.”

I remember the good old days when everyone was in an uproar about Obama’s tan suit.

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Newsom or Pritzker should loudly signal that people who have clean records who quit because this isn’t what they signed up to do will get their careers back when the winds change.

Keep the faith.

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

This made me laugh out loud

Today’s peaceful protests were the perfect example of what @radiofreetom.bsky.social has repeated ad nauseum (only to receive ad hominem attacks): We are not yet living under fascism. Many of our current leaders are fascists. But they don’t control us yet and we need to make sure they never do.

The numbers I am seeing, and the breadth of people and places with basically no arrests and so forth, seem to me an unqualified political loss for them. It is a show of strength rather than the fight itself, but you can’t downplay it.

Block and move on, people.

"The anti-capitalist left should go to the no kings protests....to rebut them!" is peak. Pack it up, we're done

Take THAT, egg prices!

The BBC broadcast Pulp’s set at the Mercury Prize with Miss Marple subtitles for some reason. Eno called Jarvis who then got his pal to take pictures. This isn’t quite as good as swapping Peanuts captions for Smiths lyrics, but almost.

It’s amazing how many people out themselves as huge douchebags on this site

He’s ‘allowed to remain a senator’ because he won an election. McConnell has been a destructive force in our politics for decades, and we should save our ire for that.

Ken Klippenstein is such a sociopath that he’s making fun of an old man who had polio as a kid.

Quite a day.

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.