When someone tries to tell you communism is scary or unamerican show them this movie

They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs. So we need to extract those costs.

I’m not kidding when I say we need to purge pro-WSJ “liberals” from our ranks. That paper will throw poor people, trans people, anyone they think they can get away with selling out under the bus. And these clowns clap like seals bc they feel the same way.

it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement

look, I’ve been operating on the assumption that we cannot reach Bush 2 numbers because the media environment makes the floor much higher than it was back then (and Fox won’t throw him overboard the same way) but, uh, we aren’t through year one and…

people who use “trans“ as a plural noun providing a hitlerite take in the same sentence, example #11037

I think it’s actually fine if a source of your motivation to do activism and boycott things is how it makes you feel. It shouldn’t be your guiding ethical principle for *what exactly* to do, but it can fuel you.

The only antidote - and I do mean the ONLY one - to Trump and Miller's xenophobia is a full-throated defense of immigration and a full-throated attack on the racism and xenophobia currently guiding immigration policy. You can't half-ass this one, you can't Very Reasonable Limits this one.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Enjoying a quiet day in and then going to visit my local theatre. boycotting corporations is nice.

I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Unfollowing every person who cries about dead yankee soldiers. Silence is very much an option.

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

I can’t tell if he’s losing MAGA or just genuinely so braindead he’s forgotten that’s what his supporters are called. Either way the word that comes to mind for all three pitches is… ”sad”.

yeah they aren’t cooking shit

The way a lotta liberals talk about “trump’s gonna do martial law” i think reveals the way those people process what’s going on as a movie in classical 3 act structure. There must be a climax in which we either vanquish the evil or don’t. But that’s not how any of this works.

Good lord this book piracy discourse is so fucking annoying it’s all just authors going “no pirate” and pirates going “pirate“ and then them doing the surprised pikachu face at each other.

MAGA: it was a woke leftist! Blueanon: it was a Trump conspiracy to get a reason to do what he’s already doing! The news in a few hours, probably: John McDipshit, who had inscrutable centrist political views and undiagnosed mental illness, was taken into custody for shooting the National Guard.

Nothing. Ever. Happens.

im sorry im a nothing ever happens truther on stuff like this. 9/10 times it's someone insane and everyone forgets in like a week. do not hold that football for me lucy i'm going home

Frank Ragnow

I am begging all of you to just Discuss Football for like the next week.

LETS SEE THEM EPSTEIN FILES! Where are they!?

startin my 48 hour turkey brine

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Maybe I’m not sufficiently doomer, but I really don’t see them succeeding at this. Even if you’re a “corporations are people” crank judge this isn’t Citizens; there’s no ”expression” being suppressed.

It's wack how much the image of transhumanism has been captured by techbros whose vision of "using technology to improve the human" is, like, putting electrodes in your head to make you productive, and not anything actually transformative

The rest of today and all of the weekend is a really good time to talk about anything except recent events related to US politics.

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

Hey maybe instead of quibbling over who should be an Other you should be rejecting that concept wholesale? I know I know radical take even on this website.

I maintain that in most cases leftists should primary Democrats rather than running third party. Like there are exceptions but it’s generally simple math.

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

Lib Dem leader: Hey Keir will you do something about this? You have the power to and we know Reform won’t. Keir Starmer: I am outraged that Reform isn’t doing something about this! *sits down without answering question*.

not to try to have a nuanced political take on a microblogging website but my issue with "yimby" is that despite agreeing with many tenets i think a myopic focus on housing supply can lead to unprincipled or reactionary positions however if you think yimby is worse than nimby you're dumber than dirt

Ya know I fucking hate Putin and shockingly that doesn’t make me wish for genocide of Russia. For some reason this is controversial.

I’m not sure I’ve seen a greater delusion of grandeur this month than the NAFO clowns claiming they were the only ones who knew Twitter was infested with Russian trolls

A good thread on how masculinity is beaten into men (i will add it’s, even more horribly, also beaten into any trans women who are raised as if they are men, per many stated experiences).

Need him to stop being so cool

“Should I quit data science and become an underpaid librarian“ has become a daily thought for me

Since Bari Weiss is talking about the need to platform Alan Dershowitz, now feels like a good time to mention the fact multiple Epstein survivors have said Alan raped them too.

Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls. What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.

I have projected I will win an EGOT by 2030

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

One of my beliefs is that during a holiday week email shouldn't work at all for anyone

Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue

Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?

It’s unbelievable that Starmer, Reeves and Streeting are doing this…🚨

I think any company that wants a bailout should be forced to sign a pledge to not invest any more money in AI and put a dunce cap on every stakeholder who previously did so + punch Sam Altman in the dick and balls one time per $100 received.

One thing that fiction, and even the press, tends to get wrong about fascism is how incompetent they are and how much they hate each other. Even now they're fighting each other.

uk news is like “prime minister matt yglesias states that labour will pass a law defering criminal sentencing to local hoa boards who may send those convicted of wrongthink, amongst other crimes, to prison for up to 2 years without the possibility of appeal. his approval hovers around 4%”