Whatever is beeping this morning needs to either stop or make peace with meeting its robotic god.

I once punched out a shark. Well technically it was a spiny dogfish and they banned me from the aquarium for it but still.

just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality. Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting

i mean that is just strictly, flatly wrong, and ridiculously so. the SA itself was four million people under arms, directly for the Nazi party, and that doesn't count the other conservative "veterans' organizations" which eventually affiliated with the Nazis.

literally every time I talk to friends

the reason that the right believes that the left is entirely astroturf funded by USAID and USIP is that this is how their own institutions work

Even in dark times, there are rays of light.

Newsom's true dharma.

This one made me cry a little.

Number the Stars (2nd grade) Illuminatus! (7th grade) Blindsight (adult, but still)

I get that saving democracy requires a broad coalition, and that I don't have to like everyone in our coalition. But I refuse to watch South Park.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. — alexis de tocqueville

As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.

As someone working in the progressive field door game right now, let me tell you how things look from the world of touching grass and knocking on doors: they look bleak as hell. Most people are fatalistic. Willing to protest, or write letters, anything, but it's out of a sense of duty, not hope.

At what heat index should a door canvass be cancelled for the day?

We live in darkly hilarious times my siblings.

I'm surprisingly close to Andrea Dworkin on porn for an American male, but none of what they're doing now is about combating misogyny. Rather this intervention against porn is actually an overt power-grab by the patriarchy itself, weaponizing these reforms against women and the queer community.

I don't think this will save us. Nothing easy will save us. But I will take the opportunity to laugh.

Everything's a meta singularity now because language means nothing! Ecuse me, I have to go meditate and do my breathing exercises. Keep it together. Keep it together. Keep it together, keep it together, keepittogether keepittogether keepitTOGETHER

“Trump might win this state. But you can win the school board. You can win the city council.” Jess Piper warns how GOP-led cuts to Medicaid, public media, and weather services are devastating rural communities. However, there are avenues that Democrats can take to build local power and hope.

The times we live in, my siblings. The strange, strange times.

The new party system is literally “people who have a vague idea about how anything, anything at all works” versus “everyone else.”

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

quick 4 am jam .might delete later

Thanks to Trump’s Weather Service cuts, the 2 flood zone offices in Texas lack a chief meteorologist, warning coordination meteorologist, senior hydrologist staff forecaster & science officer. And the top elected official in Kerr County, where the camp is, on their lack of a local warning system.

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."

😳 Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer & blogger [who claims to have “coached” Peter Thiel & is DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen’s “good friend”] helped Milo, Bannon, & Breitbart launch the “alt right” into the mainstream in 2017. Remember the “alt right”? (10/5/17) 1/ www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jose...

Here’s a little cartoon drawing I did of David Graeber, pen and ink on paper.

this action has already murdered ~14,000 adults and ~1,500 children pepfar.impactcounter.com bsky.app/profile/bran...

90+ day credit card delinquencies are their highest since 4Q11. Household debt just made an new all-time record. $18T.

every single transportation conversation ever

You know who earned my vote? The millions of people who are worse off every time any Republican gains power.

"it is a party's job to earn your vote" rather than "participating in the government of a republic is a citizen's duty" is just decadence.

How it started. How it’s going

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

the way to stop people doing nazi shit is to create an environment where doing nazi shit immediately gets you jumped by six guys, do not pass go, ass kicking first and ask questions later. every goth & punk bar on god's gay earth already figured this out in the 90s

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

DOJ has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.