This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

Congrats again, everyone, on our National Conversation™️ about how Joe Biden held a Trump Rally at Independence Hall & overly politicized the military when he warned about grave threats to democracy with a soldier standing in view. Yes, we actually did that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This 100% merits impeachment

I was just thinking about this. If Bsky is blanket geo-IP banning everyone from Gaza, as proven by this Gazan journalist: 1.) This disproves the theory that these are Cambodian scammers 2.) Bsky knows these accounts are authentically in Gaza - but bans them anyway. Hm.

UCLA said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is backing off. Harvard said no to Trump's abusive demands, went to court, and the govt is left sputtering. Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern giving in was a big mistake. If only there were lessons against appeasing fascists.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

It's not a legitimate government

We already have some examples of how badly this can go. Elon Musk.

No they haven't

these people are sociopaths

William S Burroughs, obviously a life-long student of the nature of addiction as a social phenomenon (and a control phenomenon) would have been fascinated had he lived long enough to witness the spread and normalization of app-based sports betting

Last night I saw the clip of AOC in Davos being asked again about a 2028 presidential run. I've had hesitations. But THIS vid reminds how we missed the chance to elect a good person as PotUS in 2016 & 2020. I'm done w/ hesitating. If AOC runs, I'm all in for her. www.youtube.com/shorts/tWOvh...

Kristi Noem actually saying what is driving the extraordinary elections maneuvers. Flag this one.

What stuff like this shows is that MAGA has spent so much time in its own echo chambers that they've forgotten the difference between loud parts and quiet parts. "We're doing voter ID to make sure Republicans get elected" is something they used to know not to say. They don't get that any more.

Like Trump, Epstein Island Musk gets away with everything

Compare Chinese state media (below) with US state media (Fox et al, with increasing bleed-over into many "legit" news operations.)

Fucking embarrassing. My god. Have some fucking dignity. He talks nonstop about white superiority and fake techno bullshit that ain't gonna happen.

I think it’s a real problem that all of our prominent idiots have figured out there’s no functional difference between Being Stupid and Doing Business

Maybe it's not fair to say Trump built an anti-reality cult. The American Media and much of the American public became anti-intellectual and anti-reality. Trump and Musk just figured out how to take advantage of it.

the homeland is no longer secure. post rare Worfs.

There is no devastating political reporting anymore. Nothing devastates them. Nothing alters the political landscape. The president is a rapist, and no one cares. Bondi and Noem should be hung along with Trump, but nothing can or will move the needle. There is no needle. Nothing Matters ™️.

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

Every death is considered a win by Trump, Miller, and all Republicans. If they could kill every single one of them, they would.

This is blackout poetry to me

America: Nothing Matters ™️

Quite the chart

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?

Our legacy media endlessly perpetuates the assumption, for which there is no evidence, that Elon Musk is a comic book super genius inventor. So they never shift to the assumption, for which evidence abounds, that he's just a cheap charlatan sabotaging human progress for his own benefit.

If we’re fortunate enough to have one final chance to vote in a legitimate election in Nov., we cannot elect Congressmen and Senators from the Merrick Garland School of Cowardice and Silent Sedition. We MUST elect champions of democracy who will fight to save America from fascism.

The people responsible for this should be imprisoned for the rest of their lives.

We didn’t have IDs at the Founding, moron

Oh.

The funny thing about the MAGA voter ID crusade is...are they SURE they want to do that? Increase the hurdles to advantage the most motivated? Because I assure you, Democratic voters will jump through any hoop you put in front of them to get a ballot cast. Can MAGA say the same of its voters?

it's not FOR us

Separate the head from the body

“I’m going to seize control of elections even if Congress blocks me” is comically authoritarian and should result in his immediate removal from office. Yes, he’s deranged, but what’s even more deranged is how we’ve apparently all decided to acquiesce to a dictator because it’s Trump being Trump.

This is a man who knows the jig is up when his cult loses the midterms

You’re laughing. He has searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated and you’re laughing.

Yes, we know perfectly well that nothing on earth can shake you out of your vulgar liberal complacency.

The American right wing is a Neo-Nazi party

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

what this should actually tell countries that want a good relationship with a stable and prosperous US is that they should collude to help democrats

there's a lot of talk about how the US has permanently destroyed its position in the world and while I do think it's done some real damage I also think we underestimate how readily a lot of former allies will be willing to rekindle a relationship if we replace this regime

Just like he did with 13 year olds

Still unbelievable his head hasn't been removed from his body

Homeowners almost as upset about concentration camps as they are about pickleball.