blickety, bleckity, block!

Someone needs to draft a Project 2029 agenda item of defunding anti-democratic government contractors. Trump would do it out of pure spite, but my guess there is a strong efficiency argument to reduce rent-seeking.

We need more of this, and from more people. Rolling your eyes as if to say "We all know how they are" (or worse, "Don't get distracted") has been a big strategic mistake. Democratic politicians have to meet the brutality of MAGA rhetoric with outrage--and then, when necessary, match it.

john roberts is engaged in the same project

@govpritzker.illinois.gov our state troopers should be protecting Illinois residents who are peacefully protesting not becoming arms of our fascist federal government. This is a disgrace.

The thing is, for these guys abolition was a fighting faith. Makes you think

I'm sure things would have turned out better if they had cowered in the corner and said "No, no, I denounce it" over and over

You know what's interesting? When John Brown was captured, a number of prominent abolitionists (led by Thoreau) decided to sing his virtues instead of immediately denouncing his use of violence

there is, unfortunately, no choice other than nationalization or destruction for Starlink. it's a matter of national security www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Oh no it happened again

When I was at Pokémon I shared work around various firms and ensured that billing credit would go to specific people so they could make their business development numbers. Another friend left his in-house gig and I was his first client. One does what one can in this life.

anyway, jeffries should just keep ignoring it obvs

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

The other left-of-center American politician who shares Mamdani's incredible message focus is Bernie Sanders, who similarly scores off the charts on "authenticity." Political *reporters* hated Sanders and his tendency to derail questions to repeat talking points about billionaires but voters love it

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses. “Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].” www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

this is wtf i'm talking about, we all had better get on her level

yeah this would have very salutary effects ranging far beyond the current crisis. has to be paired with grand jury reforms but those are trivial in comparison.

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

this seems like it'll go great and won't have any unintended consequences

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

Gotta think this helps justify a future Dem administration’s decision to essentially terminate ICE and redesign from the bottom up. The enforcement arm of ICE (ERO) has generally had ~3,500 ppl. A President could easily fire the entirety of ERO and temp nationalize some Nat Guard to fill in.

“When it comes to the almost 2,000 Palestinians who were released by Israel as part of the deal… there has been silence from much of our mainstream media.” Read five stories about Palestinian hostages released from Israeli detention following the Gaza ceasefire agreement: zeteo.com/p/five-pales...

the vast, vast majority of elected democrats need to be purged

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Journalists still don't want to face what's really happening, using terms like "shrinking" & "hemorrhaging, as if WaPo is TRYING but failing to keep subscribers Bezos doesn't care! He's turned WaPo into direct marketing for ever-more billions in Trump subsidies. It's working exactly as planned!

Basically there is no reason to compromise with these people. And Dems need to begin enforcing liberal democratic norms by force of state.

americans have been learning about "no kings" via alternative media. social media, tiktok etc. we dont need the msm anymore and progressives should be investing billions in building up our own alternative information beachheads instead of constantly begging the dying msm to "do better"

It's really simple Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"not the bad kind of [X]" is a huge reason liberalism cannot address, let alone challenge and defeat, fascism. That eager willingness to share the oppressor's POV abandons all pretense of solidarity.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

Mainstream media’s willingness to give Trump massive credit for doing minor things and Biden zero credit for doing big things is a structural problem

at this point it is impossible to respect anyone who voluntarily maintains contact with trump supporting family/friends/acquaintances

this is because most beltway journalists are ideologically devoted to ensuring that no one notices.

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

They took entire families from their beds in the middle of the night. None of us deserve peace.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News! www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

imho there's a disconnect here where Harris was legit the very best dem establishment figure that any progressive could have hoped for. end of. but what we learned is that the dem establishment is categorically incapable of dealing with this moment. and that is what we are all now paying for.

ICE drags US citizen out of her car and arrests her because ICE hit HER car Chicago PD: you can see the license plate of the ICE vehicle. Let's see vehicular assault and kidnapping charges against the Gestapo who did this www.facebook.com/573100845/po...

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

Wow. Evening prayer reading from Micah is…real. “Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.” 🔥 🔥 🔥 ⚓️

Was worried that this was going to be *yet another* of the "people should all go back to Twitter" nonsense pieces, but @ianbetteridge.com's law of headlines rarely fails. The answer here is a clear "no" with good reasons:

As I was saying... aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub/3m2cdec7qrc2...

jesus fucking christ

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral