He’s already forgotten who Kirk was

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, if you find my healthcare wonkery useful & would like to support it, you can do so once or monthly here, thanks! (Lord knows it'll help with those increased premiums...) secure.actblue.com/donate/acasi...

MAiD is a complicated issue at the best of times, now? These are far from the best of times. At DFP we found that a majority of voters do not support medical aid in dying for people who do not have a terminal (life-ending) condition. Here's my latest @dataforprogress.org bsky.app/profile/data...

Have you noticed that the Trump Regime is pursuing eugenicist policies, designed to kill off disabled Americans? There's fear in the disability community that as the Regime cuts Medicaid + housing + food + disability assistance, non-terminal disabled people will be pressured to suicide. 🧵

Will it be ever thus?

The greater cantle of the world is lost With very ignorance, we have kiss’d away Kingdoms and provinces.

Also, as specified in the Constitution, Congress would have to pass a bill authorizing and funding this giant federal building project. Wildly illegal personalist authoritarian nonsense & unprecedented corruption that make Nixon's crimes look like middle school pranks, now happening daily & 😜

Yup. I need cis women to understand that this is gender essentialist ideology as much as anti-trans bathroom laws. They believe that pain is part of childbirth and women are made holy, cleansed of sin through suffering while doing their duty as women to birth children.

trump constantly says black women in leadership positions have "low iq" but the mainstream media refuses to say trump is a racist

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them. But they’re Gestapo trash.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

The reason Trump won is that people like this actually refused to believe his own words, substituting their own fanfic Trump instead bsky.app/profile/shar...

We are ruled by absolute fucking morons.

So from our perspective, are there a lot of challenges to digging out of this mess and getting our democracy running effectively again? Yes. Even if we get these guys out, they'll have broken a lot. But they're even further away from victory. They are not inevitable, do not make them so.

Finally, I'm sure someone is screaming 'don't give them ideas!' or something and..look, if anyone in the MAGA establishment is reading this, here is my advice: Bail. This isn't working out. Your big guy is billion years old and sundowning and Little JD ain't got it. This isn't going to work. Bail.

The only way these fascist chucklefucks make this work is by succeeding in manufacturing the *appearance* of inevitability, because they *do not* have the force or skill to win a straight fight. In short, the only weapon that can deliver them victory is you: the fool doomer whose nihilism is poison

(And the more protestors there are, the more the chance that the troops side with them increases.) In short then, while I think MAGA and Trump are attempting an authoritarian takeover, I also think they are, from incompetence, failing and actually failing quite badly.

And sure you *can* ask cops, the guard or the army to do some of the shooting for you, but there's a reason the Nazis did not do that (they used the SA at first): you do not know which way those rifles will be pointed when the bullet comes out. Good chance its at the tyrant, not the protestor.

Again, think numbers: No Kings put something like 5 million people in the streets when Trump was more popular and s*** was more normal than it is now. 90,000 DHS goons - hell, 200,000 DHS goons - are not enough to beat that kind of protest into submission.

We see this with lefties believing you can just defeat the final boss of capitalism without anyone but like five billionaires feeling any pain as well as the center to right thinking you can have draconian immigration policies that are laser focused on “the bad ones” only.

I think there’s also sort of a just world fallacy across the political spectrum of believing there is a secret trick to politics at scale where you can make decisions impacting millions of people with zero undeserving victims or benefactors.

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

At the end of the day, whether anyone's finances get nuked is not even a little bit up to me at this point. I voted for the person who wouldn't nuke finances (and we've taken an approximately $15,000 annual household loss directly from the Trump admin, for the record).

I don't want to nuke the finances of delivery drivers, I want to nuke the finances of people who voted for the guy who was going to nuke their finances. If that includes some delivery drivers who voted for him, ok.

you cannot "smolbeanify" the moral agency of millions of people who decided to enshitty the rest of the world, whether it be USAID, climate change, or whatever

also even if this turns out to be some left wing shooter who was targeting ice -- the problem is still the fucking guns and still the fucking racism.

we'll know more soon but we know for a fact that trump, the gop, and fox news have described immigrants as "animals" "thugs" "rapists" and murderers and used the most dehumanizing language possible against them. and they've said this repeatedly to a receptive audience that can easily acquire guns.

Kash Patel is the head of the FBI because he wrote pro-Trump fanfic for children. Keep this in mind when he is giving out briefings.

“Their parents were picked up during raids on workplaces ranging from farms to meatpacking plants, coming out of check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or dropping their kids off at school." www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

"Since President Donald Trump took office in January, American children across the country have ended up in the care of relatives, neighbors, friends, co-workers and even strangers.” #FamiliesBelongTogether

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

ice is literally using kids as bait to deport people. theres no demonization there beyond their own gross actions. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump called Harris a “Marxist, Communist, Fascist” on the campaign trail just because. Meanwhile literal Nazis make up many administration hires, serve as ideological inspiration for Vance himself who—by the way—blurbed a book by a Nazi cheering political violence.

It’s not socialism. It’s nationalist socialism. It’s different

Nazi shit

"there must be something to it" no, he's just a dummy like your local radio call-in dummy its just that a large assembly of dummies gave him control over our nuclear arsenal.

im explaining to a friend right now that no, theres really no master plan. trump's just a dumb guy with power. that's all 99% of this is and insisting there's some real strategy to it all is gonna break your brains.

Only the best people

It's still bizarre to notice that one political party's entire communications strategy is for everyone to go on tv just to kiss the ass of exactly one specific sundowning old man

Today in 1957, the Little Rock Nine walked through hate with soldiers at their side. Only Ernest Green left that high school with a diploma. The rest were driven out. Now we gut schools, ban truth and call it freedom. The mob never left, it just changed its mask. #Resist

Also wanted "someone" to get blamed is doing a lot of work here. Fill in the blanks here. It's like "state's rights." Oh, which rights? Which someones?

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

The moment institutions start saying "no" is the moment it crumbles. These people are not serious, they are not hardworking, they are not smart. They are coasting on luck, and institutional cowardice. The moment institutions stop enabling them, they will fold like cheap camp chairs.

Still can't believe this is real. Completely gutting all the momentum toward clamping down on these citizenship-for-sale schemes.

This new Trump visa scheme has multiple tiers: "Trump Gold Card," "Trump Platinum Card," etc. For anyone with at least $1 million, American residency can be now officially be bought. trumpcard.gov

There's now an official U.S. governmental website hawking the "Trump gold card" visa scheme—selling American residency to any kleptocrat, cartel head, or oligarch who can afford it. trumpcard.gov

Vought holding the federal govt hostage for a boss who refuses to meet with Democrats is largely a result of Supreme Court fecklessness. We are eight months in and SCOTUS has done nothing to defend civil service laws or block de facto impoundments, emboldening constitutional arsonists.

15/ Part of the reason we are in this mess today is because tech "critics" can get very rich and successful by conveniently ignoring the ugliest realities of Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, writers like Paulina—who challenge power rather than serve it—end up out in the cold.

14/ She recently helped launch a new magazine, In|Formation, and wrote some pieces. informationmagazine.com