no al bhed rug pull here brudda, my coin's backed by yevon ya? praise be

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

Conservatism is wrong. All forms of it, all expressions of it. There is no healthy compromise with it. It is – inherently – a negative. Stop acting as if it is a reasonable, valuable belief system. It inherently devalues / alienates all deviant speech and ideology. It is anti-human.

For your consideration

reminds me of "HOBBY LOBBY'S ROBBY HOBBY: HAMMURABI"

(worf voice) ICE agents are worthless despicable people, who by their choice of career have utterly disgraced themselves; there is but one honorable course of action available to them, but... (clenching teeth, visibly frustrated) i am bound by Community Guidelines, and can say no more on the matter

You know what to do

INVENTOR: i have just created the push button MARKETING GUY: should i do a press release INVENTOR: that’s how it works, yes

God fucking dammit. Evil keep winning over and over.

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

a woman's back muscles. share if you agree.

How do you even come back from this as a country?

The sheer incompetence of this administration is staggering, and that's saying nothing of the vile evil they are churning out as well.

Wow something good? Shocking.

i often think about this review

Democrats are controlled opposition. They do not represent the people.

the fact that ICE instantly agreed to use body cams should be all the evidence you need that they accomplish nothing and everyone in power already knows it

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com This is America.

Unfortunately BIPOC folks are the canaries in the coal mines. It took 2 white people being blatantly murdered in a way that countless BIPOC folks have been since this country was founded. If we're only fighting fascism when it affects white folks, its gonna kill far too many of us.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

In response to ICE agents murdering Alex Pretti, the Whittier neighborhood immediately rose up and battled ICE, Minnesota police, and Minnesota State Troopers for over four hours, eventually forcing them to withdraw from the area. An eyewitness account. crimethinc.com/AlexPretti

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

You can't cede ground to these fascists.

Inject this into my veins.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

It's not hard to understand. One is the mayor of a single city, the other is a leader of the Democratic party tasked with resisting fascism and failing horribly.

"The desirable thing would be to re-educate this misled youth; it would be necessary to expose the mystification and to put the men who are its victims in the presence of their freedom. But the urgency of the struggle forbids this slow labor." --- Simone de Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity

Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.

I'm so fucking proud of the place I've come to call home. I knew when Ioved here that this would not be a place that just takes fascism sitting down. I love the twin cities.

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?" — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we don't have a vision for what the new world looks like, it will be decided by those who got us into this mess in the first place.

This has been my exact contention. Yesterday was a real wake up call that this country is so much further gone than I had previously thought.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.

calling trans people privileged for asking the supposedly liberal party to not literally support policies that are intended to exterminate us is the reason why we don't like your shit political party

I think talking immediately about how it's too bad Zohran can't run for president or how Lander should run for Congress is missing the point. we don't need to elevate individual heroes as high as possible, we need to find as many principled people as possible and empower them everywhere

Yeah

UTAH… this is not a game…