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…

9/11

The big problem with the politics of "just do what polls say is already popular" is that most people don't have strongly-held opinions about most issues. When pollsters ask, they answer. But they're often taking elite cues, not expressing deep passions. Leaders can lead people to different stances.

This is exactly what the internet is for.

liberals think they are on the right side of history but the most brillant Black theorists have challenged this idea vehemently. to be a liberal historically has meant to protect capital and empire while fighting against the left to prevent radical changes in lieu of their more preferred gradualism.

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Jen and Rahm Emanuel have a tough conversation on Tuesday’s episode of I’ve Had It.

thinking about this passage, & how scotus scheduled oral argument on birth right citizenship (which feels like an echo of the run up to the immunity ruling) and did so on a technical issue (which feels like the abortion bounty law standing decision that presaged the overturning of roe v wade)

One thing I want people to take away from this: “Alligator Alcatraz” is not really exceptional in its cruelty. If you read enough stories about conditions in jails, prisons, and detention centers, you learn that abuse, starvation, rotten food, and deprivation are relatively common tactics.

#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Sumac onions specifically.

The comments are full of fucking monsters. A bunch of liberals happy to see people in red states die. The fuck is wrong with them?

lots of american people are alright but the usa as an institution is an evil inhuman shitehole

the US revolution was not a revolt against colonization but instead the (seemingly) permanent cementing of the colonial project. It's not like India or Ireland breaking free from the UK, it's like if the British colonists in India broke free from the UK's control.

Well, Well,Well, Not So Easy To Find A Government That Doesn’t Suck Shit By King George III

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Hopefully we don't repeat even more mistakes of the past.

I don't debate centrist to fascist. I mock them and move on.

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

It's really fucked up that Google AI recommends the Turner Diaries as a 2nd American Civil war book. It does not matter that it says it's extreme and divisive, it should not put that at the top of what is a very searched term.

This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome

"Why do you care about the NYC Mayoral race? You live in Chicago." Because the democratic establishment sucks, billionaires suck, landlords suck, Andrew Cuomo sucks, and if there's anything you need to know about me: I won't miss an opportunity to hate on a mf.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

I'm trans. All I have to do is wake up.

These times should radicalize you to understand that the United States is at war with people here and abroad who don't fit within their framework of white supremacy or kneeel down to Western capitalist accumulation.

You've got to imagine that even normal democratic voters are starting to realize that the party is controlled opposition whose entire reason to exist is to defend the stats quo from leftists/progressives.

The power balance is so one sided that playing into the fear only helps anti Iran sentiment. The fear should be for the innocent people in Iran and other countries in the Middle East who will be slaughtered by the US and Israeli aggression.

This man needs to wake up and stop pretending the institutions that got us here are going to save us from anything.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

I haven't liked this country in more than a decade. Back to Obama's 2nd presidency, when I became aware of our history. Our real history. We are evil.

It's just funny at this point

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

I do think that there are a lot of liberals and leftists that want violent resistance or revolution, but want minorities and oppressed people to do it. That see those groups as kindling to be burned so that they may replant the forest in their image.

So ridiculous that entire groups of Americans are literally fighting for their lives and there are people who see the struggle and their first reaction is "this is a distraction from the thing that I'm personally more interested in"

It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong