For once I agree with Yarvin: he should leave the country!

i do think that’s where a lot of the obvious resentment for the userbase comes from. 90% of us on here doesn’t really care about the primary reason why this place exists but use his place out of sheer convenience

wrote this line yesterday: "If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

This is patently absurd. It would seem any use of Kirk's photo is now grounds for a permanent ban.

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out. Every single one.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

While Donald Trump has been busy shutting down the federal government, we've been busy in court stopping the DOJ from imposing illegal restrictions on nearly $1.4 billion in VOCA grants. We will keep fighting to protect the funding that helps survivors and victims of crimes rebuild their lives.

"More than 140,000 children — over 15% of students — lack permanent housing. The city’s population of homeless students is larger than the entire enrollment of the Dallas public school system." New York needs more housing — and that means voting @YesOnAffHousing.bsky.social props 2-5.

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I literally hate to give Newsom credit for anything, he's a snake when it comes to transgender issues, but he's legitimately doing a good thing here. www.latimes.com/california/s...

In case you’re wondering what the fuck is going on with bsky right now.

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then. A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

Might be good and another way for Democrats to point out how weak Trump is by constantly asking 'Who is the actual president right now? Stephen Miller? Russ Vought? Because it sure isn't Donald Trump."

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I did not have “invading Venezuela” on my “Trump starts ww3” bingo card but here we are

Donald Trump is making your rent go up.

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So we're up to 21 counts of first degree murder against Donald Trump and a lot of accompanying charges for his subordinates and officers all the way on down to the lowly grunt who should've refused the illegal order to fire.

"It was founded in Silicon Valley with the sole purpose of amassing a bunch of prospective sociopaths together in one centralized location."

Chicago. “Everything is content creation to these fascists” is a perfect summation.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Yesterday’s fascist violence in Chicago shook me badly. Today, I read this, & it gave me heart. Its cadences, its references, its clarion call to stand up with powerful conviction & push back the evil that’s taking over our country. Highly encouraged reading!

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The existence of Nigerians exposes all of the sillyness of the US's so called gifted programs. All Nigerian kids learn algebra, binary, octal, and hexadecimal by the 7th grade.🤷🏿‍♂️ I experienced the nonsense that Mamdani is talking about firsthand as a kid, and I saw it with my kids too.

If there was a poll about the shutdown that was like "60% of voters blame Democrats" we'd get wall to wall news "analysis" saying the Democrats must immediately capitulate or face electoral ruin, but when we have the opposite (like we do now) the media doubles down on efforts to blame Democrats

The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

Like, it sucks that you don’t get to have fun because everybody wants to keep pointing out how you fucked up, but *that’s what the group chat is for*. Go talk to your exec coach or your therapist. Nobody in leadership should be publicly woe-is-me-ing about users saying their trust is broken.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

love you all but this also isn’t wrong, if you build a userbase off people fleeing from what Elon has turned Twitter into you get a userbase that is much more sensitive to everything that’s happening and all of the associated pathologies

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

As a Gentile in a Jewish family, it continues to be disgusting how far the ADL has fallen in addressing its core mission.

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

These are law enforcement personnel who have been reallocated to ICE activities. Check out that first line. It's the reason I've been telling journalists that we're not going to fully realize what we've done to ourselves until there is some awful, *preventable* tragedy.

It's one thing to talk about the 1 in 20 Americans who live in households without cars. But it's another to talk about all the people who live in households with fewer cars than people who need to drive to participate in an autocentric society, particularly kids, elders, and people w/disabilities.

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further. They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...

🎯 Mamdani's rhetoric should be a case study for Democrats, the lesson being you can: (a) talk about kitchen-table issues (b) in widely accessible language, while (c) holding to a consistent set of moral & political principles, and (d) showing how 47 poses a threat to democracy & the rule of law

Yom Kippur is a day of reflection, of forgiveness, of restoration. This year, may we all pray for a better, kinder, more peaceful future. Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.

*Sees the most Catholic person in the world doing the most Catholic thing there imaginable*: goddamn Pagans!

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"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

this is an especially good thing to hammer because it wedges the WH away from congressional Republicans

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

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It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.