mass protest is not the right way to oppose fascism. the right way to oppose fascism is to shake your head and say “no thank you” whenever a fascist offers you some fascism

Two different groups requested to the council in Berlin to have marches. One was permitted, the other only allowed a rally, which the police ended early with arrests. The permitted march was for literal Nazis, the one closed down for an end to genocide. Germany is so fucked.

that Noem video reinforces my belief that there is a streak of sexualized sadism on the US right that goes back to lynching imagery but began in its most recent form with the enthusiasm for torture during the Bush years.

The sooner we recognize that the Democratic Party isn't going to save us from fascism, the sooner we can build a robust left that is truly an opposition to this nightmare.

Yes, tariffs are a tax, but people don't mention often enough that they are a regressive tax. Taxes on consumer goods tax the poor at a higher rate, as basic necessities are a much larger part of their spending. If food goes up by 20%, it is a tax on the poor. Rich people won't even notice.

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

Getting kicked out of the orgy for insisting we follow Robert's Rules of Order

So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.

i really don’t want to hear another word about why we’re yelling at democrats.

Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.

there is a bizarre consensus among "liberal" intellectual and political elites that we must assume Republicans are acting in good faith despite decades of evidence to the contrary

The Onion summer writing fellowship is seeking applicants! It's six months, good salary and benefits. This year's applicants do NOT have to complete the Eating Challenge, as it turns out this does not adhere to Illinois labor law. We apologize to those who have died in the past.

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

Really wish news outlets would stop referring to "the ceasefire". The defining feature of a ceasefire is that you cease firing, which Israel never did, so there never was one.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI. www.wired.com/story/federa...

fun fact: in the 1932 elections in the Wrimar Republic, 36% of the vote went to the Nazis

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an album is a form of podcast

Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

it’s insane that chuck schumer and the democrats that voted for the budget are absolutely okay with this

look elon musk made cybertrucks bulletproof why are they mad they are getting vandalized!! they were built to withstand bullying, grow up

It’s not a burning Cybertruck. It’s a Roman candle.

it smacks of nepotism that the letter Q is at the top of the keyboard, while the humble, hard-working M and N are at the very bottom

Quick reminder that Mamala has argued to SCOTUS that she shouldn't have to release prisoners when they are supposed to be released if the state of California is making good money by hiring out their forced labor. So no, it wasnt.

Most viable career paths right now: -Police goon -Tech fraudster -Health care crank -Regime propagandist -Dentist (unrelated to the others, it just pays well)

Genuinely believe federal judges should be issuing arrest warrants for the president right now.

This goes into a larger file labeled "All So-Called Dystopian Fiction Is Thinly Disguised Utopian Fantasy." Cyberpunk's corporate dystopia was in retrospect a fantasy that we'll soon transcend these messy, violent, primitive, ethnocentric institutions we call "nation-states." I wish.

2025 isn't "a weird time in history," we're living through the inevitable conclusion to doing everything wrong

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

I'll say it again: "we're slightly better than our opponents is never going to be a winning strategy for Dems, and responding to criticism of your candidate by frantically changing the subject to the GOP candidate is not good enough. Dems need candidates people actually want to vote for.

I like how, instead of listening to actual voters, the current leader of the Democratic Party just listens to literally imaginary people he himself made up in his head. I wonder why his party is having trouble winning votes from people who actually exist.

It’s always cool to remember that the leader of the Democrats in the Senate has chosen as his bellweather constituents a couple of imaginary friends that he just made up in his goddamn head and talks about is if they are real, and he makes them tell him to be a spineless sleeze.

donald trump is a fascist who is going to take over our government and ruin the entire country forever and end democracy and not let us vote ever again which is why we have to give him everything he wants

We'll commit to a slice 🥧 Happy Pi Day!

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

What Hegel failed to grasp is that the world ideological spirit of the age would eventually be controlled by a YouTube algorithm designed to sell ads.

The Democrats are a party of slavering, fawning toadies without principles or beliefs.

America Lesser-of-Two-Evils'd itself directly into authoritarian fascism, not because the Right was strong or intelligent, but because the middle was composed entirely of spineless, self-absorbed weaklings whose only concern was sucking corporate toes and holding onto their positions.

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

you simply do not understand the democratic party strategy. this will allow them to fundraise big numbers for their consultants off the Horrors that will take place

Judge temporarily blocks effort to deport Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests

Geddit the joke is using consumer devices to explode American teens & young people for opposing Israel's genocide of Palestinian people including babies toddlers children teens & young people sometimes by exploding them with consumer devices DO YOU GET THE JOKE www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...