"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

This man was NOT born in Guyana. He is a natural born citizen. And even if he weren’t, FUCK 🥶

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs. Most of us can barely afford our medications as is. We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die. We can’t stockpile them. A 100% tariff will cost lives.

Reposting some evergreen content hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

If we ever want to be at least a semblance of a democracy again, there must be a reckoning with what ICE has been empowered to do, and with all the people who empowered them to do it.

In his latest classic authoritarian playbook move, Donald Trump just indicted James Comey despite absolutely no evidence of crimes or wrongdoing. Once again, this is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. James Comey, whatever you think of him, is the victim of a politically weaponized DOJ.

Poking my nose in here to add that we ought to be developing an argument that masked secret cops violate the due process clause. It would take some doing, but I think could be done based on a fuller development of 2 ideas: (1) the notion that part of due process is public accountability for (cont)

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

As I physician and infectious disease epidemiologist I’d just like to note that this is absolute shit advice. All of it.

Real post on another network:

The indictment of James Comey has no place in a democracy. But that doesn't matter—because the United States is a republic.

OK, just help me understand here

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.

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.

One of the truly weird culture war flashpoints of this era is how an anti-parasitic on the market for 35 years became the right's cure-all snake oil and popular way of signaling contempt for modern medicine.

Reads like a Reichstag Fire Decree

The left doesn't need to tone down the rhetoric. The right needs to tone down the fascism.

This is a serious escalation from Donald Trump and his fascist administration, weaponizing law enforcement against the president’s perceived enemies. Trump demanded Comey’s indictment and here it is. This should mean impeachment and removal for both Bondi and Trump. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/j...

I will add that it doesn’t matter what you think of Comey. This is authoritarianism in the United States. It cannot be allowed to stand. There must be consequences for this.

OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

The Daily Mail has run a number of attack pieces on Violet Affleck after her incredible UN speech advocating for COVID protections including masks and clean air. These attack pieces including a poll on masking in medical facilities. The result? An overwhelming 76% of people support requiring masks!

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse

Especially because there's no such thing as a "crime" of "domestic terrorism," and there's no statute that imposes any actual consequences for labeling a group a "domestic terrorist organization."

When asked about a potential government shutdown Democrats should just say: "Republicans control both houses of Congress so you need to ask them". That's all they should say. For some reason Democrats are not good at this.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Whether it’s Barack Obama wearing a tan suit in front of reporters or an ICE agent brutally attacking a mother in front of her children, both sides have subjected our most vulnerable citizens to disturbing images.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

i made a helpful reference

The pundits say this issue is a "political liability" for the Democrats, but I don't think they realize how quickly it will cease to be one if the Democrats simply say "Fuck you. We're not negotiating on this."

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

now that the dust has settled on the kirk shooting and with the benefit of hindsight and the kimmel thing playing out i sure hope bluesky's leadership is asking itself why their mod team so instinctively behaved exactly the way this fascist administration wanted them to before even having been asked

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better. [reads any New York Times focus group] Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]