Zero tolerance is the only correct response to this whackadoo and her bigoted nonsense. She has clearly and unequivocally crossed the line from criticism of Israel into actual antisemitism. She has no place in the Democratic Party. Graham Platner should have been treated in exactly the same way.

Well at least San Antonio is only allowed to use the 7’5” French basketball god alien once a series to keep things fair [presses ear bud] hold on I’m being told something

@volts.wtf blocked me for responding to his Platner apologia.

Blocking all Platner-stans and apologists.

Man, I read more and more posts on social media sites about how the Dems need to reform the court, impeach people, hold people accountable, completely rebuild institutions, implement universal healthcare, etc. etc. ... and then I look around at the actual elected leaders of the party ...

This is too funny. My hat is off to you, anonymous genius.

Good.

Good.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Like most of our elite institutions, the U.S. Military also surrendered to Trump II. These organizations are no longer entitled to our trust, and I’m not sure they can or should ever get it back.

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image.

Maybe the upside to Trump’s destruction of American global hegemony is that we can get rid of our massive, expensive and now domesically dangerous standing army and use the money we save to help people.

I see what Kagan and Sotomayor are trying to do here. If laws against conversion therapy are subject to 1A strict scrutiny, laws against therapeutic approaches that affirm LGBTQIA identities are too. But in order for this to work, their six colleagues cannot be corrupt partisan hacks. And well…

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I celebrate the love and joy shared with friends and family who have found love and joy in their true selves. I love you. I am with you.

Democrats are failing the “what if there was a Democratic version of Trump” test.

@warren.senate.gov’s endorsement of Platner is incredibly disappointing. I voted for her in the 2020 primary and was a huge fan for many years. This decision forces me to rethink that. I can’t support someone willing to overlook Platner’s Nazi-curious past. I thought we were better than this.

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

I know I’m screaming into the void, but can you just imagine the HOWLS of outrage from these same FOX hosts if a Dem administration flack uttered this phrase in this context. They would be measurable from space.

Why does anyone, anywhere, at any time believe that this administration is operating in any mode other than monstrous bad faith.

ICE is teargassing kids.

For those in the know, may I present one of the all-time Fred Biery stemwinders.

Never been prouder of my Norwegian heritage more than I am today. Faen ta deg, Chris!

Mural of Alex Pretti in Seattle, Washington. Artwork by Topsy.

It still takes my breath away that they are so brazen in obstructing justice.

Gestapo tactics will continue until you stop calling us Gestopo.

I will say this: the fact that some of the “smarter“ Trump Administration goons feel compelled to offer (insincere) expressions of sympathy means they know this has the potential to be their undoing.

Ivan Ehlers, The New Yorker

I see that we are already rationalizing Dem capitulation on DHS funding in advance.

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After a little digging around, this gentleman appears to be a reliable source. I wonder if this is the kind of expert testimony that could be used in a criminal trial against a police officer claiming self-defense in a homicide related case.

Clearly a domestic terrorist.

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

Look folks, *Germany* is telling Steven Miller to cool it with the militarism.

We need to be honest with ourselves and our leaders about Venezuela We are a rogue state, a global pariah Trump is ruling as a dictator, period An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations The message for 2026 is clear: No kings! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Under Trump, we are the baddies.

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

No more standing armies.

JFC. We elected a rapist war criminal because a non-negligible number of brain-poisoned ignoramuses thought he would bring down the price of sliced cheese.

I have tried to be measured in referring to the administration as “authoritarian” or “fascist.” I agree in principle that you shouldn’t label someone a Nazi unless the person’s words or actions cannot be attributed to anything else. These people are Nazis.

I hope to outlive his sorry ass, but still …

I want to take the hand of every Democratic senator and gently tell them: "I know you're trying, but I swear to god, if we take back Congress and don't eliminate the filibuster and spend several more years telling people what we wish we could do, I'll spend every day hoping you step on LEGOs."

Biden couldn’t unilaterally forgive student loans pursuant to a new category of statutory construction made up by the SCOTUS majority. Here Trump is unconstitutionally raiding the Treasury without congressional authorization. Who will sue to block this?

What if the real measure of freedom was not needing a car at all?

The conclusion is foregone. This isn’t due process. I would appeal any decision from these kangaroo courts. Also, the only applicants for these jobs will be shitty lawyers with no morals and even fewer prospects.

The “I voted for Trump because sliced cheese is too expensive” lady lives rent free in my head. I think about her often and wonder what she would say now.

Hook’em

Occam’s Razor strongly suggested that anything bad about Trump in the Epstein files would have come out years ago. Hoo boy. I can only assume that everyone was so afraid of gored oxes that no one on either side wanted to touch it—until Trump’s people made it an issue that couldn’t be ignored.

It seems like every time I respond to people on this site (rather than just doomscrolling), there is an uptick in follows from accounts pretending to be, um, “single women looking for companionship,” shall we say. How does one prevent follows from bot accounts, assuming these are bot accounts.