It also reminds me of stock trading. Their strategy is tied to a gamble of what they think will perform well rather than any set of morals, ethics, and principles of justice. It’s a replication of Wall Street capitalism. It’s hollow gamification.

Great to hear respected, not-radical normie liberals talk about what’s obviously wrong with the Democratic Party now but it would be even better if any of them reckoned with how they responded to people who said the same things for the last 10-20-30 years.

This chart is actually very useful for conveying where the median elite opinion around Trump’s policies were/may be

I'm re-upping an old post in light of deployment of troops w/ authorization for "full force" to Portland. Here's Hegseth talking about Portland in his 2024 book, where he elsewhere describes such cities as enemy territory. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...

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)

Centrists like to argue that it’s better for corporations to control us than it is for our democratic state to control corporations. That’s how you get fascism, folks, by running your government like a corporation.

Every right wing accusation is a confession.

How it started // How it’s going

None of this works without a call to action, and Democratic leaders absolutely will not lead a mass action against their donors. Democratic Party leadership is captured by big business.

Soon after Obama’s first election, a DHS analyst noticed an escalation in terrorist threats by the far right, but his reports were shut down. Why? Because conservative media outlets framed the findings as an attack on the right—and we're experiencing the ramifications of it today. trib.al/GXrqxK7

"The Democratic Party is facing a crisis of leadership" Agree: 82% Disagree: 13% AtlasIntel / Sept 16, 2025

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Y’all have to understand and absorb the fact the leadership of the Democratic Party has purposefully defined themselves against this person and what they believe she represents for decades now.

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

Centrism and corporations respond the same way to fascism because they are bound by the same ideology that is detached from people and attached to power and money.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during Ronald Reagan’s term.

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Watching this video makes me feel ill. These people know they are twisting the truth and manipulating people. They are paid to do so, and they take the money without an ounce of shame. Psychopathy is lucrative in this country.

By this logic, the very first murder in the US would have nullified everyone’s constitutional rights.

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

Starting to block every account in my feed that is still complaining about how people voted in November. Completely counterproductive.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I have 3 kids under 8 who love to watch Disney Plus. We've been subscribers since the service started. I just canceled our subscription due to ABC's cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel. Will you join me?

I'm beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting comedians make transphobic, sexist, violent, racist jokes without professional consequences wasn't about protecting the freedom to make jokes.

I will not give into Doomerism. Fuck that shit. That’s just collaboration under the shroud of doing something. They want you to spiral and feel like a ghost. That’s how they win. Don’t let the fuckers win.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

I canceled subscriptions to Disney, Hulu, ESPN+, etc. Any corporation not willing to stand up for basic rights isn’t worthy of my business.

It’s pretty crazy that this administration wants to charge minors as adults, but not adults for abusing minors.

I’m seeing more celebrities with the same chin implant. They all look related. Weird times.

Ezra Klein chalking up racism to disagreements feels incredibly emblematic of why we’re here in this position at this moment in time

This is cowardice. He’s throwing vulnerable communities under the bus.

Hosts of Newsmax and Fox News shows are still claiming the alleged shooter of MN legislators was a leftist. They are trying to make the case that all political violence is on the left to justify its repression.

Journey into the whirlwind

Yep. Centrists aren’t the center. They’re glued to the right, and when the right goes far right fascist, they’re nothing more than mediators for fascism.

Tired: Hollywood needs to keep politics out of awards shows Wired: Hollywood needs to add my politics to their awards shows

The irony of religious parents refusing to vaccinate their kids is: vaccines are medical miracles.

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.   Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.   Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

The people really believe they would get into Heaven supporting racist hate and a law that allows mass child murders when there is a choice.

The same people deep in their feelings over jokes about a dead Nazi are the ones who were cheering at the thought of people being eaten by alligators a month ago

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.