I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

#NoKings protesters take over city plaza in downtown Reno.

Every parade has the right to exist

when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west

I liked how Brazilian Army forces fighting in Italy in WW2 had a shoulder patch of a snake smoking a pipe.

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

"China is ditching the dollar, fast," per the Economist.

>not a veteran >wall full of challenge coins

the singular failure of the Biden era was not jailing Trump and his high-level coup plotters for that crime while Biden controlled the federal government; this failure is manifest now in Trump having blanket permission to rule as a king from SCOTUS and the default loyalty of federal police. Hell!

another day working at the sisyphus job site. everybody’s trying to fuck the boulder.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

The NCGOP will lie right to your face and say they believe in equal rights while actively undermining basic civil rights. Debating them is like playing make-believe. #ncpol

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

so for those keeping tally, so far today we had: SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated trump saying domestic violence is nbd trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing

ok, the only time this is allowed

Pump this right into my brain god bless America

True facts stated

Shoulder brace for a stroke hemiplegic shoulder sublaxation

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

It’s not looking good.

are the gop trying to wipe out all life

I really think we need to have some mechanism in place for being able to say, in print and in the media, that a problem with a public figure is that they are insane. Not in a hyperbolic way. RFK Jr is a maniac.

watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of

"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.

Hear, hear

If only

Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

The NYT editors are meeting every day, workshopping a passive voice phrase for Martial Law

#antifa, #zionism, #judaism, #rabbiyaakovshapiro, #antifascism, #antifascist

Going to college and getting ChatGPT to write your essay is like going to the gym to watch YouTube videos of other people working out

been thinking a lot about this holy scripture lately

I say this in he most objective way possible: The Supreme Court is shit.

A reckoning is coming between the wing of the Democratic Party that is willing and able to confront the rise of American authoritarianism with the strategy and tactics that it demands and those who are not. And it is obvious to me which side of that fight the party's base is going to be on.

gavin newsom is mitt romney's tyler durden

Why is it always "Do you regret not voting for the lesser evil genocidal candidate?" and not "Do you regret your party committing genocide?"

Michael Brooks would have turned 42 today. Here he is flawlessly explaining why the Israel Palestine situation is not complicated. Why it's not even asymmetrical warfare, but an occupation. Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.

Wince cringe fucking fuck

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