Basically I think progressivism -- moving toward greater equality under law -- is moral & good, & conservatism -- preserving existing social & power hierarchies -- is bad & wrong, & furthermore, I think everyone *knows* this on some level. The thing is, being good is *hard* & often requires ...

The catastrophic descent of the Republican Party into pure hatred and authoritarianism is made so clear by this video. I was no fan of Reagan by any means, but he understood at least one key thing that Trump and his corrupt, abusive regime can never comprehend...

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

#NoKings New York

[Exit King.]

This is horrifying, but I’m glad the Wikipedians are safe. It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

This seems inconsistent.

Kinda seems like whether or not the president has the power to assassinate people with no due process, no input from Congress, no review, no oversight, and with no obligation to provide anyone with any information or evidence other than “trust me” is an important test of our democracy.

Trump claims the power to murder supposed “narcoterrorists” by fiat, without trial or evidence. In what is surely an unrelated matter, he is also calling his political opponents “terrorists”. We are nine months in.

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So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

the amount of time conservatives spend thinking about childrens genitals is legit crazy

A legend: www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

In case you had ANY doubt...

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

One of them is a state senator in Vermont. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.

Almost everyone in these chats is older than the kids chanting "Free Palestine."

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

"republicans weren't racist in early aughts" [laughs in post-9/11-brown-person]

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

is this the lady who went to the Columbia bookstore and posted a breathless vlog flipping out about how students read the Koran

So the republicans had to run Hitler because the republicans labeled a Republican as Hitler? That just sounds like you’re the Hitler party

I do vaguely remember this when it comes to Romney accusing his opponents of being Hitler www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbn...

I don’t remember the “media” doing this

a real water is wet scenario here

I am glad they did not call it a "drug boat" in the headline

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

Don't do this. Be shocked. Promote the story. I mean, come on, if you say it's old news, then people shrug.

A look at the No Kings map of where all the Saturday protests are happening shows some outside of the U.S., including in Mexico, Panama, Sweden and around Europe.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

A lot of the J6 groups came down, btw, based on FB's own calls, because of calls for violence within those groups. That got reframed as "anti-conservative censorship". What apparently happened here is that Laura Loomer got upset about some groups she thought needed to come down & DOJ made requests.

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 14th day. Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

Of course these are technicalities and what’s really happening here is a segregation effort, plain and simple 🧪⚛️🔭 Appropriate I guess given that a town near Columbus was the site of a famous redlining court case blacksky.community/profile/did:...

6/ Sure the House isn't here so Rs don't have to explain why they want premiums to go up and why they want to fund Trump's corruption. But also because they don't want to swear in member-elect Adelita Grijalva. Since she would be the deciding vote to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.