Something I wonder about re leftists with right wing parents is whether believing “the Democrats are the root of all evil” becomes a way to simultaneously step away from the parents’ politics while preserving an essential bridge of agreement. It seems like a tough needle to thread.

5 authors I've read at least five books by: Simon Kurt Unsworth Caitlin R. Kiernan Gemma Files Laird Barron @orringrey.com

"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone." -James Baldwin

Your occasional reminder that we are still less than a year out from Mr. Popularism himself Matthew Yglesias insisting it was of the utmost political expedience for Democrats to simply allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be disappeared to a foreign country and tortured to death

It’s hard to really understand Jesse Jackson’s role in history without also understanding the rapidly narrowing political horizons of the 1980s. They made “keep hope alive” into a punchline, but in 1988 it was an urgent and necessary task.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies “of course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?” every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.

Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:

I mean, they’re fair questions

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

The uniforms may have had to remove Louverture, but the ambassador made sure they took his picture in front of Jean-Jacques Dessalines 🫡

Reminds me of:

Every single Democrat that voted for, or worse, signed onto Laken Riley knew exactly what they were doing: Collaborating. They thought Trump's win was a sign of a generational shift in the electorate. They were wrong. And it's had devastating consequences. They should admit it.

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

the Minneapolis activists really have learned from 2020 too. they didn't try and fight the last battle again. extraordinary discipline.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

One thing I hope people take the time to acknowledge: The sea change in public opinion has been achieved because violence, though encourage by a lot of people here online, was never once employed by the movement. Violence was solely the purview of the state and that is why the state is losing.

Kevin and Liberal Currents were saying it when it wasn’t as popular, when big media sneered at the use of the f-word as immoderate and academic anti-anti-fascists mocked liberals from the left. Consider giving your time, attention, and money to the people who have been getting this right.

Remember who you are, liberal.

They’re killing observers because they are threatened by them. the work these people are doing is profoundly brave. They’re all heroes.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

When you look back across the bloody expanse of American history, you will see Americans at every moment fighting hard for a better, more just tomorrow. Seeing how they fought and what they won, I do not have a moral right to despair.

Muhammad Ali was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, KY.

we are watching in real-time as normal people are radicalized by the fascist occupation of an American city and meanwhile the Chatterton classes are still getting paid to warn us that Democrats need to move away from wokeness or forever lose those same people

the sort of liminal space american politics exists in rn — a fed govt that *wants to be* fascist and *is* doing a ton of violence/damage but is also very clearly outnumbered and losing battles left and right in elections, courts, the streets — is i think hard for a lot of us to get our heads around

I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history. The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership

By God, we are going to win

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.

alright last thing before i try to sign off for the day- but i think part of the reason they are getting more and more aggressive, the reason they keep sending in more troops is that the community defense is working.

white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Inshallah

this is what they do in broad daylight, on camera what's happening in the detention facilities we're not allowed to see?

“You can’t kill us all. You can’t kill us all, Nazis. You can’t kill us all.”

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

Genuinely find this upsetting to watch. It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men

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I credit @dieworkwear.bsky.social ‘s high rise advocacy with me finally figuring out why I hated how I looked in photos.

When "confused" Trump supporters say "I thought he was just gonna deport the criminals" you need to remember we arent talking about criminals as a legal term. We are talking about criminals as a *social* classification.

I do think the handwringing about the Kennedy Center boycott is at least a little bit the sublimated anxiety about the potential social consequences of elite capitulation under Trump II

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

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