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

Oops

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

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Today is the 85th anniversary of Captain America! December 20, 1940, was the publication date of Captain America Comics #1. Created by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby.

It's your birthday, Duane.

Years ago I was on a jury with a guy who worked in food safety at FDA. I asked him what I should avoid and he told me to never, ever eat bean sprouts.

RETVRN

Since it came up recently, I have (obviously) written a lot about movies, and am actively looking for work doing extras for Blu-ray releases and the like, if anyone ever needs anything like that.

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

Woo is a reactionary force. Its association with hippies concealed this for a long time, but it has always been true.

you'll spend your entire life thinking "that's not her, not really" and pushing the thought away. you'll never truly grieve. you'll become attached to a simulacrum, something that isn't your grandmother & never was; it will eventually replace her in your memory. you will live in hell before you die

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

@thewrongstation.bsky.social, “Palaces Below”

This is very true. I’m a union steward, and when I guide people to accommodations I am careful to frame it as being for “any disability or other health issue of any duration”. Employees are a lot more open to that framing than when I described it as a disability of any duration.

Christian bracket: Hark the Herald Angels Sing Secular bracket: have yourself a merry little Christmas

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I know it’s weird, but for years now I’ve found reminding myself that I’m going to die one day to be immensely liberating. Is this floral print insufficiently butch? Will it be weird if I skip this work happy hour? Who gives a shit, I’m a mortal man and the clock is ticking.

I’d failed as an academic and needed to get a new job to make rent. I applied because the posting specified the number of openings as “many.”

Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser

The comics industry is fickle, ungrateful, and brutally uncaring. Help Mike Barr if you can.

Oh no not uhhhhh Stacey Plaskett, the non voting delegate from the Virgin Islands

yeah. it sounds ghoulish but “the content must flow, i don’t care if he is rewarding someone who had my colleague bone-saw’d” is literally accurate

There’s a kind of facile cynicism that is functionally indistinguishable from rank credulity

It's Friday night baby

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.

Panels that go hard: “Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.

I’ve said it a million times, the courage and virtue needed to stand up and say “no, this is wrong” is found all but exclusively among ordinary people like us. It’s far from ideal, but it might be enough.

In important ways, the tension between the Dem base and electeds (especially in the Senate, especially in leadership) amounts to the base taking rhetoric from electeds seriously, and judging the electeds accordingly. That is, are we fighting fascism or not?

Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it