"More violence, more force, more repression" is the answer. What was the question again?

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

If they really do kill USPS, they're gonna take out a lot of old and/or disabled folks with it. So many people rely on mailed prescriptions. Some health plans also require folks to receive recurring prescriptions this way.

Leaving aside how rude it is to bring up Pearl Harbor here, he's taking a question about how the US didn't alert its *allies* about a surprise attack and responding with a complaint that Japan didn't alert *the target* of its surprise attack.

Does Ryan Coogler have some deaf/ASL connection? He just did ILY but then also did a clear, intentional "thanks" in ASL.

If I have the administration's current argument right, they have achieved a clear and decisive victory in Iran *and* they desperately need other countries to come bail them out of the mess they've made?

I hate when something is funny enough to skeet but not funny enough to bear the weight of contextual information.

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

🚨NEWS: Democrat Andy Thomson has won the Boca Raton mayoral race by just ONE vote. 🔵 Thomson — 7,568 🔴 Liebelson — 7,567 With 100% of votes in, Thomson becomes the first Democratic mayor of Boca Raton in over 30 years. One vote decided the election.

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

The economy wasn’t doing great before Iran and it sure isn’t doing well now. Fool’s Golden Age. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

The woman at the center of Ted Carter's resignation has an LLC registered to WOSU's headquarters and created a single podcast featuring Ted Carter and JobsOhio chief PJ Nauseef that earned 137 YouTube views in two months. www.rooster.info/p/krisanthe-...

This fool's spring is advancing too quickly! Go back buds, you're in danger! Nooo, tiny leaves, you're gonna freeze in a week!

DHS made a massive purchase of 2,500 new custom marked ICE vehicles that are now sitting in parking garages because nobody wants to use them: “ICE has never had marked vehicles. We don’t want to use these - we can’t.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immig...

Lots of folks cling to the idea that this comes down to Biden's inability to "sell" these accomplishments. I'm sorry, though, that's pure cope. Whiny resentfulness toward Dems & cities is *constitutive* of the RW worldview today, not something that can be turned on & off with policy.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

A writer-director asked me for a meeting because they were worried I was going to derail their film's Oscar hopes. I didn't recant, the movie still got (way too many) Oscars.

Update: The analysis in my article this AM explored what would happen if you moved all voters toward the "Dems strong" and "moderate" sides equally. But a better counterfactual would account for the fact that many more voters see Dems as weak than extreme — so strength moves more voters. Here's that

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Trump illegally imposed billions in tariffs (taxes) on U.S. corporations. Much of those costs were passed onto consumers. The corporations might get their money back. You never will.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

Not the first, second, through ~seventeenth most important points related to this but my deaf heart is enjoying all of this whining and scrambling about a lack of access. Transcripts! Captions! What is he SAYING?!

WSJ reports: Whistleblower complaint that has stalled under Gabbard pertains to Jared Kushner. About an intercepted call that "at least in part concerned issues related to Iran" in which 2 people talk about Kusher with allegations that "would be significant if verified." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

To sum this up bluntly: if you send out weather vanes into a particular audience & they come back as racist shitheads, it's because the audience is full of racist shitheads. Trump, Carlson, all these folks: they are shitty because the voters who put them there & support them are shitty.

Whoa. Dems just flipped a Texas state senate seat in a district that Trump carried by 17 points. Not only that, but the win was decisive, making this an enormous swing. Plus, Republicans went all in to try to save the seat, to no avail.

Team USA Sneaks ASL Anti-ICE Protest Into Snow Sculpture #ICEoffOurStreets

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Hi guys - I know this is controversial among rapid responders, but I think it’s important: if you knew Alex Pretti, please consider talking to (real) reporters like Sam here. They are not trying to harm us or his reputation but they can push back against right-wing lies if we tell them the truth.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.

Blood in the water. U.S. Sen. John Curtis: Republican of Utah U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo: Republican of Idaho

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover. If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

But that only works as long as those rule-bound systems *exist*, as long as people engage in & expect rule-bound behavior. That is to say: Trump can only succeed because of a system other people built. He can only get ahead acting shamelessly because others have shame.

One thing that doesn't get articulated enough about reactionaries like Trump is that they are fundamentally parasitic. Yes, you can get ahead, temporarily, by acting without shame in a rule-bound system, because other people expect rule-bound behavior. You can "stun" the system into passivity.

You don't have to know anything about what the Supreme Court says to understand that the federal government has no legal warrant extort through violence what it is not legally entitled to under constitution and law.

Tired and cranky but gonna do it any way!!

My favorite part the CEO’s asking the murderers to work with the murdered to bring down the murders

The key to the far right’s recent ascendence is the realization that if they simply go on traditional or social media and describe things that are completely false but they’d prefer to be true, many people will treat this fictitious reality as, at least, a competing theory that must be dignified.

This is absolutely true. There’s a massive infrastructure here, tens of thousands of quiet heroes. A thousand Alex Prettis patrolling every day, sometimes without incident, all knowing that at any moment something horrible could happen. Countless neighbors feeding their neighbors

“A federal judge in Minnesota has blocked the Trump administration from ‘destroying or altering evidence’ related to today's fatal shooting of Pretti.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

They're not paupers in the street, Brian, it's a government contract. Companies decide not to pursue gov't contracts because they don't fit the company's strategy.... all the time. The right to refuse to house gov't forces is also written into the Constitution. So, yes. I very much do want that.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

"As of Saturday evening, the family said they had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death."

WTF is she talking about? Our country opposed the creation of a national police force into the 20th century, largely for the reasons we are seeing now. Congress didn’t even give the FBI arrest powers or the ability to carry firearms until 1934 (it was created in 1908)

It's tempting to say all of MAGA is alike, and getting off watching these snuff videos. And yes, many of them are. But I know these people. They're family. There's a reason Trump lies, instead of saying "neener neener we will kill whoever we want." They need the delusion. Make it hard for them.