(whispering): the Dems are actually pretty good at legislating in the minority

My terror? Balanced.

YOU’RE A LOOSE CANNON, STANCIL! Yeah?! Well maybe that’s just what this city needs!

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

🎶 Are you on the square? Are you on the level? Are you ready to stand, right here, right now, before the devil? 🎶

No one: The Bible:

And the one on the left seems like they’d be fun to hang out with. And while the right continues to insist that liberals can’t meme, it does not escape me that OP’s entire argument against being “raised by Kamala” is “haha this person dresses funny.” 🙄

Talia wants folks to pay attention to Talia, first and foremost. She should not be listened to, as doing so will fatally undermine your cause.

Political action is for taking power and effecting change, not achieving self-actualization through selfless service to the Cause.

None of these people appear to understand how any of this works. The point of filming ICE and publicizing their brutality is *to radicalize the public against that brutality and eventually put a stop to the violence,* not to bear silent witness to that violence as a kind of personal penance.

if you can't see how advising people to hide their identities while engaging in First Amendment protected speech and spreading the idea that you should regularly try to conceal who you are while doing things you have the right to do is diametrically opposed to resisting fascism you are lost

or you could attend a protest secure in the knowledge that if they prosecute you for it, they're violating your First Amendment rights&it's better for you to be targeted than an immigrant,and that people will stand behind you up to you, depends on if you want to preserve democracy or just look cool

if you start acting like dissent is a crime,*you make that true* i’m not a “everything is COINTELPRO”person obviously, but if you want to know the thing i think is MOST LIKELY to be an EFFECTIVE government op to suppress dissent,it’s absolutely you losers agreeing with Trump that protest is a crime

Picard leadership tip: If your people are in need of a better example to follow, and if you are confident you can be that example, then consider, really consider, postponing your retirement.

This is an NCR household, goddamnit. And I’m glad someone is finally acknowledging that they’re the Good Guys.

You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.

Like the Kimmel thing, going after Lemon will also backfire. Still bad of course but its bad in a way that will actually make "narrative setters" pretend to care too

This is quite bad but I think it is very important to realize this is them lashing out because they are weak and desperate, this isn’t a show of strength or confidence

Really not trying to downplay the seriousness of journalists being arrested for doing journalism but the DOJ clearly did this for content purposes. It won't stick legally. It'll do numbers online though. The engagement will be tremendous.

the ENDS OF THE EARTH lol. This in a nutshell is why these people are appalling and corrosive and wicked AND why they're absurd and doomed. I mean, DON LEMON? The ends of the earth?

they did it in los angeles at night to make sure he had to actually spend time in jail even though he will bond out as soon as possible and their charges will not stick

Is "make most everyone in the country angrier and angrier at you by continually doubling down on all the stuff they hate" a good electoral strategy? Tune in this November to find out!

"but we have to abolish ICE" yes i agree with you, that can and should be your 2026 campaign motto, let's do the best we can to keep the issues salient even if and when ICE does in fact retreat under new scrutiny. in the meantime, fucking do what you need to to keep your communities safe.

to be clear this happening is immediate, conclusive proof that the Senate GOP is fracturing hard over this and willing to join the Democrats on *very real, important demands* the Dems are making w/r/t restricting ICE's activity

Donald Trumps father never loved him and he's gonna keep on making it the entire worlds problem on a daily basis for whatever brief number of years he's got left

I know this is screaming into the void at this point but we cannot get rid of ICE until 2029 at the minimum bc thats how much longer Trump (or Vance) is president until. Anyone telling you we can abolish it "right now" is lying to you—but its v clear a lot of ppl on this site prefer to be lied to

Reposting this so I can find it again.

Like everyone on this site, I want DHS and ICE gone. I also know that’s not happening before 2029, and harm reduction is all that Congressional Dems can do until then. Ginning up anger at the opposition for not being able to achieve the impossible is harmful, actually.

The only road to accomplish this runs through the Democrats taking both houses of Congress in eleven months and this asshole is doing his utmost to ensure the Democrats are as unpopular as possible by demanding the impossible

increasingly convinced an underappreciated divide on here is between people who are managing their mood disorders effectively and those who aren't

Whichever publication is first to do a “How to explain to your small children that it’s not always sad when someone dies” article after it happens will have my subscription money for life.

(Battle Hymn of The Republic intensifies)

The only unequivocally good Absolute DC comic. Absolute Batman’s done interesting things, but by and large the whole line other than this one comes off like it was written by overcaffeinated 14 year olds who consider sex and violence mature in themselves. This one’s gimmick is that she was (1/2)

Not even two in a row, either. Goddamn.

Deeply fucking tired actually of how every time there's a Republican in office things are five alarm fire bad and people are ripping their hair out in agony, and every time there's a Democrat in office things are actually really good, and our brain damaged voting public insists the choice is hard.

The Internet was based on Ben Franklin's notes* so it's really from 1780 basically. * The notes in question: "It woulde be agreeable to My Conftitution if, upon my Confeption of looking upon a comely maiden bereft of Clothef, I could conjure a clear Picture of thif upon a mirror Promptly."

Robot taxis you can befriend! Tattoo parlors, but for cybernetic enhancements that would be considered military hardware in real life!

11 points underwater with men! (Cackles maniacally, dances).

In all seriousness: there is an easy way to make yourself the base of the Democratic Party. Vote for them in every election, even off year ones, even local ones. Congratulations, you are now the base.

Younger generations have fallen out of love with DHS because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the department represents. Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with fascism

If Border Patrol abuses this restraint to wreak havoc within 100 miles of the border, then that will be an impetus to put a tighter leash on them yet.

"Well, you see, when Democrats propose to restrain Border Patrol by demanding they be limited to the border, this would give them free reign over Michigan, so they want to sacrifice-" The aim is to get some restraints on DHS now, not lay out a perfect solution for people to jack off over.

What I thinks coalescing rn is to use the DHS bill to reign in immediate abuses by ICE/CBP in the near term while the longterm goal is dismantling ICE—which is where the momentum clearly is w Dems & voters but cant be done until the next trifecta. Ppl on this site are just so addicted to losing tho

also I feel like I’m going crazy because it was very specifically normie resist liberals who were losing their minds about Trump from day one while leftists adopted this “well really he’s no more or less bad than the rest of the grand sweep of US imperialism” shtick

these are significant asks that would make a big difference

meanwhile woke 2.0 is simply “prosecute these Nazi fucks”

Good thread. Read it, listen to it.

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

The next Dem president to their cabinet: