In fairness some of those that MAGA oppresses do love the boot, but they’re the white working class Trump voters wearing the red cap. It’s actually pretty creepy

Legacy media did not fail this country. Defending or helping this country was its remit. It has succeeded in service to its billionaire lords. Its actual purpose

Noah rightly points out that the funding regime in this country is the root problem of educational inequality (a crucial but often overlooked point) and also points out how much a crap shoot education/“success” is anyway

Great piece but I think it doesn’t go far enough. It’s not just that “some innocents matter more than others” (ie fetuses). Even they are cover for a mechanism to control women through controlling their bodies. So in essence no innocents really matter to American right wing “Christian’s”

Craig has a great point here: it’s almost worse for Speaker Johnson to have *actually* not seen this frankly quite consequential speech rather than lie about it to avoid having to comment

I think Democrats should be forced to confront pretty much anything Noah says about politics. Noah’s worth more than every overpriced political consultant Dems listen too and it’s not even close.

Excellent leadership Governor. Please more like this! (Like Pritzker too!)

Jeffries just sorta like “Ok bro well let you do a little fascism if you pinky promise to not put healthcare into the wood chipper. We totes trust you! 😀 “ Profile in courageous leadership

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

The things in Trump’s cabinet are national security risks

And as Noah has persuasively argued elsewhere, those whom act most concerned about this “crisis” are not really interested in helping men in concrete ways that would actually benefit their well being

The most silent point in this post is that Capitalism is the force behind the white supremacist assault on America. Racism (& misogyny, transphobia etc) is the useful instrument but ultimately it’s the wealthy conspiring to gain control through abhorrent ideologies

Ellie’s right (as usual). When I was in high school my mom was the education reporter for the biggest paper in the county. The superintendent and others officials hated her cause she accurately reported in their frequent incompetence. Which is exactly what she was supposed to do

It’s almost as if journalists are somehow on the side of the right wing… 🤔

Brilliant post, chef’s kiss 💋

I love you Aaron, but it’s not that we aren’t a “sane” country, it’s that we’re a deeply white supremacist country and Capitalist oligarchs are taking advantage of that to consolidate power

What republicans really accused Biden of was working as VP to a black man.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Noah’s got a great point here - Trump doesn’t “believe” in anything, in the sense that any sane person who isn’t a malignant narcissist could possibly comprehend. It’s a useless exercise to try to determine what he “believes”

Wow. I thought this guy was pathetic before and all but this is really reprehensible. What an absolute schmuck

“Face us you coward” is about all I have to say to god. But that which does not exist cannot answer your resentful taunts…

I saw something like this in college once. On a beach in Panama Cith Beach during spring break and old guy was carrying a cross like this with a wheel. At the time it was absurd to me, but even that guy had it harder cause of the beach sand. This cross surely glided over the smooth floor easily

When you see it through the lens of White Supremacy it totally makes sense. They live white supremacy more than America, democracy, their own children, etc.

Man I hope if Kimmel’s show is actually reinstated that he just totally puts the thumbscrews on Disney and extracts maximum pain from thwm

Basically, but also more specifically only white people in Trump’s America are real citizens, indeed real human beings at all.

Because (ultimately) Capitalism that’s why

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

Seems 100% clear that he is unable to identify the truth and only believes his own fantasies

I agree - but the thing is that the people that would be livid at no consequences will not be eager to murder their political opponents, but the people who would be livid at.consequences will definitely be seeking violence. I still support consequences but we have to be clear about what that means

Bending the knee just means your knees will be sore when they get around to executing you

I want to suggest that it does not reveal a failure but rather a success. The media has successfully paired with fascists. They were never trying to report the truth and somehow failed in that. They successfully are carrying water for the powers that be

Nichols is right - this administration isn’t even considering what is “legal” or not. It’s utterly irrelevant in their minds

DS9 was staging a timely and clever commentary on the “conservatism” of the times and its (potentially) logical endpoint. That the writers vastly underplayed the horrors that the right has in fact generated is not their fault. They could scarcely have imagined the horrifying place we’ve ended up

In grad school I learned of the notion of an “atrocity producing situation” - atrocities might not be explicit official policy or the order of higher ups per se, but eventualities that inexorably proceed from the circumstances that have been put into place. Many trump nightmares follow this pattern

When STEVEN FREAKING KING says your book is “my God, so dark” I just cannot even imagine a more powerful endorsement

Bill Kristol is regularly showing more bravery and moral clarity on a whole variety of really important issues than nearly any elected Democratic I can think of (excepting Pritzker)

100% of all homeless men (& women) are human beings who deserve life. I don’t care how many of them are veterans and the implication that vets somehow have more of a right to live is kind of sickening to be honest

I think the energetic FUCK YOU from various groups of ordinary folks not in government is also an important and encouraging factor here

I wouldn’t say that it’s a failure to learn from history. It’s willful distortion of history to serve ideological and partisan purposes. They lie and try to slander the left to prevent the support of left policies.

I love Jorts dearly but it’s low key depressing that our sweet lil orange guy has to allude to the potential that we in the US A in the year 2025 have reason to fear being disappeared to horrifying places for what we might say

A not particularly reassuring parallel might be Saddam Hussein. He was supported by a minority but managed to be a dictator for a long time. Without the US dislodging him, one wonders how much longer he might have remained a despised autocrat

Seems like the takeaway here is to fight back very vocally like Pritzker has been doing 🤔

💯 Finally a politician who is saying what smart people have been saying this whole time.

I only just now learned that the members of The Ramones were not, in fact, brothers. None of them. I feel like I should turn in my punk rock membership card in shame

Such a sick burn. 10/10 no notes

Wish this was the case but fascist cult of personality demagogues have remarkably resilient fan bases. Franco, Peron, Hitler even have enthusiastic supporters still despite the ruin they inflicted on their own people and others

But he’s a white supremacist like them and that’s all that really matters in the end

It was the same for me but the University of Florida and no guaranteed sinecures

Well you can tell by the way I walk and walk / Hey I'm walkin' man / I'm trying to walk

They will? I mean I hope so but I’m sorta doubtful