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That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Good: Pritzker calling BS, unambiguously and forcefully, on Trump’s planned invasion of Chicago, correctly identifying it as blatant rights violations based on a pretext. Bad: How much it stands out to see a leading politician do that, rather than go along with the BS, treating the pretext as real.
NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...
Now this? THIS is art.
Love how in both instances there is still rubble (and likely bodies of innocent Palestinians buried underneath). Just an utter lack of imagination to consider an option where people aren't being murdered.
If you want people to stop blaming both sides, one of the sides is going to have to stop funding the genocide. Welcome to reality.
Jesus christ what a fucking stretch
Current vibe
If anything happens to Trump, this juiceless try-hard will instantly be the softest president in American history. I am aware of the qualifications of the contenders for this title, and stand by my analysis.
I absolutely do not care about the politeness of it but the way I am wishing for this really does speak to what a corrosive time this is for my soul
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Like, a tear rolling down the cheek not a full on weep
I legitimately cried reading this, which I think says more about me than anything else, but let's just say this was very refreshing.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
yo this guy is cooking
I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.
"They want you to believe that you must choose between liberal activists and ordinary voters. But Third Way doesn’t represent ordinary voters, they represent CEOs. If you kick out the activists, Third Way’s corporate allies will step into the void."
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
I mean obviously it shouldn't, but historically if you wanna get away with murder you've just gotta engineer an indirect process that murders thousands or millions of people. The only consequences seem to be immense power and wealth.
What. The. Fuck. Did. I. Just. Read.
The ghoulish fixation on preexisting conditions and starving children in Gaza is bizarre. In all modern conflicts the death toll is measured in excess deaths. This is something I wrote about Congo's civil war almost 20 years ago:
Some people may argue with me on whether this meets the standard set, but the Locked Tomb series is so fucking good. Just unashamedly queer and funny while deeply moving. Yes there is a smidgen of romance, but it isn't centered and there are definitely not any "romantic encounters"
No. Next question
"I have to address this bullshit and confirm that I am indeed a whiny little baby."
FIGHTING BACK GETS RESULTS Don’t let the bullies convince you that standing down is the way to protect yourself. They do this so they don’t have to deal with consequences for their actions. They depend on our acquiescence. Standing up is *strategic*, not just brave. Stand up now or it keeps going.
SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.
Man, when congressional Democrats finally wake up from their comas, they're going to be *so* slightly miffed at all this
Hey gang let's all just learn html 1.0 and remake the internet from scratch
I’m seriously going to block anyone who insists their favorite Dem is now established as the one and only choice for 2028. Focus on this moment. It needs all our attention.
The real "cancel culture" is when one person backs out of plans and one by one everyone else is like "oh thank fuck" and drops out as well until the whole plan is cancelled.
This being your humiliation fetish makes a lot of sense.
Both scenarios end with Hitler you fucking moron! They are both incredibly bad. Good things are possible!
What is with you freaks and making up hypothetical reasons to vote for hitler?
Really thought they cooked with this one.
Lmao shut up loser.
Absolute loser shit
Also a lot of those words describe real phenomena for which there isn't a great substitute. Asking us to forego the word is akin to asking us to overlook the phenomenon. Just a couple examples (1/x).
Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls Political pundits:
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
this you?
If Democrats are going to win they need to stop saying things Republicans say they say www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/if-d...
Gosh, what a coincidence! It turns out that Democrats don't use those terms (though some academics do). Republicans use them more, in complaining about how Dems supposedly talk, but don't. bsky.app/profile/lemi...
Are you a credulous dipshit? yes.
Who gives a shit?
You accepting the framing is what makes it easy for them numbnuts
shut, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck up you crybaby piece of shit.
why ignore his recent actions and comments?
You said he is the one of the only people standing up to trump. how is that not boosting?
Newsome is being divisive by killing homeless people and abetting the deaths of trans americans by cosigning those republican freaks you're so worried about beating in elections. If you morons would stop trying to annoint that piece of shit, hating him won't be "divisive."
I would only do subassembly if it's especially fiddly to work around the gun once it's in the back. And then I would still fully assemble everything else first.
Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
This is so fucking pathetic.
The press is looking for large marches as a sign of resistance. What we’re doing in DC is community defense.
“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
the dems backing newsom just want a trump of their own. their not-so-ironic worship of him is less a satire of trump & his followers and more an emulation. the glee taken in doing something naughty that you imagine will annoy your enemies is part of the original package too
The BPP held an entire anti-fascist conference in Oakland in the late 60s. People are over half a century behind on the realities of what they were saying about fascism in the USA, but it also speaks to how severely their politics were suppressed.
The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.
You google it and back up your claim dumbass
You first Paul, you're the one screeching about it's crimes
This is fucking stupid Sarah.
We’ve allowed decades of open dishonesty to manifest into this moment where they’re pretty brazen about playing in our face.
watching the TX senate final debate on the redistricting map (after watching many hours of house & senate debates) i cannot stress enough how insane it feels that republicans claim to know nothing about how the map was drawn but also won't bring the map drawer to the capitol to answer any questions
The road back to open & unashamed white supremacy was paved with The Benefit Of The Doubt.
No lies detected
Not all of us, just idiots like you who ask this question.
Do you ever get tired of doing this shit?
millennials are killing the living industry
We just fucking willfully failed to understand that identity-based oppression was just as foundational to our existing system as economic injustice. We treated them as secondary injustices and we were wrong and that is why we failed.
80% of DC residents are opposed to this. The move has a net -62% approval. There’s nothing he’s embarked on that has been so universally reviled. If Democratic leaders can’t find their voices on this and oppose it, they need to step aside for ones who can.
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89
they should make Ready Player Three and its about him trying to make his kid respect Hogans Alley and Ghostbusters and his kid doesn’t and he gets old and he’s alone in a VR nursing home with all his childhood toys and Lion-O says “it’s ok. it’s time to go now” then he dies
A former CDC director on RFK Jr: "Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands...
they do not want to “solve crime” they want to punish cities for being liberal and they are succeeding at their goal
I know that it's not comfortable for the majority of all backgrounds but what we're seeing is just US policing. ICE is the NYPD, the CPD etc... on the daily.
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social: @micahloewinger.bsky.social asking @beccalew.bsky.social about some of silicon valley's technocratic right-wing roots; Buckley and George Gilder to Marc Andreesen, Futurism to Fascism. You might already know it, but i guarantee you know somebody who doesn't.
You don’t have a right to feel safe—you have a right to BE safe, which is not the same. Fascism is obsessed with perceived danger coming from every population of vulnerable and marginalized people and its only answer is to eradicate them. If you feel unsafe when you’re not, you should be asking why.
Sooner or later, everywhere makes it known that they only tolerate trans women's presence, and it's very conditional. The slightest excuse to toss us out is seized upon without hesitation. Reinstate Jessie Gender.
Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.
Lmfao
if you're suprised how stupid fascism is it was in Germany in the 30s/40s too, it's just that hollywood makes you believe that they were all extremely put together.
there's "charitable interpretation" and there's "being a mark" and the inability or refusal to distinguish between the two is practically a credential in some circles
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
I think a lot of these “perfect is the enemy of good so we’re ok with anti-trans candidates” are just privileged white people facing adversity for the first time in their entire lives and are so fucking fragile and terrified they’re willing to do anything and kill anyone to protect themselves.
Been seeing people say that this is a sign of regime weakness not strength. But spectacle is a big part of fascism and humans aren't brave. The point of this in a visual age is to ensure that people think 'if they do this for something so petty, then there's no way I'll do anything'
Schrödinger's humanities: Simultaneously moribund and dying in a world in which students increasingly only want to major in STEM and business, and also so powerful that they can inculcate dangerous, subversive ideologies like gender theory and post-colonialism in impressionable young people.
🎯So obvious & fundamental: We're FAR beyond having a constitutional crisis. That would entail still having things working in opposition that have already collapsed. Constitutional failure is what we're experiencing.
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
Some cis people might think John Boyne's opinion sounds reasonable. He says that trans women's rights should come second to cis women's rights when they conflict. The problem is the "conflict" with cis women's rights is that a small number of cis women hate trans women and don't want to see them.
Man Relaxing His Overwhelming Anxiety For Just A Moment Finally Gives Pack Of Coyotes The Opening They Need theonion.com/man-rel...
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