This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
"The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
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This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
I don't completely agree. Sure, they used to, but they probably also still do.
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is there an amount of guacamole that might be considered "dangerous" asking for a friend
In case it's not clear, it was never about rounding up undocumented people or crime. It's about totalitarianism and suppressing dissent in blue cities and beyond. #Trump #ICE #Protests #NationalGuard #Tyranny www.yahoo.com/news/article...
I hope Trump's body double wins an Oscar. He's pulling off the pile-of-shit look beautifully.
I still can't believe RFK Jr said this in front of Congress and he's still in charge of public health.
Jfc
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No medical experience but probably an expert on agent of consent laws. #Trump #CDC #Thiel The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory | Fortune share.google/Y3Yi32JSf3FO...
How dare she say something true!
He's not lying.
There is no way on earth that T**mp is not all over the Epstein files. No fucking way.
Don't disagree. The Democrats are not left. Corporatist, right wing, pro status quo. Not what we need.
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Are you intent on fighting them or intent on changing their minds?
I don't disagree, but the trans community needs people who r going to fight the long game 4 their rights & protection. That effort needs allies. I'm not saying that's Newsom, but I am saying that trying to push away rather than change his supporters 3 years out from an election is counterproductive
Well, towards the end both sides seem pretty angry hostile, though the people disagreeing with you started ugly & got worse). Just an observation & I get the frustration. Maybe block them?
Seems counter-productive for people on the Left to tear each other apart over a potential candidate three years out from the election (assuming there is one). A lot can & will change. Maybe we should work on building coalitions rn to even get a chance at it? Everyone cares.
It's so you don't get any ideas about actually doing anything.
Huh. What's even worse is that apparently this guy was at the center of a child sex trafficking ring. Maybe some newspaper should implore him to step down or for Congress to impeach him for the good of the country or something. Just spitballing here.
For instance, a definition would look like this: Baseball: noun A ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia. Can you give me something like that?
I don't think I can. I'm not the expert and I don't think data on biologically intersex people was collected. Do you have any? That's why I'm asking you what the definition of woke is, but so far this is about gender or sex? It must be much more simple so help me out.
I'm glad you're confident. That's why you'll be so helpful for me. To understand "woke," it sounds like I have to be able to tell "absurd science" from "not-absurd science?" How do I do that?
Sex is a biological category, while gender is a social and cultural one. The two categories are often interconnected, but they are not the same. Or, are you saying that they are the same and any belief that they are not is absurd and therefore "woke?"
Sorry, but I still don't understand. Let's take your assertion that there are only 2 genders. Given that the definition of gender is separate from the definition of sex, some number beyond the binary has been generally accepted by science. So, you're saying science = absurd = woke?
OK. So, when something seems absurd to you because you disagree with it, it is woke? So, for some people all religion is woke because they find it absurd. Or, say, Two men getting married? Or, eating Pork? So, we have: Woke: that which someone deems absurd. Do I have it?
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OK, I see. So if I went to the OED, I'd see: "Woke: the acceptance of the absurd as normal." So, Benny Hill was woke? Hmm. That's odd. I'm still not getting it. Perhaps you can give me a concrete example of woke?
Oh, interesting. I'm going to get finally learn what "woke" is. Please define it.
Unless we get admin officials or legislation targeting trans people referencing the shooter, I do not feel a need to cover the identity of a monstrous murderer. The same people who hated us before hate us today and will tomorrow. Should concrete actions necessitate coverage, I'll cover as always.
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With all the cruelty and hate that emanates from this regime and its supporters, it feels like kindness is a revolutionary act. Our current leaders speak to what's worst in us, when what we need are leaders who will talk to what's best in us. #Kindness #WeCanDoBetter #WhatYouFeed
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Anyone else think it's just a little weird that our country's health policy now comes from a guy who mainlined smack and ate road kill for the better part of 2 decades?
Pretty sure a lot of his constituents didn't vote for this or him. They'll certainly be hurt by this. #MikeJohnson #SOTH #Louisiana #ClassWar #Poverty www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook? This is excellent from @paulwaldman.bsky.social Also ties into what I see as Trump's "genius," his ability to personify how the politics of strategic racism are inseparable from corruption.
Remember folks, one illegal immigrant is one too many. One gunned down child is just a random Wednesday in America. #Guns #NRA #GOP
JFC, does that mushbrain even know where his is? Come on, CNN. Do him like you did Biden. #Trump #Putin #Ukraine
This is the stupidest timeline & ICE are the stupidest people. #ICE #Trump #Facepalm #Firefighters #Washington #PantsOnHeadStupid www.firerescue1.com/police/feder...
We can do something, yet we actively *choose* not to. We have chosen to protect unfettered access to firearms & we accept the cost of that in lives. Of course, we abhor it, gnash our teeth, wring hands, pray, get angry. Whatever. But, at the end of the day, we pay. We don't have to. #Minneapolis
We can do something, yet we *choose* not to. It's an active choice. We have chosen to protect unfettered access to firearms & we accept the cost of that in lives. Of course, we abhor it, gnash our teeth, wring hands, pray, get angry. Whatever. But, at the end of the day, we pay. We don't have to.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
How did not a single one of them stand up and say "Sorry, I just can't do this."?
Pretty, but I think you mean the Gulf of Donald Trump is on the Epstein List.
This is a great question. Can someone ask Whiskeyleaks in the Signal chat?
How do you say "Gulf of Tonkin" in Spanish, por favor? #Trump #Venezuela #WagTheDog #BS www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
People are put off Woody Allen by his appearance in Moscow? Wow - it was the pedophelia that put me off him decades ago.
As the grandson, son, and husband of strong women and a father of daughters, I am reflecting on how far we’ve come on women’s rights and how much further we need to go this Women's Equality Day.
Again.
The Lord replied, "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when you upgraded to Jesus Premium."
They're doing their part. Would you like to know more?
They literally could not indict a ham sandwich. #ICE #Subway #Grandjury www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The International Postal Treaty is one of the most successful international agreements in human history. And the Mangomaniac is burning it down. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl... #Trump #Msil #PostalService #USPS
JFC #Trump #ICE
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Why not both?
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Let's hope. But, meanwhile, I would really like the Democrats and all of us push hard and not wait for everything to fall apart. The Left needs to offer people something to work towards.
I found this inspiring #Resistance #Progress www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6bv3cH7/
OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
Snoop Dog, being scared of a same sex couple in an animated movie, is not very gangster.
I have a dog that has a comically long tongue. Whenever she's got it fully extended, I can't keep from laughing. I feel the same way with that ridiculously large flag at the White House.
Concert outside the White House! #cdnpoli
100% Totally agree!
Look, I get it. I want him gone as much as anyone. However, remember: he's just the guy the Heritage Foundation & Billionaires are using to get what they want. Vance is waiting in the wings to do it all more quietly (but probably just as stupidly). Hope, for me, would be the Dem leaders standing up
Also, they might ask, if you feel bullied or harassed, why you haven't blocked me. Personally, when someone pushes back on my intellectual ideas, I feel neither bullied or harassed. If you do, it could be worth exploring those feelings. I just came to talk. You certainly didn't.
Lol, I'll let my wife know that we're divorced but she might be shocked. Only you are the one who is calling me all sorts of terrible things and responding to simple points with rage, anger and unhinged wishes of violence towards people you disagree with. You need a mirror, my friend.
Let's recap: 1. To show you a potential downside of ideological rigidity, I mentioned that even John Brown had his skeletons. 2. You totally freaked out and denied it. 3. You went & looked it up & found me to be correct. 4. You couldn't handle that, so you kept spinning. You need to admit this.
Disagreeing with you while you swear at me and call me names is trolling. Got it. I keep encouraging you to block me if you feel so harassed yet you don't. Fascinating. I'll keep pushing back politely on your attempts to hurt the Left and Trans people. Hope you don't mind.
Wrong again. So confident yet so seldom in doubt. Just like Trump.
I'm no Eisenhower, but I'm pretty sure that Ukraine didn't start this war.
This is the mentality of a dictator & a rapist, so no big surprise here. #Trump #ICE #Authoritarianism #Rapist
New in PN: Trump's red state army threatens America's cities "What this latest executive order purports to do is to allow Trump to send red state guard members into blue states, shattering the entire concept of state sovereignty."
“A lot of people are saying they’d like you to die, but you haven’t yet so you’re not exactly a people pleaser”
A hero.
Whatever you need to tell yourself. I suppose I did in that I tried to have a discussion with a fellow trans advocate & feminist & found out that they were neither. That is, indeed, a loss.
You didn't. You just implied it. Also, I am not filthy nor do I lie. Name calling won't get you out of this. UAoUAF. Just grow up & admit it that black & white extremism has a cost.
He killed a lot more people than that, both directly (7), and indirectly (many more). You're still trying to play gotcha while missing the big picture. In other words, you're using the deaths of people to unsuccessfully score meaningless internet points. Are you OK?
I like it here! Nah, just noticed that you were running away without answering any of my questions & thought it might be helpful for you to encourage you to face your fears. You're welcome!
Don't disagree with that statement. Good luck getting the current crop of Dems to move Left. You need to get rid of the leadership that's there right now.
Rep Valentina Gomez burns a Quran in her new campaign video. Sorry honey, they'll never accept you as white no matter how crazy you are. #GOP #FakeChristians #CrayCray
Literally a written directive to seek criminal charges in retaliation for protected speech. Contempt for the law is the defining feature of this regime. #Trump #Flag #FlagBurning #1st
Lol,. All these people trying to point out your fanaticism hurts your cause, and you're bravely standing there refusing to listen to anyone and going down with the ship. I salute you, captain purity of ideals! After all, nothing has ever been achieved working together, right?
Ernest is correct. You're running bother parties. Hurts the very people you're trying to protect. I know you can't see that because you're blind to it but maybe you'll learn someday if enough people point out the harm you're doing through your narcissism.
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Hacked 1 man to pieces. Sick wife crying & begging to stop. Ur cool with that because you think you can get fake internet points by pressing a semantic issue 170 years latter with some rando on the internet. In truth, someone tried to have a discussion with you, you turned it into a war, & lost.
Yes. He killed three members from one family & 2 from others. If that's the gotcha you need, have it, though it's pretty crazy. That's the hill you're going to die on? That 2 of the people were members of a different family? Pathetic. So, all his crimes are erased for that? Lol.
Which is the exact opposite of what happened, which is the actual gaslighting. Same thing Karl Rove & Roy Cohn taught right-wing candidates to do, along with never admit that you've been lying or apologize. Fits well for narcissists, which you should probably look into: blossomup.co/lp/narcissist/
He can't create a law by executive order. Dude can't even create a sentence by executive order. #Trump #ExecutiveOrder #SCOTUS #NoKings #Dumbass www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Trump said that Chicago was "the killing fields" today. Went and looked at this camera and didn't see any killing fields. Am confused. #Trump #Chicago #Stupid chicago-webcams.com
Boring. Weak effort. You tried
Yes, it's true. Anyone who disagrees with you about anything or points out indisputable & well-accepted facts is gaslighting you. You are the absolutely the victim of all these horrible people out in the world who would dare disagree with you about anything. Do you need the number of the hotline?
#Trump #ICE #Democracy #Media
