Can't say I blame you. It might be different if fighting back made a difference, but these days teachers are combating forces that simply make it impossible to do what --ideally -- they're supposed to do.
"The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual. The secret freedom which you can supposedly enjoy under a despotic government is nonsense, because your thoughts are never entirely your own." — Orwell, April 28, 1944
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Can't say I blame you. It might be different if fighting back made a difference, but these days teachers are combating forces that simply make it impossible to do what --ideally -- they're supposed to do.
I think if James Baldwin were here today he would modify this to: “It is certain, in any case, that stupidity, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
If you've ever wondered why Oklahoma is such a fcked up piece of real estate, look no further than its two US Senators. And it also explains wtf is wrong with the country: Oklahoma population: 4 million, 2 batshit nutty senators California population: 40 million, 2 normal senators
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Martha Raddatz doing what corporate TV journalists do to keep their nice TV jobs.
Yes, but they keep themselves in darkened silos of misinformation. So, the best we can do is get our voters to stop obsessing about their pet issue and vote these fascist ms out.
Answers: A long way. They want to keep the $$$$ flowing. Doubtful. Much too late. Sorry.
Yeah, but windmills kill birds and shit. So, there.
Some of the "propagandists" that "come on TV and normalize this behavior" get paid by CNN to come on TV to normalize this.
Ok. I've had enough. These people don't give a flying, leaping, sprinting fck about history. It's not a deterrent to say history this or that. If they were interested in history's judgment, they wouldn't be fcking assholes. History is written by the winners. These pricks think they're winners.
"Congress" at this point is a fiction.
It's called "MAGA Christianity," my friend.
I'll call your "huge fuck you" and raise you a "fuck you larger than the new Whites House ballroom." Your play.
We obviously have more mentally ill people in the US. Or, just maybe, we have more MAGAt assholes. Hard to tell the difference.
Crude. But absolutely gospel.
This is a reminder.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
This is, let's hope against hope, good news.
Lunatics. It's not any more complicated than that.
Yeah, but "the courts will save us" people will tell you this will not stand. The hell it won't.
jaketapper.bsky.social is still counting his coin from that Biden book. He'll get back to you.
No, both sides aren't out to get us. One side--MAGA Republicans--are definitely trying to fck us. And the other side is trying, often failing, to stop them. But carry on like it's okay for Tr-mp and his family to profit off their position, fck up public health, militarize cities, tariff us to death.
They will make bank in the trading/acquisition fees, just like the memecoin scam. Stop it.
You had Democratic Sen Welch on tonight. He made excuses for Senator Cassidy. You got close to pushing back on him, said something about it, but ultimately let him go. The problem is this: it's past time to go easy on Democrats who say, "Sen. Cassidy is a well respected" colleague, etc. Come on.
If you think the Tr-mp crime family getting involved in Bitcoin legitimates Bitcoin in the minds of the public, you haven't been paying attention.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Red hats = white hoods
I, for one, am glad the Republican Party is embracing socialism. Now, we just need to get Democrats on board and we can get somewhere.
I see four very stupid white people talk about something they know absolutely nothing--nothing--about.
These kinds of memorials, designed to remind us of how a brutal racism once dominated this country, now, because of the pushback against such memorials, reminds us how a more subtle racism still dominates some parts of this country.
Drugs have definitely contributed to the deterioration of this man's mental state. We are literally being led by fcking lunatics.
If this is a sample of your comedy, I have a Tr-mp bitcoin to sell ya.
Tr-mp cares about the military and honor like he cares about everything else. He doesn't. Babbit's death was only tragic because she caught the MAGA virus that has turned an insurrection, designed to keep Tr-mp in power illegally, into the highest form of MAGA patriotism. The country is fcked.
Wait until the bastard croaks. We'll all be forced, possibly at gunpoint, to mourn. No celebrations, no cheering crowds, no cheers.
Bad take: "sometimes suffering with those who suffer is the only real thing you can do." Worse take, said by Amy Klobuchar this morning went like this: But by the "grace of God" other kids could have been killed. Grace, my ass. Where was that grace for the dead kids? WTF is wrong with you folks?
If you live in rural America, where I live, this seems impossible. I think most of you underestimate the difficulty in changing the minds of grievance-obsessed, abortion-soaked, liberal-hating white evangelicals.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Today's deaths in Minnesota are on her. ICE is on her. Our transfer from democracy to authoritarianism is on her. Dobbs is on her. Go look up Graham Platner, who will soon be running against her. Support him - and our country will once again have a chance.
If you could, you should be worried about yourself.
Says sn expert in...absolutely fcking nothing.
They're trying to fcking kill us.
Truth is, when you look at the inability to address mass shootings, the military occupying cities, the CDC and FEMA collapses, the failure of the courts to act timely, the open corruption and retribution, the gold-plating of our crumbling democracy, we're fcked.
I'm sorry. Love me some AOC. But framing this as a "Congress" issue--when it's clearly a "Republicans in Congress" issue--gets us exactly no where. The blood of these kids--and the other victims of mass shootings--is mostly on the hands of gun-thirsty Republicans.
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
I think these bruises are from dope-slapping JD Vance, so the more bruises the better.
News to me, but not surprising. I quit him many years ago.
It's good to keep reminding people of the failures of legacy political journalism.
These are Old Testament times, in terms of Israelis purposely killing civilians.
They always seem to get "one final opportunity."
I was thinking of dropping YouTube TV. If Fox is dropped, which I seriously doubt will happen, I will happily stay.
Walz on Harris: “She’d have been a fantastic president. We wouldn’t wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV — we’d wake up to an adult with compassion & dignity doing the work. Instead, we’ve got a manchild crying about himself. May his fat ankles find something today.” 💀🔥
I don't know Bill Maher's preference in women, but he has platformed people like Coulter because of his arrogance--he thinks he's smarter than his viewers, and in most cases he is--because they keep eating what he feeds them, whether it be good or toxic.
Lots of people think this man is protected from prosecution for burning our flag because of a Supreme Court decision in 1989 that was 5-4 in favor of the right. Lol. Ever heard of the Robert's Court?
I know a lot of Democrats think nuclear power plants are anathema, but a lot of Democrats are wrong. Get your shit together, people. Nuclear energy, along with solar and wind, is the only answer to non-dirty energy--which every single one of us needs to live the kinds of lives we want to live.
Ann Coulter is, momentarily, confused. Tomorrow, Ann Coulter will merely be fused, after she swallows the con.
Well, obviously, the concerns about presidential health, physically and mentally, are reserved for Democratic presidents. Because Tr-mp can actually walk, barely, and play golf, unethically, and talk without stuttering, he's assumed to be of sound mind and body. Call it Jake Tapper journalism.
Bernie is the best friend Israel has, but this isn't about Israel. It's about humanity.
Let's find out real soon.
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
One of the founders of the lunacy and corruption we're seeing now was talk radio propaganda master, Rush Limbaugh. Here is a great truth about him:
MAGATs won't know he's lying to them, and that he thinks, with justification, they're too gullible to check.
Kristi Noem. Lunatic.
I don't know why Black folks continue to love a country that has never--never--properly loved them back. I couldn't do it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
The other aspect of Trump bullying Intel into handing over stock is that he wouldn’t try it in a company that wasn’t left-coded: Silicon Valley/Big Tech. Imagine him forcing Caterpillar or Chik-fil-a to the same terms.
At this point, you just have to admit that the Texas Republican Party is nutty, nasty, and Nazi.
More of this please.
Some people don't understand this simple point: All we've wanted from Democratic Party leaders since Tr-mp injected his toxic self into our collective lives, is a real FIGHTER. We saw the fascism coming long ago, and too many Dem leaders pretended it wasn't. Newsom/Pritzker stopped pretending.
This is incredibly great news. Wow.
This is great news, that there's some resistance among the Israeli military to Netanyahu's brutal right-wing government. Question for US is, is that kind of resistance possible here one day?
The Enlightenment is over. The altar-and-throne counter-revolutionaries have, finally, won.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
This is how martial law may eventually be invoked. Because one of these times, the "cops" won't be fake.
Finally, a strategy to at least have a fcking chance to win.
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," said JD Vance. At least now he doesn't have to torment himself with wonder.
I have a special file for these moments, labeled, "Wtf did you expect."
Greg Sargent is one of the best. And he's completely right about all of this. But... Too many of us are still living with the idea that we have anything resembling a "justice" system left. We don't. It's not just breaking, it is broken. Utterly. And irredeemably, if Dems don't enlarge the Court.
I hope people get how brilliant this is.
Theodore Bilbo, governor of Mississippi twice & US Senator three times, was a corrupt white supremacist and a proud KKK member. His book, "Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization," was published in 1947 & addressed the "Negro problem"—and shows how important race "purity" is to these folks.
And there will be none, no matter what he does. The mainstream press, owned by corporate interests, have given up on civics, have surrendered to the inevitable, that half of this country's voters just don't give a shit about "democracy" or norms or ethics. Thus, the "news" is what Tr-mp says it is.
And dutifully, the press, including @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social for 90 minutes now, is obsessed with this phony spectacle, pigeonholing everything else, particularly the pedophile's problem with his MAGAt base.
They're just too stupid to know it.
When fascism comes in its final form, there'll be no shortage of enforcers.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
I love this idea.
He's a fcking jeenyus.
If you watch @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social , Scarborough warns Democrats that they should be careful with what Tr-mp is doing in DC, because so many "Black Democrats" want more police presence. It is quite predictable that Dem leaders will believe Joe over their own eyes--people resisting.
Pritzker can't compete with Newsom on this stuff. He's better off doing what he does best, keep expressing progressive ideas forcefully and clearly. Time will come, during the primaries, when Newsom will have to put up or shut up on the issues. As will all the candidates.
I get the humor, the schadenfreude. But confirming a central destructive belief of these freaks--the doctrine of hell--is not helpful. James Dobson isn't in hell. James Dobson isn't in heaven. James Dobson is dead. But, unfortunately, his toxic brand of Christianity--hell and all--still lives.
Yes, but @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social has the Red Sox-Yankees coming matchup covered.
When someone says "I gave MY LIFE to Christ," in a parking lot or in a pew, the universe cringes.
Uh, we went off the cliff long ago. We fell so fast and furiously, that when we hit the ground we just kept going, deeper and deeper, never to be seen again.
Being "WHITE" even entitles you to tell people, including black people, what to "focus" on.
Turns out the moral arc of the universe doesn't bend toward justice. It's justice that does the bending, mostly bending over.
Justice is for chumps. Corruption is the currency this country has always traded in, from slavery to Tr-mpism.
Yes.
Everyone should read Ta-Nehisi Coates, at least this excerpt taken from his book, "Between the World and Me," a letter to his young son: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Yeah, well, as satisfying as that might be, the most likely truth is that James Dobson at this moment has no surprises, no feelings, no thoughts. James Dobson is dead today. He'll be dead tomorrow. He'll be dead a thousand years from now. He wasted his one life poisoning minds, just as his was.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, as powerful a writer as America has produced, wrote the following in his book, "Between The World and Me," written as a letter to his adolescent son: (You can find this passage in The Atlantic, gift-linked below.) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...