The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Hurricane Katrina and Covid were political. Both happened during GOP presidents. They will let you die, then blame you for it.
Or when they’re out of the house. Unless they’re magic guns that shoot at intruders on their own.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Every horror since Sandy Hook is squarely on the shoulders of the GOP. They made a deal with the devil when they decided dozens of murdered children wouldn’t persuade them to support common sense gun control, and now every tragedy in this country is ENTIRELY their fault.
Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.
people often ask what’s wrong with gen x, and, like, there are a lot of answers, but i think the AIDS epidemic and the specific people it wiped out is probably an under discussed contributor to the bomber with red dots diagram
“I’m going cook up an absurd thought experiment where it’s okay to kill little kids and change the laws of war so that I can claim my thought experiment describes literal reality. Then when we blow up an elementary school I can just say after the fact it was Cobra Commander’s secret headquarters.”
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight
The most poisonous idea that has gotten into any kind of political organising is the idea that power cares about your argument. It should be clear, given how much talking the people with power do in the open these days, that these are not people who are capable of understanding an argument.
Reward politicians for fighting and solidarity, punish them for seeking bipartisan solutions and abandoning marginalized people or any other appeasement strategy. Replace anyone who doesn't get on board. Repeat until we have driven every Republican and every other fascist from public life forever.
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
For all this talk above how men “have to be” 6’2’’ and look like models, when I go to the park I see a lot of average-looking guys hanging out and being happy with their families. They can’t all be secret multi-millionaires.
Women get told not to be “needy” while men are ready to burn it all down at the possibility that *they* might not get a romantic partner. Or that they might have to meet some low hygiene and basic civility standards to improve their chances.
One of Halle Berry’s ex husbands did an interview for no reason at all and said he wanted her to cook and clean more during their relationship. And this was Halle Berry in the 90s, mind you. He’s hemming and hawing 30 years later and she’s dancing on IG. LMAO girl.
when the right say 'crime' they mean 'the presence of groups of people we're bigoted against,' they don't care about the actual stats
In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
This.
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men
Do they think it’s healthy for people to just marinate in outrage 24/7?
“What you believe is that some people have less worth than other people, and I think that is an indecent position to take. As a result, there are no details you can present within that framework that interest me in the slightest, and I don’t see any point in any debate about those details.”
greatest cartoon of all time, neck and neck with Calvin & Hobbes
I’m still wiping my shoes coming in before I take them off and washing my hands before I touch the cat or fix her food.
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
For about 30% of the country, there is none. They’ll happily see you at the neighborhood potluck one week and load you into a van the next if instructed to do so. For the “centrists” and the “not political,” it’s when they take financial hits that noticeably worsen their lives.
It amazes me how comfortable people are with embracing fascists simply because they felt slighted and want to feel a sense of power.
"We're going to end up shooting some of them" is a verbatim quote, spoken very casually by an immigration agent
This EO is the culmination of bipartisan efforts at the state level (including blue states like CA) to persecute and criminalize people who are homeless by busting up their camps, impounding their vehicles, wrecking their homes, and chasing them deeper into danger
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!
Would I rather eat Ethiopian food or wear a corset and a giant fucking hat? Hmmm.
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
The sharks stubbornly refuse to divulge their secrets
oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed
Maybe they mean “if they’re really attractive.”
There's like a whole platoon of guys who played main characters on b-tier adventure of the week shows in the 90s that all want to stay relevant by being as fascist as possible
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd
Bill Cosby was famous for these kinds of pronouncements, just saying.
My initial response was just “green” but since it’s a print I could imagine that she was singing about wishing she wore solid green?
I fell asleep in The Green Knight
I can look at it now and admire some of the filmmaking and the visuals but man everything else is hard to sit through.
Short Cuts!
Shaymus McCarbomb or some such. Notice she never named a British soldier Captain Ishootcatholicsintheface
Meanwhile the Bull Sharksare more widespread and generally dangerous and can swim up into your unassuming freshwater creek for a snack.
Rather be judged by twelve than carried by six, isn’t that the saying?
Nuke it from orbit
In an era when "diversity" is treated as a slur and viewed with suspicion, Mayor Adams has forthrightly promoted cultures such as Turkish and proved that criminal enterprises can be racially and culturally varied and still be highly effective.
Ah so that guy hates cats.
We joke about Qanon grannies but the basis of American fascism are well-off recently divorced 45 year olds
I’m sorry, “yes we sourced a story using stolen personal data about a nonwhite politician brokered by a neonazi BUT the story illuminates the complex nature of racial identity” does not pass the laugh test
Every pro wrestler of note is either like this or a Holocaust denier, no middle ground
There was never a "Confederate States of America", there was only the United States and a group of verminous subhuman treasonous insurrectionists who should have faced justice but didn't because this country loves hate more than freedom and is built on slavery and genocide Happy 4th
Shower o shites
It is fine if people who want to live on 3 acres in an exurb are willing to pay the actual costs of maintaining that. I do not think urbanites should be expected to subsidize that unsustainable, resource-intensive lifestyle.
“You know—morons.”
We need more people to give a fuck. We need more people to care about the wellbeing of other people. You have to give a fuck all the time. You have to care about other people all the time. We do not have the luxury of selective solidarity. We have to fight this evil shit at all times on all fronts.
Which is the main idea. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. 1. There's too much crime. We need more cops/jails! 2. We need to cut services to things that actually deter crime to fund cops/jails 3. Crime inevitably goes up because services are gone 4. There's too much crime! We need more cops/jails
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
I just bought that exact rose and put it in a pot outside. It seems to be settling in nicely.
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
The Republican Party is the verminous, bigoted party of ignorance and anti-Americanism, striving to turn this into a totalitarian blood-and-soil shithole.
Mine (or my landlord’s) works pretty well but my “apartment” is basicslly an addition he built on his house that’s barely a studio so it only has to cool one room. And I also have a ceiling fan.
“About 62% of Democrats say their party needs new leaders. Few issues highlight how out of touch with their party leaders are than the issue of Palestine.”
I’ve seen lots of nonsense since Mamdani’s primary victory but the most irritating thread is people claiming they will leave NY if he is mayor. First of all, Go! It’s fine. It’s FINE. Go swelter in FL or wherever. No one cares. And secondly shut up. You’re lying. You aren’t going anywhere.
Inject it into my veins
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someone else at the atlantic selected, darkened, and cropped that image, and multiple other people greenlit this. blue maga is more than willing to willie horton anyone who threatens the geriatric wealth-hustlers whose knobby hands are squeezed tightly around the Democratic Party’s neck
The politician who blew $60 million of taxpayer money on his sexual harassment defense wants to take the police force that blew $206 million of taxpayer money on settlements *in 2024 alone* and give them even more money and power which will result in even more settlements.
I had to use a non-fluoridated toothpaste *briefly* bc it might have been aggravating my perioral dermatitis and I did not feel like it worked well at all. My mouth felt disgusting.
To remain neutral in the face of systemic violence is not an act of peace. It is complicity dressed in silence.
“Manu Explains it All.”
not THAT kind of young person.
I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.
I got really used to the conveniences of European city living in Dublin for 2 years. If I hadn’t missed my family so much I’d probably still be there.
I’m going to be looking for something like that next summer. The city/neighborhood where I’ll be looking is not horribly expensive atm compared to other metro areas.
After months, I remain unconvinced by this theory. That DHS is acting extremely unprofessionally is not evidence of secret J6ers. Rather, I believe it reflects longstanding culture problems within ICE, a chaotic multi-agency approach to raids, the corroding effects of quotas, and Miller’s extremism.
The chapter of RFK’s most recent book - that he wrote to defend his belief that COVID was actually a weapon designed to target white people and spare certain groups like Jewish people - in which he talks about how he does not believe germs actually cause disease is called “The White Man’s Burden.”
It is not an attack to tell very powerful white feminists to their face that supporting Andrew Cuomo is abusive, wrong and harmful to women. This is called FAFO. For those of you who don’t yet know it means fucking around and finding out.
My cat definitely does not enjoy travel. She moved to Europe and back with me and I won’t be doing that to her again.
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
That’s admittedly more than I’ve done!
They’re trying to warn us about the orcas
shoutout to everyone out there, especially at the Times, who spent years “just asking questions” and pretending to care about women’s sports blood is on your hands trans rights are human rights and you should have remembered that instead of signing onto a genocidal project
Modern Civil War looks a lot like everything we are experiencing from low level attacks by paramilitary groups to the appearance of military on the streets and the murder of political opponents in government by partisan terrorists and the accelerating attacks on civilians by irregular forces
never going to stop being pissed at the amount of time spent litigating “are the people who won’t stop talking about racism the real racists?” during the ten years leading up to an American president attempting to enact a program of domestic ethnic cleansing
Vance Boelter was taken alive and we basically all had to bear witness to Philando Castile's death. Guess which man police observed committing murder?
I’m becoming increasingly reluctant to give Democrats one cent of the money I get from my multiple jobs and a mailing like that isn’t going to soften my position.
Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.
And it’s just someone holding their hands up. “If something I do is made illegal I’ll be arrested!” Yes, that’s how it works. I could just as easily post myself like that “Me when eating excessive amounts of yogurt is made illegal!” It’s equally as likely to happen!
If we started testing them for steroids and firing anyone with a Punisher tattoo, they would be considerably more orderly and less confrontational at least.
There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps