Haha that's what Michael Tracey looks like? Every single one of these people look like toads or toilet brushes and I cannot understand how you find an audience. That's a Kohls fit from the senior section. Hasan may be annoying but at least he's good looking and jacked.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
I understand the need for hope so do as you want but, what that we know about the president would ever make us think he would resign as the most powerful person in the world?
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
Sometimes I read something so dumb, so obviously full of horse shit or stupidity I wonder how it made it through multiple adults, who all approved of along the publishing process. That’s how that @theatlantic.com piece lands
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.
It's doubly disturbing because those original authoritarian states, brutal as they were at the outset, typically didn't envision the worst abuses they would commit in the end. But the Trump team knows where it all leads and is driving the country in that direction as fast as it can.
Authoritarians who unwind democracy are similar in one respect. They seek to take control of centers of power and dissent in society. Call it the authoritarian checklist. Trump’s second term is best understood by his systemic checking off of this checklist. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
I really cannot stand that dude. He is just so plainly awful and soulless, and he’s not even a good or perceptive writer
“Hanging out doesn’t have to cost money, but you still need the time to hang out. And you need the energy to hang out.” This great essay covers a lot more, but ppl being too busy (working) and tired (from working) to invest in friendships is imo a big problem that ppl paper over with consumerism.
Now is a great time to bring up state's rights and how "let the state's decide" is suddenly being tossed out in favor of attempting a military occupation of American cities as a punitive political measure. Start hammering home the cost to taxpayers of this too.
... to do what Bedard and Klein and so so many other liberals do, which is assume at the outset that it *can't* just be dumb, selfish people believing deliberate lies, that there must be some more charitable explanation, that the thing must be reasonable somehow, through some lens. *Must* be.
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This poor tortured man.
every single democrat should be saying this
This is an underrated point, imho
the white house does not belong to donald trump
Early blockhead. Maybe music by cavelight
much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.
can also run this backwards: we watched the development of mass incarceration, waves of repression of anti-police brutality protests, and a spiraling post 9/11 surveillance and detention apparatus. we shouldn't wonder how a president in 2025 could decide the guys with guns can do whatever they want
Mayor Wu took an oath too. You can even watch a video of it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jL...
Spending on AI data centers is now so great that it’s crowding out investment in housing and other critical parts of the real economy, through higher energy costs and by propping up interest rates, argues The Economist economist.com/finance-and-...
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The incredibly obvious bronzer continues to bemuse me. The mobbed up con man from New York who slathers himself in make-up is the heartland of America’s christofascist king. Really did not see that one coming!
they deserve not a moment of peace in public life tbh
The structural core of U.S. society — settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and heteronormative patriarchy — is being reasserted through state and vigilante violence in order to crush insurgent social and demographic movements that threaten its 400-year-old power. It’s violence all the way down.
Figured out that if I really quickly heat up my raw milk, a lot of the bad stuff goes away but you still get all of the same benefits. This is crazy.
Man that took AWHILE
This must be so conflicting for Donald. He hates being trolled but can’t help admire how smart Gavin sounds.
Operation “Get him to stroke out” is in full swing.
I fled the mob on January 6th. Here’s why I’ll soon be voting to confirm a member of that mob as director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. by Josh Hawley
genuinely brings me pleasure that no one respects this guy (least of all himself)
I think the message is when a politician as ambitious as Newsom sees this as the correct response to Trump, maybe something is stirring in the party at last.
Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
Sometimes I'll be walking down the sidewalk and it'll just enter my brain that we have a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist as president and most of the country has decided there's nothing wrong with that.
what
Walked us directly into full blown fascism bc of Big Egg price gouging us
Rise up, deep state.
Down with Big Diaper Bag! We have a nice backpack-y diaper bag, the only thing that makes it a diaper bag is the internal compartments
An interesting subtext here. We do indeed spend vast sums on our military. So the idea here appears to be that without "forever wars" we need to occupy our own cities.
Somehow Trump's BLS nominee--the guy with the Nazi boat fetish--was seen leaving from BOTH sides of the Capitol during the terrorist attack. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Still worth a shot if it's pitched as "Donald City" with the tacit understanding that residents will respect the name as well as they do that of National airport
"And when they overturned Roe, anyone paying even a tiny bit of attention should have known that the right would come for Obergefell next — and that they won’t stop with that, either." By @jillfilipovic.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/y...
Poor little bunnies 😢
Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
they want you to simultaneously believe they are these strong, masculine, stoic, fearless dudes, arbiters of who should be labeled oversensitive snowflakes... while pissing & shitting themselves, calling the national guard, over streets where tourists are walking around eating ice cream
She does look like a Bond villain…
This week's episode is McMahon v. New York, where the Court let the Trump gut the Department of Education without even bothering to write an opinion.
The heavy messaging is to call it fascism. The distraction bit is not accurate or effective
Really wish the “distraction” narrative would just die.
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."
Translation: please stop talking about how we are covering up for pedophiles
You love to see it. That guy fucking *suuuuccckkkksss*
It’s another beautiful morning in the Fourth Reich.
This is from a few days after an IDF sniper deliberately killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh four years ago and I think about it often. Lazier still.
Israel not even trying to hide it anymore. Openly admitting it. Lord.
Gives new meaning to the old “women and children first!”
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
It was precisely Watergate that set off a multi-decade effort on the right to protect Republicans from ever again facing real accountability. The experience of facing consequences for their actions was deeply traumatic for them.
This is the excerpt that needs to be popularized to meet this moment.
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.
Can't imagine there's something less relevant to the lives of people in NYC than the Erie Canal. Zohran: This beautiful city we love is too expensive. We'll work to make it more affordable. Cuomo: Behold a river wrought by man where no God imagined.
Two things to note: (1) The Bayh-Dole Act gives universities intellectual property ownership for inventions that are based on federally funded research and (2) any seizure of private property by the government must include just compensation. Neither of these matter in a lawless regime…
Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism. It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening. Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.
I think a lot of Americans believe their country is the one they learned about in school. They haven’t grasped the fact that it’s well on the way to becoming a Christofascist dictatorship.
I like writing. I cherish that even when anonymous, I have a style and a tone, and can express myself with snark and wry turns of phrase, even in emails I don’t really want to write. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social loves writing, and expresses so much of what I feel and try to fight against brilliantly.
reminder for those of you with dogs if you put bags of dog shit into other people's trash cans those other people have to smell your 100*F sun-baked dog shit blasting into their face the next time they go to throw something away so don't put shit into my trash can please
I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports
NEW: Four National Guard armories were breached weeks apart in incidents previously undisclosed, with evidence pointing toward a possible inside job. Sensitive equipment was taken. We learned FBI took point, but it declined to confirm its involvement. By me w/ records via @propertyofthepeople.org
Someone commented to Hope Walz on TikTok "There's no such thing as a free lunch. Jesus loves you" and I feel like there's a whole part of the Bible where Jesus is literally handing out free lunches to people. It seems like a pretty important story, too
“Grunt sculpture” is definitely my new favorite euphemism!
We’re in authoritarian consolidation. No way anyone can deny this now.
This astonishing abuse of power is the opposite of Conservatism, but indistinguishable from Erdoğanism
“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, an Univ. of Minnesota expert on infectious disease mRNA vaccines “certainly saved millions of lives,” said Dr. Paul Offit—a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
We’re rapidly heading toward a future where all of the good jobs are protecting the people who own the technology that took all the other jobs away.
Having a robot write irrelevant emails for you sounds great and inconsequential in theory but it’s unsurprising to me how quickly people have moved the goalposts to having the robot write anything for you that would require personality or emotional labor
Draining the nation's groundwater and skyrocketing electricity prices so cheating high school and college students only need to work on their paper two hours instead of four
The family of Virginia Giuffre: "Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
A grown man going by “Freddie” is funny to me
God he sucks
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
Surprised that's only 10 words instead of 14
Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in the last 6 months and handed himself a billion-dollar retrofitted jet courtesy of US taxpayers but hey, glad his $33k monthly paycheck was donated. Heroic stuff.
Noticing a pattern here.
Congressional Watchdog Publishes Aptly Timed Reminder That WH Budget-Slashing Scheme is Illegal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/congres...
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