Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Broken society, breaking further… in all seriousness we can’t solve rising fascism until we solve this. Neoliberalism is failed, it’s time to offer up a new grand bargain.
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
so good from @heycappello.bsky.social
How many times do they have to tell us that they’re not the ones for the job before we listen?
Burrito, what evidence do we have that this (“But with each concession, autocrats become bolder, defenses grow weaker, and reversal becomes harder.”) isn’t actually what they want?
That’s correct. This is exactly what happened.
We say this so much, at some point maybe we have to recognize the new normal?
Fucking losing it how little of the reporting I’m reading about the CDC not mentioning how an anti-vaxxer gunman killed a police officer and fired hundreds of rounds at the building 2 weeks ago. An end to end ouroborous of delusional mania. The GOP will probably give the shooter a posthumous medal.
You know how all the successful opposition movements in modern history waited for the oppressors to be willing to work with them before doing anything. /s
Schumer and Jeffries, on the way to the firing squad: "this execution is not being done in a bipartisan manner and I urge you to work with our Democratic colleagues to ensure fair representation in the rifleman corps"
He’s been getting a lot of training on being a hand puppet for our god emperor overlord Peter Theil. That’s really the only qualification that matters.
He is addressing guns, he’s sending more guns!
Worse than symbolic acts: the presence of me with guns, increases the ideation around guns, and likely increases the probability some other unstable person will be tipped over the edge. It likely has more on an inciting effect, rather than a discouraging effect.
This is the way
The people who have dedicated their lives to keeping you safe from disease are telling you this is a 5-alarm fire. They need us to back them up. They need an actual opposition party to back them up. Soli-fucking-darity.
The parades will continue until dear leader sees that we are all pleased with his big parade.
We HAVE two classes. Just that only one class realizes it. You see how quickly all the billionaires got in line with Trump?
Counterpoint. Schumer is actually good at advancing **his** agenda, it’s just that his agenda isn’t what you think it is.
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?
It’s just a little spit and polish on what Dems have been doing for 25+ years which has brought us to this point. There answer to the crisis of this moment is; “what if we do even more of the same?”
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
Let’s all save ourselves some time; there are no adults, you know there are no adults… so now what? Nothing right? You’re going to do nothing.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
BREAKING (AGAIN): The White House said it has fired CDC director Susan Monarez, who clashed with @seckennedy.govpeeps.us over vaccine policy. Confirmed by the Senate, she had refused to resign unless the WH fired her. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
But that’s this year. Certainly Kennedy eventually wants no one to get any boosters.
You can still get a booster. It’s unclear how guidelines will be enforced, but you’ll either need to get the booster from your MD, or perhaps get it at pharmacy with some sort of claim (physical inactivity would be one) or you’ll still be able to just pay for it & get it w/o any claimed condition.
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Am I incorrect in understanding that K-Lo is definitely not 22 and also isn’t married?
What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
You 100% are! You have a soft spot for them.
He's actually being extremely generous to them.
I don't think Jeanette realizes that however bad and stupid and weak your posts might make it seem Dems are, the reality is like a thousand times worse.
Shouldn't their polling act as a correction?
Imagine how grotesquely depraved you have to be to watch 20 little children get slaughtered and then proceed to do NOTHING AT ALL to protect anyone else.
There is no coming back from that. That was really the end of any semblance of the possibility that our institutions or leaders would ever be able to address the problems we face. We are all party to that, it's sickening.
Really when historians look back at this era and try to pin point a moment when they could say definitively that this society was irrevocably broken, I can't think of a better moment than Dec 14, 2012. Twenty 6 year olds were ripped to shreds with an assault weapon. And we just shrugged.
A few random citizens showing more backbone and integrity than the entirety of US elite institutions.
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Sometimes he has a habit of saying the quiet part out loud.
The Zionism was coming from inside the Oval Office during Biden…. So I’m not sure that inverse analogy tracks.
Important difference being Apple wanted to launch a high end luxury car, where Xiaomi aimed squarely at the mid price of the market, and looked to differentiate with quality and tech.
Seriously have learned nothing from the last election.
Do they mean crime that is at or near historic lows in almost every city in the US?
Add in the massive layoffs in the govt sector. The squeezing of billions of dollars in research funding. The pressure on wages from the AI bullshit. We are in a class war, it's just that only one side realizes it, and they're fully armed up, and going to battle.
Add in the massive layoffs in the govt sector. The squeezing of billions of dollars in research funding. The pressure on wages from the AI bullshit. It's a war on all sides being fought against a class that is still in denial that it's at war.
Blocking AI >>>>>>> Blocking Porn
Seems like a way bigger deal to me than some trans kids being themselves.
Actual independent media.
Lemme tell you about how police actually use those body cams though.
What is that you think "martial law" gets him, that he doesn't already effectively have already? A pliant legislature? A pliant court system? A pliant armed forces? A willing army of local PD and sheriffs? Why would he need MT?
Ron, they didn't *actually* vote about the price of groceries. That's just how they voice it. That's the disconnect.
He’d throw your wife under the bus too if it would help him too, he’s a grifter. There’s a reason him and Guilfoyle were married. Grifter recognize grift.
Pritzker: 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.
Democrats are also in on it. They’re busy undermining the parties mayoral nominees in NYC and Minneapolis.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
5. If/when it fails, claim irregularities, refuse to certify elections anyway.
“When it really matters my husband that slaps me regularly will hold back and not punch me.”
“My husband would never hurt, he just slaps me sometimes”
You’re making a huge number of assumptions about their good intentions, and implying that they want to “keep everyone alive” in spite of the fact that by your own suggestion they’re not doing some very simple things that would keep people alive.
They could, and they haven’t. What does that tell you?
I’m a broken record, but to make this point again. The midterms will either be undermined/compromised leading up to/on Election Day, or will be delegitimized after, or most likely both. If Dems win a majority, they’ll use fabricated claims of irregularities to deny Dem winners their seats.
We’ve already watched them “follow orders” in LA & DC. Every time the orders are a bigger and more brazen violation. And every time they are followed. They’re being successfully groomed, and this guy thinks there’s some invisible line they won’t cross. When even he is accepting more transgressions.
People saying we’re “tip toeing” or “slipping” or “approaching” authoritarianism are either lying to themselves or trying to lie to you. We’re way past the line.
Every dystopian novel that warns about the horrors of autocracy or totalitarianism —from 1984 to Fahrenheit 451 to Handmaid’s Tale— has some uncomfortable echoes in reality these days. But Trump’s treatment of Abrego Garcia as Kafka’s The Trial is the most on point. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
the mainstream media told voters in 2024 that the top National Guard-related issue in the election was whether Tim Walz retiring after serving for 21 years was scandalous. Accomplices in our oppression
Seriously, at least Kim did petty tyrant with pizzazz.
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
“Going” implies there’s been some change. The mask is dropping is all.
I realize that "the cruelty is the point" has gone from incisive to banal to cliche but it cannot be emphasize enough that the actual deliverable of the Trump administration and indeed of all Republican violance is suffering and memes of it for the base to laugh at. It's the Bully State.
Perhaps the reason they do that is because they’re weak and insincere?
Not sure if people have realized yet on just how many levels the #zcavengerhunt is working. Not only is it activating a bunch of people, not only is it getting people out and about in NYC, not only is it highlighting public transits, not only is it highlighting NYC history... it's also:
America now
It’s not even Gym’s first time covering for a pedophile!
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.
We need this man's policy approach. There are now a host of other candidates that have used these social media techniques and failed. Why? Because they didn't have the crisp, clear, aggressively progressive policy to go along with the presentation style. You need the substance to back the flash.
“Papers, please”
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
If the circumstances of deportation are going to be used as plea bargain fodder, then removal is punitive with all the rights attached thereto. This is not just a removal subsequent to a conviction but removal (or a specific genus of removal) as the penalty for the conviction itself.
So strange how twice in only a few months Democrats have so quickly and effectively found ways to use the minutia of rules and process to negate the power of people to the left of their platform in a way they spent years insisting was impossible to do for, say, Joe Manchin.
How did this get into my notifications? Was I mentioned? All I see is blocked post.
the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
A half dozen armed goons brutally attacked a man FOR EATING IN PUBLIC?
Standard issue Zio-troll. They love to argue about anything but the genocide they actively support.
My guy, that's rich from some one deploying maga-logic.
Snowflake predates maga by like 15 years Waxy.
Certainly seems like a lot of these centrist dem types are in the tank for genociders.
Yeah only tankies are offended by genocide.
Yes, but none of those entities are Viacom.
