Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
All I want is for everyone to hate these fucking fascists as much as I do. That's really all that remains of my politics.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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.
"I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime." Gov. JB Pritzker
Just thinking back to how there was a concerted effort in 2024 to paint Trump as the "anti-war candidate" and now he may rename the DoD to the Department of War.
Every person, without exception, who claims they voted for King asshole “because of the economy” is lying. All of them. Not a single person voted for that criminal asswipe because of the economy. They voted for him because they wanted team white man to win and be in charge. That’s it.
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
Democrats try too hard to win the argument, and not hard enough to win the fight. Arguments are about reason and evidence, fights are about money, power, and emotion
a society that wants to keep functioning has to disincentivize baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Anything to blame the ills of society on "The Blacks." Same trope repeatedly ad nauseum throughout American history. 🤦🏿♂️
Really reprehensible rewriting of reality by democratic senator @schatz.bsky.social here
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
Fascist Stephen Miller’s comments are aimed at reinforcing the unreality that the political right now exists in. That reality will come crashing down on all of us if these fucking people are not removed from power.
i think my take on this is: it is good that people to the left of center care about the well-being of people who aren't in our coalition. but it is not our job to do things we can't do because those people kneecapped us
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
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...
A lot of politically connected vendors literally made hundreds of millions of dollars off taxpayers through no bid contracts in just two months of Alligator Alcatraz operating. Waste, fraud, and abuse.
she said that “black” with a hard r
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
I’ve seen a lot of explanations for this but I think the stupidest, pettiest one is correct - college kids being rude really has been the most pressing problem facing the opinion column set turning “someone protested me” into a national crisis because it’s the only time they experience negativity
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
People need to be DONE done with these capitulation contrarians. Matt Yglesias, Tom Nichols, Pod Save guys, all of them. I don't care if they "sometimes make a good point," they spend at least as much time actively arguing dangerous ones that enable the fascists. No (discursive) quarter.
If you host a debate on something like this, you are suggesting the subject matter should be up for debate. No, human rights are not up for debate. Those of us who believe in liberation have a moral duty to make sure that any future opposition party jettisons feckless capitulators like these
this is what a labor action looks like. (or one thing it looks like.)
They’re going to rebrand it as the Centers for Disease Creation
What an absolute joke.
And she's still employed by the Washington Post even as they've been pushing out or offering buyouts to most of their black opinion writers
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
many professional political observers are closet or open trump supporters - when he fails or stumbles, as he frequently does, they cover for him and insert a fake, fictional trump into their stories that's doing smart stuff for normal reasons.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I really need to know if the sandwich was a ham sandwich
She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
In the week since relaunching neighborhood canvasses, our volunteers have knocked more than 91k doors across the five boroughs — including 25k this weekend. That's in addition to the 4,000 people who turned out for the #ZcavengerHunt.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
capitulating to manufactured outrage merely makes u look pathetic to everyone
Man, it’s a good thing they got deployed. It’s not like this important work could have been done by…anyone else.
Not many people know this, but all of the major political changes and social movement successes of the twentieth century -- from the New Deal to the civil rights movement to the Great Society -- were achieved because Democratic voters lay perfectly still and never pushed their representatives to act
And this is NYC, a global city! No rich people are leaving, at least not in any numbers that matter. It's always been a joke of a threat.
Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4
The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
this is the part of fascism that is just completely inescapable and it is fucking infuriating every day they go out there and they lie and they lie and they know they’re lying and we know they’re lying and that’s the whole point of the lying and I hate it and I hate them
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
What's actually gonna happen is they're gonna have to spend months gutting it to remove the listening devices and fixing other security breaches and the New York Times will run an A1 feature on how much "taxpayer money" the Dem president is spending on it like it's a huge scandal
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
An utterly clarion argument from ace historian that we are in authoritarianism. Not “on the road to,” “flirting with,” “creatively expanding federal power,” or other euphemisms that will continue to be proffered. Only question is how long will we stay there? Will depend on how we act and respond…
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
This political age was brought to you by people who simultaneously had no idea how good they had it and also no clue *why* they had it so good.
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
A symbolic win if ppl keep repainting is for all of us. It's motivation to keep fighting, it's inspiration, it lets people know others are fighting too, and that there are more of us than there are of them. Optics aren't everything, but they matter; not for the fascists, but for all the rest of us.
As much as it takes. Conservatives only care about power. The will of people or the city government MUST be broken. They WILL obey. No amount of tax money is ever enough for a conservative to impose his will. Conservatism is very expensive.
Oh man, Full Collapse and War All the Time were like 25% of my rotation in the early aughts. Hadn't listened in years though. Now I know what I'll be listening to the rest of the week. 💆🏿♂️
Not a single billionaire *really* opposes what Trump is doing. How do we know? They would be writing massive checks to every single grassroots organizations and *the horror* labor unions who could organize mass resistance.
the quiet part out loud: "keeping more money in my pocket than I could ever spend is worth fascism, death, and widespread immiseration"
zohran mamdani is making me filled with too much hope for the future whatever happened to the good old politics of “everything must be dog shit”
It'd be one thing if rural voters contented themselves with insatiable rent-seeking and a nauseating culture of victimhood, but they also seem incapable of letting everyone else go about their business. Biden giving them more "abundance" merely emboldened their attacks. defector.com/doomsday-for...
i've decided to run for mayor of new york city. i hate this city, i hate being in it, i think everyone in it is stupid except for me, when people have fun here it makes me mad, i don't know why i'm running, i don't want to be mayor, and i have $4. see you at the polls
According to a new report: "The U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to prevent large fossil-fuel power plants from retiring could cost ratepayers about $3.1 billion a year in 2028."
my only criticism of zohran’s campaign rn is we’ve been working on a campaign scavenger hunt for months and now we look like copycats 😔
This scavenger hunt is so charming and smart and actively engaging. It gets New Yorkers out and about, exploring the city, talking to one another, taking advantage of public transportation and working toward a common cause. The levels! It’s just so great.
You can’t build a coalition of people you’re sacrificing.
Excellent thread. I'll just add that there's a long history of blaming liberals for reactionary political dynamics that were cultivated by coordinated political campaigns by the far right. There is no law of nature that produces "backlash politics." It's politics (and propaganda) that produces it.
*white leftists and liberals. Black people, by and large, understand the psychology of white elites and what guides them. When we point this out, the backlash is immediate, and sustained We will not defeat fascists, and oligarchs who enable them, by waving away the fact that they are just bad ppl
Nationalism is by default unimaginative and paradoxically every example of it is broadly similar to other examples everywhere else in the world. It's always about flags and chants and xenophobic exceptionalism. The mantra of people who don't have the imagination to actually love where they live.
A good thread on the fall of UChicago. I'd add that they leaned harder into speech panic than perhaps any other major institution. It turns out, if you can believe it, that there were more pressing issues on campus.
-Centrists think election wins are necessary & sufficient -"Stay home" part of the left thinks election wins are unnecessary and insufficient -Most on the left know that election wins are necessary, but insufficient 1st group shows up to the primaries. 2nd group doesn't. 3rd group needs a drink.
I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.
They are openly talking about Washington D.C. being a city with a significant Black population, and they’ve almost exclusively named cities / significant Black populations, while also targeting prominent Black public figures, and demanding schools, contractors, and foreign partners are "anti-DEI"
Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank. A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring. We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down. Make sure that the truth will out.
I’m sure the South Carolina National Guard will be in hand to help the state’s resid— Hang on, I’m being handed something
Gonna try to outflank the usual centrists who show up to things like this: HEY GUYS ITS 2025 WE HAVEN'T HAD A PRIMARY YET. Gavin Newsom is NOT the candidate, we have plenty of time to find another person! If you're dedicated to him NOW then you're dedicated to transphobia and harming the homeless.
If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person
Let’s be clear that it was the conservative movement that created this situation. The Trump presidency, guided by the Heritage Foundation, has undermined the very concept of federal authority by wielding it so recklessly and wantonly.
My mom visiting with me from Youngstown, Ohio, handled it just fine today, FWIW.
Too many people have been trying to understand them for far too long. And I’ve seen far too many articles about trying to understand the MAGA voter. This is a bad marriage. In a related opinion, General Sherman should’ve been given carte blanche to go back-and-forth over the south for a decade.
Not listening to Black women is going to be the reason America collapses. That is all.
Took me being around a lot of white, conservative, southerners in college to get the right-wings number. They are bad people, who relish in doing bad things. They will lie, cheat, and steal to get to power. And proudly be hypocritical to wield power. You don't argue w/these people, you defeat them.
i think one issue is that this approach has proven to be a total failure. a partisan who sees the right as morally deficient will have had a better track record at predicting the events of the last few years than someone who is endlessly trying to demonstrate their nuance.
if you’re on the left, the question of “should you be on a platform consciously designed to turn people to the right” shouldn’t be some head-scratching dilemma
Moderates/centrists laid the groundwork for this by boosting the moral panic about "cancel culture" and "free speech" that fascists/conservatives were spewings the last decade.
*while the police are literally hitting your door with a batter ram and shooting tear gas into your home* “Defund the police was crazy.”
Edmund Pettus -- the Confederate for whom the famous bridge leading out of Selma, Alabama, is named -- was captured four different times during the Civil War. All of the slave-defending traitors were losers in the grandest sense, but some of them *really* embraced losing as a way of life.
So many elites are abject cowards.