“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
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“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
As Orwell said, “The party demanded…”
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
This was a nightmare I had once.
He’s a generational talent, right?! His Defenders book is brilliant as well.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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These questions were just project 2025 propaganda. I’ve taken more rigorous Buzzfeed quizzes
This is the bad place.
Chicago keeping art alive:
Brilliant
Academic presentation at DragonCon is my next prof goal. Soon…
Beowulf?
I, for one, am glad the country didn’t place a mentally deranged, physically disintegrating, septuagenarian at the helm. Or a woman. Can you imagine?!
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
Rigor mortis
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
Same energy as this guy.
This argument is an Absolute Cinema... 👀😅🤣 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals
She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
Fuck that Fuck this Fuck them Fuck him and Fuck us for not doing anything about this when we clearly can and should.
Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."
This song remains incredibly relevant in 2025. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ft Teddy Pendergrass performing "wake up everybody"
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down Should have been gone long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know?
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
Please make this a #1 hit song and viral #trumpisapunkassbitch
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.
🤘🙂☕ stevenwilhelm555 Steven
But why must it be? "Dumb, selfish people believing deliberate lies" has a deep, rich history in human affairs! It explains many, many mob behaviors of the past! One might even say that it is the explanation for *most* violent mob behaviors throughout history. It's definitely a thing that happens!
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
US leadership is a Tim Robinson sketch.
Or, and hear me out, his tailor hates him too.
Not only this, but y'all have collectively consigned chattel slavery to the past and, in doing so, forget that for almost the entirety of American history Black people were property not people. In fact, the idea that Black people are full persons under the law is a MODERN development.
MAGA still worried about cats being eaten?
A couple quick notes: 1) Simil-AIR-ly is not a thing human people say. 2) try not to check your notes ON AIR. 3) the talking point is “Laboratory for indoctrination” practice this in a mirror before your next media hit. 4) “we want to make DC great again” is way shorter and still means nothing.
So progress. Very museum exhibit. Much great. #MMGA
I’m sorry but I’m still stuck on Grammarly marketing a service to students to psychologically profile professors and rewrite work based on the results and it’s barely made a splash. However effective, even the attempt is just anti-learning. It’s cultivating sycophancy, not thinking.
Same.
Coverage dismissing the fact that National Guard are “just patrolling safe tourist areas” is missing the point. The very nature of a presence patrol — I did hundreds of these in Iraq — is to project strength. That’s to embolden your allies. And to threaten your enemies.
“Paging Gillian Michaels. Gillian Michaels to the courtesy phone, please.”
Somebody get that biggest loser lady in the phone.
I award this response one Hockey Baby, the highest of meme honors.
Why is this video 15 hours long?!
On nice people👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Caption This: “The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”
As I watch this tiny, small, little man show off his hat collection to leaders literally fighting for freedom and liberty I am reminded of this from Andor: “Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
Not a word about this from Democratic leaders today
An incredible moment at tonight's Washington Spirit home game at Audi Field, as the crowd erupts in a "FREE DC" chant.
The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Y’all already know…
Bro. The market on markets has never been higher! To the MOON! Get in on the ground floor, you fool!
We need a staged reading as a fundraiser.
Get in on that sh!t early bro!!!! $$$$$
It’s too late to stop it, but never too late to fight it. This includes documenting and archiving.
I would take it extremely seriously that multiple scholars of Christian nationalism are telling us it’s too late—which I also take to mean that now the work is tracking the damage
You know who pisses me off the most though? The now aghast neo-libs from a decade ago who vilified Obama for cash. Examples: @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Brooks Frum Walsh Cheney Pence They knew better and did it any way.
Bro you HELPED set this up like 10 dominoes ago. You don’t get the pearl clutching high ground now .
I’m in a musical?! Surprise!!!!
I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.
He was a famous gambler Gail. Jeez!
I can. This /is/ the stupidest timeline, after all.
www.vogue.com/article/befo...
It’s what started my journey into making comics seriously. Ended up in the Met’s Afrofuturism Period Room three years later. Thanks Gail!
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
Trump's own DOJ website still has a press release up from January pointing out that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest in more than 30 years.
Trump's attempt to militarize and federalize D.C. is an incredibly dangerous acceleration of his fascist takeover of the nation AND It's clear he's pursuing it to distract from the Epstein Files His craven personal self-preservation is driving this escalation and that makes it all the scarier.
Crime in D.C. is at historic lows. Trump isn't calling in the national guard to fight crime; he's doing it as a power play and a test of his authority. If we have to flood the streets with the military during peacetime, just imagine what he'll do during the elections.
Hey future historians. Circle this date for your inevitable “how did this happen?!” research.
Yall really think he’s gonna give it back after 30 days?
Reading the news.
KPop Demon Hunters is the real movie of the summer. I don’t make the rules. #huntrix
It is known.
I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...
Crime is ALREADY significantly down in DC this year so, yes, Trump will make a speech and then say, look at how much crime is down in DC! All to avoid talking about the real crimes in the Epstein Files www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/i...
Gerrymandering for dummies
I keep coming back to the "feeling" of oppression or the "feeling" of discrimination because that's really all that's happening. Whites aren't being oppressed or discriminated against; they just feel that way because they're decentered within a world that has been organized around them.
Who is the “we” here?
Offload your personal relationships to a robot. This is dystopian.
Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.
In an adjacent vein, Throughline released a great episode about Sesame Street. I highly recommend. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes
Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
Just arrived! Adventures of Lion Man (@rosariumbill.bsky.social), with @jijennings.bsky.social, @drdamianduffy.bsky.social, @yvettel.bsky.social, @amazingdavidbrame.bsky.social, @mbdando.bsky.social!
Sesame Street art by Jack Davis.
ICE, now the best-funded federal law enforcement agency in the US, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But the agency’s vision for new facilities is startlingly low-tech. It's also a humanitarian disaster.
We didn’t know how good we had it with Stephen Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Oh no, wait, we totally did.
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
Slava Bonkus #ElonSucksSoHard 