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Its time for a Red New Deal (Giant Blender)
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it is germany, 1938 pick a side
In other words, a pretty average Republican
If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.
has there been a single piece of political rhetoric that has inspired more mass shootings than great replacement?
It would be sort of funny if we finally had a government that engaged in the sort of cartoonish conspiratorial antics that internet culture has always accused it of, precisely because we voted that same internet culture into power. We are living the dumbest self-fulfilling prophecy imaginable.
Are the "left wing terror cells" in the room with you right now?
It’s telling that of the two people with immediate power to take the actions that Miller/Vance/etc are demanding, one misstated the relevant law (Bondi) and the other acknowledged that the First Amendment prevents fulfilling those demands (Carr)
The easiest way to reject the abundant data pointing toward disproportionate right-wing political violence is to dismiss right-wing actors as one-off, apolitical lunatics and any left-wing actors as part of a nebulous, concentrated political project.
Schumer has been best pals with Trump for a few decades, he has no intention of fighting fascism
In the context of the last week, this is treason
The assumption that protests against the leader/regime must have been puppeteered and funded by global opposition forces as opposed to just organic political responses based on dislike of the person/policies is very…Putinesque
and where is Khalil now Because based on your takes I would assume he was summarily executed and in a shallow grave, since the US is now nazi germany
Raskin to Patel: "In a few short months, how did you go from being a crusader for accountability and transparency with the Epstein files to being part of the conspiracy and coverup? The answer is simple. You said it yourself -- because of who is on that list."
Peak consultant culture envisions turning every election into a "vote the team jersey" proposition rather than an actual competition of ideas and directions for the country. Reframing Democrats as Republican Lite will never win elections. It's not fresh and bold, it's just cowardly and stupid.
We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.
They're openly saying they want to sacrifice LGBTQ people and the planet to appease fascists. This is not only a losing strategy, this is morally repugnant. Every single one of these people should be ashamed, but we know they won't because they are amoral sociopaths.
These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
Ma'am you banned students from hanging whiteboards on their own dorm doors so nobody might write something that could hurt someone else's feelings
Nazis
Remember, removing giant statues honoring racist traitors is “erasing history” but removing actually educational historical displays is just dandy.
Frustrated office worker who hates his job, suddenly getting an idea. "The Democrats are too woke" he whispers. POOF several smiling billionaires appear with bags of money in outstretched hands
If you call yourself a liberal, you see things like this and your instinct is to hide from it or compromise with it, you're a loser and a hack. What good are you! bsky.app/profile/esqu...
hahaha Charlie Kirk was plotting a political assassination or something
World's biggest party if the ground opened up and swallowed the stadium
“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.” www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
He has three sons
It has to be so embarrassing to work for this guy. Telling your family you have to work late because someone shouted "Mr Diapers" at the president in public and you're overseeing a national manhunt to find the perpetrator
call me a worrywart but the part of the economy that isn't 7 tech companies circulating the same $100 billion between each other over and over doesn't seem like it's doing well
I'm just an ordinary First Amendment lawyer but I'm pretty sure you can't transform "protesting the president" into criminal activity by recharacterizing it as "inflicting harm on the United States."
Tonight's extremely dystopian news teaser
It’s just such a cool place to be as a country
Nailed it. It's the thinking part they want to do away with.
free speech is under attack
folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse
I wonder what the plan is. I've never heard anyone suggest even a rough outline of a plan as to how we're going to resolve our fascist problem.
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
bruh John Yoo drafted the memos to give the Bush administration legal cover for torturing people John Yoo said the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to "terrorists" and even he is like 'yikes Trump is crossing a line'
It is truly incredible how blusteringly incompetent these guys are.
The amazing thing about Trump is that he says right into the camera on the White House lawn while stone cold sober the sort of stuff Nixon would only scream in solitude at the White House fireplace after a bottle and a half of whiskey.
They don't exist, it's cosplay
Lol. If you look up "it's okay when the President does it" in the dictionary, they have a picture of John Yoo. So for him to say this is quite something. This is the guy who wrote the legal memo justifying torture. And now he's all "hey, there's a line!"
These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
is brian kilmeade a stochastic terrorist
FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
I thought those dudes were the worst. But they weren't fascists. They didn't have the stomach for it, and that's just not what they were in it for. They wanted power, they wanted all the things that come with the job, but they weren't actually fascists and willing to burn down the country.
Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy and those guys, you can see how they got steamrolled by maga so quickly and so easily. That generation of dudes grew up loving America, they believe in the concept of Democracy. These magats have a seething hatred of democracy and America, and that hate sure does sell.
It's generally not a good idea to have bronze age cultists running your government
policymakers "fixed" the TikTok privacy and propaganda problems by ginning up a lot of xenophobia then forcing a sale to a collection of some of the least ethical people anywhere, great job
Masked vigilantes are kidnapping people off the streets
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.
This is just an incredible level of corruption. I get there's a lot going on. But this stuff deserves way more attention. Yet more evidence that Trump is selling out the American people to line his and his family's pockets. Read this and tell me I'm wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
This is extra wild when you remember that Tori Branum, the white woman who called ICE, did so because she claimed the 450+ workers were here illegally and they were trafficked and suffering human rights abuses, and she saved their lives.
Five years ago I went undercover and met a bunch of guys who love Hitler at Turning Point USA.
The Democrats are obviously conspiring with the Republican Party to destroy American democracy and install a fascist dictatorship. How else am I supposed to take this.
Murdered by the least popular administration that's ever existed
The fascist Republican death cult has its hands around the throat of America. It's invading cities, kidnapping people off the streets, and screaming about our imprisonment and execution. It's probably already got enough leverage to strangle us to death, especially since there is zero opposition.
FASCISTS: *taking over* DEM. CONGRESSMAN: Rejoice! My bill to award the 1980 hockey team a gold medal has passed!
This is serious mental illness
Trump announces military occupation of Memphis...
The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
Sure looks like Stephen Miller is saying to do away with free speech to silence, jail, and crush those who speak out against his efforts. And the "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk is agreeing with him. Can't believe so many people still claim that he's a "free speech absolutist."
I remember as a kid reading Fantastic Four comics that were probably already a decade old, and asking my mom who Robert Redford was, because The Thing made a reference to him, "I ain't no Robert Redford" obviously talking about his looks. I guess if you make it into an FF comic you're all right.
the tech VC takeover of American media continues
Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.
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Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.
America is an absolute horror show
I for one love to have my nation’s content moderated by like the same five guys with close links to the belligerent ruling faction
The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.
"US Tiktok users would be asked to shift to new app" controlled by Trump friends Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz. Good fuckin' luck with that.
A geomagnetic storm large enough to fry all the computers would fix us.
The derangement 🤯
finally, a proper mixer for the panera death lemonade
The follow-up post is the best part.
at some point they're going to learn they aren't expanding control so much as increasing tension and risk. eventually they're going to run out of luck. you can't keep deploying the most racist, stupid, and poorly trained police force in America without igniting a conflagration you can't contain
Congrats on your illegitimate government, America
You see, Monster Island is actually a peninsula.
What about child sex traffickers like Donald Trump
Snopes is ridiculous these days
Probably would have been smart of city & county leaders to like idk look at the map of the land Google got full approval and a 10-yr tax abatement to build its $2B data center that no one wants that will poison our air & water & protected wetlands all while jacking up our electric bills even more
Just realized the president implied yesterday that fishermen should stay out of the water because the U.S. may think you have drugs and kill you, and it's just a blip that barely warrants coverage.
when they go low we beg for more
Excited to see that we’re doing “you know, sometimes black people commit suicide by hanging themselves from trees”
Another day of literal Nazis telling us they're going to lock us in cages, murder us in a variety of ways, and turn America into a dictatorship. And another day of Democrats saying absolutely nothing about it and not giving a shit.
been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.
America is one of those videos where someone puts a five pound weight in an old clothes dryer
"Trump, with his tacky, mobster-esque authoritarianism, values two things above all else: fealty and malleability. People with core, immutable values, people in public service, people who would sacrifice themselves for a cause — these are not people who can exist within the modern Republican Party."
"We all want the same things" is one of the top five lies liberals tell themselves.
They are the people who will invite you a truce meeting and use the occasion to slaughter you. If you cannot recognize that some groups approach power like this, you are just an easy mark.
I just call them Republicans
Yes! They have rebuilt their entire psyches around the idea that you are their enemy, and so they feel absolutely no obligation to behave consistently or fairly or in good faith. Words are weapons for them. They’ll protest their supposed persecution, then turn around and persecute you with violence.
Honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by ruining the lives of anyone who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk