popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, yeah. I wish more people saying this kind of shit were arrested for it.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, yeah. I wish more people saying this kind of shit were arrested for it.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfrozen caveman lawyer from 2011
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
He's a double agent being run by "democratic consultants", just an absolute patsy
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
The fury/panic my dogs feel *every time* someone walks by or the bus passes is incandescent. I don't know how they can live like that
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Paper route! Must have been $5 a day or something
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah she dismantled the entire public health infrastructure to cull the weak I mean encouraged vegetable consumption
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's what happened: Trump said Covid wasn't real. That got tossed into the rw conspiracy blender that turns minor disappointments and feelings of loss of control into murderous campaigns against out groups. That's it.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
A judge held a hearing today and issued a TRO to stop this from happening. The urgency of acting to protect people from the fascist regime was clear to her and she stepped into the breach. Which is what you should be doing, but I guess you are on vacation.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
if only she could feel shame.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't threaten me with a good time
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Run from anything and everything.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Of all the things, this made me cry.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
One of my kids is a trans teenager, so we've been on edge since the election. But most people I interact with in my life seem way less alarmed or even aware that what is happening is *exactly* the shit we believed couldn't happen.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Appeasement doesn't work is one of the only things I remember learning in hs history. It's absolutely obvious and intuitive to anyone who doesn't lust for power or long to be dominated.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
FUUUCCKKKing sociopath. I'll vote for redistricting but we cannot be rid of this demon soon enough.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
3rd way: oppose fascists by adopting their language and ideas and not resisting because, let's be honest, we don't want to seem cringe.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
But also- what did she think she was gonna get for her $140 plus chip dust? Did she mistake the reporter for another reporter she always gives chips and cash for favors? Anyway she regrets the negative impression
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Not "people", "hippies".
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that there must be videotapes of him as a 10 year old working on this. 90s nazi try hard
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It's funny how trainings reflect their historical moment, which is generally 3-17 years in the past
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
He's a disease.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like that never happened
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
"Reconfigured the numbers" ok
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry for any inconvenience to Schiff but he and his fellow senate dems have abandoned their oaths and their constituents. They've been unwilling to counter fascism with all the tools at their disposal- they are complicit until they do. Any previous courage is a footnote.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
They look like exactly NYC cops in the subway. Agents of state control trying to make people afraid
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It's just so maddening- like if someone tries cutting off your head to distract you from the fact that he already disemboweled you, it's the guy and the sword that you want to focus on, not the ultimate why of it all.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
also the definition of fascism
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't understand why you are posting this. I agree with the statement, but are you just pointing out that that Americans suck and haven't responded to blatant authoritarianism the way you planned?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
WTAF
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Will never vote for him but will vote for his redistricting amendment.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, this isn't "law enforcement" it's armed (fascist) dudes inflicting violence to try to control the population and silence dissent. Someone should start a clearing house of video and testimonies of these incidents. Maybe someone with some protection like a member of congress.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
i think Hakeem Jeffries was raised by the Baileys, Schumer's imaginary friends.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
So full of shit.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
"Elections"where somehow people keep "voting" for their own repression and immiseration.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Many people are saying this about Markwayne-it's partly due to steroid use, apparently
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
That's the thing about dogs...
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Or a Mr potato head ass nazi
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
oh good move
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
This happens all the time. Headlines that either are not supported by anything in the article or actually contradict the reporting in some way. "Both sides" is the only active editorial principle at the times
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Did it work?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
This October might be a good time for a massive show of resistance in DC. I know that's what the regime wants. But what choice is there when the Supreme Court is going to allow states to dismantle voter protections to install a white supremacist government.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh, sure. Extortion puts money in the pockets of extortionists. Call it revenue if you want.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
The odds are 10/10 that they will revoke rights and empower the president. It sucks but it's true. I guess we should start acting like it.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Is it just walk around and look for moths? Do I need expertise?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Fucking disgusting
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Let me check with RFK Jr...
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Most elected dems have embraced cya as their entire personality. Seems more straightforward and potentially effective to articulate THEIR VIEWS about what govt can and should do for the people whose votes they want. And then try to do it if they get elected.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
The right also has politicians who are shitposters to their very core, repeat any nonsense and give it more reach. We need to find ways around the instinctive "um, ackshually" reflex in dems/libs that keeps them tied to idioms unintelligible to most people under 60.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Omg no way
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the text of the constitution why would the coding change randomly
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does this NYT headline use the passive voice!?! Totally obscures the fact that *a US Senator from Texas* is asking the FBI to seize citizens for political purposes!
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
anti-trans-girls- in-sports rhetoric does not distinguish between youth rec sports and the olympics, much less intersex and trans kids. "I don't want my daughter playing against boys" is not about scholarships! It's about marginalizing young people who don't conform. OBVIOUSLY!
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Could there be a class action for students admitted prior to these agreements? If my kid was going to one of these schools I would be exploring this options - seems like fraud to me.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
The fact that this is in quotation marks in this story says it all: "Letting him speak authentically to what he believes." Fascinating fucking insight, brainiacs.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
So stupid. This dude never left midtown if he even went to NYC. He hates human beings for a living, it doesn't matter where he is.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
lol.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
To state the obvious, this person lacks the ability to feel shame.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It's truly insane how myopic they are. They literally cannot perceive reality. None of them is fit to represent their constituents.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
"If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Ya don't say.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Based on enlightenment methods of inquiry and we felt sad about the criticism so we are trying non-inquiry based method instead. So stupid.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
I recently asked a lib elite journo relative why the times seems to have it in for trans people like my kid. Answer: we (journos) were too accepting of Covid scientific consensus and are "correcting" by crediting conspiracy theories and rw perspectives. Like, a bunch of people didn't like the facts
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Huh, xenophobia politics failed in the most diverse city in the country. Take the L, undead man baby.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Can confirm
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
I want him to give us a real life example of actual words said or written by an actual person, critical of Netanyahu or Israeli actions, that he would *not* call anti-Semitic.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
what to plant! Feels like everything ends up fucking up the environment eventually, which can be paralyzing.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, "I want to thank, in particular, god."
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
I dare you to actually do this. Go back to DC, make some sort of public gesture. Stop just talking and do something.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Or maybe it was the vicious propaganda campaign that Fox News as run on a loop for a decade, using anti trans bigotry to demonize democrats and progressive ideas. Who's to say.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Not excusing the appalling violence. But he couldn't even take a stand against Rs after a physical attack that is fueled by lawlessness, which this crypto bill will supercharge. So what the fuck.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay but he just voted for a crypto bill to facilitate the regime's corruption. It's like severance. His capital innie can fuck around with pandering to the right, while his outie finds out about the growing threat of emboldened right wing's violence. but they are two separate consciousnesses.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
These are all just distractions from the real crisis, which is Joe Biden.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Breathtaking. Can she, like, have a staffer get her a copy? I guess the details of how lives will be destroyed to serve bigoted ideology are not worth her precious fucking time.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Elected Dems who are not acknowledging that this is fascism and fighting it with whatever tools they have are complicit in fascism's spread. So yeah, dems are a problem. If the immune system stays neutral the virus will kill the host. That's not a matter of opinion.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
It's uncanny how he conveys some degree of conviction but no emotion. He's illegible. kind of creepy, ngl.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Good question Dana. Shit. What is he even talking about?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
In my experience it was less of a point in time and more of a period of a decade or so
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Armed police cannot "square off" with unarmed protestors. What the feds are doing is threatening peaceful protesters. Law enforcement is always automatically framed as the protagonist even when it's clear they are violating the rights of citizens.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Is it weird this coincides with Elon/ Trump break up? Not that it matters in terms of how we are all even more fucked than ever.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
these are regular ass buildings. The high cost of labor, materials, debt service, consultants to help get money into your project via tax credits or other insane workarounds created to avoid direct federal funding to build housing for non rich people drive this
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Seems illegal?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
He's more of a large pony imho.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
To call Musk disillusioned is just taking the bait. Bored? Maybe. Redirecting his attention to his personal plundering of the US government? Definitely.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Can governors be impeached?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck these adults falling over themselves to cave to hate. You know who you are. You are feeding the beast that will consume you and everyone you tell yourself you are protecting. Wake the fuck up.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
lol Pamela Paul thinks she was fired because “the truth is hard”. Really hope to never hear from her again.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
This. Is. Incredible.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Lord of the Flies. Still scares me.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Lord of the Flies. I couldn’t sleep for weeks.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Just looks like a bunch of people surrounding a situation and then one of the congresswomen in a heated conversation?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
💯 if you have self discipline you could try doing this yourself but it really helps to have someone help you learn to engage the right muscles in a movement. Otherwise your brain moves your body the way wants it to regardless of mechanics until it hurts.
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Omg shut up Mr Burns
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
whatever Jan
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
that seems illegal
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Why?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
No!! What is happening with DOGE lawsuits? Why are these incels still allowed to rob us blind in broad daylight?
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
cc: ??
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Bougie
popularknapsack.bsky.social (@popularknapsack.bsky.social) reply parent
Dismantling pro-democracy media is an emergency in the eyes of the judiciary?