I feel like I've heard this one before
I feel like I've heard this one before
jfc
Trump did this
He's just standing there with his mouth hanging open this whole time? Looks like he's already regretting leaving the house
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
Every single day the head of a national publication or cable network looks at this batshit insanity and just shrugs.
The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says heâs always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that âAfrican American ladies, beautiful ladiesâ are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.
No one is more anti-American than these guys. They hate their fellow citizens.
Why would you let your interviewee ask and answer their own questions? Some of the weakest softball journalism I've ever seen. You're supposed to press them on the issues
I can testify from experience that this is extremely true and only getting more so as universities and journalism are destroyed
C'mon dude, step it up. We're several months into the new regime, you've had ample time to figure out a strategy. Show us you have a spine
rightwingers love to make fascist art with ai generators, ai image generation is the aesthetic of fascism
The White Houseâs official X account has a long thread in which theyâve posted pictures of people arrested during the fedsâ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
this is just straight-up dictatorship and itâs repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still wonât say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
Tonightâs dumb napkin cartoonâŚ
I know it's unpopular to say but Trump's authoritarian consolidation is succeeding, mostly because of cowardly institutions. We're effectively past the point of no return and life will increasingly become dictated by Trump and the federal government. Democracy is lost for at least a generation.
Trump is functionally ending our democracy by escalating military occupations of Democratic cities and NYT is just out there amplifying his lies about why he doing it. No different than if they published that Hitler is imposing fascism on Germany because a dirty Jew burned down the Reichstag.
Republicans (& Corporate Media): we are the party of small government Republicans in power: we are going to micromanage all companies in US, occupy cities for political power, ban discussions we donât like & make mandatory discussions we like, inspect genitals of children
A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:
This is effectively a ban on trans scientists getting federal funding, straight up. Itâs also effectively a ban on all scientific work that includes trans people.
The U.S. government is run by Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer, and whatever rando Fox puts on TV when Trump is watching
The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV. Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.
What the FUCK dude
I wish Democrats were as comfortable saying "our enemies in right wing media" as they are "our friends across the aisle."
Follow the money!
the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring
Man who shut down the largest collective effort by America to help the most vulnerable people in the world, condemning millions to death, suggests that his businesses will save them donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
It is time that Democrats not only match what Republicans are doing with gerrymandering, but exceed it. Every Democratic controlled state needs to be looking to redrawing their maps -- not to gain 5 seats like in TX, but cumulatively 15, 20 or 30 seats. We must use every tool available.
How is it that the richest man on earth can share this kind of openly white supremacist and misogynistic trash and it be met with a shrug by the entire US elite?
Elon Musk retweeted a post saying that women were "built to be traded" like property.
Worth remembering that when activists pushed Biden to declare a climate emergency & use emergency powers to accelerate the clean energy transition, VSPs scolded them. Ha ha, that's crazy! Fun update: Trump has claimed emergency powers to substantially slow the transition & no one said shit.
This is a psychopath and a monster.
Clowns, the lot of them
"And you'd divide it up". He means Ukraine. Trump has been talking with Putin about dividing up Ukraine.
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you donât hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists â most of whom are total mediocrities â to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.
Fascism
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It's funny because Ben started off in 2016 as a NeverTrump dude, but less than a decade later and he's policing what it means to be "loyal members of MAGA."
An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read: "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die. AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip⌠/1
16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but itâs a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store
Every half-hidden sneer or bit of gentle condescension that he wrote about has been retroactively validated too. Those old money types had your fucking number, buddy. Should have treated you far, far worse. You were right, you didnât belong, and itâs because everyone else there *was* better than you
journalists and the press should make it very clear this move is about information control and mandating that all future automation tools amplify and protect right wing ideology and right wing propaganda
If youâd told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack â and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi â well, Iâd have had you committed.
I feel like I'm going insane. Elon Musk is a "dark MAGA" nazi-saluting billionaire who dirched California for Texas, leaving the second most polluting site in the state, after milking billions in subsidies.... and the Dem governor is talking about how he's a fan? www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Delete this
When Obama, a relative newcomer, was elected, Republicans derided him as "the anointed one" and mocked Democrats for revering him like a god. No Democrat, of course, said any such thing.
Just wanted to swing by and congratulate you on the (unintended?) engagement in this thread, lol I support your work and I'm sympathetic to your complaints about the platform, but anything involving X or Threads is a non-starter for us. We already tried it! We know where it leads!
Now would be a good time for every elected Democrat to declare X an unsuitable platform for public office holders and shut down their account.
Really got your finger on the pulse here, eh? Riveting journalism. I'm sure your boss is very interested in reading about a year-old topic
I don't think I've ever in my life heard a Democratic official refer to "stupid conservatives with stupid policies," and I think that should probably change.
"not jumping to conclusions" ah yes, I've heard this one before. Who can really say what the guy stands for, after many years of him shouting it from the social media site he owns or signaling it from the presidential inauguration
"Both sides"ing this one? Really?
What they're going to do to immigrants is horrendous enough, but this should be understood more broadly. They've just built a police state that is larger than most country's militaries. The DOJ said de-naturalization is its priority. ICE doesn't need warrants. This is Trump's secret police force.
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will âown themâ and be responsible for them. Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalismâs concept of the laborerâor we could just let them say it.
Intentional or not? We clearly need some Trump voters from a random diner in Ohio to tell us how unintentional it was, and all the benefits of buying into Trumpcoin while you're at it
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
showing off my free concentration camp merch. My soul is just out of frame, intact and not bound by dark blood rites to the eternal service of Moloch the Devourer
When you put it on their grave, please remember to include the typos
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
The official White House account is posting cringe on main
Into the basket of deplorables he goes
the mamdani thing is showing you how limited the range of acceptable opinions actually is in america. republicans can be a stone's throw away from endorsing genocide and thats fine but one guy goes slightly to the left of dem party orthodoxy and we're right in the middle of soviet russia
The top floors âto be retrofitted into a kind of executive mansion for HUD Secretary Turner, including an executive suite, executive dining room, reserved parking for his 5 cars, exclusive use of an entire elevator, special space for his various assistants & a planned gym for him & his family.â
Holy shit
Cry more, fash freaks
âForget about intelligenceâ is a pretty good mantra for this administration
Skrmetti was the culmination of a decade long effort to turn the tide back against LGBTQ rights by the far right. They specifically targeted trans people after Obergefell to cleave the community. Now their next target is to overturn Obergefell. That's the end goal. We were a stepping stone to that.
It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.
These freaks need to be defeated
The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
I love that a politician can say something like âI believe mice naturally spawn out of grainâ and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name. This is your legacy!
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
never back down, always hit back this is the way
If a Democratic president cut off one of the red states dependent on federal funding, it would be a political scandal. But cutting off California -- the single biggest "donor state" in the nation, one that sends in to the fed'l gov't ~$80 billion more than it gets back -- is straight-up theft.
9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fatâthey're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.
Really gross dude, please don't subject us to this
Look this is pathetic but instructive because itâs not just about this lame creep itâs about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trumpâs criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of âyou can get away with anything.â
Watched a documentary on the Vietnam War over the weekend. We havenât learned anything. Not a damn thing. The right wingers are still lying and corrupt. The left is still doing useless ineffective politics. The military industrial complex is a shit show. Nothing is different.
Trump in 2024: we are going to deport illegal immigrants, who committed crimes, to their home country Trump in early 2025: we are sending legal immigrants, with no criminal record, to random foreign gulags Trump in midway through 2025: we are going to deport legal visitors studying at Harvard
just an occasional reminder that one of the reasons jd vance is now vice president is because liberals went into a period of self-flagellation after 2016 and made a bestseller of a book that claimed to explain why appalachia turned to the right, pushing the author into the national spotlight.
Awfully credulous. I bet y'all believe him saying we're going to Mars in 10 years too
Great lede from @lizdye.bsky.social: "On the same day the government agreed to pay $5 million to the family of January 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt, the Justice Department announced it was charging New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver with assaulting an ICE agent."
We are five months into this legislative term and three Democrats have already died in office. All of them were in their 70s. The Democratic Partyâs gerontocracy is a growing problem.
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
For all the talk about âhard truthsâ etc that propagate our discourse we really donât discuss how coddling conspiracy theorists has made things worse for everyone.
You can tell Elon is an incredible businessman, and his companies all create such undeniably real value, because he operates like this. Trailing Trump's shakedown tour like a corruption remora, gobbling any crumbs of graft that fall in its wake, is peak high tech entrepreneur genius behavior.