Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen’s house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake. This is America under Trump. No one is safe.
Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen’s house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake. This is America under Trump. No one is safe.
"The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos.” Huh? "About 60% of Black men are affected by [pseudofolliculitis barbae], according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology." Oh, 🤮. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime. bit.ly/transvictimized
every reporter there should be following-up with potus on this guy's question. not a backbone to be found.
Yes yes yes. Conservatives - including Charlie Kirk - made Kyle Rittenhouse a hero PRECISELY BECAUSE he killed two people. That's what they were celebrating.
"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
Good wood
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
Kill recreational nihilism — wherever it comes from, whatever ideological mask it happens to be wearing. Do not engage in it. Do not indulge it. It makes you weak and it makes you stupid. If you haven't found meaning in something, don't make the void you have chosen everyone else's problem.
The fact that the @wsj.com still has "transgender, antifacist ideology" in this hed even after adding an editor's note confirming it's wrong is wildly irresponsible. The preview still seems to validate the right's bloodthirsty wishcasting. (Not to mention "transgender ideology" is bigoted rhetoric.)
as someone who has read far too many manifestos and investigation reports I would simply beg everyone to avoid social media forensics at the cost of focusing on the obvious fact, namely that Americans enjoy a broad franchise and imaginative prerogative to mass murder, for clear historical reasons
Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and their homes in the West Bank, unchecked and with impunity. These acts of violence are thuggish and inhumane. The silence of the international community is a disgrace. Shame on this world.
he just wants to dance! vladimir!!!
His vile letter was released, Russia invaded Poland, his friend was murdered, and he’s been hitting up audiences who will suck his dick.
Charlie Kirk fans threaten HBCUs because they want to lash out at Charlie’s enemies, and theirs, and they’re conceding that means black people. Not ONLY, but definitely.
When a Trump supporter assassinated the Speaker of the Minnesota House, Charlie Kirk blamed the left.
Why do they look like this
After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank. Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.
While Republicans are endlessly lecturing everyone else about civility and respect, part of civility and respect is following rules and norms, but the median American is 38 years old and in their lifetime Republicans have never let rules and norms stop them from doing what they wanted to do.
I bet if Charlie Kirk had run a website called the Pundit Watchlist the reaction might be a bit different right now
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
i actually think this is correct if the political spectrum is composed entirely of elites. which i think speaks poorly of our elites and poorly of the way political media conceives of politics in this country. fully aristocratic and white supremacist. clear who counts and whose politics simply don’t
I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.
He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.
Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.
Without comment:
“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson
I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman
this omission is truly vile. he’s out here eulogizing kirk
thinking about what might have possibly caused that recent uprising in Nepal
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” “Counting or not counting gang violence.” The last words before the shot rang out, apparently. America is a satire of itself.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Is denying people healthcare, kidnapping people from their jobs to be sent to detention camps, targeting minorities with legislation and hate speech campaigns not political violence?
Yep, it’s only raising salience. two politicians were shot, one killed, just over a month ago. we’re victims of a right wing ecosystem and guess what, we’re going to play right into it again.
I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point
I only bring this up because for a brief, glorious period, university-educated (mostly white) millennials held all the levers of cultural power, but it wasn't really sustainable, not really. And this is an illustration of why it wasn't sustainable.
Qatar bribed Trump with a $400 million luxury jet and it still wasn't enough to protect them from getting bombed by Israel. Again, and again, and again, people refuse to learn that by placating Trump you only enable him further. Alas.
america is such a young country.
Most major publications are helmed by people who understand this, but have chosen to inhabit the lies.
No one *expects* anything he says to be true. This is one of fascism's objectives—to make the truth irrelevant. His lies spin up a violent storyline that people either willingly inhabit or are trapped by. It's fiction with real-world consequences.
the mashed potatoes alone
love a punch card though. ty, i will be back
cute
deadass
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? WHO ACTUALLY THINKS THIS WILL HAPPEN???? HOW ARE LLMs PEOPLE!??? gahhh
i think every democrat who does a cable news hit should start calling trump the pedophile president
Only 40 days have passed since Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were tragically killed by an unhinged Trump supporter, yet this story has largely faded from national awareness. We must not allow that to happen.
oh look, the Trump FCC uses a fake investigation into Dish to redirect billions in spectrum to Elon Musk, exactly as I predicted just a few weeks ago
History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.
In so many ways, the Roberts Court has revived the logic of Dred Scott: that racially targeted groups have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Thinking in particular today abt the free Black Americans trafficked under the Fugitive Slave Law, virtually w/o legal recourse.
Sad thing recent events have made me accept: a lot of US elites are weak, amoral people, whose guiding star is "what does power want?" mixed with "what's easiest for me in the short-term?" And that unfortunately means we can't appeal to principle or patriotism, we need to structure their incentives.
lastly: shame is not effective public messaging for changing the behavior of **good faith low information individuals** shame is absolutely effective public messaging for changing the behavior of institutions. and furious responses are appropriate for people in power choosing harm
King shit
Israel appears to be destroying high-rise buildings as part of its displacement efforts and aims to conquer Gaza city. Israeli law prof Eliav Lieblich comments: "17 years in the field and I haven't seen a 'state of law' that conducts itself like this. There isn't a millimetre of legality here."
Each day we march towards the correct opinion like that one guys Pakistani grandfather who voted for Trump said "he's been sent by God for a great justice, to destroy the American empire"
it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
The blast wave rips through a tented village full of displaced people. Just war crime after war crime by a terrorist state.
Pachinko, Pepper Ann, The Wire.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. —Abraham Lincoln
I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
"Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for creating Operation Warp Speed, whose vaccines killed untold millions" -RFK
Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
and don't let them in.
i haven't been able to verify in the wayback machine and Shake Shack hasn't replied to me, but: in their early years, Shake Shack sold a Lincoln pin, online, i think! I def. had one and lost it in Shanghai after Trump's first win (ominous.) and haven't found another like it. Can anyone confirm?
i'm not watching this stuff as much as journalists do, but the cop in the background is paying a lot of attention to kennedy. usually their eyes look to be staring blankly ahead, i assume to catch if something occurs in the room.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
for fuck's sake he is invading our cities. why the fuck do you keep talking about finding common ground?! he wants to kill us!
Pritzker presser was well coordinated, outlining the situation as it pertains to: federal overreach, lax red state gun policies, violence intervention solutions defunded by Trump, Stephen Miller is eager to harm your Mexican-looking neighbors, and appeals to the media to report w an eye to history.
...ly running? ive got u bro
J.B. Pritzker (D): We have reason to believe that Stephen Miller chose the month of September to come to Chicago because of celebrations around Mexican Independence Day that happen here. It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics & peaceful parades
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Hannah Arendt: If “given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness”
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
there's a very simple reason why conservative influencers source their blanks from abroad: pursuance of self-interest and profit maximization are considered virtues in their worldview. supporting US manufacturing would be like supporting welfare.
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
i really think jd vance is the fakest politician i've seen in my lifetime. there is nothing sincere about him.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
World leaders should be mocking us and touting their investments in science and the arts. This regime must be shamed.
The embrace of 47 drives me nuts because he won the 2020 election?! It is an obvious conceit they’ll never acknowledge.
I only just found out that the Israeli bombing of Nasser hospital in Gaza was caught live on air. That’s because the rescue workers you see were responding to the first bombing. Israel waited for them to arrive to bomb the hospital again. Obvious trigger warning Translation in the alt description
What's being unsaid is that Trump is running this shit how the majority of companies run their businesses. They fire folks for petty reasons and because they're whistleblowers all the time. Boeing even killed a couple of them.
Death cults everywhere
#BREAKING | The Jewish Policy Center says Israel has the right to kiII Christians and bIow up their churches in Gaza.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on