you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
Giving descendants of chattel slavery land from the plantations they enriched was the right thing to do. And breaking that promise created the racial wealth gap we're still reckoning with today.
I hate Israel and their whole project, but the people who hate Israel because they are literal Nazis are not my allies in that fight. They're literal nazis.
I don't like snitch culture and social media is filled with loser snitches. lol.
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
Don't get my hopes up like this
Your a journalist, the least you could have done is clicked the link and unblurred the blacked out text. Quite literally the bare minimum of reporting. Your "assumption" isn't an excuse.
A sitting US congressmen is openly saying this about trans people.
Liberals are always screaming that the left demands "purity," but most of us are mutuals with a lot of folks that we might disagree with on major issues. We know what compromise and tolerance for disagreement looks like. What liberals really hate is that we have red lines and minimum standards.
Read the comments under this post. People are literally proving there actually, really is no distinction to be drawn between the parties.
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
OH SHE IS DROPPING THOSE THEORIES
⚠️ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders “The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
The Minnesota shooter this week originally planned to shoot up a music venue that primarily catered to trans folks but they were worried that trans folks might b be carrying guns and wouldn't be an easy target.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.
Those who haven’t been through the cycle of abuse rarely realize a massive part of why people stay is the horribly human conviction that if we could just find the right words, they’d understand what they’re doing is wrong & that it’s killing us. There are no right words, because they already know.
Oh hell yeah nvm then. Your the first person I've recommended this show to that actually knew about it.
You should check out liquid television. It's mostly lost media at this point but super cool show from the late 90s
Well shit, I guess we must be invading the middle east again.
Did Taylor Lorenz just weaponize fellow journalist Jessica Burbank's own trauma against her out of spite?
Taylor Lorenz spending yesterday evening saying a number of racist and anti-semitic things to Black and Jewish people challenging her new Wired piece, even while Wired publishes retractions on that piece, should be a real “blinders off” for those of you who still think she’s a credible reporter.
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
Pizza index?
I don't think the funny haha trend of calling robots "clanker", etc is anything comedic or beyond just an excuse for white ppl to have a substitute for saying actual slurs
Trump wants to get Kamala killed. Watch as he amps up the attacks after he strips her or secret service protection. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
I don't understand how people look at the current state of the world and still insist voting for the "lesser evil" is a solid strategy. As if that isn't precisely what got us here.
As someone who moderates social media platforms for a living, the amount of blatant racism I've seen (including on photos of black kids) has gone up exponentially over the past few years. People aren't even afraid to hide their faces or their government names while doing it anymore.
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
Please remember the main way white male colonizers killed hundreds and millions of my people here was through BIO warfare. They want you all to die. Thus the CDC drama.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad. The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them. Do not make it easy.
The shit don't stop till the casket drops. You'd best make sure it's not yours
People think if you mention any cause other than guns you’re trying to distract from guns, which I’m not at all. But I do think maybe the insanely huge abyss of nihilism swallowing the souls of conservatively half the country is not ideal.
So lemme get this straight... This kid who shot up a church posted about doing this online *for a month*? And no one did anything about this? Isn't this literally the point of homeland security, the FBI, the DoJ? Worthless, the whole friggin lot of em.
I understand where your coming from but the odds of this becoming the flash point for a second civil war is wayyyy too likely for me to support it. There's more guns than people in this country
My take on gun control is that it's a great idea, & we should do it, but I have no clue how it could be done at this point. There are soooooooo many guns in circulation, & the fact that we couldn't get the most basic gun control bill passed after Sandy Hook does not give me much hope.
Trump has the National Guard picking up garbage for a reason. The goal is to normalize the military occupying all corners of society. Masking it in banality to make you think a military dictatorship is friendly. Those same troops would shoot ya & sweep your brains off the street if ordered to do so.
they’re calling the most recent shooter in minnesota trans to ignore the fact that there has been an organized group of far-right suicidal school shooters and this person is very likely going to be linked to them as well
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️Again and again and again, I’m being reached out my people asking if the following account is my Bluesky. Not it is not. It is a scam asking people for money. Please do not interact with them. Please all of you do me a favor and share this.
Nazis killed over 6 million Jewish people and likely over 14 million other victims. Colonizers in the Americas have killed over 100 million people over the course of centuries here. And it hasn’t stopped. If the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, same can be said of Colonizers.
respectability politics will see us all killed
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
I think giving control of the main tool kids use to communicate, to people that are known to abuse power might have some adverse effects yeah? Honestly not even sure why I'm responding. It's pretty obvious your not trying to engage in good faith.
People seem to love authoritarian tactics when it comes to children.
JFC of course it does. And the police can go in there and hunt them down. As they do, regularly. We’re watching fascism spread across the industrialised world, but privacy promotes Bad Things, so it has to go, apparently…
Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability
When America sends people off to third nations, are they in custody of the nation? Or do they just open the door and send them on their way? How is it 2025 and we are basically making agreements with nations for slave trade? America is human trafficking and selling us as slaves.
Many such cases sadly
What does Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Uganda have in common? Answer: Nothing . This is what retribution and revenge looks like. #ITYS
We probably shouldn’t normalize deploying the military domestically.
The "kind slaveholder" trope has been a pillar of racism apologists for generations. My response to those who argue that "kind masters" made slavery less bad is always this: how about you give another person total power over your life, but ask them to be kind in the process. Sound like a good deal?
ICE is pretty much exclusively picking up law abiding migrants
I'd actually like to know how you feel about the "balkanization" of the US. I've been hearing more and more people talk about it since ~2018
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
I think about this more often than I'd like to admit
I guess some of you are unaware that US police are shooting and killing more people than ever this year. Why would a National Guards person shooting a civilian cause any more consternation than what we experience already to the tune of at least 3 people a day?
Very much ready for a country in which "angry daddy ready to hurt someone" is not seen as a valid political identity.
There's no chance in hell that's actually what they pay for them
"Gavin Newsom is America's Keir Starmer" is perhaps the most devastating thing that has ever been or could ever be said about an American.
In June, Latricia Green pleaded for a protection order from her ex-husband. It was denied. She asked again in July. It wasn’t served. She was shot and killed by her ex-husband this morning inside a Detroit hospital
the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
I'm still waiting for all those leftists in the National Guard to not follow orders to enact fascism 🫥 thought they only signed up for desks jobs to get healthcare surely they aren't mercenaries for fascism and imperialism ? 😱
So common there's a term for it, "diesel therapy"
Y'all do know you don't HAVE to hand it to our founding fathers? I don't care if they "wouldn't stand for this current political climate" They dead and were responsible for the most HEINOUS shit in human history. You don't, in fact, have to hand it to them nor do you have to bring them up.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama's state senate map violates the Voting Rights Act for unfairly limiting Black political power in Montgomery. This is an important victory for Black voters.
To be clear, I have multiple clients who are undocumented but who have family members who are citizens. I.C.E. IS INTENTIONALLY KIDNAPPING AMERICAN CITIZENS—with the hope that their undocumented family members have to present themselves in-person to claim them. This is what we’re up against. 🇺🇸
they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans
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As a juvenile justice kid I wholeheartedly agree, people's close friends and family are gonna have to get arrested for people to quit ignoring the obvious. Ive tried every way I know how to explain how fucked the system is and nobody listens. People are gonna have to get burnt to learn and even then
Some people mean "acab" in a more holistic, philosophical way that absolutely has strong political merit and I don't disagree. I mean it literally. They woulda dropped out of academy if they were good people. Don't be fucking dumb.
ACAB especially includes your cousin who "joined because he wanted to help", that local "chill cop" who let you & your buddies off with a warning while dirt biking in the neighborhood, & your cop mom who "wants to keep her community safe" They'd all beat you to death with a smile if they "had to".
if you are asked to placate white supremacists, a thing you can do is say no
Hell yeah, just looked at it and it seems pretty cool. I'll see if I can't find a torrent (nothing against you, I've only got a 480 and I'm not trying to spend 40 on a game I can't even properly run)
I don't always agree with you but this is spot on. Seems like they're getting lazier with them now that it's half the media
And besides that, do you think Hillary was unaware of Bills proclivities? Seems awfully unlikely to me. There's a reason people joke about "blueanon". The unwavering support of obviously corrupt politicians while not even being paid gives the same cultish energy as the maga sycophants.
If that's the case what happened in 2020 when they had the ability to release the files themselves? The only difference I see is one party ignored it and the other tried desperately to distract from their promise to release it. Democrats protect their own (though obviously not to the same extent)
A Hillary meme next to #releasetheepsteinfiles is a level of unintentional irony I've yet to see before
The dehumanization runs deep, especially in terminology
Also since white people consider themselves the deputies of the police whose job is to call the cops on Black people existing, there's a higher risk of getting entangled with the cops by pissing a white person off for us in DC right now.
They don’t lie to be believed. They lie to be repeated. They lie so you waste all your time creating space for their lies.
The people who hate you and yours for existing did their dry fire today. They went for a run this morning. They trained themselves to be ready for what's going to be coming. Did you? It is a blessing on your community and family to keep yourself ready and able. Dry fire. Work out. Train every day.
Smoked oysters with chalula garlic hot sauce. its so fucking good
The USA continues to do what it has done for almost all of its history, which is to insist that the right to vote is so precious that a) some people don't deserve it, b) other people will commit crimes to get it, and c) exercising it needs to be a labyrinth to keep out a) & b)...
As much as people hate me for pointing it out, the death of medical privacy in the us started with red flag gun laws. Before that, legislation that violated medical privacy was incredibly rare.
And has been saying for years that criminalization is fascism's fuel.
How does she know so much about how "welcoming" and "accommodating" Nazis are???? White people are absolutely WILDING.
JK Rowling managed to get Jessie Gender's BlueSky taken down, ENTIRELY because Jessie said that she "wishes her ill." JK can platform literal Nazis. She can say that me and mine "rape children by existing." She can encourage direct violence against us. And her lies about us now count as truthful.
We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
This breaks my heart. This is sexual harassment. This is traumatizing. TERFs and transphobes and everyone “just asking questions” for “women’s safety” (this happened to a cis teenager) should be ashamed for the rest of their lives. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
I love waiting for my way of life to go completely extinct. I love waiting for the axe to fall on the neck of the life I worked tirelessly and in good faith to build for myself. It feels great.
i was crying, missing a tooth, could not walk, had an eye swollen shut, & a broken nose, & the cop told me if i didn’t stop leaning on his car & getting blood on his shoes & his stuff he’d charge *me* with assault, so i stepped back & fell over & he laughed & no they never found the guys who did it.
The 10 second skip feature on youtube has done irreparable damage to media literacy lmfao
I’m pretty frank about my chronic illness but there is only so much I can talk about it because a) it starts to bum me out and b) I’m convinced that those who have not experienced it are incapable of understanding the breath and extent of how it feels and debilitates.
I have the feeling alot of authors are waiting to see how bad things truly get before they publish. You could write a book about the past 2 years of anti trans laws and within a week of publishing have it be outdated.
Today’s a good day to remind everyone DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH OR FILM UNHOUSED CAMPS. IT IS DANGEROUS FOR RESIDENTS & CAN BE USED TO TARGET THEM.