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As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
The fourth pic is the one. Not sure how this hasn’t already started happening yet.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
I wonder how many school lunches you can serve for the price of one school cop
At this point my retirement plan is spontaneous combustion.
Weird coincidence that he rages most hotly at public officials who are black women.
New future sport just dropped! @talkhoops.bsky.social @cornpuzzle.bsky.social
Good thread on the language actually used by Democrats in official communications.
We’re treating Trump like a Make-A-Wish Kid who wanted to be Hitler with the time he has left
John Roberts is the most impactful Republican politician of the last three decades, and the most significant accomplishment of his career is warping the Constitution's promises to help his fellow Republicans win elections they would otherwise lose ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
It seems so rough being a rightie. The rest of us get to relax sometimes, while they’re on 24 hour watch for like, a stop sign that has suddenly turned to DEI.
Tremendous crossover move right here:
The primary distinguishing characteristic of the modern conservative is vicious psychopathic sadism.
As so often, Trump says the quiet part out loud. Authoritarians dream of a day when "the CROOKED game of politics is over" and they can simply rule, in perpetuity, without challenge.
In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
In today's least-shocking news that we all knew before, Fox staff and producers all along the election wasn't stolen in 2020 and lied for ratings. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fac...
Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
I’m concerned that people won’t appreciate how big a line is being crossed here. Texas is suspending basic Constitutional freedoms for opposition lawmakers. This isn’t dipping your toe in the authoritarian waters, it’s diving head first into the deep end. This is big league authoritarianism.
For Johnson, indeed for all today's reactionaries, the principle that "all citizens in a democracy should be represented equally" comes *below* the principle "my people should run things." ALL other principles are subordinate to that one. Once you understand this, the hypocrisy disappears.
The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
i cant believe a country that has spent decades measuring success purely by the accumulation of material wealth has lost its moral compass
Said it before but it bears repeating: Only AI worthy of respect-
Masked agents of the state are removing random people off the streets into unmarked cars while saying “liberals ruined the country.” I never want to hear anyone who supports MAGA claim to believe in freedom ever again.
when you realize it was more than a fart
FFS, can we please not make the 3/5 clause great again?
Kings fans: WTF!! We never get national TV games, this is bullshit *NBA Gives the Kings 9 national tv games* Me: Well, ok, that's a bit excessive, the Kings don't need to be on national tv 9 times
i am so sick of hearing about people who are uncomfortable about trans people in public bathrooms as if you have some right to total peace of mind in the place you can hear strangers having diarrhea
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
Once you start building concentration camps, it's hard to stop apnews.com/article/flor...
Also, like why is every conservative person’s bathroom experience with strangers so interactive—bordering on sexually charged? I was raised to just pay no mind to the other folks in there.
“Why would your dad?” Gets me every time. It doesn’t matter. I’m gonna laugh. The bigger issue is I have to hold back from yelling it in real life with my daughters when they ask me why…cause it doesn’t make sense when I am their dad! @talkhoops.bsky.social @cornpuzzle.bsky.social
Conservative affirmative action is wild. They just let anyone do any job no matter their qualifications, so long as they’re loyal.
So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime
can't have bad numbers if there are no numbers
bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Trump’s focus on Washington D.C. is part of a larger pattern in which the president has suggested cities with majority-Black populations are hotbeds of crime and corruption.
They're rapidly realizing they can now straight up steal money for any blue state/blue voter thing and the courts will back them up.
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
"Defend your culture!" Subtle.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
the position of the roberts court is both that racism isn’t real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the court’s holding in plessy v. ferguson.
Next week: lead in drinking water is actually just fine and in fact uhh good for your bones
America: where someone suffering from homelessness or schizophrenia gets thrown in prison, but someone who openly molests children is elected president
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
Everything they do is adversarial to democracy and decency and is brutal on purpose, because it's not really about any actual policy. Some of them want to be able to punish people; others are more focused on controlling institutions. In each case, every action is an attempt to keep and expand power.
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
Right-wingers believe that we have machines that control the weather by zapping the atmosphere with electromagnetic waves. But they refuse to believe that the millions of machines we've built to burn 100,220,000 barrels of oil every day could possibly be changing the weather.
Trump is caught between the MAGA/QAnon belief that the Epstein files will expose a cabal of satanic Democrat child abusers and the reality of what is in the files
Empirically a hot dog is both a sandwich and a taco, it’s Schrödinger’s hoagie
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
For literally decades climate hawks and progressives have warned that internal combustion will die off and the tech of the future is electric + battery power and that if we didn’t seize the initiative China would eat our lunch and…welp!
A secret police in every way.
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
do not give money to dems who don’t support court reform. don’t vote in primaries for dems who do not support court reform. do not support dem leadership that will not pursue court reform. do not bother with pundits who are not on board with court reform.
Law is fake, power is real.
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
The United States summed up in two headlines.
Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.
If you’re not white, or you have friends or loved ones who aren’t white, or you’re not a total sociopath and therefore care about fellow humans who aren’t white, you need to understand this regime thinks not being white is inherently suspect, and lots of your fellow Americans are fine with that.
OJ verdict…
Post a 2003 Oakley manager pic of yourself and let’s compare.
"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve." www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
This email says the Washington Post opinion page will promote “timeless American values,” which has previously been defined as right-wing claptrap. All Washington Post journalists not “aligned” with the decision to promote those values are now being told to leave.
Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
They like Trump and want to help him. By contrast they did not want to help Hillary or Obama. So,
Schumer decided not to shut down the government which led directly to US gestapo getting ten times the money, the shredding of the constitution, and the construction of American concentration camps. In case you were one of those idiots yelling about people being mad at democrats. Primary all of them
Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.
"When you have a 'feeling' that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you...and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – his words, his record, his associations – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism." – @attackerman.bsky.social
They are doing it because they hate American values. They hate freedom and equality, they hate giving everyone an equal shot at life, they hate helping the poor, they hate democracy and they worship the tyranny of billionaires. Excellent piece, link: 2/
Yes this is the whole ballgame here. The screaming about "tax cuts for the rich" makes it sound like any other spending bill to the normies and the GOP want that to be the headline! It's just white noise now. This bill is about trading Medicaid for the secret police and camps.
It won't but this should end anyone ever falling for the "Republicans are the party of the working class" schtick ever again.
They will just do it again in a few years and it will work because they will single out groups of people for their supporters to hate.
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is exactly what will happen. His base has already been negatively polarized against the basic concept of healthcare. This bill is a gigantic boon to the coffee enema and "alternative" cancer treatment scam industry.
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Dems need long term signaling that caving to Trump will be punished by a future administration. Bukele should know he and El Salvador will be immediately sanctioned. Universities and law firms should feel zero long term advantage from capitulating instead of protecting their independence.
Abolish ICE
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
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
You are looking at a picture of an American concentration camp
the constitutional crisis is actually 25 years going, but most people shrugged their shoulders and kept moving because it was happening very slowly. we are now in the final constitutional collapse phase, which is moving orders of magnitude faster.
Look there’s a lot of competition but tagging @jamellebouie.net in a post about a random diplomatic maneuver in Africa may be one of the most racist things Vance has ever put his name to. He even doesn’t cover foreign policy! It’s literally the VPOTUS declaring “you people are all the same to me.”
Tagging Jamelle Bouie in these trolling posts from the literal Vice President of the United States is such scummy, racist behavior. These really are the worst people in the world. This guy isn't even trying to be a statesman; he's a gutter troll.
