Determined to fight MAGA/fascism in every way I can, in hopes that I live to see the US become a place where EVERYONE has rights, respect, and opportunity. I find solace in books, creativity, computer games, historical research, and small things of beauty.
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I don't think "bet it all on the midterms" is a better strategy now than "bet it all on 24" was in 21, but if we're doing it anyway, I'd like to see the authors of that strategy at least working right now on the question of "how do we protect and encourage minority voting if ICE is at the polls?"
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
You can take my em-dashes—along with my Oxford commas—when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
OK, this video is a lot longer than I usually share but-- especially if you didn't live through the Tea Party years (or need a refresher)--IMHO it's worth the time (and you can just listen rather than watch if you need to multitask.) youtu.be/3hBUNABmarg?...
Wanker-in-chief! #Resist 🗽💙🍀🙏🌻🫂🌥️⛅🦋🐝🐦🐿️🌈💕
LOL, in what universe? Not this one. Maybe in the imaginary land between Trump's ears.
Goodnight, loon Goodnight, all those waiting for The News to come soon Goodnight, "proof" of life Goodnight, garbage wife Goodnight, weird hand bruises Goodnight, red hat losers Goodnight, nobody Goodnight, cow And goodnight to the internet whispering "let it be now"
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
LOL. You just KNOW that some MAGA fools are going to swallow this as gospel truth rather than satire and will be ginning up their ranting energy to 200% (or maybe 1500%, like Trump's lowering meds prices.)
A long while back it was said that he kind of just babbled out some stream of consciousness BS and some aide or toady who had to sit there and listen actually transformed the flowing crap into a text. I'm fairly sure the all-caps and multiple exclamation points thing was Trump's idea though.
Thought he was supposedly the last one to bed every night, according to Vance.
Gotcha!
Yeah, good idea. Let's talk about it JD. Release the files. Even when Trump's dead as a doornail, release the files.
Yeah, the words hit hard. youtube.com/shorts/TLY7f...
My body is tired, but my spirit is willing! Still walking because transit can’t wait. Still walking for our families. Still walking for a government that works for the US! #walkfortransit #day3
People, STOP brown-nosing, kowtowing, and groveling to people who loathe you. Selling out your self-respect for a temporary financial/visibility boost is a really bad--and stupid--deal because you'll ALWAYS be thrown under the bus without a second thought and it will all be for nothing.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
Hey, at least she didn't schedule it at Four Seasons Total Landscaping!
#DanielleSmithIsGarbage ABResistance.ca
Come on, no one else is going to go for Hungry, Hungry Hippo?
Come on, even MAGA must acknowledge that this is batshit crazy.
Time to start putting the champagne (or prosecco) on ice, just in case!
Goldish, not golden. Just cheap gold leaf/spray paint. Nothing but gilt. Gilt by association.
Take the putt, Donnie
Oh, no! Now ICE is sad 😔😔
How dare they call themselves the “party of family values” while gutting the very programs that keep our kids fed, healthy, and educated? This isn’t policy—it’s cruelty dressed up in red tape and budget cuts. When you go after kids, you’ve hit rock bottom.
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. want the poor, the old, and the sick to just die. In fairness, the feeling is mutual.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
But those of us who know history could see it coming.
I got banned from NextDoor here in blue Massachusetts since I kept being "too political" -- although people posting police reports (not even local) exclusively of black and brown people, so as to whip up fear of the other and imply that only THEY were criminals were allowed to do so unimpeded.
A lot of people don't know they can opt out of DMs. Not sure why you seem so mad about it.
The sick are expendables, they add nothing to the fascist regime’s eugenics program… following goose step by goose step in Hitlers boots
NO ONE -- but especially a government (and even more especially one made up entirely of hypocrites) --should be able to tell adults either that they CAN'T get married or that they have to STAY married, whether they like it or not. youtu.be/FB981QXWXUM?...
Hindsight 20 20
This is gonna leave a mark.
Wow, the scummy scamminess of a Trump-themed tacky money-grab is so exquisitely on-point.
Too many authoritarian-minded people don't understand the reality that all of this vile, brutal, intentional, governmental cruelty to innocent people, especially children, is twisting minds and ruining lives--essentially becoming the origin story for some future sociopath, criminal or "villain".
Ditto. I'm starting to wonder though--we're on a knife edge.
We will NEVER forget J6! NEVER!
Remember when they attacked Biden because "the American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health?” Now after being missing for 5 days we get a picture of Trump taken with a telephoto lens from hundreds of feet away.
Lichtman, author of a new book, Conservative at the Core, added, “Democrats…need to stop playing not to lose... They need to respond to these outrages powerfully and aggressively by whatever means are possible or we’re going to lose our democracy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Stephen Miller wanted to get in on the Cracker Barrel discourse.
Karma is a BITCH, and it strikes hard. Pedo DonOld tRxmp looks like “death warmed over on top of a soda cracker”, while Joe is rocking! Yay Joe, looking good!
I see no point in anyone paying taxes to a federal government that gives us literally nothing in return--instead pouring that money into the pockets of Trump, his toadies, and billionaires.
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Chicago: “We don’t need the National Guard.” Also Chicago: “But if they'll shovel our sidewalks in February, we can talk.”
The Kennedys gave the wrong family member a lobotomy.
Russ Vought said he wanted civil servants “traumatically affected” and to lose the will to work. Now Rubio puts him in charge of closing out USAID. This is not reform. It is the final nail in the coffin of American generosity and America’s standing in the world.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
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Conservatives read from the same hymnal (so to speak) wherever they are--here, the UK sounds essentially identical to MAGA. All hate, no logic.
Yes, it was all about overthrowing Batista (and shoving out the US-based Mafia, which controlled a lot of things, legal and illegal.) I'm not sure if the US government propped him up though IDK a lot about it, just what my then-MIL said. And yes, the US basically pushed Castro into Russia's arms.
Probably not inside, but if ICE is outside, I'm guessing that's probably OK, as long as you're far enough back. Probably worth checking local rules.
Wow, you seem to have lost the ability to think rationally. I couldn't be further from worshiping these killers. My pointing out that this particular killer appears to not be cishet doesn't change my view of them. It's irrelevant. They committed a horrific act, fueled by a hatred of everything.
Remember, less than 3/4 of a year ago, when the government was ticking over like a well-oiled machine, unemployment levels were at near-record lows, our post-COVID economy was the envy of the world, and human rights were gaining ground? Seems like a million years ago now that we live in fascism.
Sad but true: “Black women are the canaries in the coal mine, the exclusion happens to them first,” Ms. Roy said. “And if any other cohort thinks it’s not coming for them, they’re wrong. This is a warning, and it’s a stark one.”
As always with these and evil people, the cruelty is the point. The viler the act, the more it fills them with sick satisfaction.
No, I was clarifying a fact. If there were questionable claims made about the victims, I'd be clarifying those. Trans people don't have to be perfect paragons of virtue to be accepted as people who deserve the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. Ditto for nonbinary folks.
If not depraved indifference or even manslaughter because his insanity WILL kill untold numbers of Americans.
Since Vance lacks the cult following and virtually everyone loathes the slimy little man with the silly-putty-strength backbone (and the white supremacists no doubt loathe his non-white wife and mixed kids), it will be harder to get MAGA, SCOTUS and political toadies to back him, despite Theil's $$.
The clock's ticking anyway. Even if a transplant or something could theoretically fix whatever issue he's having, he'd almost certainly never survive the surgery or recovery. He's toast.
If it's illegal to hate Kash Patel, the vast majority of the country is breaking the law. (Psst: Hey, Trump regime, free speech means it's not against the law, of course.)
This is actually EXCELLENT. Turning the National Guard and even some portion of the military against this regime is key to taking it down.
Nah, let him continue to decay in full public view. It's the only way MAGA will be convinced he's not being forced down by evil-doers. Use this time to point out the sheer unlikability and idiocy of the Veep.
At least
No, my culture is a reverence for facts and truth. I DO care about the killing, more than you can imagine. I lived 15 mins from Sandy Hook. Opening the local paper just before Christmas and seeing pages of obits of little kids was beyond horrific. BTW I'm super pro-LBGTQ+; my kid was trans.
First off, Trump's lying through his teeth, of course, anyone without a brain as smooth as glass knows that, about his health and about his fixing DC's crime issues. And, second, everyone knows DC will never be a crime-free zone as long as the 34x Convicted Felon is befouling the Oval Office.
RFK not believing in germs and now being in charge of public health is one of those things that the writers would nix from VEEP for being too outrageous.
For those of us who live in LA, this is beyond parody and veers into insanity in pursuit of authoritarianism...
OK, so nonbinary then. It's irrelevant. What matters is statistics. As no group is perfect, eventually, you're going to have a non cishet person do something bad--but it's a rare outlier and should be treated as such.
Personally, I think though that white people should use whatever privilege we have (personally, in addition to pale skin, I was born with killer Resting Bitch Face, and now have the shield of age) to loudly comment on how shameful it is when LEO officers work to undermine democracy.
This is a dead man walking. Otherwise, Trump, obsessed with his absurd self-image as virile, would never let himself be photographed with that weird limp-wristed, slumped posture. He's on his last legs and he knows it. I hope terrifying images of hell are filling whatever's left of his brain.
You're the one who asked me to respond. I do believe there are other life forms in the universe, of course. But even the article doesn't claim the axe was made by extraterrestrials. Only the headline clickbait hints at that.
Just goes to show you that there have always been painfully gullible and stupid people in the world--I imagine most who fell for this gag probably ended up voting for Trump!
Not the point but how does someone with that many tattoos cringe at a shot?
Not just "most", Mother Jones, "nearly all."
Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
How many Trump voters.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."