important to realize that Greenwald explicitly wants to kill any site that isn't controlled by oligarchs and tyrants because his project requires trapping people in a propaganda-supported alternate reality
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important to realize that Greenwald explicitly wants to kill any site that isn't controlled by oligarchs and tyrants because his project requires trapping people in a propaganda-supported alternate reality
It’s not a conspiracy. Republicans didn’t spend 50 years putting confederate wingnuts on the bench to not get these outcomes.
Centrist pundits are very concerned about Bluesky users not getting the minimum daily requirement of Nazi in their social media diet. Let's compare factual grasp of current events from Bluesky users to Fox viewers and talk about THAT.
It remains the case that the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and legitimize. Politics is not over. But "normalcy" very much is.
This cartoon never, ever misses. It’s all I think about now whenever I see some media person whine about Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/smoo...
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
It’s been bad a lot further back than that. Pre Bush Jr era, it was a matter of course that you got overtime if you worked more than 40 hours (which people rarely did). You got bonuses and much higher pay. Bosses weren’t given impunity. The Overton window had already slid quite a bit by Obama.
Nothing “fell off a cliff”, where we are is a direct result of Republican “fiscal” policy over the centuries. Slavery. It’s all they ever want, it’s what they demand of us: serve or die. These confederates, Nazis, and enslavers have been stabbing the New Deal to death my entire half century here.
Who is it so important that he goes to war against that he feels the need to undo yet another thing put in place after WW2? The Union? NATO? The UN? Wish someone would ask him.
They normalized calling for the death of innocent Black men. They normalized the fact that they can’t stop sexually abusing children. They normalized a traitorous violent assault on the capitol of the United States. And these motherfuckers want to pretend *word choice* is the issue? Please.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
The people who are calling for better Democratic candidates are just trying to tell you all that you don't HAVE to choose between a shit sandwich and a maggot pie. Just because the corporate media has been putting someone on teevee doesn't make them your only choice.
It’s just “nuh uh, YOU” in response to every single factual observation of their behavior. I’m so furious at the MSM for normalizing this childish behavior & rhetoric out of the most powerful people in our society over the last 30+ years.
Wouldn’t it be great if America had a revelation about child sexual abuse among our elite, in the way that Ireland had such a revelation about the abuse of children by the Catholic Church? In Ireland, the revelation sparked a revolution.
Personally, I think one big problem is both parties rely too much on donors that turn out to be white collar criminals to ever treat it with the performative concern they show over petty street crime.
As a disabled person: this is a terrible take. Eugenics and fascism have always gone hand in hand. Along with Jews, disabled people were one of the first groups the Nazis focused on in the Holocaust. We have always been at the forefront of fascist minds. Hence why they use ableist slurs so easily.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
No, Trump and his folks broadcast in advance that they were going to do this. They had RFK & Project 2025 and not a single “leader” in the “opposition” party seems to have thought through any strategies to blunt impact if they did what they said they would. Instead you’re petitioning King George.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
When It Happens, blast any Democrat who "looks forward to working with Vance" directly into the sun. Democrats need to make it clear from minute one that they have this guy's number, know he doesn't have the juice, and that they're going to make his life a living hell from the moment Trump drops.
Just ask Herman Cain(‘s account)
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
Being a Republican means demolishing the planet and still expecting to get invited to dinner. They don’t believe in cutting people off socially over politics—they believe in *murdering* people over politics. Keeping normal relationships with whoever’s left is how they tell themselves they’re ok.
Probably one of the only honest things they’ll do. Only thing more honest would be pulling down the US (Union) flag and replacing it with the confederate flag everywhere they hold power.
The thing about conservatives who say they’d never end a family relationship over politics is that, like every other thing they say, they’re lying.
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
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Who are you talking to? This is old man yelling at cloud territory when you hold power to try and do something. What are you going to do about it? Maybe tell us that? What is the caucus doing?
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
NEW from me: The propagandists and cowards insisting Democrats acquiesce to Donald Trump's military occupation of American cities are wrong about public opinion, wrong about basic politics, and most importantly wrong about what the moment demands of patriots: www.findinggravity.net/trumps-milit...
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
I keep telling my friends: find your thing. Find one issue. Bury yourself in. Find comrades to join you. Build build build. Then the coalitions will form.
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
As per usual the party of “I know you are but what am I” is accusing everyone else of the things that only they are guilty of.
Ironically this is still less water than the data center used to power the AI itself.
These statements are couched (heh) in terms that sound like ones of politeness: say please and thank you! But they encode entire hierarchies. And that is explicitly what JD is doing here: trying to make the United States into a place of hierarchy instead of one of equality.
I never see the Peter Thiels and the Chris Rufos and the JD Vances of the world express the kind of gratitude they demand of the people they want to bend the knee to them. Not once.
Why? Seems like the corporations that took the money and broke the law should return it. In fact, seems to me that our entire system needs to stop making taxpayers foot the bill whenever a gov’t or private entity steals money, breaks the law, crashes the economy, or murders a civilian.
I genuinely hope he keeps talking like Lord Farqaad like this because it’s not going to go for him or his handler Thiel the way they think it will once their dementia puppet is gone. None of them have any charisma to hold that cult together.
He thinks “God” is delivering him the mass shooters, too, to further his end time aims here on earth. They just won’t be honest about that.
yo this guy is cooking
Yet one more Republican out there adding evidence to PedoCon theory as he waxes nostalgic about spending his time whenever he walks around in public studying the appearances of other people’s children for healthiness/attractiveness.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your Vice President. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
May they build it under the ocean and name it Rapture and have it go as well as it did in Bioshock.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
I’m over the whole “XXX is just a stunt to distract for YYY…” framing. No it’s not. It’s *all* really bad and it’s not meant to distract, it’s meant to OVERWHELM you with 500 pretty equally bad things so we can’t get organized and fight. PICK. A. LANE. AND. STAY. THERE. This is how we win.
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
This, but if it’s like the evangelicals I knew, it’s also the very notion that gender is a social construct and that there isn’t a divine order that places men and killing above everything else. The idea that people should get to be what/who they are vs. born into slavery/hierarchy is the “ideology”
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
It’s really important to remember that Republicans are cruel and mean and ruthless as any bully, but also like any bully they are a bunch of piss-pants cowards who run crying to their favorite podcasts when they get mean looks in restaurants.
This is very literally why "Block and move on" isn't just for your own sanity, but to kneecap these strategies. It doesn't mean you can't push back on ideas. It does mean not giving more eyes to their specific rhetoric and terms, and defining it yourself, for all these reasons. 11/x
I spent a year, give or take a few months, lurking in white supremacist groups, message board, Discords and the like. There were specific groups/boards dedicated to exactly these kinds of campaigns, and coaching how to execute them. They posed as leftists/Dems and "normie" conservatives. 5/x
🧵: I'm not posting this to dunk, but because I'm seeing it often enough it looks like a coordinated campaign, and I want to give folks a heads up on some of this, if they're not familiar the dynamics. It's about the broader pattern, but comes back to the idea of dividing the Democratic Party. 1/x
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
We need one of those Times Square billboards keeping an up to date tally on how much it's costing taxpayers to appease Trump's authoritarian desires.
gonna just keep reposting this from @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
People should be pissed that our tax dollars are going away from cancer research, protecting people from disasters, and other society benefitting things to these displays put on to please the King. All of the redecorations, the parades, his private planes - not a single “how can we afford it”
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.
He hired nothing but media creatures like himself. Even if this is Hesgreth staging a Fox News shoot, he’s only there because Trump is there weaving the reality show around himself like he always does while everyone else rushes to execute their most racist, sexist, pro-slavery policy of their dreams
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are already sending our health care system into chaos by ripping insurance away from 15 million people. Now, they’re making it harder to get a handle on measles, flu, and other public health threats. It’s Trump politicizing every part of government.
They're making an example out of him because he spent the last 4+ years mocking the government and being a successful gay Black man in America
I wish when polls report that 39 or 40% of Americans approve of Trump they could split out what percentage approves of what he’s actually doing and what percentage approves of what Fox News and the rest of the right wing media behemoth says he’s doing.
The press could save a lot of ink on “this looks like authoritarianism” pieces if they just took Trump’s word for it when he keeps announcing he’s a dictator now.
DEI Obsession Destroys Right Winger’s Brain
The reality show president doing what he does best, creating PR illusions that people are supposed to think are real to help transform reality, just like how The Apprentice gave him money and power well beyond what he had at the time and how they portrayed him.
I have yet to be able to convince my neighbors that local news is garbage, they can’t give up the decades old brand trust. I mean I also enjoyed KOMO in the 90s but it wasn’t owned by Sinclair then. It’s such a huge part of why liberal people go neoliberal, no clue their media diet was corrupted.
Republicans can lie and take credit for infrastructure bill improvements they voted against, in part, because we let the extraction class destroy the kind of local journalism that used to correct the electorate's misperceptions
And it always did happen, it’s just that companies used to have teams to rush in and fix these at the first social media report, before it hit press. I know because I was one of the people who made a popular AI stop suggesting suicide or saying heil Hitler to kids over a decade ago.
Let's put this in perspective: MAGAs visited Alligator Alcatraz in 2025 with the same fervor Southern Whites gathered at lynchings in the 1930s. MAGA would have no problem celebrating and attending a lynching in 2025. America has learned nothing. *sip* 🔥☕️ news.meaww.com/outrage-as-m...
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
It’s win/win for them. A state/town they don’t like burns down, they get to rip away people of color and menace anyone who would support them. Rs as the occupying confederate army taking revenge for the century of not being allowed to have their slaves. We failed Sherman in the long run.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media
No one is acting as if this in an emergency, except those of us who work in these fields. But we see the tsunami approaching--a wave of sickness and death that will wash over us all in growing numbers down the months, down the years. 15/
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
"They want you to believe that you must choose between liberal activists and ordinary voters. But Third Way doesn’t represent ordinary voters, they represent CEOs. If you kick out the activists, Third Way’s corporate allies will step into the void."
So is Walz!
Misogyny would explain both, but unfortunately it’s illegal to suggest people really really hate women
Because I’d guess the majority of these people consume lies about crime rates, have never been to the cities and never would go even if they hadn’t been lied to about the danger to keep them from seeing cities are better than what they have to live in. So .. who cares what they think.
Now do the next required step for a fractured media environment full of lies and propaganda. Tie those opinions to reality. Are they afraid of the actual crime rates? Have they ever even been to the city in question? Do these opinions change after their propaganda of choice does saturation coverage?
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
They don’t seem to understand that the red line in the sand for democracy has to be “we do not sacrifice other human beings” If you’re ok sacrificing a small group, then you’re ok with sacrificing a larger group when conditions change, and at that point you’re the other side with a different hat