Profile avatar
danshenise.bsky.social
Experiential designer with an MA in Poli Sci (long story). I travel less than I’d like.
214 posts 528 followers 713 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

also, just, I'm sorry, but if there's one critique I have of Democrats AND the Left - here we go, this is me saying something that includes a critique of Dems - it's that we haven't gone, collectively, *nearly* hard enough on the harms of the current anti-abortion regime in this country

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

Begging people to stop giving Trump the benefit of the doubt for anything— that includes floating explanations for his administration's screw-ups. Trump doesn't formulate master plans. His decision-making is just an unfiltered stream of narcissistic impulses devoid of logic or strategy.

After J6, Democrats should have done a boycott on cooperation with Republicans. They can still do it now in response to the fascist crackdowns. No cosponsoring legislation, no procedural votes, no unanimous consent agreements, every minority input at hearings is about getting ICE off our streets.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

BREAKING: ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units to five cities run by Democratic leaders, according to two sources familiar with the planning of future ICE operations.

Trump is turning us into a police state to detract from X is mindless political insiderism. the story is "TRUMP TURNING US INTO POLICE STATE"

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

A herring is a fish. When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells. It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail. Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.

It seems obvious that Trump and his goons would not be taking such outrageous steps on so many levels if they expected to ever face consequences. Waiting for an election to fix this is not going to work. Trump will either cancel elections or set them up so that he cannot lose.

The Onion Knight is making me cry for some reason (video taken from @umyaznemo.bsky.social's twitter)

A reason im not moved by the “don’t give the trump administration the pretext they’re looking for” is that we would not dare say that about any anti-authoritarian protest movement in literally any other country

The path to the end of Roe V. Wade was paved with abortion providers being killed, and clinics being bombed and set on fire.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Are we clear now a private businessman shouldn’t be in a position to control the space program—that this richest man in the world fueled by drugs, ego & hate shouldn’t be partnering with a malignant sociopath in the WH immunized by the SCOTUS & bent on pocketing billions & flouting the Constitution?

BREAKING: Trump’s has just issued a travel ban on foreign nationals from the following 12 countries: - Afghanistan - Burma - Chad - Republic of the Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Haiti - Iran - Libya - Somalia - Sudan - Yemen

I forget who I first saw name the problem, but New York City is a place where Republican constituencies—bosses, landlords, developers, financiers—pursue their right-wing self-interest within the Democratic Party, and often even think of themselves as "liberals," and that's who Cuomo services

Glad my wife bought our place when she did, because it looks like mortgage rates will be staying high for awhile. This absolutely sucks if you’re young and trying to buy your first place. www.vox.com/policy/41487...

"ICE officers tossed two flash bangs to back the crowd off. Black remnants of the bangs remained visible on the pavement outside the restaurant."

Besides who wins the GP or qualifies first, I think the real competition in F1 is who is a worse commentator, Nico Rosberg or Danica Patrick. JFC Rosberg is awful. Then they have Danica on a different race and she regains the lead. Neck and neck battle of inconsistent observations. #f1

It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

Anyone running for president in 2028 better have a plan to address housing affordability because it is single-handedly destroying the American dream.

You know what was an awesome abundance agenda? The Green New Deal.

Page One: @nytimes.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

I miss journalists, Trump staged an assassination attempt that a five year-old could figure out was fake and NYT’s thinks we need Ezra Klein interviewing Jake Tapper. The failure of MSM wasn’t in covering Biden’s age it was in ignoring Trump’s crimes for the last forty years.

I will go to my GRAVE screaming that mainstream media pushing this “Trump supporters regret their vote” narrative is to redeem white racists in the eyes of the public and keep the masses from rioting as people are deprived of food, healthcare, and human dignity. It’s to evoke pity & mercy.

This guy is supposed to be the "smart one" in the cabinet.

While you were sleeping, House Republicans rammed through a bill that kills rooftop solar, clean manufacturing, heat pumps for everyday Americans, clean energy projects, and funding to cut pollution. Now it's up to the Senate to stop this bill from jacking up energy bills and torching the economy.

The Trump DOJ has officially now pressed more charges against elected Democrats than the Biden DOJ under Garland did against Republicans. And Republicans did January 6. Think about this.

The median age of all homebuyers in America today is 56, up from 31 in 1981 and 40 in 2010.

Portrait of a sociopath

BREAKING: For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.

Jus soli citizenship is one of the few inherently good things about the United States. Giving even a rhetorical inch on in it is a nightmare. It is the great leveler, an inherently democratic mechanism. Everyone born here is the same no matter who their daddy is. Despotically unamerican to end it.

"these guys cant govern and when they do govern it hurts people. vote them out" is a free, accurate, and simple message.

A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame

No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice - something I’ve done twice this year without issue.

Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003 We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again