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Also, the way that every event, no matter how shocking or horrible or unprecedented, gets fed into the far-right social media hallucination machine, and twisted beyond recognition until it supports the far-right's own nonsensical worldview, is the very core of why we are where we are as a society.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 4 days ago • 257 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 6 days ago • 580 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 7 days ago • 897 comments

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

submitted 11 days ago • 910 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 14 days ago • 1279 comments

Evidence You Might Be In A Cult You follow one charismatic Leader. In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong. In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong. Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders. Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion. You don't know you're in a Cult

submitted 16 days ago • 204 comments

Love my congressman!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.

submitted 28 days ago • 3227 comments

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 33 days ago • 85 comments

This was riffed at a live show of the @thedollop.bsky.social in March. In. March.

submitted 31 days ago • 70 comments

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

submitted 34 days ago • 1939 comments

It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

submitted 35 days ago • 677 comments

A federal bill requiring law enforcement officers of all kinds to identify themselves would be a decent and arguably very pro-safety move. A few thoughts below.

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 37 days ago • 871 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 38 days ago • 1395 comments

What if our response, at every level, is just “hey fuck off”

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

And also - can someone explain to me why Republicans spend the time, energy, and money to get elected to the House or Senate and then completely prostrate themselves

submitted 39 days ago • 61 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 40 days ago • 2314 comments

Move the World Cup, the Olympics, and every international meeting out of the U.S. It is not safe to come here until conditions change. That's not alarmist. That's the reality we are looking at. It's never been like this my whole, getting to be longish, life.

submitted 40 days ago • 28 comments

Just to be clear:

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

congress should consider stopping the stupidest person who has ever lived from destroying the economy

submitted 43 days ago • 219 comments

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

submitted 44 days ago • 401 comments

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

submitted 48 days ago • 416 comments

become ungovernable drive old cars www.wired.com/story/police...

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 53 days ago • 1615 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 53 days ago • 281 comments

Beyond parody headline in the NYT. Can't decide whether they're deliberately trolling us at this point, or whether they need to fire all their headline writers.

submitted 55 days ago • 657 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 55 days ago • 1421 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 59 days ago • 414 comments

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

submitted 59 days ago • 265 comments