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It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

submitted 5 hours ago • 94 comments

american political interviewers are really bad at their jobs and the difference when somebody trained in another system gets at a US politician is night and day

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

What’s the political explanation of the Carlson-Cruz interview? Why did Carlson take him down?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Those people also miss the point that, in the face of an authoritarian regime, the opposition is often forced to pull “stunts”, bc traditional avenues for political action get foreclosed.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is absolutely how the Constitution is supposed to work. Terrifyingly, it is not how the United States has operated in practice for a very, very long time.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

once again urging the democrats who are still in power at the state and local level to immediately investigate your Armed Goon Situation becuase it's probably more tenuous than you think it is

submitted 91 days ago • 13 comments

This kind of framing, where a news organization intentionally pretends the relevant facts aren't known to it, is helping destroy the republic.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I think the most plausible read of the Democratic Party right now is that most of its membership is upset by the aesthetics / optics of fascism, but never considered it something they’d ever have to fight; many of those ppl would have never gone into politics had they known the requirements

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

This is the thing, and it's true in every power structure from shitty bosses to abusive boyfriends to the President of the United goddamn States: If they don't have to follow the agreements, we don't have to either.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I am as big a sucker as anyone for the fine-grained legal analysis, but I do sometimes worry it distracts us a little from the big, dumb, obvious points. This is appalling & precisely what the Framers were terrified of. Whether it’s technically legal if you squint right doesn’t change that.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Every time I remember Greta Thunberg exists, every time I see how young she is, how many battles she has become embroiled in, how completely reasonable and fair the things are says are, I think of how fucked her media treatment has been. The way people comment on her alone should have ended careers.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

I would love to see orders of magnitude more discussion about what "swing voters" should figure out, deal with, suck up, get a clue about, etc and orders of magnitude less discussion about how protestors should coddle random third party's hallucinations about this section of the electorate

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

we should all carry a little bag of caltrops to toss in the path of cagers who do this.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I encourage people who hold the overall correct view that protests have better optics when the protesters are carrying American flags to Be The Change and bring big American flags to protests themselves.

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

lol live footage from the United States: #politics #news #blacksky #bluesky

submitted 131 days ago • 12 comments

I don’t agree that police violence against journalists is being “under-reported” so much as police violence generally is poorly-reported, leading to analyses like this:

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

They will invent the pretext unless we’re so thoroughly supine they don’t need to, which leads to the same outcome.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

this is something to keep in mind: the fascism playbook doesn’t say “bait your opposition into doing what you want so that you can do more of what you want” it says “do what you want, invent a justification when needed, blame it on your opposition if useful”

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Thread. Our current group of liberal elites took the lessons of successful non-violent social movements and interpreted them into the "hitting is always wrong" lecture you give your 5 year old.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 12 days ago • 840 comments