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People online will really be like “you believe in having principles? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, conceding every principle to build a winning coalition” and then not build a winning coalition

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

deleted a post that wasn't worth it. I'll say this instead: Jimmy Carter is I think the only figure in US history to have devoted his post-presidency to atoning for being president. To be president is to author suffering in the specific & abstract, & to hope you did enough to outweigh it.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy

submitted 17 days ago • 695 comments

dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

I don't know how to explain to people how terrible arresting Ras Baraka was/is. PLEASE CONNECT THE DOTS. They are going for the most protected classes NOW. What do people think is going to happen to regular people?

submitted 22 days ago • 44 comments

Criminalization is the problem not the solution.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

Another example of this: the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary requires all faculty to sign a statement affirming the inerrancy of the Bible. The progressive Presbyterian seminary across the street requires no such thing. Yet which one do you think the “free speech” advocates would go after?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

submitted 28 days ago • 57 comments

every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"

submitted 31 days ago • 20 comments

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

submitted 33 days ago • 888 comments

Thank you Greyhound!

submitted 35 days ago • 761 comments

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

submitted 37 days ago • 670 comments

Democrats did not run on Defund. Sometimes I think that Democratic voters themselves don't know this. They ran AGAINST Defund.

submitted 37 days ago • 47 comments

THE RIGHT LATCHES ON TO EVERY WORD. You will NOT find a word that they will not weaponize. Period.

submitted 37 days ago • 87 comments

Model from San Diego for how to form a volunteer organization to push back against ICE.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

The reality is that you don't need to go to El Salvador to see absolutely horrifying conditions in jails and prisons.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

submitted 40 days ago • 40 comments

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

submitted 42 days ago • 69 comments

Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

FMK: JD Vance edition.

submitted 43 days ago • 155 comments

For all of you whose vote was manipulated by mass media & politicians scaring you into believing you’ve never been less safe, the 2024 crime rate was the lowest in record since 1961.

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 45 days ago • 287 comments

something like 75% of the people on that plane were proven to have absolutely zero criminal records, and they ALSO have House reps, and those House reps have offices to picket and phone lines to tie up "So-and-So just did ____, why can't YOU do that???" is a pretty good attack in these cases!

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

The Nazis were White.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

submitted 47 days ago • 163 comments

That would have involved listening to Black and Latinx people so...no

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

submitted 48 days ago • 42 comments

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.

submitted 50 days ago • 1309 comments

I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."

submitted 49 days ago • 124 comments

Further dismantling of our public institutions.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.

submitted 50 days ago • 120 comments

12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.

submitted 50 days ago • 428 comments

The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

submitted 50 days ago • 28 comments