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one thing that's worth pointing out about the current wave of constituent fury at Republican town halls: the reason you're primarily seeing those viral moments in ruby red districts is because every Republican whose district is even remotely competitive is actively hiding from their constituents

submitted 5 hours ago • 63 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

An interesting hypothetical if you’re wondering if Elon Musk is a genius or not is to compare his behaviour in any situation to what a complete moron would do in the same situation

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 1 day ago • 288 comments

Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

submitted 3 days ago • 174 comments

been struggling with the idea that all of human history, all of the destruction, the suffering, the brutality, the razing, the pillaging, the salting of the beautiful fields of this planet has all led up to this. guys burning down everything built over that ruin just so they can do a coy nazi salute

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 2 days ago • 266 comments

I mean, this is what he does. He destroys people’s lives for no reason. How people haven’t figured this out is beyond my comprehension.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 861 comments

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 130 days ago • 48 comments

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 3 days ago • 145 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 4 days ago • 388 comments

when the president is claiming the powers of the legislature while skirting at best and arguably outright defying the orders of the judiciary this impulse to say "the president calling himself a king is trolling, a distraction" goes beyond normalcy bias and into something malignant, metastatic

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

and while he is torturing trans women in prisons, dissolving regulatory and human services government agencies, depriving kids of lifesaving healthcare, imprisoning and trafficking migrants and citizens racialized as migrants to a fucking concentration camp in panama. this is a nazi regime

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Counting down the days until the white house conditions access on how trans people are referred to or how democrats are referred to. This fight isn't really about the name of a coastal sea.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

This is embarrassingly stupid. This is literally Senate Dems handing censorship power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WTF are they thinking?

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Ok, but real talk? The sort of low-engagement persuadable Trump voter you need to flip is not going to sit through a serious policy argument, and would not understand it if they did. “He’s calling himself a king” they can understand. So run with it.

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

Yeah, Trump bullshits about a lot, but not this. He really believes he is America's divinely chosen ruler, with total power over every aspect of his subjects lives. And many of those subjects are thrilled to give him that power.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

submitted 47 days ago • 59 comments

Only 21 percent of voters approve of how Democrats are doing in Congress, an all-time low since Quinnipiac began asking in 2009. Only 40 percent of Democrats approve of the way congressional Democrats are doing their job. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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"We REMEMBER Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, the transwomen who fought for our rights."

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Brutalist Slide, Bucharest - it's still standing [OC] r/brutalism

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

i am, for what it is worth, somewhat optimistic that this will all end terribly for these people.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

I finally wrote a column about...everything. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Bro got out-biohacked, skill issue

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

elon musk using IVF and CRISPR to ensure all of his children are male and then one transitioning to female boiled his brain so much he ends society as we know it is like the ultimate expression of family being the oldest kind of empire for the most pathetic kind of humans.

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

Public comment genuinely matters. Courts will overturn rules based on an administration not responding to substantive comments.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Every time you slow him down, you save lives. Even if, heaven forbid, it’s only slowing it down, it saves lives. And even saving one life, saves the world.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This isn't funny. It's children playing with a loaded gun.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1051 comments

Where are all the Dem consultants who supposedly do "comms" work at? Where's the website put together with succinct talking points, one pagers, posters that folks can easily download, print and pass out in their communities? Why aren't they doing this work PRO-BONO?

submitted 5 days ago • 187 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 6 days ago • 2641 comments

elon musk is the richest person on earth, who has illegally seized control of the federal government so he can fire millions of civil servants but he is also just a smol bean who is sad people insult him

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 6 days ago • 2091 comments

Honestly, the thing I'm most excited for now that I'm done with this project is trading my copy of Ethereal Visions Luna. It's easily been the deck I have connected with the least, and I'm excited for the deck to get into the hands of someone who will love these cards.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I have not eaten a Jelly Belly in over a decade, since their CEO supported the NC Bathroom Bill. I can and will carry a grudge to the grave. I ain’t fucking stepping foot in a Target ever again.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Sarah Schulman: "Visibility was a construct that the gay movement invented to explain and excuse the cruelty we experienced...We invented the idea it was an inadvertent consequence of a lack of information. 'If they would discover how we truly are, they would not want to hurt us.'"

submitted 83 days ago • 15 comments