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He/him Cranky old gay man in San Francisco Anti-Muskovite Motorcyclist, language geek, urban hiker, husband guy, grandson of immigrants
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Desired end states: Republicans want Gilead Democrats want to go back to the way things were in ~2013 but maybe with universal health care this time, I dunno

decades of “thank you for your service” thrown away in service of kidnapping day workers from Home Depot shit-ass trade for the military, I gotta say

Trump hates America

Another milestone toward dictatorship was passed today: a “news” organization fired a journalist for privately criticizing the régime. This is turning into one of those month-long weeks.

FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE

Since Election Day, I’ve gotten the following vaccines that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise: pneumonia, RSV, TDAP, shingles (x2), and - just today - MMR. Plus a COVID booster, which I would have gotten anyway. Resilience is important.

Another protest sign idea

Absolute fucking 🔥. "Over eight hours...people throwing back tear gas...throwing anything that they could to defend themselves...Border Patrol retreated. “And the hundreds of workers in the factories were able to escape. If any community was going to fight back without apology, it was this one."

Big scary words from a frightened little man

*taps sign*

It’s absolutely baffling how many people are unaware of the following facts: 1. Impeachment begins in the House. 2. The House is controlled by “Republicans”. So: 3. Impeachment will not be brought up for a vote - much less pass. Similarly, 4. Removal via the 25th Amendment is also impossible.

#copyediting martial law m a r t i a l not marital not marshal not marshall

Would “DEPORT ICE” be a good protest sign or nah?

I swear to god half the people on this site would actively get into a white van marked "Hate Dems? Free Candy!". Just the most brainless contrarianism physically possible.

Twitter has turned itself into a crowdsourcing platform for helping authoritarians target civilians and yet you’ve still got people posting away because it’s “the public square,” totally indifferent to the fact that the mad emperor is building a giant gallows in the center of it.

This is fine www.joemygod.com/2025/06/news...

If the next escalation consists of a red-state governor offering (or being voluntold) to send troops to California… well, let’s just say it won’t be very good at all.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

I actually don’t think the Marines will shoot anyone in LA … until the régime has plotted a scenario, i.e. some sort of provocation, in order to market the violence to MAGA as patriotic and necessary.

Vaccines for HIV, Lyme disease and some cancers are right on the horizon. Were.

YAAASS

“Hope for the best but prepare for the worst,” that’s my motto. In a related development, I picked up some meds from the pharmacy today instead of waiting until tomorrow. These are uncertain times.

we are still under the six month mark for a couple weeks and it is incredibly difficult to see how this is sustainable for 3.5 more years

Watching Tom Homan talk and Stephen Miller tweet really drives home the fact that not only are they not sending in their best and their brightest, they don't HAVE any best or brightest.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

The President of the United States is advocating for arresting the duly-elected Governor of California for his SPEECH He thereafter admitted that the Governor of California had committed NO CRIME—but he still wants him arrested Spend as much time as you need processing what that means for America