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dirgesinthedark.bsky.social
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me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

"Democrats should focus on kitchen table issues, not cultural issues"

If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.

More re-hiring. 🤡 @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/06/10/f...

What's astounding is that there ever were people, including journalists, who claimed Youngkin was a "moderate," "normie Republican," etc bluevirginia.us/2025/06/tues...

Did Stephen Miller write that headline?!?!

Terrible framing. The law says it’s illegal for troops to enforce.

Me: It doesn't feel right to go watch the World Cup in authoritarian countries. I wish it could be right here in the US of A!

the whole point of the military parade & all of these threats is to intimidate people out of peacefully protesting, which is not going to work

Lots of people seem to think this is bad for red states too but I’m not so sure. Trump says he wants to personally make the disaster relief decisions. He’ll help his cronies and punish those who won’t kiss his ass. That’s life under mob-style governance.

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

Do you think this was a typo, Bloomberg trolling or just how she spells it?

Someone alert Jake Tapper that the president is having imaginary phone calls with the governor of California.

Is Donald Trump a demented buffoon or a pathological liar?

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18

The centrist, moderate, safe, poll-tested position here for elected officials and pundits is to blast the Trump admin using every argument they can. Anyone who isn't doing that should be asked why they're trying normalize the deployments and enable Trump's fascism.

Donald Trump didn’t call in the National Guard on January 6th. Yet he called them in to LA without a request from officials in California. He pardoned people who smeared bodily fluids on our Capitol and beat cops, calling them “patriots.” His hypocrisy is nauseating.

Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.

More people should be talking about the utter freak that is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist worldview. He's the architect behind most of this chaos as Trump is golfing, falling asleep during meetings, making money of memecoins and tripping while climbing stairs.

what i like about this post is it is an illustration of one of the most distinctive qualities of williams' work and mainstream punditry in general, which is a belief that history began a decade ago

People used to have it so good, the only thing they could be mad about is U2 putting a fee album on their devices.

Google maps needs a "Bitch I'm Black" addon because why would I get off the interstate and take 3 country roads through rural Kentucky in these times?

No one could have foreseen this happening except for everyone who was yelling from the rooftops that this would happen.

Vaccines are great, actually.

The central delusion of pundits who desperately try to guilt people into coming back to Twitter: they genuinely seem to think we all secretly MISS Twitter and are merely hanging out over here out of a drab, self-flagellating sense of moral superiority no, we're here because Twitter sucks shit now

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

When people asked early in the administration how we could lose access to vaccines -pediatricians were most worried about the dissolution of the ACIP. This is very, very bad news. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Yeah, I don’t know what to say about this one other than it’s really bad

I wish I loved anything as much as social media posters love spreading clearly fake videos that can be debunked with a mere few seconds of due diligence.

A few words about “peaceful protests.” 1. At least 5% of people are uncontrollable assholes and will behave badly in any situation, let alone a high-tension one. So a large protest without ANYONE throwing shit, yelling slurs or for violence, etc. is likely not achievable. /1

Progressive activists no longer have a considerable amount of influence on Twitter because the site has been reengineered to promote paying users and people who agree with Elon Musk. This has been reported on extensively and is obvious to users left of center.

One of most revealing exhibits of the new @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social exhibition: A Bible mutilated to prevent any truth from setting slaves free

“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

I was arrested by the LAPD for protesting in 2016. I'm pretty sure they let me out early because I was annoying. So that might be useful information

No country has ever been destroyed by migrants just wanting a better life for their family. Many though have been destroyed by authoritarianism and fascism.

The guard in LA could be the start of a fascist power grab, yes. It could also be a massive overplaying of a bad hand by a president who had the worst week of his term, and an immigration czar who was publicly humiliated and is desperate to goose his numbers. We don't know yet.

Trump’s crimes are much more serious than those of anyone ICE is picking up

I know one thing. If I were a young blonde, white woman, and a police officer shot me ON CAMERA, my settlement would be large enough to have its own itemized line on LA's yearly budget.

NEW: In a fiery motion, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys urge Judge Xinis to reject the govt’s request to relieve it of its discovery obligations now that Abrego Garcia has been returned to the US. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously