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how it feels going easter egg hunting in this economy

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

RFK Jr.'s entire application for Harvard was "Robert F. Kennedy Jr." Just his name. And he got in. You can't help but obsessively dictate who gets to have value when you know your only value is your name.

JD Vance is 100% cooking up a long as hell and utterly shit tweet starting with, "Frankly, I am sick of the Pope's moralizing. It's gross."

Republicans will mobilize a nationwide, rapid-response crisis comms strategy over a single trans athlete but just can’t seem to care about the innumerable gun deaths.

I've been saying it for a little while now and will say it again; we don't have three branches of government right now. We have two real branches (executive and judicial) and a junior varsity branch (legislative) that is acting like it's a smol bean with no power. THAT is a constitutional crisis.

Guys, we’re ALREADY at the “Then they came for me” part. The only thing we can’t be sure of is the order.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s never seen a fascist gathering. That inspired me to make a fun little quiz. Let’s see if you can spot the difference between Trump’s America and Hitler’s Germany. Winner gets a one-way ticket to history class.

In the early stages of dictatorship, authoritarians move in stealth. They count on moderates and low-info voters to stay asleep while the noose tightens. The opposition must force them to overreach early.

I invite everyone who did not respond AOC or Pritzker to go get kicked in the teeth

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Outsourcing the war crimes: when empires subcontract brutality, hiring one group of the colonized to crush another—cheap, deniable, and still profitable for the white powers pulling the strings.