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So I'm not the only one who wishes I was a plant-person!

I love it when authors narrate their own books. Talia is great.

Correct. Look into "spiritual warfare". The Christian Nationalist leaders have deep pockets and are a large part of why we have Trump. Katherine Stewart has a new book that is about these groups, Money Lies and God.

I get why he said this, but the people who most need to hear and heed this advice will not.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

It's 100% on them. They own this.

If you are arrested today protesting the Trump administration in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

"Past national reconciliations, most notably that of 1877, have been contingent on the abandonment of aspirations toward multiracial democracy. This time may yet be different but the path to a more perfect union remains an arduous one." From Conclusion of Adam Serwer's book The Cruelty is the Point

Ahh so that's why my local grocery store's produce department was 1/2 empty! Not a Whole Foods but I'm assuming they use the same supplier.

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

We're in deep trouble folks

It's the "I suffered, so you should too" mentality and it really pisses me off. It should be "I suffered, so I don't want anyone else to".

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

I would totally take Ninja Turtles over AGI

Robert E Lee was a traitor, PERIOD. End of report. Thank you for coming to my talk.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

LA is not a distraction. The Parade is not a distraction. The speech at Bragg was not a distraction. None of it is a distraction! All of it matters and there are millions of us that can focus on each of them. There are 257 Democrats on the Hill that can pound all of it. Just fucking fight!

rubber bullets fly by my face. tear gas fills my lungs. a line of federal troops is marching toward me. i fire off an email to my focus group asking what i should do as a baton lands cleanly on my skull.

I don't know if I should laugh or cry

Oh good surely nothing bad will happen

Yes this and I'll be damned if I let these fucking losers like Vance, Yarvin, Rufo et al win.

Right I keep thinking about how these same people very likely have no problem with German-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc. displaying those flags

Lmao

MN Dems passed the policy in the first fucking place. I don't like the bill either but I'm not going to do this circular firing squad.

"The role of the church – the role of people of faith – is to care for our neighbors. Yes,” said Rep. Isaac Schultz, R-Elmdale Township, during the House floor debate. “But not in this instance, specifically.” What a fucking ghoul minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/09/l...

In general, yes, I want the Dems to use what power they have to the maximum but I think so much of this discourse comes down to - people want Dems to find The One True Trick to just magically fix everything. I'm sorry, there are no fast and easy fixes here.

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

At some point you have to pick whether you will defend immigrant communities as they actually exist or will only defend them if they shape up and start acting American enough, and frankly the rhetoric about these protests is telling me that too many liberals are picking option 2

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

Belief of the median voter

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

Yes this. They aren't hiding their intentions so start taking them seriously.