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If you think the way the most powerful men treat their partners and families isn’t important, you’ve already fallen for their manipulation. The violence at home is part and parcel of their abuse of power

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Not a single conservative right now Not one

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

He nails it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1410 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1173 comments

So now not only is empathy a sin, but "women have empathy and compassion" is specifically the reason women can't be pastors? This religion they preach sounds nothing like Jesus.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 1 day ago • 1993 comments

swear to god if this were a movie script the studio would send notes back saying "tone it down, no one's gonna buy this"

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

And why is the date in ROMAN NUMERALS? Also. The helmet is very anachronistic and not particularly Greek. No one associated with this movie read the Iliad and Odyssey as part of a rigorous liberal arts degree and it shows.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Trying to work these knots out so I can actually sleep and my shoulder/neck muscles are crunching so loud that I can hear them over the whit of my nekteck and over the escapism tv in my earbuds. I can’t imagine what could possibly be making me carry so much tension.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1245 comments

Do they think they've got a chance because this administration thinks and speaks so disparagingly about people with disabilities? Words have consequences. Executive orders have real effects. The heartlessness affects real people's lives. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

These self-identified Jesus-followers are celebrating the separation of parents from their children and spouses from one another; cheering families torn apart, lives violently uprooted, and human beings being terrorized at school and at work and at church. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-youre-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 318 comments

We knew they would go after legal immigrants But when we said it, they said we were crazy

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

submitted 2 days ago • 384 comments

Long live the King? King Jesus? Amen. Cause that man ain’t look, sound, smell or even think like Jesus - not even close. Not even the blue eyed white Jedi Jesus. Yall trippin’

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We have a king who has just put a tariff on tea and I feel like there's some really basic American iconography that opposition parties could take advantage of here

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This @monacharen.bsky.social summation of Trump's villainy in his first four weeks is so thorough and scathing that I can't even choose what to quote from it. Everything that needs to be said, in a three-minute read. Go for it. lnk.thebulwark.com/4126yCO

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

If it’s a social media post, it might be trolling. If it’s a social media post that becomes an executive order which is the enjoined by a court but continues to be carried out regardless, it is not trolling.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

“It’s a joke” is why we have Nazis again we got comfy making Nazi jokes bc we thought we were immune. the jokes made us immune to seeing the return of Nazis getting comfy I will never use that term loosely ever again

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I have learned in recent years there are 10s of millions of Americans not only willing but eager to go watch a lynching from the comfort of a picnic blanket and the only thing that was holding them back was the social penalty; really makes you think about those who warn against social penalties.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Nepal accepted a $500 million grant from the US to expand its electricity grid and improve its roads. By accepting the grant, Nepal was on the receiving end of a flood of attacks by the CCP. Now, the grant has been frozen by Trump and Nepalese officials are wondering if they’ve made a mistake.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

In another timeline, the President of the United States tweeting "Long Live the King" about himself would in and of itself be impeachable

submitted 3 days ago • 2 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 3 days ago • 297 comments

Calling himself a king isn't distracting from his damaging actions, it's summarizing them

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Cruelty as optional entertainment and spectator spot is a necessary prelude to acculturating a critical mass of the population to cruelty as mandated act of participatory "patriotism."

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Stares at America. Becomes even more agressively and loudly historically anabaptist. No king but Jesus, please and thank you.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

American presidents don’t even joke about this. Just because he’s petty doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous.

submitted 3 days ago • 1738 comments

When you buy chocolates for someone but then eat them yourself bc fascism is stressful

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2182 comments

People literally died from Covid while claiming it doesn’t exist. There is never going to be a wake up call for some people. A lot of people. It’s not about convincing them if they can’t be convinced. IMO it’s about overwhelming them entirely with opposition.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

With all due respect, Congressman, he’s not trying to distract from anything here. He’s a grandiose pathological narcissist. A narcissistic sociopath. A malignant narcissist. A psychopath. A megalomaniac. This is what he thinks of himself. And what he wants others to think of him.

submitted 3 days ago • 1180 comments

“There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

Absolutely this. I’ve been reporting on ASMR for over a decade now. It’s a relaxation tool that is supposed to produce sensations associated with being calm and happy, even lulling people to sleep. The White House invoking it alongside immigrants being shackled w/o due process is social manipulation

submitted 3 days ago • 16 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 3 days ago • 389 comments

NEW -- When the Trump administration sends your son to Gitmo Via @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/when-dhs-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments