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Genuinely wondering what the administration's short-term plan is for dealing with the alarming numbers of people who 1) have been trained to kill 2) possess intimate knowledge of American intelligence operations and/or defense planning and 3) suddenly have very good reason to hate the government

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

the reason that the american right are leaning hard into their immorality - which they themselves understand very clearly to be immoral - is, at the bottom of it, they don’t believe in anything.

submitted 20 hours ago • 39 comments

He’s a racism test And he knows it and he knows white people won’t actively adress it and he’s right And he’s spun it out in ever widening circles Because no one will stop to care about those he targets

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A Democrathicc Party to make FDR look like a conservative

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

A story as old as time: Republicans inherit a strong economy from Democrats then totally tank it by being utterly reckless, power-hungry and greedy.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

I think this is completely correct in that the Congressional Dem approach (borne out of the very much existing powerlessness) of letting Trump dominate media, screw up and become more unpopular is working, but at the same time that domination breeds unhappiness with Cong Dems, it's a catch 22.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

AOC is showing what resistance looks like; Schumer, Hochul, and the rest of D leadership not so much. www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Elon Musk does little more than bluff these days, and basically all of his success over the last few years only proves how little backbone anyone in this country has left. We have to start calling his bluffs. Make him deliver on his threats. This is the game.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Look people. Democrat? Republican? It doesn't matter. No one wants their wealth plundered by nazis. Push your members of Congress to impeach these motherfuckers and throw them prison.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

"“In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Extortion is the law of the land in fascist dictatorship and its modern permutations America is a lawless fascist oligarchy in transition to hard fascist police state.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Stealing the infrastructure we paid for. They're treating blue states and cities like we're conquered territory to be plundered.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 2 days ago • 4214 comments

I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

it is hard for people not in the weeds of NY politics to understand that "the Brooklyn Democratic Party" is not representative of Democratic voters or national dems, but a corrupt ring of like 100 insanely corrupt people who have seized the mechanics of organizational control and won't let go.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

our despair has been because the Republican party has been choking out the possibility of change our entire live, and our octogenarian legislators considered that to be our grandchildren's problem. but we do not need to be content with that.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Donald Trump killed this woman

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I don’t know how often we have to go over this, but when the president speaks, policy occurs. The president cannot troll. When he calls himself a king, it’s an emergency. Fucking act like it.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Most of the people quoted here are Republicans afraid of death threats from their own party leader. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 299 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 3 days ago • 570 comments

I'm firmly convinced that, barring some truly dramatic reversal, regime consolidation is not merely presently off the table but forever off the table. They alienate every power center that interact with.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

we don't have kings in America, but we DO have the Great Khan of the Midwest 🫡

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

the reason i continue to think this can't last and that thermostatic response is coming is that they're not giving anyone anything positive to hang their hat on. they're trying to tear apart the federal government and the society it underpins, without offering anything substantive to cheer for.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1210 comments

"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Very good column about Vice-President Vance’s speech in Munich. Where he scolded Germans for not being welcoming enough to Germany’s ascendant fascist political party. The party our most powerful oligarch (and the owner of this site) so fervently supports. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

One of the most important lessons that my students learn at CMU is this: you are a smart person, but there are a lot of smart people. And even people who aren't as smart as you can teach you important things. This is one of lessons that "geniuses who dropped out of college" often miss

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submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

I am one to normally agree against alarmism but everything leading to this moment has been a function of cope. Endless rationalization and abatement of alternative hypotheticals to give tractable reason to what is otherwise an unintelligible sequence of horrific actions of spiteful self mutilation.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 3 days ago • 271 comments

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

I could not imagine more contemptible people if you paid me

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

The White House is posting literal fascist video of the deportations with gleeful comments from the official account. You are not going crazy they are Nazis and they are dancing at the the opportunity to murder anyone they want with impunity they are posting the cattle cars for clicks.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

these people live on X and believe the entire world is X

submitted 4 days ago • 156 comments

I can’t get over the fact that the GOP’s base is filled with people who honest to god believe in the possibility of an antichrist and yet nothing about these guys trips their radar.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Really don’t know what to tell people as someone who has written and spoken about the far right and authoritarianism and is in the academic side of this that we crossed the rubicon tonight when Trump declared he and the AG are the sole arbitrators of law. This is it. It’s here there is no going back

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

The protests going on right now are not the same as 2016 or 2020. You are seeing a social movement in its Proto phases before we know what the final form looks like.This is something much bigger than anything We’ve seen probably since occupy much larger and angrier then 2016 or 20 time to turn it up

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments