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Last fall Niall Ferguson chastised me on Xitter for suggesting Trump could turn fascist, asserting, "fascism was all about state control of the economy and militarisation in preparation for war, pretty much the opposite of Trump's philosophy." Just thinking about that for no reason whatsoever.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

submitted 10 days ago • 127 comments

Pritzker: If you're not out there protesting in front of a Republican congressman's office, or out in the street making your voice heard, or calling your friends in another state to have them do it.. then you're not doing what's necessary to put pressure on them to vote the right way.

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 11 days ago • 1138 comments

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

submitted 12 days ago • 494 comments

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

submitted 13 days ago • 223 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 14 days ago • 94 comments

This is extensive, detailed, and absolutely brutal.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Beavis & Butthead Wolfenstein / Disk / PC-Crap / 1994

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

He is gonna accidentally kill the pope or set fire to the sistine chapel or something

submitted 23 days ago • 265 comments

quick question: why was noem carrying $3,000 in cash? was she just out selling drugs or something?

submitted 20 days ago • 2621 comments

oops i did it again

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

submitted 21 days ago • 255 comments

Dem politicians who are doing something and saying something to oppose Trump’s attacks on American democracy are quickly rising in the estimation of voters. Those calling those efforts a “distraction” or providing cover for Trump are quickly squandering their political capital.

submitted 20 days ago • 45 comments

i’m getting van hollen pilled

submitted 21 days ago • 512 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 21 days ago • 1237 comments

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

submitted 21 days ago • 461 comments

In my particular case, as a semi-well-known individual who's been actively online (i.e., leaving a permanent record) for decades, I'm pretty well fucked if they start rounding up people who don't like pathetic fascist shitworms, so honestly my donation records will be the least of my problems.

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 21 days ago • 817 comments

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 22 days ago • 694 comments

anyone who writes about or talks about the ongoing impact of racism in the united states is accused of a "victim mentality," but this here is the actual victim mentality

submitted 22 days ago • 562 comments

People are entitled to vote for whomever they want, for whatever reasons matter to them. But when people who haven't been victimized complain that they're victims—people who have, in fact, been subsidized—and that this victimization entitles them to hurt others, no one's obligated to indulge that.

submitted 22 days ago • 38 comments

Agree w this. But fwiw, I don’t think there are adverse political consequences on this front. And I think I have pretty good antennae for political impact. There’s a pretty broad discomfort w the whole disappearing people w no due process agenda. The escalation from WH is actually the tell on that.

submitted 22 days ago • 38 comments

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, whose father—a prominent scholar in Middle Eastern Studies and a target or rightwing attacks—was assassinated in 1984.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

America was founded on the basic protection against unlawful imprisonment. Due process is a fundamental right in our constitution. Denying it or defending those who deny it is unamerican and illegal.

submitted 22 days ago • 76 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 23 days ago • 8469 comments

RFK Jr.’s lies about autism are disgraceful — and I won't share them to spread misinformation. He consistently undermines public health and reinforces dangerous myths. In Illinois, we stand with those with autism, and I’ll keep fighting for inclusion, science, and the truth.

submitted 23 days ago • 522 comments

What a world, now I’m rooting for the ChiComs and for fucking Harvard

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 23 days ago • 296 comments

fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people. the. same. thing.

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

Starting to think that we should sort out a general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. Let's keep the region strong with some kind of of north american free trade agreement. Perhaps a trans pacific partnership could soften China's influence.

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.

submitted 34 days ago • 500 comments

I really do think we’re well beyond this point. If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.

submitted 35 days ago • 543 comments

The United States is currently a country where you can be kidnapped by secret police and shipped off to a slave labour concentration camp without ever being charged with a crime or getting a chance to argue your case in front of a judge. If you think it can't happen to you, why do you think that?

submitted 36 days ago • 26 comments

I’m left with a certain sinking feeling that says if the Nintendo delay picks up steam and points a lot of new fingers at Trump, the administration will vindictively start picking apart the whole industry under the guise of “video game violence is destroying the youth” or some such shit.

submitted 37 days ago • 94 comments

160 years ago today, the traitor Jefferson Davis and his treasonous cabinet abandoned Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, spelling the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A day for all patriots to celebrate.