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Some days when I feel resentful about having spent years explaining that criminalization is the fuel of fascism which is why we have to reject criminalization, I remember that perhaps the time I say it might be the first time someone has considered the idea. So I keep saying it and keep organizing.
October 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Some days when I feel resentful about having spent years explaining that criminalization is the fuel of fascism which is why we have to reject criminalization, I remember that perhaps the time I say it might be the first time someone has considered the idea. So I keep saying it and keep organizing.
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No words better express Orwell’s argument about the deadening effects of political cliches than the repetition of “accountability”, “transparency”, and “raises questions” instead of calls for specific redress for particular harms
October 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
No words better express Orwell’s argument about the deadening effects of political cliches than the repetition of “accountability”, “transparency”, and “raises questions” instead of calls for specific redress for particular harms
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"If they don't want to be called nazis they should stop doing nazi shit, and the media should ask themselves why heated language bothers them more than nazi shit."
October 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
"If they don't want to be called nazis they should stop doing nazi shit, and the media should ask themselves why heated language bothers them more than nazi shit."
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It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
October 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
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This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
October 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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like 90% of “gun culture” is deranged suburban white people with vigilante fantasies about shooting hordes of scary black people
if you shoot guns enough (I do), you quickly meet this type of guy, who will tell you just how Excited he is for someone to break into his house so he finally has the excuse he needs to dump a mag into them [and this type of guy is unfortunately quite dominant in US gun culture]
I'm not, but I think this is the difference between "as a sentient american I fully understand pete is a big dumb racist sexist rapist idiot" vs "oh I absolutely know that Type of Guy, I've worked with a half dozen of them"
October 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM
like 90% of “gun culture” is deranged suburban white people with vigilante fantasies about shooting hordes of scary black people
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This is what happens when you decide not to honor an unspoken gentleman’s agreement not to bring up bigotry as a problem.
Sen. Jon Ossoff evoked Nazi Germany, saying Senate challenger Rep. Mike Collins 'hired half the Third Reich' during a televised debate Thursday night.
Somehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate Debate
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
This is what happens when you decide not to honor an unspoken gentleman’s agreement not to bring up bigotry as a problem.
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“cops should arrest ICE” is a liberal fantasy. “abolish ICE” is not.
October 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
“cops should arrest ICE” is a liberal fantasy. “abolish ICE” is not.
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It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck.
It’s reading the room, I suppose.
It’s reading the room, I suppose.
October 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck.
It’s reading the room, I suppose.
It’s reading the room, I suppose.
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I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
The news just since I left work:
-A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad
-Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis
Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
-A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad
-Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis
Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
October 8, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.
BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI?
BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
October 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.
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One of the reasons that it’s vital blue cities unfuck their housing supply is that sanctuary cities probably aren’t viable long term politically otherwise. Need housing to be cheap/abundant if you don’t want there to be blowback from ICE/shithead county sheriffs funneling precarious people to you
October 6, 2026 at 9:55 PM
One of the reasons that it’s vital blue cities unfuck their housing supply is that sanctuary cities probably aren’t viable long term politically otherwise. Need housing to be cheap/abundant if you don’t want there to be blowback from ICE/shithead county sheriffs funneling precarious people to you
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I mean, it’s an incentive thing
right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that
you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that
you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election.
www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.
www.politico.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I mean, it’s an incentive thing
right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that
you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that
you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy.
there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
Like we don’t have political disagreements, we have disagreements on the nature of reality 
October 4, 2026 at 11:53 PM
this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy.
there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.
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You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit
Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.
reut.rs
October 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
October 1, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
September 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
It is amazing, and sobering, to realize that had Trump not chosen to start this war for no good reason and against the advice of many of his senior ppl, Trump and the GOP would probably be doing... Ok. Not awesome, maybe losing the house, but ok.
I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick
September 29, 2026 at 9:41 PM
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.
September 28, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.
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Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports.
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
September 28, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel
Kash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ...
theonion.com
September 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel
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In every high-stakes campaign you see the same pattern: talented candidates know exactly how to talk to people until the Democratic campaign management class comes in to screw it up with their weird pet bullshit.
Talarico stumbles through an answer about trans student athletes:
September 24, 2026 at 9:59 PM
In every high-stakes campaign you see the same pattern: talented candidates know exactly how to talk to people until the Democratic campaign management class comes in to screw it up with their weird pet bullshit.
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A fascist loving trillionaire with a pedophile robot is bankrolling the Republican Party and the opposition won’t say anything about it.
September 24, 2026 at 11:43 AM
A fascist loving trillionaire with a pedophile robot is bankrolling the Republican Party and the opposition won’t say anything about it.
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this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
www.c-span.org
September 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be