Ben Kester

Abandon attachments to authorities.

People ask what is at stake for a political election, and it's literally everything.

"Republicans don't have a Nazi problem -- they are the Nazi problem."

Hopefully they will be able to arrest many more people, including those "following orders".

Democrat supporters know this because their immediate reaction is to take out their frustration on the trans people most hurt.

New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Trump's Bribe State is a mix of empty promises and real benefits. But watch how automation is used: to buy votes, or allow billionaires to buy off dissent via Trump accounts, even as Trump has made automation harder for Mediciad. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/automating...

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

We are all in agreement that the GOP is a masks-off party of child abusers?

"America first"

Aversion to empathy is an explicit teaching by one of the more popular/influential churches. The sheep (as christians like to call themselves) listen.

Our sitting president is as smart as a 1 year old!

Is Palestinian stone throwing acceptable to Americans now?

Thanks Google for enabling this behavior.

The Guardian continues to show its true colors in support for a failed government. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Evangelical christianity's support of Trump makes these comments all the more comical.

The cruelty of America.

He's violating plausible deniability.

A consistent life experience is that pressure to "trust" comes at a time when the opposite is prudent.

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

Who understand$?

Everyone who confirmed Rubio owes the American public and the world an apology.

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

If you can't criticize your elected officials with your full chest, you're not in a healthy relationship. Politicians are here to serve you, not the other way around. Don't become dependent or get stuck in a savior complex.

Narnia is a christian classic literature series, where a lion plays a role symbolic of their god. But how dare a woman voice the role. Apparently, for some, women are further from their deity than animals. apnews.com/article/narn...

From people who don't have a clue what socialism is other than "I think it means government handouts."

I dunno, maybe qualified immunity is bad for the public good.

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I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action https://aje.news/zjyo4q

"The ideological clowns are out." They like to talk about themselves, but this is so weird.

The Dems and GOP are in a race to self-sabatoge.

In what sense do people live in a free country?

The whitehouse sees ai as a way to spread deadly propaganda.

2 hams in the fridge. One purchased today and another from last week. Both terribly spoiled by different bacteria. Bean soup was still yummy. Can't go wrong.

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

There is no real justice system.

The empire turning its weapons inward.

If rich rape enablers want to go after the mayor too, they won't be able to hide behind institutional inertia.

"I'm doing something about this social problem rather than just talking about it." How do you think we work through social problems?

How dare men laud our gender as protectors of women.

You're not making pragmatic calculations, you're not bargaining or impeding fascism in any way, shape, or form, you are a gullible mark at best, or hate your fellow human beings so much you're engaging in willful collusion with fascism as long as it hurts them no matter how many others are harmed.