caroline

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Killing people. Not just Renee Good & Alex Pretti.

Incompetence: you’re our only hope.

Election fraud is when you lie about very clean and secure elections being riddled with fraud

Weird because they got rid of all the dei hires right? It couldn’t be that anti dei politics was simply white identity politics intended to preserve racial and gender hierarchy regardless of merit bsky.app/profile/swin...

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...

The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Their only issue with “media bias” was always that it wasn’t biased enough bsky.app/profile/junl...

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

One thing that's fun is that if you're black and you don't have much experience, it's woke dei if you get the job, and if you're black and you have all the experience in the world, you're an out of touch elite who is not really black and doesn't deserve the job.

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every single time. You think, there’s no way he could more gross. But no, he manages it. Every single time.

If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...

A multimillionaire thinks that paying down the national debt is so important that all the poors should get into the workforce earlier, work in it harder, and stay in it later to help pay it off. It's the only possible way to do it!

Leavitt: "The president believes in the United States Constitution, however ... "

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

Chinese Americans are “liable to arrest at any time and place by zealous immigration officials upon the charge of being unlawfully in the country.” -Chinese American advocacy group in complaint to U.S. Secretary of Labor (1910)

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

The standard for “cultural revolution” according to centrist and right wing commentators is “liberals being loud about their opinions” whereas Trump is making prosecution, regulatory, and funding decisions based on the politics of the speaker but that’s also libs fault for making him mad

Look at what Trump has done.

"Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."

Oh my God.

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

In authoritarian regimes, underlings signal loyalty to the ruler by publicly attesting to obviously false claims

But it’s not a cult

Every time. You think, that’s it, there’s no way he could be more gross. But no, somehow he always manages it. Every single time.

Fortnightly prayer: Incompetence, you’re still our only hope.

SOUTHCOM head steps down early & one US official says "Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats...." Bulk of article then discusses overwhelming view (incl every IL scholar & mil expert i know) that strikes are illegal.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...

When something is absolutely, blatantly, shamelessly false, it's not only okay to call it a lie, it's irresponsible not to.

Good.

Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

Just destroying a business for no reason.

They seldom ask what’s a man. They always ask what’s a woman, then demand we’re reduced to defining ourselves by parts of our bodies and their function. Like we can’t see where that’s going. Like we haven’t been there. I’m a woman, what would they know about everything I am.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

That’s not only true, feels good to say/hear it, but we get pulled in the weeds with it anyway. The problem is the problem, the problem is not anyone calling it out. For some reason, though, we just can’t find our way to talk about the problem yet.

I'm just an ordinary First Amendment lawyer but I'm pretty sure you can't transform "protesting the president" into criminal activity by recharacterizing it as "inflicting harm on the United States."