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I’ve learned over the last decade that there’s nothing at all I like more than a fascist losing.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

It goes without saying but I'm gonna say it anyway, Donald Trump is a complete and total pile of human shit. Words do begin to convey just how much I hate this sweaty bloated heap of slime in an ill-fitting suit. Listen to the first minute or so of this to catch the exchange, and note his tone.

"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

Donald Trump's and JD Vance's closing message before the midterms: "We don't have time to talk about rising prices or whatever you pretend to care about because we need to talk about ASSES! It's gonna be asses, asses, ASSES 24-7 from us! You're welcome, America!"

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

David Whamond, Toronto Star

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

What the fuck is going on??? www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Tear that fucker down. I don't care how much it cost to put up his stupid fucking ballroom. Tear that shit down and dump every single brick, tile, and column in the god damn sea.

A frozen kielbasa going through a garbage disposal.

Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.

Damn

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

Happy Fourth and happy 250th. I find myself re-reading FDR’s third inaugural address often these days. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...

Absolute scumbag of a human who I hope soon finds himself locked out of power, followers, and gainful employment. Fuck Tom Emmer and all who still support this gutter racist piece of shit.

The name went up in hours. Workers on scissor lifts, done overnight. Taking it down required scaffolding, took all day, and still missed the court deadline. That asymmetry is structural. Capture moves at the speed of power. Accountability moves at the speed of law. One is always faster.

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Things are going great back in my old home state.

Beginning in 1934, the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, never denied the existence of concentration camps, instead he defended them as necessary to defend the blood and honor of the German people from murderers, rapists, pedophiles and drug dealers.

Q: Trump's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted-- JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this? VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Every time I open Bluesky,

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When fascists call for unity, it means "you quit fighting back." Always. Every time.

Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News

This is psychotic behavior by Sheehy. My goodness

Ann Telnaes

This war is the AI-slop tiktok version of the last quarter century in American foreign policy.

This. More of this, everyday, up to the mid-terms. Collude with this regime at your own peril, fuckers.

The Revolution is not over! Ok then. Let’s fight tyranny.

Trump: "I read the paragraphs. I read very well. Great comprehension. I read everything there was to read and I said, 'We can't lose this case.'"

Spread this FAR AND WIDE.

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Wow.

We should have understood it as a warning, back when computers screamed as they connected to the internet.