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what he said

We really should just go ahead and formally rename it to the slavers rebellion. Sometimes the right name is clarifying for people in the cheap seats.

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

Duh. yeah, isn't it obvious?

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

first thing I said when I saw that yesterday: racism and sexism you mean?

yeah

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

You okay with this? Who are YOU with??

First they came for gender and post-colonial studies and I said nothing because I was in STEM.

to say the least

The reason to keep asking Republican politicians who won the 2020 election is that you're really asking them if they're fascist monsters who will destroy the future of everyone you know and love.

yes

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Another thing that we should be doing is asking all congressional candidates to pledge to allow the US to join the International Court so the war criminals can go to The Hague

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

We need an in-office Son-of-Sam law that makes it impossible for govt officials to receive the royalties of books they wrote while in office.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States with the dumbest, most corrupt president ever in power is a bit like celebrating a wedding anniversary after your spouse murdered all your children and drained your bank accounts.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

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fuentes vs Good & Pretti and 7 years olds and others

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

If you are a Republican, I do not think you are a fascist. I *observe* that you are a fascist.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Sounds about right.

Weird how time works isn’t it? In some US states a pregnant 11 year-old isn’t allowed an abortion because they need to deal with the “adult” consequences of getting pregnant, but 35 year-old neo-Nazis in the govt group chat are “boys” doing “things young boys do”

Trump calls himself "the best friend that Israel ever had." He used to be the best friend Jeffrey Epstein ever had. How did that work out?

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

It’s strangely comforting to know that as Donald Trump approaches 80 his medical advisor is RFK. 🧪 #medsky

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

"many liberals seem to be trying to mollify the right-wing crackpots. Maybe the worst thing I’ve seen today is Ezra Klein’s smarmy “Charlie Kirk practiced politics exactly the right way"..moral vacuuity with a heavy dose of clueless white privilege

White Americans still approve, and said pundits have collectively decided they are the only ones that count

and in any case, they neither mean "deal with effectively" nor do they mean actual crimes. none of them lining up to find out how baltimore got to record lows. what they mean is cities are full of people and things they neither like nor understand.

@charliejane.bsky.social's book appeared in my inbox by the magic of pre-order, i'd planned in advance in spend today reading it, and ... it was even more satisfying than I expected. complex characters i cared about, lots of ideas, 18th c English women ... badasses all. strongly recommend