Piri Martine

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

If only there were a Nobel Prize for heckling

Folks, if you hate authoritarianism, you should be feeling good this morning. In Serbia, a student-led movement just ousted a longtime strongman, peacefully. And we Americans should be paying attention, because we have a chance in November to send a similar message. (link below)

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

He is so close to getting it

Here is an example of how effective this campaign was on educating people about the social media algorithm. The account in the print is not related to Janones, but it is following what he taught us over the past 2 weeks. Only two weeks. Organizing online is key. Translation in the ALT

The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

This time last year people were telling me that Trump’s ICE goons were going to scare people away from the polls. That he’d declare a state of emergency and use the military. The military is both busy elsewhere and demoralized. And Americans outnumber ICE agents 16,000 to 1 at least. At LEAST.

I never want to hear that voting cannot defeat authoritarians again.

So many people seem to think the midterms will be a blowout for the Democrats but I suspect they underestimate how much rural Republican farmers who are about to lose everything they have because of Trump want to hear him talk about his gay fantasies on stage every night

The current dilemma for most creatives now is that you need to share work online for your business to survive but if you do, it will immediately be stolen and replicated by AI and it's quite possible your business won't survive that

Absolutely insane. Just, fully embracing child abusers and pedophiles.

The director of FEMA is not allowed to do this legally. The director of OMB is not allowed to do this legally. The President of the United States is not allowed to do this legally. They're a gang of criminals, and should suffer the consequences.

Mensch. End the occupation.

Want to predict POTUS? What would the KKK's Grand Wizard do?

I know everyone hates Carville now but he wasn’t wrong. It’s the economy, stupid. Bigotry is all fun and games until you’re losing your house.

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

Latest ICE shooting in New York illustrates an ongoing pattern: DHS operates like the mob, even disappearing witnesses who may testify against them for PWS

"An ICE agent is in custody at a local hospital after police say he was shot after assaulting an elderly man and his daughter at a home in Fresno" 🖤

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)

An all-Republican panel HELD: Musk can flood social media with all the kiddie porn he likes and Minnesota can’t stop him, because he’s Musk.

You really can’t make this shit up.

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen

The emotional equivalent of "someone cut the crusts off my cheese sandwich for me" for our youngest is "someone picked out all the carrots before they heated the soup". Becomes sometimes, everyone needs ridiculous caretaking.

Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.

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The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

If you know any GenZ kids who only know Trump’s political world, show them how Mamdani operates in NYC. That’s the antidote.

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

People continue to disappear across America. Not everyone gets deported; some just disappear. Alamo, Texas