Michael

It never ceases to amaze me that people don’t realize how much worse things can get.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

You rarely get iconic symbolism so on the nose. Writers would probably call it unrealistic

The notion that crime and the economy were so bad 2023-24 that Americans reacting to objective personal material conditions had to do a fascism does not hold water. If material, why would it be disproportionately white? Do you think nonwhite people don't experience crime or economic challenges?

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Would have been just Jim-dandy if the DOJ had brought these charges against Trump.

Abolish ICE

One of the reasons I *do* fight with people over the Fairness Doctrine is that I have a vain hope that people will understand that there is no magical solution to authoritarianism. "If only we had Law XYZ" is lazy.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.” Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB

I don’t intend to diminish any lived experiences in the modern day being a person of color…but does anyone think it’s more dangerous for black people to protest today than it would have been in the 50s or 60s?

Anyone who believes the average Democrat, or *average* Republican, is blood thirsty needs to touch grass. People like Loomer are the threat. They need to be defeated by ideas and political action. Don’t get me wrong, there are rabid maga out there. But not as common as you’d think based off Twitter.

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

The FCC Chair saying “You can deal with Kimmel the easy way or the hard way” is the very definition of a chilling effect on speech, and a good indicator the First Amendment is a dead letter in the Trump regime. Free speech is dying in America and none of our free speech warriors seem to care

The bar gets lower every damned day

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

While you have First Amendment rights, free speech is not unlimited. Certain categories of speech are strictly prohibited by the US government: -incitement of violence -defamation -child pornography -counterfeiting -any form of criticism or mockery of Charlie Kirk, specifically

The thing about Charlie Kirk is that lots of terrible people get murdered and it's still a terrible crime. Murdering him was a terrible crime. And he was a terrible person: a repulsive bigot who openly denigrated millions of Americans because of their race, sexuality, etc.

Let’s not ignore reality

MAGA are moral cowards. This disgusting behavior was predictable when the news of Kirk broke. His killer is responsible for the waves of violence and malice rippling through the country.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

You can only say fuck Trump so many times,

Umm … it’s pretty stupid.

Ossoff: Absolutely RFK JR should resign. He should have never been confirmed to begin with. He is utterly unqualified. This is someone who has embraced every piece of quackery and pseudoscience that he’s come across.

We’re dying of internet poisoning and no one will even describe what’s happening

I think "media attention inflation received" is separable from "actual inflation," which is why inflation narratives remained a panic even while inflation returned to normal. All that matters what people are paying attention to: crime, or inflation, or caravans, or ebola, or scandal, or egg prices

REPOST if you believe Katie Johnson

Solar is no longer “alternative energy.” It is the energy of the future. America risks remaining a petro-state, clinging to the past, instead of becoming an electro-state, embracing the future.

Trump doesn't care. RFK was a "troll the libs, f-you to everyone" choice that put a compliant, if weird, guy in the Cabinet. RFK destroying American health is just a side effect that Trump couldn't care less about.

Replaying Red Alert, I don’t think there is any song that goes harder than Hell March #RedAlert

“Going crazy from the internet or the television” is an incredibly widespread condition but many people still insist that our new fascist politics either reflects “how they always were” or must have deep roots in the political economy. Buddy it’s just YouTube poisoning

One of the more depressing features of the past decade has been seeing how quickly and easily the right abandoned the genuinely good principles it once pretended to care about. Free trade; federalism; free speech. They jettissoned everything they had a point about & kept all the loathesome bits.

God fucking damnit this is so very true, and so very irritating

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT OF MY COUNTRY HELLBENT ON TORTURING THIS MAN

This is a five-alarm fire. Washington, DC is now going to be crawling with ARMED military units, for no apparent reason. At what point do our idiot media members drop the crime-fighting pretense?

Letting the roll hang under instead of over is a sign of psychopathy

Those goddamn pieces of shit

Goddamnit

It’s actually painful. The irony is physically painful.

This sht isn’t ok. This is absolutely unacceptable

It just gets more and more insane

Always good to brush up on the classics. I feel I agree with like 50% of this. I’ll let anyone stumbling upon this repost guess which 50 lol

Sure Blackrock is part of the problem, but I don’t think the biggest part. He’s right, zoning laws enacted by communities trying to preserve their home value are the biggest issue IMO

Seemingly everything Trump does benefits China’s long term plans.

Voluntarily ceding American leadership of the world is going to be Trump’s most lasting effect.

No one should be proud of traitors

Confused. So (apart from the other crazy assumptions underlying this) will farm workers get health coverage? Bc the idea of kicking people off Medicaid is that they can get jobs that provide health insurance, right? I’m just trying to keep up with the plot