Subverting Expectations

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

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You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

The government is going to shutdown because Trump wants it to shut down, and Republicans have no spine.

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight.

Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs.

What happened to the art of the deal?

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.

Re this absurdity on the HUD homepage right now, a federal employee told me:

"I'm fucking pissed that I still have to take annual ethics training and Hatch Act training."

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like:

-masked secret police kidnapping people off the street
-creating concentration camps
-attempting to eradicate trans people
-banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books
-murdering fishermen in open waters

NEWS: Jim Comey reportedly to be indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia, where Trump just fired a prosecutor for who opposed the case.

Blatant and brazen weaponization of the government against Trump's political opponents.

Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Goebbles or Miller?

@msnbc.com Now, reinstate Matthew Dowd.

Sévérine Cox @severinecox.bsky.social INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2ND ROUND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE ZOOM INTERVIEW WITH THE TEAM WITH THE VAMPIRE WE HAVE DECIDED TO PURSUE ANOTHER CANDIDATE BUT WILL KEEP YOU IN MIND IF FUTURE POSITIONS OPEN UP WITH THE VAMPIRE September 16, 2024 at 8:57 PM

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

There goes the First Amendment.

me, age 15: conservatism seems like a fundamentally evil belief system

me, age 21: actually it is more complicated than that, things are very complicated and everyone has their own way of seeing things. i am very smart

me, age 3x: no i was right the first time nvm

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

If you haven’t seen ADOLESCENCE you really should
Episode 3 is one of the best episodes of television ever

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Feb 4th 1939

From Feb 4th 1939

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

Disney doing a show like Andor seems almost laughably hypocritical now. Except no one is laughing.

Like this! Was this happening during the live show last night? How is a hour show only 49 minutes? Why is it skipping seconds? #spectrum #msnbc #maddow

Why is my Spectrum recording of @maddow.msnbc.com from last night keep skipping seconds & minutes of the show? The time on the show's clock shows 844, but I'm only 31 minutes into the recording that started on time.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.