Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

The real choice, no matter how much Senators wish it weren't:

"Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Oh my god all discourse on the border turns me into a rage gremlin. The border is safer than it’s ever been. Yes there are issues. No, nothing the GOP is proposing will solve them. The problem is the Dems accepting the framing that it’s not and there’s an open border.

I really feel like targeting @katmabu.bsky.social with criminal charges is going to backfire for the administration.

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

Like this is really it

Declaring that someone is unfit to run for a public office is not the same thing as declaring that they should be banished from human society forever or publicly executed. No one is owed a Senate nomination

There is a faction of the US left (such as it is) that has itself absolutely convinced that the key to reaching the Noble Salt Of The Earth Everyman is to be performatively chill about people bringing Nazi shit into political space.

Nope. All that does is turn your political space into a Nazi space

yeah it is not “liberal censoriousness” to think that you shouldn’t nominate the guy without the sense to not get a nazi tattoo and then not remove it

It's 100x bigger than the Tea Party and gets about 1000x less coverage from the political press. This is a deliberate choice.

OK everyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome saying “wah wah wah why does she need two,” EVERYONE knows it’s bad luck to fly in a plane after you’ve killed a German Shepard in it

The executive spending money on paying the military without congressional approval is "fall of the Roman republic" behavior.

Saw them in PDX this spring. A great show! Have fun.

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Everything is content moderation.

Waking up to some careless parachute journalism from the NYT. Really frustrating that @kellen.bsky.social chooses to write that "some top filers" have left Portland due to the Preschool for All tax but neglects to mention that the number of overall filers went up by many thousands in that period.+

They Radicalized Themselves And we can pinpoint when it happened.

All Trump loyalists get a libidinal thrill watching him piss on the Constitution, but I wrote about the subset who feel exposed by their obvious hypocrisy, and so pretend it's all a regrettable consequence of Barack Obama radicalizing them. www.offmessage.net/p/they-radic...

Math is...hard?

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Trump’s awful but it’s important to note he’d be different and potentially less harmful kinds of awful if he weren’t advised and manipulated by some of the most evil people in American history.

A lot of conservatives are unironically afraid of places that look like this though

This bananapants Yarvin tweet is a perfect example of why it's more useful to think of the US right as a movement defined by emotions and imagination, more than it is a movement defined by anything we could reasonably call "ideas." Yarvin is a first-rate reactionary fabulist, and a 7th rate thinker.

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Students mourn at FSU after mass shooting that left two dead.

Weird how the trial for the pro-Trump, white nationalist mass shooter who is accused of murdering two students at Florida State University (FSU) is about to start and hardly any news is talking about it. www.msn.com/en-us/crime/...