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Ezra Levin: A hallmark of authoritarianism is it makes you feel like shit on a daily basis. That's what it does. And so in that environment, during this authoritarian breakthrough moment, celebrating success is an act of defiance.

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Prior White House renovations were done by practical people with good taste. They made the building more functional without sacrificing its architectural and decorative refinements.

The current renovations are being done by a shockingly vulgar man and will tackily undermine the building's beauty.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

How Silicon Valley Became a Center of Reactionary, Anti-Democratic Politics With 881,000 people living in less than 47 square miles, San Francisco packs a tremendous amount of wealth and cultural influence into a fiercely unequal city. San Francisco is far smaller than Los…

This article discusses how the “network state” Tech Bros have noticed—and aren’t exactly pleased about—Gil Duran’s work exposing their movement. 10/15/25 … 1/ lithub.com/how-silicon-...

A stable, functioning democracy is often unassuming, boring even. Easy to take for granted.

But this - millions coming together in a shared public space to insist on their rights as democratic citizens - is a mighty reminder that a proper democracy is something quite incredible and inspiring.

Tonight the president of the United States posted a video of himself wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps diarrhea all over the United States.

Seriously. He actually did this.

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

Boston. Wow.

Patrick Somerville?

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

I hope you’re out of office as soon as humanly possible.

Are you fucking kidding me?

I think to this I would add that Hortman should be remembered for resolving a 67/67 divide in the state House by ceding her speakership to a GOP rep, with whom she then negotiated a tough budget that had threatened to stall out amid acrimony. She set aside partisanship to get it done.

I'm finally starting this project to watch the entire Touchstone Pictures filmography (every film associated with the Disney label whether through production or distribution) from 1984-2016 & share my thoughts on each release in this thread. Follow along as I revisit the hits, misses & obscurities.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Who is Groyper?

email from mom fml I'm so cooked

Unearthed footage that Fox News refused to air during the election last year shows Trump nervously refusing to commit to releasing the Epstein files.

“I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.”

A figure in black with a beige tactical vest that reads police; the figure's face is entirely hidden by some kind of black stocking beneath a black baseball cap.

One of the agents who arrested Brad Lander for asking to see a judicial warrant. ICE was involved, but who’s this ninja? An agent of Trump’s secret police. Fascism is an aesthetic. This black-masked man is a statement of intention & belief; the intention is sadism; the belief is in power.