Mitch

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025

"It’s important that we Americans be given false little wars to fight every few days, else we start to forget who’s who and what’s what, or we start to think about our actual wars, which makes us sad or guilty or frustrated, and we start talking about how complicated everything is."

this is what that have in mind for every city fyi. urban residents kept under the gun so suburban commuters and tourists can feel safe and gawk at the sights. they do not think cities should be anything but a spot for someone else to visit.

Texas is a very free state in the same sense that a lobotomy is a very effective mental health procedure.

It's impossible to forget Texas' weirdest daily ritual It's a ubiquitous part of most Texans' childhoods. But why are we the only ones who do it?

Don't miss @abigailrosenthal.bsky.social's essential piece on the enduring legacy of the Texas Pledge, an incredibly weird thing we all had to do in school and can't forget how no matter how hard we try:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Reality is bad enough. I don't like fear-mongering, and I don't even like engaging with it to explain it away. The bottom line, generally speaking, is that whatever is actually going on is far more nuanced than influencers seeking clicks will ever explain.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

It's always this stupid. Always.

Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service

The entire federal government to LGBTQ people today: drop dead www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

Exactly.

Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

man i gotta say i think it's bad that a thin-skinned conspiracy theorist now runs the fbi

Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture? Meet the critics who believe the arts are in terminal decline.

Last year, @skornhaber.bsky.social visited the music historian Ted Gioia to talk about civilization’s death. “Music is turning into a rights-management business,” he told Kornhaber—and it’s destroying true artistry.

Has America’s creative energy really been sapped?

Mitt Romney absolutely hit the nail on the head with people like this. They have tied their self-worth to their offices to such a dramatic extent that the cannot psychologically handle even contemplating the idea of "retirement". Giving up their status would be an unthinkable blow.

"It's just a gay barber," the foot soldier for authoritarianism says of the government sending someone to prison camp.

@schumer.senate.gov to the residents of Washington DC: drop dead

Millennials got in right after they took the lead out of the gasoline but before everyone had cell phones and social media in high school. We are the only sane generation.

This was a total WWE style “backstage” drama moment fully setup by Trump & Vance to denigrate and embarrass Zelensky.

GOAT inflation is both rampant and really fucking annoying. But really, Gene Hackman was better at his job than just about anyone else in history was

im probably just being optimistic but it feels more and more like this strategy of rather indiscriminately and smugly firing a shitload of Americans who serve their country and don’t do political jobs will probably just start pissing off ppl who don’t pay attention to politics.

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

Stripped of the veneer of absolute authority, Trump becomes just a president - vested with no constitutional authority to make or break law, bound by the Constitution and the US Code, and wielding only tiny legislative majorities.

we’ve had like five decades of moral panic about this exact scenario. the country is actually being ran by a satanist pedophile cabal, should be your moment evangelicals

Defaulting on US Treasuries Will Destabilize The Entire North American Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t