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I, too, ensure my house looks like shit, like a dimwitted college student decorated it, because I’m terrified that someone somewhere might think I like men.

the left did not lose the working class.

the left lost white people, who it never had, who are considered to be the only working class, even when they're not working class, because that's how white supremacy functions.

Activating a national surveillance network to share with the police amidst a mass deportation push is comic book villainy.

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

In the immigration system, the Real Americans are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the secret police, who arrest brown people, and the secret attorneys, who send them to concentration camps. These are their stories. *DUN DUN*

This is literally "Your papers, please." It's Stasi shit. That's what Homan is declaring, here.

Anyone who "looks foreign" is subject to detainment and harassment. Fail to persuade ICE thugs of your citizenship, and you risk arrest.

And we've all seen video of what happens if you try to turn away.

Noise canceling headphones for the apocalypse.

Noticing a trend of podcasts where the entire premise is teaching everyone how to have a civil discussion with Nazis. That’s certainly not concerning.

It is frankly pathetic. As someone with a very high level of exposure to right-wing antisemites, I can assure you many of them unabashedly want to eliminate Jews as a people.

Democrats aren’t worried about antisemitism, they’re worried about BEING ACCUSED OF BEING WEAK ON ANTISEMITISM, which means they’re hypersensitive to Muslims but absolutely unconcerned about right-wing antisemites, because they know no right-winger will ever try to pin it on them

I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.

A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.

I don’t really care what this place is or isn’t. Alls I know is it’s been great for the business of The Onion and that both Zuck and Musk have experience cooking and/or hiding the books on their own traffic. Doesn’t really matter if there are more page views if they’re not real people.

a good indication of how bad the NYT reporting on Zohran’s college application was is that it got zero pickup from other mainstream publications yesterday. the only coverage was from the Times, the Post, and some right-wing slop farms

If only we could get them to think that they’d just come up with democratic socialism as their own new, brilliant idea.

I’m going to be very honest and clear.

I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime. That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t. But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.

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Modern right wing "vice signaling," IMO, is a social-media-era iteration of a political tradition historian Joseph Fronczak has called "participatory anti-democracy." I like that term because it captures the pleasure people feel when they participate in illiberal and expulsive political movements.

In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill.

Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW.

“This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥

@aoc.bsky.social

Dear @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social:

Looking for a statement from the Democratic Party condemning this and the torture prisons such as “alligator Alcatraz.” So far we’ve heard more complaints coming out of the party about something a nominee for mayor did not say than this

The gap between the bloodsoaked Jihadi vampire Zohran Mamdani I am reading about from even somewhat mainstream press/politicians and the regular-ass Zohran Mamdani I met like two months ago and chopped it up about 2018-era Onion headlines could not be cleared by Evel Kneivel.

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?

I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews

"abundance" discourse is so funny because really it boils down to Ezra Klein getting very mad at liberals for not wanting to chop down the right trees

There are a lot of medications and conditions that impact temperature regulation. It wouldn't be a bad time to look up your meds and conditions in order to plan accordingly...even if that plan is solely to find shade and bring a camp chair and a lot of water to outside events.

You need, if you're Mamdani, to take these threats head on, return fire. Talk about how little these people care about NYC to threaten this--tere's the door if they want to go. Chicago finally got rid of it's version of this guy, Ken Griffin, and no one fucking cares, it's great he's finally gone.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

Brad Lander knows ICE is a bunch of fascist thugs with poor impulse control. And he is happy to provide them the opportunity to demonstrate it live on camera. He is putting his physical safety on the line to do so and we should all appreciate that.

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

I can't recall ever seeing a parenthetical like this in a comparable news story before www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...