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Strategically so dumb. You're a weak authoritarian trying to start a war w/an an opportunity to pour blood on the opposing party's hands by including them. Now Dems can not only say "I was opposed to this from the beginning," but "they were so afraid of me they refused to share information."

Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders. In panel 1, he is pointing emphatically at one of his gangsters. Caption reads, "No defeatism." Panel 2 has him shouting at the room, "NO FUCKING DEFEATISM!"

now more than ever:

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

BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.

which way western man

You gotta love how the outfit and the composition of the picture are clearly meant to make him look cool, while the guy himself has the face and posture of a 5th-grader who just got sent to the Principal's Office

Picture of bai por with text in Thai. ศาลพิพากษา ใบปอณัฐนิช ผิด ม.112 จากกรณี ทำโพลสำรวจ “เห็นด้วยหรือไม่ที่รัฐบาล อนุญาตให้กษัตริย์ใช้อำนาจตามอัธยาศัย” ลงโทษจำคุก 3 ปี ลดเหลือ 2 ปี ไม่รอการลงโทษ 28 ตุลาคม 2568 9.00 น. ศาลอาญา Posted by Thumb rights on Instagram

Bai Por had been found guilty in her 3rd Lèse-majesté case, bringing her total jail time to 8 years.
She was out on bail awaiting appeals process in other 2 cases. This time sentenced to 2 years, not suspended.
Another case of charge stacking by Thailand's authorities.

#FreeOurFriends

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.

Same energy as that one Charles de Gaulle quote about China

oh sure they’re cutting 42 million people off food stamps but they still have the money to feed fighter jets to Kraken, I see

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Food $0
Data $150
Rent $800
Big Ballroom $350,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Developing a new version of Horseshoe Theory where the ends of the Horseshoe are "Weirdly obsessed with this one niche internet liberal pundit from Minnesota"

One neat thing that happened in hong kong was even guys extremely sympathetic to the police ended up siding with protesters because of indiscriminate use of tear gas

Marxists.org's main landing page, with Cyborg from Teen Titans go superimposed over and pointing at it and saying "NOW".

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

'the Democratic Party should be less dominated by out-of-touch gerontocrats' is a principle that also applies to Bernie Sanders, 84.

Not sure if it qualifies as epic, but I'll recommend The Ox-Bow Incident if you don't mind something darker and more cynical

a campaign graphic in blue and orange showing a white man in a purple collared shirt. "Dylan Blaha, Democrat for Congress, IL-13" -expand LGBTQIA+ rights and protections -defend gender affirming care -protect trans youth -support LGBTQIA+ refugees

you mean to tell me there's a guy in Illinois running specifically on defending trans rights and his last name is "BLAHA"???

chat do you think he knows?

If you travel around your city using public transit, why not print out copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE" in your city and hand those out? It's a simple way to inform people. drive.google.com/drive/folder... - I distributed some to folks on the bus today and they were all grateful to receive them

once again any author claiming ghibli aesthetic without actively engaging with the themes of miyazaki's work should be slapped repeatedly with a 2x4

A very productive use of the no kings energy would be to call mass emergency protests if this happens

If Trump lies about everything else why does anyone presume he’s telling the truth about Gaza, Ukraine or Venezuela?

(Because of old age or poor health *and no other reason*, I see you three-letter agencies)

I'm not worried about the possibility of Trump trying to seek a third term for the simple reason that I do not believe he will live that long.

Knowing what I do about Trump, I'm gonna be that it is, but it's only 10 Karat gold, if even that.

Screenshot from Epic Rap Battles of History: Darth Vader vs Adolf Hitler, of Adolf Hitler screaming: "I AM ADOLF HITLER"

Screenshot from Smiling Friends of Pim screaming "I LOVE KIDS!"

Dems: "It's a completely mystery how we can possibly beat the Republicans. Maybe we should compromise?"

The Republicans in question: