Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

this man's name is written in the book of life

For as much as conservatives and tech Bros like to talk about bubbles it's pretty clear that they live in a pretty insular bubble of their own.

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

I think it's very notable that the Republicans seem to going further out of their way to prime the public for the possibility of violence directed at the protesters relative to the first two no king's protests

I don't think tech bros get that I (and presumably a lot of other consumers) would pay significantly more for a product that
A. Isn't integrated with AI
B. Doesn't try to force me to update it

Why is this front-page news? The Washington Post doesn't say. It's a turning point in US history but our pathetic journalist class hides the relevance behind suggestion and implication, afraid to say things that everyone knows. Useless

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The funny thing is when they're still like that when you are very visibly disabled.

Like acting weird when they see my partner in a power chair wearing a mask.

You'd think they'd be able to put two and two together, but apparently not.

We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.

Just so that we're all caught up here The position of the Republican party is that they will explicitly disallow for a duly elected Congressperson to be seated until they get their policy wins.

They need to go to prison for this.

But it's okay I know ICE gets self-conscious when they see other people showing moral character.

Actually, people willing to put their safety, even their lives, on the line for the liberties and well-being of others are in fact, the best of us.

They claim the right to stop anyone and demand their papers based solely on the discretion of masked, cos-playing thugs who've decided you "look scared" or are "gripping the steering wheel tightly."

Miller is telling us, "Brown people today, the rest of you tomorrow." Listen to his words.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

House Dems prep letter to Johnson urging vote on troop pay bill Republicans are struggling with whether to move on a bill that would lessen the pain of the shutdown they think Democrats caused.

house republicans are getting extremely outplayed here, lmao

Furthermore, there's only so much delusion a political movement can take while remaining coherent.

Like even relatively committed Republicans will have a hard time earnestly believing that a major urban area is secretly a centralia-esque ghost town.

This is obviously hateful, but for people indifferent to the hate, just a big waste of money. You have the Secretary of Transportation cheering the destruction of functional public infrastructure.

Don’t wear swimming goggles to a riot or demo. You might think they might help with tear gas, and they will. But they may make blunt force trauma more damaging.

Okay but globalization did result in lower costs and new jobs, just not in exactly the same places doing exactly the same things as before.

AI so far has generated no new jobs outside of Nvidia chip manufacturers and other countries.

I will grant that there were always bad things. I will grant that not dealing with the bad things allowed them to get worse. But I refuse to believe everything was always *this* bad, because I remember them being relatively better.

This by the way is how you toe the line of catering to kitchen table issues while sounding like you actually give a damn.

Again if our Democratic representative sounded like this 9 months ago they would not have the disapproval numbers they are currently plagued with.

That sent you just noticed wafting into the room is the smell of fear.

okay but why would the dems ever agree to a budget when the admin just recissizes spending he doesnt like and allocates spending he wants unilaterally?

Somehow, Stuartism returned

Trump's team "are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns.... [creating] the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely." -- Barbara Walter ("How Civil Wars Start") via @tombedsall.bsky.social

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

If you were to ask John Roberts to name five policy outcomes he disagrees with but are nonetheless Constitutional, I’m not sure if he could do it.

At some point we are going to have to actually confront that if the GOP refuses to seat to duly elected representative we no longer have a democracy.

We cannot just ignore this because it is scary and inconvenient.

Also: Good fucking luck with getting troops to go and shoot their countrymen after you have forced them to work without pay.

Relying on unpaid troops definitely worked out for the ANA

Setting aside how much political suicide this is to outwardly own taking paychecks from millions of federal workers, has this person considered that this would mean active duties are working a job they literally cannot leave for no pay? He realizes we have a word for that right? It starts with an S.