Matt Vancil

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

And then this shit just came out.

When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.

When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.

everything about this article is so deeply American. exiling the truth teller, wanting to know the history but not too much, inability to come to terms with its own violent history. fam, this is as American as apple pie.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.

Brooke from Let's Not Date posted on Facebook "Don't send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to... A: find your mom's Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I'm your daughter. Happy Father's Day Daddy."

A screenshot of text messages from him to her begin with a completely covered space where the picture of his penis would have been. Brooke replied to this picture of his penis. Wow it's weird you messaged me today of all days. I was just looking at your profile the other day. Him: Nice Did you like what you saw I can send you more Brooke: I was a little shocked to be honest. Him: Why? Brooke: Well this is going to sound crazy but my dad who I've never met... well it's just his name is also Butch. I don't know his last name but I know he lives in P ...or at least he did... and when I saw your friend request and where you lived my heart dropped. Him: How old are you Brooke: 36

Him: OK who is your mom Brooke: I want to answer you for closure but mom asked me to never reach out to you so let's take this slow and find out if it's you first or not. I do have a picture of my dad as a young man... Him: Show it to me now Brooke: I keep it in a locket around my neck to keep him close to me. Him:Jesus That's my senior picture

Him: Erase the picture I sent you Deplete the picture I sent Delete Fucking he'll Who is your mom Tiffany Brandy Brooke: I can't believe this is really happening. God has blessed us with this moment. I wish you hadn't sent me a picture of your penis, Dad. Him: Jesus hell I didn't know I said delete it Who is your mom Where do you live Delete the picture Don't tell your mom this ok Brooke: Happy Father's Day Daddy

✨👏🏾STANDING OVATION👏🏾✨

Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

so far this week:

DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps

Opposition leaders detained illegally

Opposition leaders indicted

Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state

military parade with tanks through US capital

Red line here yet?

10:30am: "Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead." 10:49am: law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Jesus.

The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

The administration's criminalization of Dem politicians for being Dem politicians is designed to produce exactly this outcome. Their celebration & pardon of white vigilantes is designed to produce exactly this outcome.

I would like to be wrong abt this. I would like for white conservatism to accept dissent & respect the rights & ideas of others. I would love to live in an actual democracy. Until we actually address the problem of chronic right wing lawlessness, however, all the rest is just wishful thinking.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

I don’t, sorry. Maybe someone on the ZOE Discord?

You know, now that you mention it, I think there was one attempt. I don’t think it was set up to handle the grammar and syntax, though.

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

Don't forget it

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

ICE crossed a line in LA

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As a western Washington and former Centralia resident this makes me SO happy.

There are moments with authoritarian takeovers where resistance is met with state power and violence in order to intimidate a population into compliance.

What happens then literally defines everything.

Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay focused.