Ansgar Frej

We have got to learn from the GOP in this one thing. If they lose by a fraction less than they should have, they declare victory and double down. If we don't win everything the first time we try, we declare it impossible and give up.

KEEP FIGHTING FOR TEXAS

Elon Musk X @elonmusk• 10h X If current trends continue, Whites will go from being a small minority of world population today to virtually extinct! Wall Street Apes & @WallStreetAp... • 13h White people are on the verge of extinction Global population of white people: 100 years ago roughly 35% 50 years ago roughly 20% 25 years ago 15% Today just 8% White people are the minorities and must take their countries back. No more tolerance. No more suicidal empathy

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi

media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

I long for an aggressively liberal party that rejects the very premise of Republicanism instead of one that thinks we can negotiate with it to obtain a softer landing into staggering inequality, environmental destruction, and a race to the bottom in every part of society.

I listened to a biography of FDR recently and the throughline of his first 2 terms is that he was boldly against monied interests in word and deed and the American people fucking loved him to death for it*

*kept reelecting him until he literally died in office

I WANT a ceiling. We need a maximum wealth law. No one needs a billion dollars.

Strong floor and a sensible ceiling is how you heat a house.

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

My thoughts exactly. I mean, hell, I fall somewhere between these two, and I'd be embarrassed if my 20yo son was overheard excitedly talking like this, much less recording it for others 🙄

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Have some self-respect. You are citizens of a republic, not Donald Trump's courtiers. Stand the fuck up.

The idea that they’re having dinner with MBS, while this administration drop bombs on boats for people whom they *haven’t even identified* under the pretense that they can summarily execute foreign nationals simply for posing a threat to Americans, is so stomach-churning. Just gruesome.

Texas getting its gerrymander blocked while California and Virginia eliminate 8-9 Republican seats would be a stupendous, comical outcome.

I know this is simplistic, but, honestly, why not just ignore the New York Times? How many shitty meals do you have to stomach before you stop going to that horrible restaurant?

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Primary everybody

If they cave, every single one of them face protests and public abuse every single time they show their face. They shouldn't be able to eat out at a restaurant, give a speech, go on vacation, or really anything other hide from the public in their home or office.

I’m no great fan of the ACA.

I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.

But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.

If someone is warning you about fascism and they’re on Substack they’re asking you to do something they’re not willing to do.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.

kickstarter for all the UHauls needed to facilitate the very public declarations of departures from the City

The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.

Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Why the fuck are Democrats confirming this despot's judges. Why are Democrats giving a single fucking inch on anything, while he is waging war on our country?

Be. A. Fucking. Opposition. Party.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

How many times do people have to explain the paradox of tolerance to you, while you pretend the pushback is just from people calling you a Nazi collaborator?

You chase Nazis out of polite discourse, Michael. You don’t invite the Klan to your living room to explain themselves.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

If you are willing to throw any marginalized group under the bus to preserve your own comfort? I'm dragging you under the bus with me.

And in the alternate universe, these are the sorts of things you, as VP, post -- not hatred and cruelty, as our current VP does.

Sigh -- I miss that universe.