Gabriel Street

The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.

Explained as discretely as I could to my mom about the Freaky Friday "wait Jamie Lee Curtis is hot?" memes and she basically went "the children don't know about A Fish Called Wanda"

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”
— Antonio Gramsci

A telling aspect of the DC occupation is, these nimrods just cannot manage to sit on their hands for 5 minutes and wait for an actual provocation.

They do not have the discipline or the strategic insight or the patience to wait for a REAL news item to hype and jump on.

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US.

Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.

there’s a reading rainbow marathon on PBS retro and it’s amazing how subversive it is right now

stories of slavery

stories of the hearing impaired

stories about people coming together to dance and sing

there are a lot of reasons this stuff is getting defunded, and none of them are good enough

Tapping the sign once again

I would take it extremely seriously that multiple scholars of Christian nationalism are telling us it’s too late—which I also take to mean that now the work is tracking the damage

I’m telling you, if a dude talks non-stop about pedophelia or groomers, check his hard drive…

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

The newspapers are not making a big deal of this today. This is a big deal. Someone shot into a Federal building repeatedly, fueled by misinformation and politics. It should be front page news across the country.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Yesterday on Twitter, RFK Jr. blatantly accused doctors of vaccinating patients solely for money. Earlier in the week, he cancelled $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines.

Then a man who apparently thought his illness was caused by the COVID19 vaccine fired numerous rounds at the CDC, killing a man.

The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't.

We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

Industrial scale production of things turned out to be pretty bad on the whole, so maybe we should stop memorializing prominent industrialists. Like take their names off things. Change how we tell the story of their influence to match its effects. Change it to a warning.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

"My religiously motivated bigotry isn't bigotry because it's religiously motivated." is one of the worst arguments ever created. And it is depressing how often it is deployed.

What we're seeing with RFK is a different strain of Lysenkoism. And it's going to have similar results if allowed to be fully enacted.

Remember when Obama wanted to raise the top tax rate to 35% and was called a radical communist? Then the right wing kept gaining power and now we're having to argue about whether children deserve food. Anyway, I'll just be over here stuffing rags into bottles for no particular reason.

The exceedingly simple reason conservatives have always been against education is thus: The more true things you know about the world, the less likely you are to be conservative.

this is a description of a gulag

The saddest and most pathetic thing about American fascism is that we’re losing control of our society to a group of men who do not understand or appreciate what makes life worth living.

They are not only anti-American—in that that refuse all of our core principles—but anti-human. They are husks.

Iran using drones and phone apps to monitor strict dress code for women Iranian officials are encouraging people to report women who refuse to obey the Islamic republic's dress code, according to a UN report.

When theocracy rules, human rights suffer.

Iran's use of drones and surveillance apps to police women's dress is a chilling reminder of why secular government matters.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The people who falsely believe that everyone carrying a gun will prevent crime somehow don't believe that everyone getting vaccinated will prevent disease.

Trumpers seem to legitimately believe that the people who made their billions by robbing the working class, couldn't possibly want to further rob the working class. Absolutely astounding.

If someone new to activism tells you about something like Blackout Friday, my feeling is you respond and say, “Cool!” and take part because it costs you nothing, then follow up with “Thanks for telling me about that—do you want to join me on [sustained action]?”

Once again, just like with Musk and Twitter, these fucking idiots don't understand what was already happening, rip it down, and then try to rebuild the same thing, but way dumber, because they can't understand nuance and complexity.