Christian Holub

Favorite fictional political figure?

See you in Valhalla, brother...after I visit my elderly parents for the third time this month ofc

you had to be there..

Really appreciate seeing so many news items today refer to him as "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor." A helpful reminder that these unelected monarchs are human beings subject to human laws, not Disney characters

Truly the public is not furious enough.

Love to be at a party in a large mansion then wander off to explore and find a room with an unusual piece of art only to be startled by the mansion’s owner behind me saying “it’s one of my most interesting pieces”.

Seeing this more and more

real inside llewyn davis type weather in nyc these days

She has learned lessons from experience! Which distinguishes her from many establishment D's. Like them she thought she had to run left and govern right, but that anti-abortion judge getting shut down proved not. She took the opp w/ Zohran to renounce her asshole former boss, and is being rewarded

Basically all of Ezra Klein's favorite Democrats have come out in favor of ICE this week lol, it's wild

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona The individual is in custody and receiving care, according to law enforcement.

Incidentally, this line is going into all @prospect.org stories on this topic from this point forward:
"Immigration agents have shot to death at least 5 and wounded 9 more in shootings nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps."

I audibly gasped at seeing this post. The GOAT back!!!

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Great thread about what the resistance looks like in Minneapolis

I think many of us are realizing that. So what is to be done?

Pretty good Oscar noms overall, only snubs I’m bummed about are Marty Supreme in Score (I’ve been listening nonstop for a month) and No Other Choice for Best Foreign Film. What’s the Academy’s problem with Park Chan Wook??

The Testament of Ann Lee was treated the same way as Wicked: For Good. The Academy seems (rightly) embarrassed about how many Oscars Wicked and The Brutalist snuck into last year, and why should the same people be rewarded two years in a row anyway?

To paraphrase that Margaret Atwood quote, Hakeem Jeffries is afraid of ICE criticizing him, but his voters are afraid of ICE literally killing them!

This is why Dems are literally "bad at politics." They're never dealing with the situation in front of them. The 2026 struggle against ICE is different than 2020 protests. Dems' beloved white suburbanites aren't just at home watching "looting" vids, they're in the streets fighting and getting shot!

"A nowhere place for anonymous nowhere people" is a great description of the modern internet, even though it's from 2002

Hahaha

This is Dr. King's response to people questioning why he would be involved in the anti-war movement. Have to imagine he would have a similar reaction to hearing how many people (especially politicians) talk about him today

Every year on this day, I like to reread my favorite MLK speech, "Beyond Vietnam." An eloquent, full-hearted opposition to the ways that American imperialism abroad rots our society at home. Sadly, as relevant now as ever www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlk...

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room.

Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course?

Designer: You're fired

There's something so funny to me about centrist Democrats finally doing what online leftists begged them to do during Trump 1 (talk about economic issues!) at the exact worst possible time

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

A goofy looking white guy mannequin

Gonna start an Insta called “The White Mannequins of Africa”