The Progressivists

Trump eying Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC President Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and ex-prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources say.

Trump is “strongly considering” Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for DC, ABC reports

When we enable imperialism under the party that is meant to stand for progressive ideals, how can we act shocked when the one that openly stands for white supremacy takes those same tools and runs with them?

The tools of empire always come home.

History is clear: Real change has NEVER come from politicians — it’s always been us. The labor movement, Black Panthers, and ACT UP knew this. Time we remember it too.

Fascism spreading got you down? Don't worry! Our former *progressive* leaders are securing those sweet Hollywood talent deals while the world burns! 🫠

Having a “not racist” kid isn’t enough anymore. When 11-year-olds are being recruited as agents in America’s war on ‘other’, we’re way past “teaching kindness” — it’s time to teach active resistance.

STOP SAYING THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (WHEN WE'RE FEEDING THEM TO FASCISM) When an 11-year-old dies by suicide after classmates threaten to call ICE on her family, it's time to admit we're not just failing our kids — we're enabling them as agents in America's war on 'other'.

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Jocelynn was 11. She played French horn. Made TikToks. Told her mom she loved her every day. Then her classmates started threatening to call ICE on her family. The school knew. Did nothing. She died by suicide. This is what happens when we enable fascism’s foot soldiers.

STOP PLAYING WOKE DRESS UP: THE POLITICAL COSTUME PARTY IS OVER The American left's silence on Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo under Democratic rule exposes the truth: You can't claim collectivism while serving individualism.

You know what we think? That you can't *claim* to be on the left while making excuses for atrocities under Dem rule. That you can't *claim* to be on the left when your Insta-activism stops at the border.

Time to choose: Real collectivism or just more American individualism playing woke dress up?

SORRY, YOUR BOOTSTRAPS WON'T SAVE YOU: A GUIDE TO MUTUAL AID IN THE AGE OF BULLSHIT The system isn't failing us - it's fucking us over exactly as planned. But we're building something better, and we need your help to grow it.

While billionaires measure their knob-rockets and politicians debate who deserves to live, communities are quietly building something they can't control, can't co-opt, and can't stop.

Here's your guide to finding (or starting) mutual aid networks near you:

SORRY, YOUR BOOTSTRAPS WON'T SAVE YOU: A GUIDE TO MUTUAL AID IN THE AGE OF BULLSHIT The system isn't failing us - it's fucking us over exactly as planned. But we're building something better, and we need your help to grow it.

While billionaires measure their knob-rockets and politicians debate who deserves to live, communities are quietly building something they can't control, can't co-opt, and can't stop.

Here's your guide to finding (or starting) mutual aid networks near you:

A WELL-REGULATED PROFIT MARGIN Take guns out of a racist, profit-hungry society and what do you get? Still racist, still profit-hungry - but our kids don't need to practice dying in their classrooms.

Last year in the U.S., while gun manufacturers raked in BILLIONS in profit, 16,500 human beings died from guns and 31,000 were injured.

First graders.
Teenagers.
Moms.

So remind me again what the Second Amendment protects? Because it sure isn't us fellow-peasants.

2024: THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT? Your sampling platter of imperial violence, manufactured catastrophes, and that moment millions of us got extremely clear about what's really going on.

2023: "I was the worst!"
2024: "Hold my weapons contract . . ."

THE FUCKERY REPORT: THE CHEAP SEATS WANT A WORD (Dec 21) Your weekend autopsy of how America's ruling class loses their minds when the cheap seats start calculating the real cost of selective justice.

A generation learned to count bodies under desks before they learned algebra. Now we're shocked when they do corner office calculations?

YOUR FUNERAL COSTS LESS THAN THEIR YACHT'S COFFEE MAKER Weird how this recent study shows we could save everyone with just 30% of global resources, yet instead we're just out here funding billionaires' floating death temples and knob-shaped rockets.

We only need 30% of global resources for everyone to live. Your death is just better for their profit margins.

WEIRD, IS YOUR ALGORITHM NOT TERRORISM? When the ruling class writes definitions, a CEO's death is terrorism. But when that same CEO's algorithms deny thousands of human beings healthcare until they die? Duuh, that's just business.

Explain to us how their spreadsheet deaths don’t count as terrorism . . .

SORRY ABOUT YOUR CEO, BUT WE LEARNED MATH UNDER DESKS A generation raised on active shooter drills is being asked to condemn violence in corner offices while their insulin-rationing neighbors die. The math ain't mathing.

We taught an entire generation of kids to hide from death between math and recess — now we’re clutching our Patagonia vests because they don’t shed tears over a healthcare executive who denied coverage to cancer patients while pocketing millions?

I know the CEO of Ticketmaster is having a bad day lol

Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees

BREAKING: The FTC has announced a new rule banning junk fees for tickets and hotels.

This final junk fees rule bans bait-and-switch pricing and all tactics that corporations use to hide the total price of live event tickets, hotels, and vacation rentals.

THE ANTI-BULLSHIT BREAKFAST CLUB — WITH QASIM RASHID Welcome to The Anti-Bullshit Breakfast Club, where we tear down the smokescreen with folks who give a damn. This week, human rights heavyweight Qasim Rashid joins the table.

Pleased to share this interview with @theprogressivists.com where I share my thoughts on the biggest issue impacting humanity, my favorite book, who inspires me, and the most ridiculous hill I am willing to die on. Enjoy! :)

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THE ANTI-BULLSHIT BREAKFAST CLUB — WITH QASIM RASHID Welcome to The Anti-Bullshit Breakfast Club, where we tear down the smokescreen with folks who give a damn. This week, human rights heavyweight Qasim Rashid joins the table.

"Give me liberty or give me: The righteous fury of a thousand supernovas because I sure as hell am not going quietly." - @qasimrashid.com

MORE OF THIS ENERGY PLEASE, 2025!

THE FUCKERY REPORT: THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING (Dec 14) From corner office violence to criminalized rage: Your weekend autopsy of America's war on anyone who dares challenge its corporate kings.

U.S. selective justice is wild right now:

- Challenge corporate violence? House arrest
- Express healthcare rage? Ankle monitor
- Run insurance death panels? Corner office throne + bonus check
- Spend a trillion while people starve? Just normal 🎄 things!

Welcome to hell, bring marshmallows.

As the news comes out this morning that RFK Jr's lawyer is petitioning the FDA to revoke approval for the Polio vaccine, let's remember what Polio looks like. For many, it meant living as a prisoner in an iron lung. (Photo from @nytimes.com and @apnews.com)

Going after this woman so hard for using that slogan did nothing but reify for the American public that already saw Luigi’s act as carrying so much of their own rage that these corporations are as evil as they were said to be. So maybe they still rule us, but there’s no illusion it’s popular rule.

They regularly bomb abortion clinics, shoot schoolchildren and unarmed black and brown people under arrest and… silence. But one CEO gets murdered and we need a “national conversation about violence.”

Noted.

DELAY, DENY, DETAINED FOR TERRORISM When corporations use the tactics of delay, deny, depose, thousands of people die. When a mother speaks them in anger, she faces 15 years . . .

Welcome to the U.S. in 2024: Where expressing anger at insurance companies who deny up to a third of all claims, rake in hundreds of billions in annual revenue + force hundreds of thousands of families to beg for healthcare on GoFundMe has become a more serious crime than actual violence . . .

THE GHOST OF AMERICA PAST: RECEIPTS OF AN EMPIRE A third of the world's wealth, millions in poverty, and three ghosts with receipts. The empire faces its demons . . .

What happens when Scrooge isn't just one miserly old man, but an entire fucking empire with nuclear weapons and a PR team, hoarding a third of the world's wealth while its people die from preventable diseases?

THIS WAS NEVER ABOUT ONE CEO Penn grad Luigi Mangione's arrest for killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO forces a truth upon us: This isn't about violence. It's about the state-sanctioned corporate machine strangling us all.

A nation where people ration insulin while UnitedHealthcare posts $324B in revenue isn't a society. It's a pressure cooker.