Michael “Concentration camps are bad, actually” Gier

This is the kind of thing the New York Times calls "maximalist" because it doesn't want to use the word "dictatorship."

And it will continue this way as long as we allow state media (Fox News) to repeatedly lie to its gullible base about such easily disproven bullshit.

One note: next time (which should be TOMORROW) get AOC or Ted Lieu or Adelita Grijalva or Maxwell Frost or Brian Schatz or literally anyone under 60 to deliver the message with you, @chuckschumer.com They’ll be ecstatic to stand beside a fighter, and your message will go farther due to their cred.

Out-fucking-standing.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I know, just one more item in a firehose of shit, but this is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES declaring that the first amendment no longer means anything at all.

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

I wore pants today for the entire day and believe it or not, that was the least shitty thing about this shitty day.

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25

9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

This man is not fucking well in the head.

“Come on, Michael; you know that’s just so you can fill out the paperwork first.”

1) You mean all the paperwork they made me do online first, which they’ll still make me fill out again when I get there?

2) Come on, you and I both know I’m not actually seeing the doctor for 30 more minutes, minimum

“Please arrive at 11:15 for your 11:30 appointment.”

Well then, it’s not actually an 11:30 appointment, is it?

This is an incredibly dangerous feedback loop:
1) Fox News Lies
2) So many people believe the lies that
3) Elected leaders either
a) come to believe the lies themselves or
b) cravenly decide they can lie about *anything*
4) So they go on Fox News and create more…
5) Fox News Lies

Legacy newspapers: "Print media is dying, and the public will suffer for it."

Also legacy newspapers: "We can't offend the government with information and framing that helps the public."

They found him!

This thread is an absolutely fascinating set of lessons for getting through an airport. And through life. :-)

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him.

(…because he literally incited an insurrection)

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

FOX NEWS THINKS YOU’RE STUPID.

Putin’s a smart guy. Why can’t he come up with any novel ways to murder someone???

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

And I hope Jesus can forgive you for it, because I’m not sure that I can.

I got the same letter, except it was from Aetna.

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

FOX NEWS LIES.

It almost goes without saying, but because “Trump”, WE HAVE TO FUCKING SAY IT ANYWAY.

House Republicans have taken a page out of Cancun Ted Cruz's playbook. They're not showing up for work because they don't want to answer questions about taking away your health care.