JP Maranda

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

Thank you, @slotkin.senate.gov. This is what we need to see.

Hold up. Why would he be surprised by being confronted? Are you telling me that our senators and representatives are not calling out this bullshit regularly? What exactly are you doing at work @slotkin.senate.gov? @peters.senate.gov?

Ooh they’re MAD-mad.
🙌🏼🤭💜

I have to listen to this again!!

“Aspirational security line setup” is a hell of a phrase. 😂 #sadtrombone

into the sun

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Political cartoon. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is depicted saluting a large military ship labeled, “Bone Spurs,” with the words “Harvey Milk” crossed out. Hegseth has text labeled above him reading “re-establishing warrior culture.”

That he is!

Never lose hope! But until then I remain…

Me watching all these QR announcements coming out for gigs sooooo far away 😭 #happy4Utho #come2MI

butbutbut this is ✨ tHe arT Of thE DeaL ✨

a woman is sitting at a table with the words " this is a moment of growth for you " ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with the words " this is a moment of growth for you "

Love this journey for him! ✨

laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

Good morning to everyone who agrees that we need to tax the church!

Do you have any favorites you’d recommend? That sounds lovely, actually.

More and more since the 2025 started, I’ve only been able to fall asleep to astrophysics audiobooks that describe to me how truly huge the universe really is and how we really are just absolutely meaningless flecks of dust clinging to a pebble floating in an endless ocean.

Thank you

A woman snuggling with a brown tabby cat.

I’d bear it though, over and over, for what she means to me. This week’s going to hurt like a sonofabitch. 😞

A beautiful brown tabby cat with white paws and a white chest, laying either her paws out in front of her toward the viewer. Her eyes are bright and her ears are alert. This is how I want to remember her.

My sweet Lilly. 19 years is a long relationship by any standard. And it’s rare and special to enjoy the love of a pet for that long. She has brought me joy through so many life changes, so the pain of witnessing the changes she’s enduring as she nears the end of her long life is nearly unbearable.

Due to the political coup and lawlessness in Turkey ⚖️

Protesting against the government of Erdogan, Trump's best friend, Turkish youth held up a banner in Elvish in front of the courthouse 📢

The banner reads: “Though Sauron's hunters wait, the people will never surrender!” 👊

#Trump #Resist

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

Germany had its own January 6-style attempt at a coup. It also failed. But Hitler was sent to jail.

Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

The FAFO schadenfreude aside, it's really insane how many people seem to sincerely believe in their heart that politics is just a game people play to amuse themselves and isn't something with very real consequences for real people who may have intensely vested stakes in the outcome.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.