The Little Magician Lives!

Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.

🚨NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir defending his ruling letting oligarchs buy elections - yet he says he worries democracy may not survive.

None of the media Kennedy is granting interviews has even asked him about Citizens United.

I know it’s cumbersome but I’d rather the moniker No Dictators prevail because hearing the expression no kings just seems childish.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled. Continue reading...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Wondering where all the “become ungovernable” people have gone in response to Don’s second deployment of military resources on US soil. Have they all bent to be openly the “just obey the law and don’t be a minority” they always were. Damn, closet cases!

Do you notice how the only policies depicted as "realistic" or "acceptable" by media, politicians, and think tankers are the policies that don't inconvenience the owners of/donors to media, politicians and think tankers?

Yeah, that's not a bug. That's a feature.

This isn’t the charitable act it sounds like. It’s a symptom of individuals in command of too much money.

Private Equity Quietly Scores a Bipartisan Win in Congress With backing from Wall Street trade group SIFMA, the House unanimously passed a bill to expand access to hedge funds, private equity, and other risky investment offerings.

The House quietly passed a bill that caters to the interests of billionaire hedge fund and VC investors who fund congressional super PACs. The measure was introduced by Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) and others.

Suck on a tailpipe and tell me you feel fine, Lee!

You would never catch this guy or any of his relatives close to a rake let alone toiling in the fields picking rutabagas

It's actually amazing how overtly Maoist the Republican Party is right now. Both Maoism and MAGA hate cities for their own reasons, so they want to depopulate the cities to make people go work in food production.

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

We live in the dumbest possible timeline

Really important thread

The Republican budget bill will soon be killing the job markets in healthcare, education, and more.

Nobody except losers in mom’s basement are losing healthcare, apparently

The poor

The other component this this scam they’re pulling off which boggles the mind is the presumption that the people who work will be able to afford very expensive healthcare plans. They are only comfortable with Medicaid when it’s a subsidy to employers not to pay for health plans, not a benefit for

Lying about who uses Medicaid—way more covers healthcare for the working poor and retirees than for young adults who could work but are unemployed—but also...

29-year-old guys living in their mom's basement and not working are mostly a GOP constituency now. There's been a whole discourse about it.

The fucking strawmen they need to invent to get people comfortable with this direction is absolutely enraging. These two milquetoast ghouls who probably delight off pull hairs out of squirrels one by one should not have platforms in a just society, they’d return to their mom’s basements.

The belief that these “losers” are a ubiquity in the most indebted and economically unequal society we’ve had is laughable. If he was the loser in mom’s basement, he’d have rich parents and probably be on their insurance, or they’d be paying for him, not Medicaid.

“I am a cowardly order taker and I stand for nothing!”

Debunking All the B.S. About Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, is facing a wave of Islamophobic misinformation attacking his character and politics

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally
• He does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani hasn’t actually said or done anything antisemitic
• He did not call to ‘globalize the intifada’
• He’s not a communist

Doggy

Republicans just voted to kill Americans to give tax cuts to billionaires.

Hang it around their necks forever. Remember in 2026, if we still have free and fair elections.

Waste of taxpayer money. If true, should have just let the guy eat himself. Seems like a him problem for the human ouroboros. Problem solved. Put me in charge of DOGE.

Just incredible

The open embrace of Oligarchy. This is why the US is such a shabby example of a “democracy”.

Was just remember we had Zohran on Rising a few years ago to talk about his hunger strike on behalf of NYC cabbies