I thought I could rule out the US committing a slaughter worse than any since WWII (blowing the water supplies and desalinization plants in Iran) as a way to get to "unconditional surrender", but, yeah, I underestimated the situation for once.
I'm not seeing much difference here, right down to the glower. I mean, FFS, they even put the flags in the same place under the portraits.
So, can we PLEASE stop with the "Yes, but is it fascism yet?" stuff.
Yes. Yes it is.
It was refreshing to see how living in a functioning democracy responds to awful events: it was distressing to realize how used to dysfunction I have become. newrepublic.com/article/2066...
It won’t hold up in courts.
Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.
Erika Kirk has replaced Jeffrey Epstein as the new recruiter of trafficking victims.
Turning Point USA has an explosion of chapters in colleges. High schools and even grade schools.
Who needs pageants anymore?
I literally wrote an article today that comes out tomorrow that points out people who obsessively hate trans people also are often dealing with other major mental health issues and hate other groups of people (i.e. black people, Jews, Muslims, Hispanics, etc.) who you will get in trouble for hating
This makes no sense. People who are here in the US illegally are generally doing below-minimum-wage, off book jobs that other people don't want to do because of long hours, low pay, and awful working conditions.
They're not deporting stock brokers and accountants who mug people on the side.
The President of Heritage today announced that they will be moving to ban all gender affirming care within the US, regardless of age. Timeline looks to be the next 2 years, perhaps as little as a year if they can get to strong arm providers again.
Well this is some Black Mirror ****.
I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.
This quote is a little weird, but I don't see why it's such a big deal. If she's passing the correct policies, then let her make the occasional cringe comment.
In 2012 I painted the top image: Rise
In 2026 I am saddened to have to repaint this update: Fall
Bovino had apparently become so accustomed to lying that he pushed the DHS falsehood that Pretti appeared to have “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, was too sympathetic to be smeared so brazenly. Trump recognized that and sent Bovino packing.
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
When Congress pressed CBP for a report on Pretti’s killing, CBP offered answers to a list of questions. It also supplied the questions itself.
Over 8,000 emails sent and we have 24 hours left to stop Sex Matters sabotaging the vote for the conversion therapy ban 🔥
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I find it interesting to note that the word “incel”, a contraction of “involuntary celibacy,” has become a generic insult that is now being hurled at assholes who, more likely than not, aren’t even celibate, let alone involuntarily so.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
In her book “Whipping Girl,” Julia Serano coined the term “effemimania,” which she defined as hatred of femininity, regardless of the sex or gender of the person expressing said femininity. Perhaps she would have recognized that people who are bigoted in one way are usually bigoted in other ways.
Exactly.
the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house... except have you seen that guy's tools? dude has a circular saw and a demo hammer. idk pretty sure i can dismantle a house with that shit
So... astroturfing? How can we know these online digital spaces are even genuine anymore?
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Celebrating my coauthor's second release of a transfeminist book, which of course is just the phrase "Girls rule boys drool (but they're trans)" repeated a bunch, as all transfeminist writings are. I'd be so owned if a contrarian went and bought Brown/Trans/Les specifically to prove me wrong on this
I'm in deep cover somewhere red at the moment. I can confirm: the right pretty uniformly believes that Pretti was going for his gun.
