Jon Plummer

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

A Get Your War on strip about how rad the war on terror is gonna be given how rad the war on drugs went delivered via clip art circa 2001

I hope the kids can find this helpful/funny. This is how we coped last time we did this shit.

www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/page/63/

We have been saying the same thing for 16 years, and it's about damn time our elected officials hear our message and change the tax code before our entire country, economy, and democracy collapses under the weight of its failure to reign in oligarchic levels of wealth.

Despicable

The weakest of weak sauces, the finest of fine whines.

NGL

Wow.

There is a name for governments that ask collaborators to report on citizens who criticize the regime…sensitive crybabies. And fascists, sure, but fragile widdle snowflakes especially.

we will settle for nothing less than the total abolition of ICE and the return of our kidnapped neighbors

Horrific, and worth a read. Our immigration and asylum system was already broken, and now it is broken and twisted and more violent than ever.

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

The dementia is not advancing nearly fast enough to save this country.

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before.

Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.

holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

How many federal agents have been killed, beaten, kidnapped, attacked with chemical weapons, or even doxxed since Trump took office?

How many law-abiding civilian observers?

Who's wearing the masks? The armor? The weapons?

The whistles?

There's no symmetry here. And we know who the bad guys are.

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

Sens Jon Husted (R-OH) & Bernie Moreno (R-OH) both got big payments from Les Wexner and then on cue started to disparage investigations into the Epstein files. This is how the corrupt system works.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

“great replacement” is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has been cited in NUMEROUS mass shootings including buffalo topps and el paso walmart

furthermore, what we are seeing in MN is a direct result of that hateful racist rhetoric manufacturing consent and democrats should be saying that

"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242

The only sensible reform is abolition.

It's unsurprising that the Nazis waged a relentless war on creativity, especially the modern and the avant-garde, in everything from architecture and design to painting. Hitler himself was a failed painter whose work was most notably deficient in his inability to realistically capture human subjects. As Charlie English writes in his account of the Nazi war on art, In this sense, Hitler's painting supports Arendt's theory of National Socialism-that it was defined by its banality and lack of empathy. The Nazis relied on the ability of people not to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes. The lack of a connection was very much the point. There is a right-wing war on empathy that observers like Bradley_ Onishi have been cataloguing for months and that was most recently documented by Hillary_ Clinton for The Atlantic. But I don't believe you can decouple this from the war on art and artists.

I share the belief that the arts are central to the cause of human freedom. This isn't only because of the expansive potential of the imagination. It's also because of the well of universal feeling and experience from which art draws in order to evoke something in its audience. And this experience pulls us—as listeners, viewers, observers, whether the medium—into a cycle of mutual edification. Art helps us to know one another better and to know ourselves more honestly. And it helps us to process our awe and terror at the world and our existence. It's why those with authoritarian impulses always want to control it, to limit what it shows us, and to silence its practitioners. What they fear most is the plain truth of being human.

The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.

www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.

@tinakotek.bsky.social kindly take a cue from your colleague in VA, please. ICE deserves zero cooperation AT MOST, anti-cooperation ideally

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]