Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Ironically, about 75% of The Art of War is just stuff like “I cannot overemphasize that your army needs to eat”

I understand its disorientating for some to look around with their own eyes and accept the reality of the situation, ('that's not supposed to happen here, that's supposed to happen over there') but unless reporters start aggressively covering this regime like they would any foreign authoritarian?

Taking a position on American military involvement in WW2 which is more Russophilic than the views of Kruschev and Zhukov is campist behavior

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Basic support for special ed was a key part of the bipartisan consensus around disability rights dating back decades. Current gop lawmakers and scotus judges have played key roles recently in supporting those rights. But what use are rights without enforcement?

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

I'm going to suggest you considered that "comrades in arms" doesn't literally always mean "we fought back to back" and could quite clearly extend to "we fought in the same struggle"

All of my wife's grandparents amongst them! Very proudly Ukrainian Jews, the lot of them. They did not like Stalin! Didn't know 90 year old women knew some of the words her grandmother used to describe him tbh

One thing I've noticed is that even well-educated people underestimate how much control over the structure of the courts congress has. Almost nothing about the courts requires a constitutional amendment to change

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Leg daaaaaaaaaay

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

MAGA would regard you as a welcome ally in their campaign to delete the memory and stories of the millions of Americans who have struggled for centuries to perfect our democracy.

My mentions are full of lefties telling me that the US is a hopelessly fascist country full of selfish people who would sell out democracy for a cheeseburger and I’ll kindly invite all of you to walk into the ocean

I've become a diehard Spindrift drinker with this change, top notch seltzer

I've cut seriously down on my sugary/caffeinated beverage intake and switched mostly to seltzer and I objectively feel way better every day.

The thing about this is that:

1) it is a righteous fight on Dems’ favored ground

2) if Republicans cave they did so after already fighting hard against subsidies

3) if Republicans cave, people start to touch a very specific stove that Democrats have been trying to keep them from touching

the fact he sounds exactly like you'd expect a stuffed frog to sound is why this is the rightful winner

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The original for me

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

This is not how you regime consolidate

yes, there is an enormous amount of destruction happening. but the idea that there is some irrecoverable golden age being destroyed is loser mindset. the idea that we cannot create, only preserve is dead as a doornail. wake up and smell the 21st century.

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