It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

Men whose mothers loved them would never become ICE agents.

Kansas City has an extremely high concentration of federal workers, so many of our neighbors are starting to hurt (not to mention months of being as the sadist Vought proudly boasts “subjected to trauma”)

Our federal workers are in desperate need right now due to the government shutdown.

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Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

it's about to become legal literally everywhere in the United States for a parent to have their child tortured until they describe sexual desires that accord with what that parent wants. it will be illegal for any state to protect children from that

parental feelings are not something I care about

Historians are important now more than ever

REPTAR

The #1 thing you need to know about the Supreme Court’s new term is that Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are bad-faith actors.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

Please don’t be naïve people. The person in this photo is a

white
male
Christian
pastor
Citizen

You are next.

Do not fool yourself.

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

It is interesting no one has any footage of the mayhem that’s engulfed Portland

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

Israel holding their end remains the major challenge.

in general, I find the quibbling over numbers to be a wretched exercise; no credible estimate of non-friendly-fire Israeli citizen deaths on 10/7 makes it not a war crime and no credible estimate of post-10/7 Palestinian dead make it not a war crime of an incredibly larger magnitude