"BUMBLES BOUNCE!"

(a lesson that has served me well all these years)

If Joe Biden could've done just one measly chinup in the Campus Martius he mighta had a shot at a 2nd term.

And yet some ppl still don't want to call it fascist 🙄

And just like the US supplied Saddam w chemical weapons & military aircraft all thru the 80s (& the Shah before that), think of all the Juan Orlando Hernanez's, CIA-backed Contras & other "narco-states" the US has propped in the last 3-4 decades.

Reminds me of the scene in Consider Phlebas, Iain Banks builds the suspense by noting how a faint draft in the station gradually builds to a stiff breeze & eventually a deafening gale, as 1-by-1 characters realize the enormous trains must be running again thru the ancient planetary tunnel network.

My dude, you know it's harder than that.

Wow, "they can just move if they don't like it" is such a white settler way to respond, good job.

So they deserve to die or otherwise suffer w/o adequate treatment? Lemme guess, you probably think all the children killed in Gaza were all terrorists that deserved it too.

There are ppl in those states that did not vote for this nor were they given a vote or choice nor are they all white.

Are you taking the view that those numbers are legit? Not that there aren't a LOT of tinhats in the GOP, but it is in the Manhattan Institute's interest to inflate them. Taking them at face value seems uncritical and only serves their purpose of mainstreaming such beliefs, imo.

That's the Manhattan Institute, home of Chris "McCarthy" Rufo who promoted the Springfield pet-eating hoax, not exactly a reputable or impartial source. I'm assuming they've inflated those numbers in the hope of legitimizing those "ideas often called conspiracy theories" as they call them.

I fucking hate Waymo. This is what it’s like driving in parts of Phoenix.

I counted 16 one time just driving to get groceries with the wife.

"You're throwing away your vote" is such a fash thing to say to anyone voting their conscience rather than choose between apologetic imperialism or naked fascism (spoiler: they're the same thing!)

Squirrels are basically the anarchists of urban wildlife, I realize, so I'm proud to see this town channeling its inner angry squirrel. They may inevitably come back, but we'll always be ready.

I dedicate this GIF to the squirrels & other antifascists keeping us safe! 🏴✊🏻

That's literally you right now dancing around the fact that party leaders like her are most to blame for its losses, not the voters she chose to ignore, not the backbenchers who never got the nomination, never ran the State Dept, never picked their former campaign co-chair as the next DNC chair.

This is OUTSTANDING! I'm so glad you acknowledged the political moment in such a direct way. It was such good encouragement right when I could use a lil. Bravo! 👏🏻

*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do?

(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )