Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

Musk thinks empathy is "civilizational suicide."
Musk in February wielding a chainsaw and jumping around smiling about firing thousands of workers without cause:
Musk this week: "My companies are SUFFERING. Who takes joy in that?"
Self-awareness comes late to some, I guess.

Hey guys, the immigration cops are locking up random college students for no apparent reason while wearing masks to conceal their identity. Seems like a problem?

Hey guys, the president is threatening to deport US citizens to a prison in El Salvador for vandalizing the businesses of his unelected billionaire buddy who gave him $250 million before the election and had him do ad pitches on the White House lawn.

Hey, so scientists are fleeing the country due to politics and funding cuts. That's probably a sign of something, right?

Hey, so the government is censoring/erasing records of Black soldiers who won the medal of honor now and changing the URL to "deimedal." The "honor our veterans" crowd is weirdly quiet about this so far

Hey, so the government is torturing legal residents without giving reason or cause and holding them w/o charges. All the "don't tread on me" flag bros are mysteriously NOT out marching in the streets about it for some reason, which is weird

"Tariffs will solve everything!"
--Stock market crashes
--US allies pull goods from shelves, slap tariffs on us (duh)
"Nevermind, the tariff is suspended."
A few days later:
"Tariffs will solve everything!"
--The same thing happens
The business genius who bankrupted 6 casinos at work

something something first amendment right to protest

enddei.ed.gov here is the department of education's new report a communist--oops, sorry, forgot we aren't in the 50s--report a DEI program link. Please do not spam it full of reports of secret evil DEI covens teaching children about history and such.

I saw some person online saying we need a nickname for the 2020s. As an homage to the OG roaring 20s but in light of... everything, I'd like to suggest "The Shrieking 20s"

Watching someone born into wealth who has never known real hardship for a moment blather about how the leader of a wartorn country needs to grovel more was pretty damn embarrassing and awful today. History won't look kindly on any of this crap.

They should make bicycles for men. Guycycles.

My wife decided it would be cool to foster a pup. At last minute we got swapped from a chill, trained adult dog to whatever this guy, "Clyde," is. Pretty solid pup so far.

They're... just gonna keep doing it, I guess?

If you don't know who Yarvin is yet or why he matters, you should really, really read up on him. Guys like he and Thiel, the "brains" behind Musk, Trump, Vance, et. al. have wanted a tech-bro, racially ordered monarchy for more than a decade, and they're not in the least bit joking about it.

My kid got 60 free, age-appropriate books from ages 0-5 because of the Imagination Library. Imagine wanting to cut it.