I cannot stress enough how narrow the channel is in the Strait and the fact that like. Two guys with a bass boat, a shoulder mounted rocket launcher, and a decent sense of determination could hold the thing for long enough for 6 more bass boats with 12 more guys to show up and fuck up your day.
If I were this much of a fuckup I would simply not start wars with countries that were minding their own damn business, and launch myself into the sun instead
one more time: our problem is not polarization. our problem is fascism.
"polarization is the problem" is literally the thesis of Birth of a Nation. it has long been a white supremacist justification for fascism in the US. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Mmmm, yes, very deep, much philosophical wow, let me counter with:
The people building concentration camps will always be my enemy
Since Trump’s election:
🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats
🔴 Republicans have flipped 0
Quick addendum on this: the one part of the left that truly understood power was ... unions. Union organizers were never under the illusion that they could sweet-talk concessions from bosses with the right framing. They dealt in power.
That's why the right killed them.
If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
It is genuinely amazing to me -- has been amazing for many years -- how obsessively the broad left-of-center focuses on language. I can't tell you how many books & articles & studies & surveys I've seen on "framing" climate change. Endless! They never stop!
"[M]oderate Democratic voters are fully in line with the growing economic populism in the party and actually want more of it. And on social issues, they aren’t as worried about a Democratic Party that strongly defends transgender people and abortion rights as many centrist pundits are."
Bar graph showing responses to question "Would you support or oppose abolishing ICE?" from The Economist/You Gov from June 2025 and late Feb-early March 2026. Total support for abolishing rose 23 points, among Dems 30 points, among independents 23 points, among Republicans 14 points.
Public opinion is not fixed.
And it's the job of a campaign to move people.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that if you tested this against Gavin saying to throw trans kids under the bus, this would absolutely wreck that bullshit. Why? Because voters respond to clarity, strength and conviction. People want leaders who care deeply and will fight for what they believe.
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
When media outlets defensively insist there’s no “evidence” of Trump’s “wrongdoing” in the Epstein matter, they’re misinforming the public, doing a disservice to the journalists uncovering this evidence, and helping Trump warp the meaning of this awful scandal. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-epst...
www.everythingishorrible.net/p/for-immigr...
The illegal tariff regime imposed by Trump, which was allowed to let stand for a year, destroyed untold thousands of businesses. Other businesses nearly failed but survived by the skin of their teeth. My business suffered a precipitous drop because of them, as did many others I know personally.
Time for Disney to step up and publicly denounce all elements of this regime.
A) Trump has never had a multiracial working class coalition
B) he never won anything close to a large share of the Black vote
C) he won more Latinos than usual because they thought he wouldn't do what he promised to do
D) there has never been a multiracial working class coalition in US politics
Time series chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Voters Increasingly Think the Trump Administration Is Operating Like a Fascist Regime. Description: Which of the following statements best describes your view, even if neither is exactly right? The Trump administration is acting like any other conservative government operating in a democracy. — Decreased, with the highest response reported on Apr 18, 2025 (50%) and the lowest response recorded on Feb 02, 2026 (42%). The Trump administration has completely broken from previous standards and is operating more like a fascist regime. — Increased, with the highest response reported on Feb 02, 2026 (58%) and the lowest response recorded on Apr 18, 2025 (50%). 2 surveys of 2,478 U.S. likely voters, conducted April 18, 2025–February 2, 2026.
NEW w/ @tarabuss.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social: Last April, 50% of voters believed that “the Trump administration has completely broken from previous standards and is operating more like a fascist regime.”
Today, that number is 58%.
it is so embarrassing that we can’t get trump on the epstein stuff. After access Hollywood and Miss teen USA and the E Jean Carroll verdict, it’s like we let Jeffrey Dahmer go three times and then found him with a hundred human heads and we‘re standing there like are you SURE these aren’t yours
Why don't we push for a ban on murder while we are in the business of demanding laws for things that are already illegal
This is 🤡 stuff from Schumer/Sen Dems.
ICE already appears to have a "code of conduct" that suggests they need to be "professional, polite, respectful, considerate, helpful, and patient in all official activities ... even in the face of considerable provocation." www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/...
The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
This administration is stark raving mad, and it is controlled by men - Vance, Miller, Bovino - are all-but-publicly taking orders from neo-Nazis bent on violent removal of nonwhite Americans. The admin barely hides many of these links. And it is driving a campaign of ethnic violence in our country.
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
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