Righteous Gangsterismo
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vive la counter-counter-revolution
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Relevant Andor wisdom for the foreseeable future:
“We fight to win. That means we lose and lose and lose - until we’re ready. All you know now is how much you hate. You bank that, you hide that - you keep it alive until you know what to do with it.”
Today, we’re at the losing phase. Expect more.
“We fight to win. That means we lose and lose and lose - until we’re ready. All you know now is how much you hate. You bank that, you hide that - you keep it alive until you know what to do with it.”
Today, we’re at the losing phase. Expect more.
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
If this asshole ever faces a judge who gets to sentence him he should hit him with the “thank you for your attention to this matter” and then bang the gavel.
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If this asshole ever faces a judge who gets to sentence him he should hit him with the “thank you for your attention to this matter” and then bang the gavel.
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Think about how all of this would not be happening if Reconstruction hadn't completely fizzled out in a decade.
Had they hanged confederates instead of giving them blanket amnesty in 1872.
1872, a mere 7 years after the war, the 14th amendment was killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty...
Had they hanged confederates instead of giving them blanket amnesty in 1872.
1872, a mere 7 years after the war, the 14th amendment was killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty...
Amnesty Act - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Think about how all of this would not be happening if Reconstruction hadn't completely fizzled out in a decade.
Had they hanged confederates instead of giving them blanket amnesty in 1872.
1872, a mere 7 years after the war, the 14th amendment was killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty...
Had they hanged confederates instead of giving them blanket amnesty in 1872.
1872, a mere 7 years after the war, the 14th amendment was killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty...
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If Democrats aren’t whipping votes against ICE funding, and letting conservative members vote to pass it, it means the Democratic Party supports ICE funding.
If your opposition to fascism is performative, then you don’t actually oppose fascism.
If your opposition to fascism is performative, then you don’t actually oppose fascism.
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
If Democrats aren’t whipping votes against ICE funding, and letting conservative members vote to pass it, it means the Democratic Party supports ICE funding.
If your opposition to fascism is performative, then you don’t actually oppose fascism.
If your opposition to fascism is performative, then you don’t actually oppose fascism.
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NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
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There's a separate vote on the DHS appropriation so he can do that.
Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.
Scoop: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries opposes bill funding DHS and ICE
Democrats are lining up against the bill.
www.axios.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:47 PM
There's a separate vote on the DHS appropriation so he can do that.
Carney got bars damn
Carney “You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Carney got bars damn
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Americans, seeing fascism, will call it literally anything else: communism, anarchism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
January 21, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Americans, seeing fascism, will call it literally anything else: communism, anarchism, Maoism, Stalinism, etc.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
Like their eyes just glaze right past it, it doesn't process.
And even if they do actually notice the fascism, they don't notice its basis in centuries of domestic homegrown tradition.
Widely accepted by who motherfucker? Arbitrarily redefining everything through reactionary framing made everyone fucking incoherent - just because some chuds brains melted from podcast vibes doesn’t mean you get to throw out existing definitions!
January 21, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Widely accepted by who motherfucker? Arbitrarily redefining everything through reactionary framing made everyone fucking incoherent - just because some chuds brains melted from podcast vibes doesn’t mean you get to throw out existing definitions!
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One thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.
January 20, 2026 at 8:21 PM
One thing I'd like to see from the Democratic Party is an explicit attempt to build the sort of transnational solidarity between parties of liberal democracy that exists between parties of the nationalist far right.
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When Dems are in power, we got stories and entire narratives framed through the lens of right-wing people’s imagined wrongs.
When the Trump admin acts, we get stories and entire narratives framed through the lens of right-wing people’s imagined wrongs.
When the Trump admin acts, we get stories and entire narratives framed through the lens of right-wing people’s imagined wrongs.
January 20, 2026 at 2:22 AM
When Dems are in power, we got stories and entire narratives framed through the lens of right-wing people’s imagined wrongs.
When the Trump admin acts, we get stories and entire narratives framed through the lens of right-wing people’s imagined wrongs.
When the Trump admin acts, we get stories and entire narratives framed through the lens of right-wing people’s imagined wrongs.
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2nd July 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. For perhaps the only time in the entire war the Confederates seem to be winning.
Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee.
This is the moment on which the war depends /1
Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee.
This is the moment on which the war depends /1
July 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
2nd July 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. For perhaps the only time in the entire war the Confederates seem to be winning.
Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee.
This is the moment on which the war depends /1
Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee.
This is the moment on which the war depends /1
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look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:18 AM
look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy
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This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.
This is my song. “Those are the real stakes — not white children feeling guilty, but white children armed with truth, history and a righteous desire to work with others to change the world.”
January 18, 2026 at 5:16 AM
This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.
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A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
A joke for the history buffs:
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
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Not kidding when I say the survival of American academia as we know it depends on Dems being willing to do shit like this, so I am pleased.
Wow
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
January 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Not kidding when I say the survival of American academia as we know it depends on Dems being willing to do shit like this, so I am pleased.
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that’s right
Spanberger ends relationship between ICE and Virginia State Police
“This is an absolutely huge first step because it sends a message that she cares about the trust that the community has with the government, not just law enforcement,” immigration advocate Luis Aguila...
www.wvtf.org
January 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
that’s right
Considering material conditions inside a shared reality = pedantic.
Navel gazing on the subjective drama of who’s more worthy of empathy = real shit.
Navel gazing on the subjective drama of who’s more worthy of empathy = real shit.
It is not "pedantic" to acknowledge that a college protest against Iran makes zero sense. Protests are typically against things, not in favor of rights movements in other countries!
January 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Considering material conditions inside a shared reality = pedantic.
Navel gazing on the subjective drama of who’s more worthy of empathy = real shit.
Navel gazing on the subjective drama of who’s more worthy of empathy = real shit.
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Bouie is right that Trump neither has state capacity or strategic skill to stop the mid-term elections. But there is a pretty high risk of a potentially violent confrontation between legislative and executive branches of the US system if Trump claims fraud after mid-terms
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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posted a video on the “canceled election” stuff on my youtube and it is unbelievable how many people on the ostensible left believe that trump is an all-powerful god king whose words shape reality. “buh buh but what if he says the election is fraud?” okay. he says the election is fraud. and?
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Bouie is right that Trump neither has state capacity or strategic skill to stop the mid-term elections. But there is a pretty high risk of a potentially violent confrontation between legislative and executive branches of the US system if Trump claims fraud after mid-terms
bsky.app/profile/jame...
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.
January 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM
My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.
By his logic, someone out there - I’m sure thousands would eagerly sign up - could challenge him to a one v one fight and absolutely beat his ass to a bloody pulp and just take his shit. Real “no not like that” moment I’m sure.
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 2:17 PM
By his logic, someone out there - I’m sure thousands would eagerly sign up - could challenge him to a one v one fight and absolutely beat his ass to a bloody pulp and just take his shit. Real “no not like that” moment I’m sure.
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When sitting Governors and a Mayors talk about what the federal government is doing, that's of course a felony.
But when the outgoing President conspires for weeks to overturn an election he lost then tells a crowd to storm the Capitol, that's of course a sacred and protected "official act."
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But when the outgoing President conspires for weeks to overturn an election he lost then tells a crowd to storm the Capitol, that's of course a sacred and protected "official act."
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The very dutiful transcription of the fact that DOJ is launching an investigation into Walz and Frey doesn't exhibit the least critical thinking about what the crime was.
CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks.
Felony saying mean things?
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
CBS at least names it but ... think about this, folks.
Felony saying mean things?
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
When sitting Governors and a Mayors talk about what the federal government is doing, that's of course a felony.
But when the outgoing President conspires for weeks to overturn an election he lost then tells a crowd to storm the Capitol, that's of course a sacred and protected "official act."
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But when the outgoing President conspires for weeks to overturn an election he lost then tells a crowd to storm the Capitol, that's of course a sacred and protected "official act."
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One piece of Chicken.
One piece of Broccoli.
One corn tortilla.
One other item.
For you.
For us:
One piece of Broccoli.
One corn tortilla.
One other item.
For you.
For us:
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
One piece of Chicken.
One piece of Broccoli.
One corn tortilla.
One other item.
For you.
For us:
One piece of Broccoli.
One corn tortilla.
One other item.
For you.
For us: