I don't understand how the american right is still completely spellbound by trump, he is legitimately a massive threat to the united states and the entire world

he's not joking. he's a violently stupid narcissist. him and anyone trying to enable his garbage has to go

We are now at the moment where there is no longer any plausible deniability that it isn't what it looks like.

The alarmists were right, and anyone who isn't still plugged into the right-wing media ecosystem is now starting to get it.

*Because* of the horrors, momentum is building in our favor.

MAGA is indeed a serious problem, but the existence of the institution is also a serious problem.

We should not abide the existence of a "law enforcement" department which kidnaps US citizens because they're brown or have accents. We should not abide the existence of those who say "papers please"

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers.

"A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

Repeating a "we're fucked" narrative is the fastest way to learned helplessness. I know this intimately, having sat in the cage myself for two years. But while we don't have control over our stressors, we have control over our *reactions* to the stressors. Our thoughts, emotions, THAT,we can control