we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”

The fascists will lose. Theirs is a machine that always eats itself; the only question is how much damage and how many lives will be lost in the meantime. We must not let them create a lost generation of queer people. We cannot let them stuff us back in a closet. Even if it's scary.

Seconded. All the unpleasantness is front-loaded.

I really wanna see his facial expression when the crowd booed his name and the Mamdani told the elevator joke.

We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.

Now, this being said, I do think the performance of “I’m a white man and the world is out to get me” is an important part of maintaining the status quo where white men are out to get everyone else

And another thing: anyone willing to allow their grievances to be weaponized by the fascists in this of all moments is decidedly not someone to be taken at face value.

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.