of course an ICE agent shooting a woman didn't "take the bait", that's a tragedy we have to Wait For The System to handle. did you hear someone broke a window? Scandalous.

there's a reason the republicans grab any right-wing influencer who can string half a sentence together and flood them with cash and media appearances, and why the democrats steadfastly refuse to do that, and it's the same reason. two sides of the same wealthy coin, trying to maintain their position

saw someone say the next dem administration should learn from trump & simply enact their agenda without thought to norms or procedure, & i hate to break it to that person but the dems already do exactly what they want with power. they don't try to do things & fail, they try to do nothing & succeed

Reminder: Billionaires pay millionaires to convince thousandaires to believe society’s problems are caused by hundredaires — not by billionaires

Billionaires already live in a magical reality where they're exempt from consequences for fraud, criminality, antisocial behavior. But that's not enough. Everyone else must be forced to live according to their precepts and be at the mercy of their whims. Perverse!

the thing is, as I’ve aged, the bar for who looks like a child to me has risen. there are whole tax paying ass adults who scan as literal children to me when I see them.

what the actual fuck is wrong with people.

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

That people can be sent to a concentration camp for overstaying a visa but the organizer of the largest sex trafficking operation of my lifetime is transferred to a low-security prison—with yoga!—says a lot about the perverse priorities of this country.