@moneil.bsky.social
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
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Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?
lol. lmao.
lol. lmao.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
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‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'
a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'
so the funding disappeared??
and people are dying??
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Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.
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Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared.
While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.
While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared.
While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.
While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.
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the GOP nuking the filibuster to end this shutdown is the best case scenario
if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin
if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the GOP nuking the filibuster to end this shutdown is the best case scenario
if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin
if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin
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Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
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I still can't get over the fact that between 2017-2023, opposing Trump was very good politics, netting Dems many significant wins. Then Trump wins one fluky election - probably based more on inflation than anything else - and the Dems decide to stop fighting.
Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:
38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)
On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)
On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.
As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.
newrepublic.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I still can't get over the fact that between 2017-2023, opposing Trump was very good politics, netting Dems many significant wins. Then Trump wins one fluky election - probably based more on inflation than anything else - and the Dems decide to stop fighting.
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It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.
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“Regardless of what happens today in my ICE check-in, promise me this,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia said at a rally before reporting to the ICE facility on Monday. “Promise me that you will continue to pray, continue to fight, resist and love, not just for me, but for everybody.”
August 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Regardless of what happens today in my ICE check-in, promise me this,” Kilmar Abrego Garcia said at a rally before reporting to the ICE facility on Monday. “Promise me that you will continue to pray, continue to fight, resist and love, not just for me, but for everybody.”
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The corollary to this is that when actual GOP elected officials and their allies throw Hitler salutes or tweet things like “these foreign vermin should get the Final Solution amirite!” it doesn’t reflect on the GOP as a whole. The same commentators would gouge their eyes out rather than see that.
great example of a common dynamic: anything that anyone vaguely left-coded on the internet says is associated with and becomes a problem for “the democratic party”
A message I just got from a buddy of mine, who’s a long time Democratic Party campaign consultant: “This Sydney Sweeney thing is the kind of thing that turns men away from our party. It’s why men think our party is weak & insane.”
My response to him? “Fuck yea it is. You are exactly right.”
My response to him? “Fuck yea it is. You are exactly right.”
July 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The corollary to this is that when actual GOP elected officials and their allies throw Hitler salutes or tweet things like “these foreign vermin should get the Final Solution amirite!” it doesn’t reflect on the GOP as a whole. The same commentators would gouge their eyes out rather than see that.
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the idea the dems have to hold onto the "moral highground" by not counter gerrymandering is so dumb. nobody gives a fuck about the moral high ground. the president is literally rapist
July 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
the idea the dems have to hold onto the "moral highground" by not counter gerrymandering is so dumb. nobody gives a fuck about the moral high ground. the president is literally rapist
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The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.
And yet the same poll has the 2026 generic congressional ballot at D+3, so that high disapproval is coming entirely from partisan Democrats themselves. If you've ever wanted to challenge an ineffective Democratic incumbent, you're not going to have a better opportunity than next year.
New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
July 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.
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One thing that I haven't seen said in the last 24 hours is that the Democratic Party had an opportunity, as an institution, to help shape, foster, and direct the grassroots popular uprising against Trump II.
They made a conscious decision not to.
They made a conscious decision not to.
June 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
One thing that I haven't seen said in the last 24 hours is that the Democratic Party had an opportunity, as an institution, to help shape, foster, and direct the grassroots popular uprising against Trump II.
They made a conscious decision not to.
They made a conscious decision not to.
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ICE crossed a line in LA
June 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ICE crossed a line in LA
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When you write a weekly column, you don’t love most of them. 😑 But I’m pretty good with this one and hope you’ll read it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan
A new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problem
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
When you write a weekly column, you don’t love most of them. 😑 But I’m pretty good with this one and hope you’ll read it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@timmiller.bsky.social, fellow native Coloradan, DC for college (GT), roughly same age. Now back in CO but spent my pre-covid adult life in NYC & Chicago and you are *very wrong* about the dynamism and success of Illinois in regards to Pritzker. (1/n)
May 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
@timmiller.bsky.social, fellow native Coloradan, DC for college (GT), roughly same age. Now back in CO but spent my pre-covid adult life in NYC & Chicago and you are *very wrong* about the dynamism and success of Illinois in regards to Pritzker. (1/n)
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The Big Lie undergirding MAGA’s immigration posture is that immigrants are fundamentally parasitic, they just take from the host country. It’s a fascist conception and also just obviously wrong if you think about it for more than 10 seconds.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Big Lie undergirding MAGA’s immigration posture is that immigrants are fundamentally parasitic, they just take from the host country. It’s a fascist conception and also just obviously wrong if you think about it for more than 10 seconds.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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alright, i'm asking in seriousness. do folks know what lynching is? do folks know the *legal* issues with lynching? it's actually more complicated than you think, and i'm not a legal scholar so i don't want to step out of my lane--BUT I'VE READ BOOKS.
April 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
alright, i'm asking in seriousness. do folks know what lynching is? do folks know the *legal* issues with lynching? it's actually more complicated than you think, and i'm not a legal scholar so i don't want to step out of my lane--BUT I'VE READ BOOKS.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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The White House is claiming it can take away anyone’s rights without due process and throw them in a foreign prison forever. What could be higher stakes than that?
*This* is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.
*This* is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.
One House Dem called deportations a “soup du jour,” telling @axios.com Trump is “setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it."
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser.” www.axios.com/2025/04/16/d...
"You can't just put up statements": Inside Democrats' scramble to go to El Salvador
Trump is "setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it," said one Democrat. "We're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser."
www.axios.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The White House is claiming it can take away anyone’s rights without due process and throw them in a foreign prison forever. What could be higher stakes than that?
*This* is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.
*This* is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.
This is a craven, evil take. Also, it's hypocritical and senseless - these infighting, Dems-in-disarray stories distract from the tariff messaging at least as much as fighting lawless kidnapping and destruction of human rights does.
For nothing but the thrill of being a source of anonymous gossip.
For nothing but the thrill of being a source of anonymous gossip.
April 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a craven, evil take. Also, it's hypocritical and senseless - these infighting, Dems-in-disarray stories distract from the tariff messaging at least as much as fighting lawless kidnapping and destruction of human rights does.
For nothing but the thrill of being a source of anonymous gossip.
For nothing but the thrill of being a source of anonymous gossip.
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Removing people to a third country to be imprisoned in a foreign gulag is also not deportation as it is typically understood. We can't allow these terms to be redefined.
It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Removing people to a third country to be imprisoned in a foreign gulag is also not deportation as it is typically understood. We can't allow these terms to be redefined.