in all seriousness, it’s pretty astonishing to see even the NYT being like yea the cops beat the shit out of protesters. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/n...
I like how corporate media thought one lady helping some students organize their campus was a more dangerous threat to Democracy than the mayor of NYC being in a group chat with a bunch of billionaires telling him where to send the riot cops
On the night of April 30, peaceful anti-genocide protesters at UCLA were subjected to a vicious assault by Zionists, Proud Boys and other white supremacists who chanted, “I’ll kill you,” “I’ll rape your sister,” and “What Israel does to Gaza, we’ll do to you,” as police looked on. t.co/CT5DYza3Wg
This is all a preview of how November is going to play out. Trump will win on a technicality when the SC rules in his favor, and when people correctly take to the streets to protest that, the cops will be absolutely ruthless
we have a democratic mayor, a democratic governor, two democratic senators, and a democratic president and the cops are still free to treat protesters like enemy combatants.
Don’t let anyone tell you that strong unions aren’t the best bulwark against fascism
Back in my day, if you’d tried to order an "oat milk" at your local cafe, why, you'd surely have been run out of town on a rail! Nowadays, though, I find it impossible to feel joy, excitement, contentment or absolutely anything at all, really.
Alex Jones is more popular than ever and considered a moderate by a lot of people in the right-wing media ecosystem. That’s where we’re at.
I think what makes the clip of Bill Burr clowning on Bill Maher so watchable is that Burr isn’t an ideologue, he’s a Normal Seeming Guy who sees something happening, in this case reports out of Gaza and US college campuses, has an instinctive “that’s unjust” reaction, then just blankly stares…