"I didn't always believe that Republicans were fascist, but I do now. I was persuaded. Who persuaded me, you might ask? Guess what-it was Republicans themselves. They've been very persuasive." From 2023, on bullies, persuasion, and the margins of permission:

I for one am amazed that allowing the world's stupidest man to bellow like an idiot while swinging a sledgehammer into every surface encountered has not fixed all of our problems but has instead made all problems worse and caused new ones. It makes no sense

There are people who wake up every day and go to work at for-profit incarceration corporations to set their mind to the daily question "how many more people can we imprison and how quickly can we do it?"

When you understand that under capitalism a forest has no value until it's cut down, you begin to understand the root of our ecological crises.

Good to know that the next Democratic president can ship Trump and his cabinet off to a Central American prison without a trial and we won’t ever have to worry about them coming back.

We've created a society where being confidently wrong pays better than being cautiously right. Is it any wonder we're drowning in bullshit merchants?

The "marketplace of ideas" was always a flawed metaphor. Ideas don't compete on merit; they compete on memetic fitness—how easily they spread, how good they make believers feel, and how effectively they suppress competing ideas.

Good morning! Here’s wishing all you decent people a wonderful day and sending a very special and heartfelt fuck you to J. K. Rowling and every other bigot out there. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans people are people. Happy Easter

If the Supreme Court is going to ignore the law and the Constitution, then the president is obligated to ignore the Supreme Court and put it in its place.

I'VE STOPPED WORRYING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S SANITY. HE'S NOT SANE. AND THE REALIZATION OF HIS ILLNESS DOESN'T FILL ME WITH ANGER, BUT WITH PROFOUND SADNESS. WHAT I NOW WORRY ABOUT IS THE SANITY OF ANYONE WHO CAN STILL SUPPORT THIS DEEPLY TROUBLED MAN TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY.

Did you know? In 1861, 11 Senators and 3 Representatives were expelled from Congress for failing to recognize Lincoln's election and supporting insurrection. - We can still do that.

"Politics is the only profession where you can lie, cheat, and steal, and still be respected."

Keep 'em coming! Via Kyle Cheney: BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown.

This is deeply offensive to me and to my fellow Catholics around the world as we continue to mourn our beloved Pope Francis.