After a body was found “stuck in” Texas’ buoy barriers, take a look at what these actually look like. There’s a sharp piece of metal in between each buoy.
Took this the day before the body was found.
what's happening in Florida right now is fascism
there is no other word to describe it
and if we don't get our shit together, what's happening in Florida will absolutely happen to the rest of the country
Few moments ago I asked DeSantis a question at his bullshit presser about his opposition to gender affirming care given his love of lifts. DeSantis is a bully, and a coward and a loser. "Nice try indeed." Show us the shoes, fucker!
Jon Stewart's interviews as of late are fine but jfc it's not some special skill. Everyone is just too used to hacks that don't push back on easily disproven lies.
This is what solidarity looks like! FL Rep.
@MaxwellFrostFL
joins the picket line of the
#WGAStrike
in NYC. Writers, and ALL workers, deserve a fair shake!
@bjoewolf
@ucf_english
DeSantis is disciplined and relentless in implementing his far right agenda - widespread censorship like this, surveying the ideology of college students and professors - we don't have to make prognostications about fascism's arrival, it's already here
i gotta tell you, this fucking enrages me
not because it's absurd, because, yeah, it's absurd
but because Democrats can't be bothered to do this kinda shit FOR THE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT
213-209: The House votes to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) over his handling and public statements regarding the Trump-Russia investigation and Trump’s first impeachment.
The vote makes Schiff just the third congressperson this century to face that formal rebuke from the House.
Fetterman is doing well because he treats a fucking clown like a clown, not like some serious adversary whose intentions and motivations must be treated with the utmost deference and seriousness
take note, other Dems
treat a clown like a clown
@cascamike
@maxberger
an alternate strategy for Democrat success is to do the stuff they tell voters they are going to do every once in a while, stuff that the people in this country overwhelming support over the GOP's policies
he has said weird gross shit in public, he says it in private, he barges in on changing rooms, he's been credibly accused of assault by dozens of women; this is the leader of the Republican Party
"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter"
Today a Florida Republican was asked if her child labor bill would require bosses to give teens breaks at work.
She says that if teenagers are working "and they're not happy with something, they'll ghost us at lunchtime."
@KatzOnEarth
The media cannot help themselves in most instances from thinking that describing a shitshow accurately as a shitshow makes them partisan. When something is a shitshow, and you isolate one sentence of lucidity, that's not objective. It's falsification.
CNN's Elle Reeve: "It seems like you think there’s some high-level, coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay.
Moms for Liberty: "Yep."
Reeve: Who's doing that?
MFL: Teachers unions, Biden, money.
Reeve: "Why would they want more children to be gay and trans?"
@ParkerMolloy
the right wing media ecosystem is a huge problem. One step below though is the extremism-washing that legacy media outlets like Wa-Po, NYT, Atlantic et al engage in. JFC people.
@JohnMone
@stevanzetti
not sure shouting this at people holding signs picturing the faces of murdered children is going to be a winning message for the Proud Boys
says everything you need to know about elite impunity that dude stole NUCLEAR FUCKING SECRETS, lied, hid them from federal agents, defied a previous subpoena - and we're all still uncertain if there will be any consequence whatsoever
This proposed amendment to the bill seeking to change the name of Reedy Creek by
@AnnaForFlorida
makes clear just what ole Ron is up to
(it spells out F.A.S.C.I.S.T)
The demand should be Thomas resigns from the Court. It should come from Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and the entire Democratic leadership. And it should be coupled with an aggressive, immediate plan to balance the Court. (so why isn't this what they're doing?)
truly an indictment of how laughable our whole shit is that we're in like minute ten of someone listing out criminal fraud and this person is head of the GOP, walking around free, chilling, unlikely to ever be held criminally accountable
They are killing us. The fascist GOP is responsible for literal mass death, and they laugh at us when we grieve. They DO NOT CARE! I'm sick of people bending over backwards to 'understand' and 'reach out.' The GOP must be crushed, or we are all doomed.
there are not 'a lot' of good Republicans
there aren't ANY good Republicans
by definition
if you are willing to attach your name to a party where the top two contenders for the Presidency are Trump, and this fucking guy
you are not good
you just fucking aren't
The DeSantis campaign is now using footage of Trump’s post-Pulse Nightclub shooting speech to attack Trump as “too soft” on LGBTQ people.
Just a reminder that the 49 people killed at Pulse were Ron DeSantis’s own constituents—& he’s now saying mourning their deaths is weak.
@Sifill_LDF
someone really really really really really should
there are still a great many lingering questions about Capitol Police from that day and after, and I am somewhat disheartened that we haven't received much in the way of public information about it
this is why I don't like the Democrats' approach to Republicans
McConnell is a slimy piece of shit helping destroy democracy, and here's Biden saying he's a straight shooter when he should be saying 'fuck that motherfucker and all the evil shit he does'
President Biden asked by Jimmy Kimmel if there’s any honesty behind the scenes on gun reform talks:
“I get in trouble for saying this, but ... I’ve always had a straight relationship with the Republican leader Mitch McConnell. He’s a guy that when he says something he means it.”
hey
#screenwriting
community - if you aren't following
@CindyBegel
- you definitely should be. She's incredibly helpful in helping folks grow as screenwriters, and she has helped jumpstart many a screenwriting group. Big tip of the hat Cindy!
Enough is enough: My colleagues and I are introducing legislation to expel George Santos from the United States Congress.
If Kevin McCarthy refuses to hold George Santos accountable, then we will.
no matter what happens today I can promise you Democrats will not be better off listening to bullshit Third Way Triangulating let's be Republican Lite consultants and pundits
I don't want a "strong" Republican Party
I want a "smashed to a million fucking pieces because they are an existential fascist threat" Republican Party
i cannot express how enraging it is on a day when FL Republicans pass a total abortion ban that Senate Dems are asking the Supreme Court to investigate itself
Jesus Fucking Christ if you don't know what kinda fight we're in, just quit and make room for someone who does
these motherfuckers are talking about getting rid of doors and still the person interviewing just nods and nods like this is a normal response to children being slaughtered by war weapons
in case you're wondering, the giant megacorporations who call all the shots - fascism is completely compatible with their goals. In fact, it's better. No pesky labor unions. No annoying environmental standards.
.
@VoteRandyFine
just said he would kill a bill that would give $9.9 million dollars to health care for low-income children if people spoke too long on the six-week abortion ban. He's holding children's health care hostage at the expense of free speech.
#bansoffourbodies
@KarlBode
ahhhhh I just had a long argument with a family member about this....like if you made a pie 99.9% of the pie would be "born with a fuckload of money"
literally none of the other shit is statistically significant
@noahgittell
Aladdin. Dude comes from poverty, has access to literally 'unlimited cosmic power' - and his only goal is to put himself in the position previously held by the oppressor, rather than overturn the system. And he turns his best friend into an elephant for basically no reason.
in case you wanna know what the grim future for the country looks like if we don't stop the fascist GOP, look no further than DeSantis in FL - today suspending a State Attorney for that attorney's refusal to go along with DeSantis' bullshit attack on transgender people in FL
wanna note here that Dems didn't even try to censure the Republicans who openly participated in a coup attempt (let alone what they should have done, which is try to expel them)
JUST IN: The House on Wednesday advanced a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), overcoming a procedural hurdle that blocked a similar measure targeting the California Democrat last week and teeing up a final vote later in the day.
credit where credit's due, in a million years I couldn't have come up with 'how a person enters a pool' as an indicator of their 'wokeness' or 'eliteness' or whatever the fuck who went to Vanderbilt is blathering about
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) mocks Twitter executives as "wokers" and the “crank wing of the Democratic Party”:
“Easy to recognize, most of them eat food only fit for rabbits. They almost always enter a swimming pool by the stairs.”
EXCLUSIVE: A school superintendent in Florida is announcing a unilateral book ban this morning, a new abuse of Ron DeSantis's anti-freedom, anti-education law.
Book ban meeting streams live at 9 am. Link in the story below.
w/
@JenCousinsFL
it's wonderful that DeSantis is hurting his chances to be President with all these bills and whatnot but there are millions of fucking people who live in Florida who are impacted by this bullshit
the people who participated in the activities that led directly to Jan. 6 are still in positions of power; regardless of what happens from here, it's a colossal fucking failure that YEARS ON, the plotters are still all walking around free yapping their mouths and stirring shit
your daily reminder, it's not that complicated: use government to help people, force Republicans to tell on themselves for screaming about it
make funny little memes about them
treat them like the shitty little idiots they are
repeat
every day, in every state where they hold power, Republicans are doing shit like this, and the media STILL covers them like a regular ole political party
RIGHT NOW: David & Tim Barton, who've said the purpose of public schools "is to teach students to love and serve God," make the case for forcing public schools to display the 10 Commandments in every classroom.
One suggests the measure could have stopped the Nashville shooting.
👀 WATCH: “How will the children’s genitals inspection process work? Will you be doing it yourself?”
We asked anti-trans athlete bill sponsor
@joey_senator
Hensley about his bills that threaten school funding if they don’t verify a child’s gender, and how that will work. 😳🏳️⚧️
Republicans are talking about impeaching Biden Admin people if they take the House and Dems are still agonizing over whether to subpoena the people who conspired to overthrow the government
holy shit, every day they reach new heights of fecklessness
@jbouie
possibly one of the greatest dialogue jokes of all time, too, when Roger slips out of the handcuffs
"No, not at any time. Only when it was funny."
Laura Loomer is a Roger Stone endorsed self-described "Proud Islamophobe," InfoWars contributor with a history of racist stunts who has been banned from all social media, interesting that the casual viewer wouldn't get any sense how extreme she is from the clip chosen here.
"They're working overtime to screw the American people..." Republican political activist Laura Loomer discusses her campaign for Congressional District 11 on Political Connections with
@ybruzual
, this morning at 11:00am on
@MyNews13
and on the Spectrum News app.
really wish you motherfuckers printing stories about whether or not Ron is gonna run for president could be bothered to give some indication of the fascist speedrun happening in Florida; it's what the rest of the US will look like if these goons get control again
just to be clear, criticizing Democrats doesn't mean you are secretly a Republican, that you want Republicans to win, that you hate Democrats. It means that you recognize the danger that the Republicans represent, and therefore you find it incredibly important to succeed.
the problem is that 95% of interviews w right wing goons spouting nonsense are people treating them seriously and nodding and not asking tough followup questions instead of laughing in their faces and making fun of them and saying hey actually what the fuck are you talking about
@DLoesch
They're not President of the United States. They are private citizens. Donald Trump's star is defaced because in addition to sexual assault, you can add destroying families, environmental protections, and the rule of law.
the problem isn't just Trump, or Trump's admin - they could all disappear off the face of the earth, and we'd still have a house on fire emergency: the GOP is a wholly fascist enterprise at this point, hell bent on destroying democracy
ole Ron, one of the worst Republican Governors in the country (and that's saying something) is making a rare public appearance next week in Orlando. Let's join together and let him know what we think of him, yeah:
anyone else feel like they're losing it because the entire GOP went all in on a coup attempt and Republicans are still treated like a normal political party, subject to horse race coverage, invited to opine on gas prices on panels? How is their coup plotting bypassed so easily?
@goldietaylor
Trump also ran on the same platform and rhetoric in 2016, committed a large number of crimes in the interim, and instead of prosecuting him for these crimes — which include sedition — officials let him be.
An honest discussion of rising fascism includes institutional complicity.
never not going to be weird to me that these motherfuckers are at war with a part of speech. A pretty basic part of speech, too, that they still seem to not understand. It's an easy one, not a tricky one like gerunds.
Florida Republican State Representative Fabian Basabe, who is under investigation for slapping an aide, voted yes on expanding Don’t Say Gay bill and argued in favor of anti-trans legislation, came out to meet Miami Beach protestors and they ran him out with chants of RESIGN.
@JerryFalwellJr
@realDonaldTrump
I don't make fun of the disabled. I don't claim I can grab women by the pussy. I don't call Nazis very fine people. I don't impede an ongoing FBI investigation. He doesn't act like one of us. He acts like a cretin and a criminal.
@thehill
yeah they definitely had it handed to them and didn't have to train their whole lives for it unlike you Kushner who definitely is not the product of nepotism