It’s obviously astroturfed. Go look at their website. These groups always try too hard because the donors want things that “look professional.”

Shit like this is why liberatory framing has to be inviolably based in real material analysis; without it that language just becomes cover for the most reactionary bullshit imaginable. These clowns don’t do a very good job with it — big “how do you do, fellow progressives?” vibes here — but plenty do, and they’re…

>“Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning,” Trump said in a statement.

Trump can not stop self-owning himself as the world’s most incompetent boss.   So many of his hires turned out to be garbage in his opinion. 

I mean, Sean Spicer works for Newsmax. That’s not exactly a rebrand or redemption that’s him going the only real direction he had left to go.

The thing about Spicer is that pretty much everyone who came after him made him look like a better person.

She’s absolutely irredeemable, but I will give her some points for the literary flourish in describing Kushner as “Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit.” I audibly guffawed when I read that.

She’s had an epiphany. Good for her. Now she can fuck off.

I believe it’s Econ 203: Fuck You, Got Mine

Then there’s Sinema’s take: In a statement, she described the incident as “not a legitimate protest.”

Sinema is the walking embodiment of the limit of representation in power. People get used to their new status right quick and forget that they used to walk in the average person’s shoes. This asshole thinks she earned everything that has come to her via others sweating to put her in office.

She really is the worst.  I’ll never forget or forgive her for that thumbs down on a minimum wage increase. She did it so glibly.  Maybe she thought she was invoking the ghost of McCain, but he did it to stop a bad tax cut.  

While I don’t condone harassment, this doesn’t seem to qualify to me. She’s a public figure taking a very public stance against an issue the majority of Americans, including many in her constituency and her colleagues in the Senate, support. She does this without providing a workable path forward. She should be…

It’s very important that when we protest the actions of the wealthy elite ruling class that we do it in a way in which they always feel safe, secure, and comfy. Can’t have them shaken up or slightly inconvenienced in any way, that would be gauche.

Yes, shame on Scarlett Johansson for... (*checks notes*) ...setting legal precedent that will protect other actors for years to come.

“Personally I’m more interested in a radical decentralized ubi that I think could potentially be achieved thru [sic] crypto and gaming but I haven’t ironed that idea out enough yet to explain it,”

This picture makes me feel existentially tired

Not sure I’m feeling the Scarlett snark. I know the website is only *supposedly* feminist but why the fuck are you undermining a woman standing up for allegedly getting screwed after signing a contract that said something else was going to happen?  

Why the derisive comments on Scarlett? She took on a huge corporation who slighted her from the money she was owed. Why aren’t we celebrating this instead of making snide comments?

Being Grimes is exhausting. I know. I was exactly like that when I was 16. She lasted a lot longer than I did! I got tired of trying to force words like "conformity" and "paradigm" into everyday conversation. 

I hate that I routinely feel compelled to rally this defense, but it is a tired and frankly racist trope built around his idiosyncratic silence during oral arguments; Thomas has written copious opinions and has firmly established himself as an evil intellect in his own right.