Senate went nuclear and it barely made the news: apnews.com/article/sena...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at the Kirk memorial: “You have no idea the dragon you have awakaned. “We will save this civilization and the West.”

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

if they’re gonna treat this like a WWE event then someone really should’ve whacked him with a folding chair

“People say Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but that’s not true. I’m a horrible person. Like, just a complete bag of shit.” - Trump, basically

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Bi-Rhombs by Victor Vasarely (1977)

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

All five were documented. ICE only cared about their race when they grabbed them.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

… anyone remember this www.npr.org/2016/11/15/5...

I’ve had a number of people respond to this with “actually the reliable sources are the things wikipedia cites not wikipedia itself” or something along those lines well done everyone that’s exactly the kind of pedantic nerd shit that’s kept the site alive

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Kyle Rittenhouse is there.

“Jimmy Wales rebuilt the library of Alexandria using nothing more than nerds’ need to correct one another”

THIS. While Chuck Schumer is talking to his imaginary friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey, I'm not sure saying "fuck you freaks" to the half million plus registered Democrats who turned out for Mamdani in a down-ballot primary with the highest turn out in NYC history is... entirely wise.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Sorry, I hyped this up and then didn't follow through. Here we go: rating the Five Lords of the Great Lakes (in order of the common acronym HOMES)

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Back in the 2011 Rapture hysteria, we had a Judgement Day BBQ for all of us heathens who must have been left behind, and decorated the yard with the clothing of raptured Christians

I don’t know who needs to hear this but defensiveness is not a feeling it is not an emotion It is a behavioral ego response to something triggering you

I always love it when people post this panel in particular

the new sorrowscopes are here! get them before they get you!

Tuesday is Rapture Day again and you know what that means. Rapture Balloons! Prepare a length of stout cord with a slip knot on one end and keep it at the ready. When you see a Christian starting to lift off, lasso an ankle and tie off the other end to something heavy. Rapture balloon.

In my early 20s I got in a cab in Minneapolis, and Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else was playing. I said something to the driver--a black man of advanced years--about how nice it was to hear Adderly. He seemed surprised that I recognized the piece. Then he flipped down the sunvisor, and...

The reasons they did *not* approve games are fascinating. They strongly disapproved Diablo II, not just for the violence, but because it depicted man being able to defeat Satan without the intervention of Christ (the only time this argument has ever been made in the history of game criticism)

Brazil is most hopeful for me because I know how rabid and lawless their right-wing is and they still somehow got Lula out of prison and back into office.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Obligatory posting of the best of all the Six Feet Under cold opens: youtu.be/pV-_GDveft8

Ah so it's not just Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen, but the Murdochs too? Remember how the Democrats went all in supporting this idea based on a moral panic? Any of them want to admit they fucked up?

It’s actually only a minor part of the outrageousness of this appointment that she is an insurance lawyer who has never been a prosecutor being put in charge of an important prosecutor’s office.

Why bother negotiating with some who is telegraphing on national television that he will cave?

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state” So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

Mueller, She Wrote FTW (and this was meant as a joke, not a serious suggestion, but it is funny) #political #humor

My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.

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i think most of us only saw, and maybe could only see, the tips of the icebergs of the influence, scale and effect that kirk’s corruptive political tumor, turning point, has. but now suddenly we see the shadow of their true mass in the deep

Saw this at a music festival yesterday!

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

They like Trump and want to help him

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

jennifer rubin and bill kristol are now the left flank of the democratic party

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

Well I suppose as a species we’ve been through worse than *gestures* www.space.com/astronomy/ea...