KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Already stretched beyond recognition, this nukes the definition of ‘inherent self defense’ / Article II authority from orbit “strikes within [Venezuela’s] borders could potentially begin in a matter of weeks” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

also everybody who wrote a 'Don't panic, liberals. I have known [X appointee] for twenty years and they are a principled upholder of the law' should be laughed out of the room every time they voice an opinion in future.

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

I actually predicted this would happen btw— specifically that Trump would abandon the Biden proposal for a while but then be forced into returning to it because of the structural incentives vis a vis the Gulf, Israel's failure to provide an alternative, growing European anger etc.

I think this is a bigger deal than the Comey stuff. Like this is beyond characters in the Trump cinematic universe—this is a local pillar of his community being targeted for, what, exactly? It cannot be tolerated.

You might also remember when Ken Starr was forced to resign from Baylor University for failing to act on the reported sexual assaults of at least 6 students.

Cuomo could never.

one of the reasons why the state of education research bothers me so much is because these are empirical questions with quantifiable answers! we should not be replying on anecdote here. we need an actual RCT or something similar of this.

Went under the radar but Italian PM Meloni yesterday said at the UNGA that Italy would back the sanctions proposed against the State of Israel on the EU level, it is now all eyes on Germany

This teeny marsupial is a newly described species named for the Chachapoya, who lived in the Peruvian Andes before the Inca. 🧪

one hundred contributions AND seven thousand (and forty-seven) dollars!!!!!!

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

I read it for the Sidewise Awards. Great novel. Highly recommend. Love especially how it features people from the past taking advantage of people from the future (rather than the other way round).

Congress can stop this any time they want

okay so a key piece of context is that your average insurance defense attorney is both an unbelievable moron and an amoral demon who has never experienced a negative consequence in their life

Israel has fucked the duck on a level their deranged politics can't comprehend.

the only conclusion which tankies can come to is "the October Revolution was an op"

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

pro-tip for anyone who ever visits: the most elite meal you can get in charlottesville is half a chicken, cilantro rice and charro beans from al carbon

somehow we're now within sight of $7,000 so I see you all loved today's news about as much as I did

To my prior post's point, I highly recommend reading this excellent essay from Shibley Telhami, a Palestinian-American pollster and Marc Lynch, a professor of international affairs, on the pitfalls of recognition as a mere Hail Mary attempt to preserve the two-state framework in a one-state reality.

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

HAHAHAHAHA EAT SHIT

lmao purple-ass comment

The 46 House Dems calling for recognition of Palestine. Becca Balint Donald Beyer André Carson Greg Casar Joaquin Castro Judy Chu Danny Davis Madeleine Dean Diana DeGette Christopher Deluzio Mark DeSaulnier Maxine Dexter Lloyd Doggett Veronica Escobar Dwight Evans Bill Foster (1/3)

Dems should absolutely, resolutely refuse to fund this unless [insert thing that he'll never go for].

For the history of the US reception/reaction, I will never stop recommending Alec Dun's book

Jeff Bezos has been catching heat for his assault on the First Amendment and his craven support of the Trump administration. But here's another reason he should be on the hot seat: powering ICE's immigration disappearance machine.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

The Wide Awakes understood this intuitively because they lived in a world where the most firepower you could hope to wield was a cap and ball revolver. But it is still true today.

No one wanted to claim Bush in 2008

if we can get him down into the 20s, we can start to really shatter MAGA into pieces.

people do not really understand that once a movement's popularity starts falling towards the 30% mark, it begins shedding even core supporters. this is because you can no longer maintain the information environment inside that core. there are just too many leaks.

'I didn't want everything to be about politics so I voted to bring back the most partisan president in modern history cause idk, the economy?' is a whole swath of Guys (and Gals)

There's a reluctance to confront anti-social behavior in this country. For those who live in larger cities, I think a big part is the danger and total futility of talking to a mentally unwell person. For others, it has to do with a non-zero possibility that the person you're confronting has a gun.

These people need to be purged when we retake power.

YIMBYs are rapidly approaching christian youth pastor levels of proficiency in tying literally anything to zoning and housing. This is probably because, like God, land use policy touches everything.

What's fascinating is I wanted to go check these numbers against 2010 or 2008 numbers, but polling in news consumption didnt differentiate between online sources at all! It was just "the internet." It was a simpler time.

it's wild how much time dems spend figuring out how to hedge all their statements to not offend anyone when voters are this dumb

anyways you should probably join DSA so that guy gets annoyed by friends of mine in the org act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

This decision also plants a flag against SCOTUS' originalism: “A constitution adapts." And: "Due process is agile… Due process matures with technological developments to protect constitutional rights.”

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Reports indicate that Israel will soon totally restrict Mahmoud Abbas from leaving, or possibly returning to the West Bank as "retribution" for the Western recognition of Palestine.