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It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Yup.

"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Dan Campbell's letting the people know right now. IYKYK

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

there's a certain kind of tech high priest who also seems constantly shocked and offended that a lot of people don't buy their "we have to bring this glorious new tech into being for the greater good, which will also result in me becoming unfathomably wealthy and you losing your job" sales pitch

I've spent my entire life being told that everything I do is useless, mocked and being told no one should be paid for "underwater basket weaving," and now they're like, "I must steal all the underwater basket weaving lore because it's imperative for my survival" Eat farts, my dudes.

I like Lincoln. I’ve always liked Lincoln, even when people want to “Well, ackshully…” him. One of the reasons we are in this mess is because one of our two political parties is not strong enough to say, “Lincoln is good. So are vaccines. The earth is not flat. Quit being weird.”

Raju: Have you seen that letter? Burlison: I would like to see it matched with his handwriting Raju: Here’s the letter Burlison: I don’t want to see it

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.

There is no indication that republican leaders or voters even know what current immigration policy looks like. Their views are driven by Breitbart blowups about caravans, Haitians eating cats and MS-13. Change the policy all you want, they'll never give you an ounce of credit for it.

Doj: If excessive force were used then obviously a bivens remedy would apply or you could sue the officer or the department A: OK about that bivens remedy Doj: lol no A: ok we sue the officer Doj: hahaha qi A: we, uh, we sue the department? Doj: lol this your first time buddy

The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.

compare missouri senator eric schmitt to notorious pro-slavery ideologue george fitzhugh

Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Normal fucking country

Los Angeles is back in action. The neighborhood parks were thronged today, abuelitas and little children, full families and stragglers in the sun. The playgrounds were *hopping* and I saw venderos I hadn't seen in ages... 3/

Dude is so dumb he’s doesn’t realize his excuses actually make it worse.

jesus christ

Holy fuck.

the basic argument of these guys is that lincoln was wrong, douglass was wrong, jefferson was wrong.

One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.

bluesky is finally posting about cfb and I would just like to say thank christ

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

Update: it got funny again

1,000,000% this.

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.

I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism

So it's kind of like what they think of as socialism, but like, maybe, a national kind?

Government by drunk Thanksgiving uncle

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

1. Entering the daycare without a warrant 2. Chasing the child through a playset 3. Burglary of daycare 4. Dragging away old lady

I’m not sure there’s a way back to civilization for adults who’s moral compass allows them watch a little girl, shackled at the wrists and ankles, limp up the stairs to Prison Airways and not quit on the spot. “Guys I’m not doing this.” And you walk away. That’s the only acceptable human reaction.

People who are like “I bought my Tesla before Elon turned evil” forget that in 2018 he called a guy who helped rescue those Thai kids stuck in a cave a “pedo” because the guy rightly said the mini-sub Musk sent was useless for the mission. Keep that in mind when reading this thread.

just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.

Because those dastardly Mexicans could never possibly come up with a counter strategy as brilliant as… gloves.

Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...