a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

I would never accuse the Iraqi Army of being well trained or using a lot of restraint. And yet in Mosul I came to expect more discretion from the average Iraqi soldier than U.S. cops who have never taken incoming fire.

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

Partial confirmation of what my source told me. The victims only traveled a short distance- sounds like they just left the immediate area. Meanwhile the CBP officers left the scene and at least didn't pursue them very hard. Did they panic and run? Get lost? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

all I want for Christmas is the ability to remotely induce heart attacks in other people using my mind

you couldn't trust the old FBI about this shit and if you think you could i got a bridge to sell you

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

i am willing to compromise by just insisting on prison terms for ICE employees. that is the moderate position.

this is very good journalism

one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.

thank goodness the post avoided dirtying it's hands with partisan politics last election

grok, do soldiers historically remain reliable if they go hungry?

Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things. we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures

war, war never changes.

why am I so orange and round where did my snout go aaaa 🎃

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this. Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

hate to say i told you so share.google/4FfpeWYJ8kEF...

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

ban social media, put heroin in the water supply

i guess fundamentally i don't have trouble imagining an American carrying out a public shooting for almost any conceivable reason. it's just something we do over here. availability of firearms is obviously a big part of why but not the only reason.

look they call the "everything" app, and everything includes the violent deaths of some of the most followed users on the site

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

oh my god

does this guy get a combat action ribbon or no?

this is a real setback for podcasters who want to grow up to run the FBI some day

this is all true but it's also hard to say how much that matters given the fact that this is literally their rhetoric all the time now

So far the distinguishing factor in the Kirk shooting is that the assassin fired a single shot. This is why I wouldn't be shocked if they'd used a bolt action. Otherwise I'd guess a hunter or experienced target shooter. It's weird for someone to shoot just once in this situation.

maybe this time will be different. they're certainly in a position where they could try throwing the law completely out the window and just do mass arrest against everyone who is mean to them online (which is what this is all about anyway) but from where I'm standing it's impossible to tell

the mainstream media and most of the Democratic party are gutless cowards too terrified of guns to stand up to the far right. So they never face any real push-back. but it does feel like the constant rhetorical escalations are turning into a kind of white noise

conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy

people saying "the shooter must've been a sniper" or "this was a professional hit" don't know what they're talking about. literally millions of Americans are technically capable of a shot like that we did have a high profile assassination by a marine corps sharpshooter...and it took him 3 rounds

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

Thinking about the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and how Italy's security services blamed it on anarchists, arrested nearly 100 activists and threw one of them out the 4th floor window of the police station. The bombing was carried out by a neo-fascist group with ties to the state security services.