Doomering helps Trump

When Biden was traveling around the country, giving speeches about all the infrastructure projects that were breaking ground thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, the media just repeated Trump saying “Sleepy Joe” was hiding in his basement, too feeble to campaign Did you know about those speeches?

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

CHOTINER: And the pizza place, what’s it called? ME: Dominos. CHOTINER: Right. And you can order from your laptop? ME: Yeah. Well, I can also use my phone. Sometimes that’s quicker. CHOTINER: And all the food in your fridge and pantry. When do you eat that? ME: Now hang on a second,

the Republican Party will get worse before it gets worse, but God willing it will also get a whole lot smaller

this is straight-up nazi shit

Trump would probably have preferred to make the Kennedy Center into some kind of MAGA venue but closing it works just as well, because the important thing isn't for them to win, but for us to lose

Maybe not the worst but most annoying thing about this Kennedy Center debacle is going to be the thousands of people with little to no knowledge of how nonprofit arts orgs are managed or funded busting out their uninformed axe-grinding takes all over the barely literate news coverage.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

There's a lot more evidence for Trump shitting himself in public than there ever was for the idea that Biden had Parkinsons, or that HRC had cancer back in 2016.

the culture war has assigned these scandals to opposing political teams but the epstein files and russiagate are the same story

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

10/10 ICE protest sign

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

yeah, so Fallout nailed it

We're gonna need a lot of boring-ass moderates to put this shithole regime in the ground. And you'd all better be ready to vote for them (and, indeed, for just about anyone with a 'D' next to their name).

If you are pissed off at how the Feds tear gassed families - tell it to the DA - Nathan Vasquez. He has more options than city council. And get it on public legal record with the Attorney General @agdanrayfield.bsky.social

When the President who owns both houses of Congress calls the Minority leader begging for deal, that’s considered losing?

So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning. A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.

2 blocks away, got a face full within minutes. Burned our eyes, noses, throats, skin. Many retching; kids, elders could not breathe. All remained calm & moved quickly, no panic, to get to fresh air blocks away. Helpers washed our eyes. I’ll be 65 in Feb, spouse 79. Never b4 attacked by our country 💔

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

34,000 trained volunteers, in one mid-sized city, is half of ICE and CBP's total law enforcement personnel combined

this website would hate it but i think it would be legitimately good politics for senators and house members to try to make this case louder and more publicly, both so the public can hear it and so these agents can hear it

The reason it is so weird to me when people call Epstein et al “pedophiles” is that it positions what they were doing as some kind of taboo, unspeakable aberration and not the *exact* sort of thing that society has openly promised men they deserve once they get rich and powerful enough.

Stop doomscrolling and take a few deep breaths while you watch my kitten try to swim laps around the bathtub. (It’s not quite deep enough; we need an overflow drain cover.) #Caturday

I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe. “So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?” Fuck off.

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

Forgive me for being a little harm-reductiony but I do actually think legislating uniform standards is a high priority because this shit is getting ridiculous

it continues to be hilarious that that QAnon and Pizzagate believers constructed entire code languages that the secret pedophile cabal use to communicate and then every actual Epstein email is just: Dear Jeffrey, I love the girls you got for me, very nubile. Can't wait to see you at RapeFest 2012!

What I actually did was allow credentialed press from mainstream outlets sit in my car on the condition that they identify no one but myself, something dozens of observers have done, but it’s fascinating how paranoiac mania over that imagined offense has evolved into vast crimes in 24 hours

Boris Nikolic, a guy who served as a chief tech advisor to Bill Gates, saying 4chan was ripe for manipulation in 2011, and just a few days after /pol/ went live is sending me to my breaking point, man.

the correct way to understand the protest opsec stuff is that its a shibboleth for guys who attend left wing protests regularly that lets them exert status over recruits. i would regard it as pretty benign if these people werent actively discouraging people from getting involved.

it’s so funny that people post this OPSEC shit on Bluesky, a website that is by design trivially easy to scape and data-mine.

Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.

Again Will is a left wing civil rights lawyer whose worst sin is stubbornness and whose greatest virtue is also stubbornness. That he has been transformed into a demon in the minds of losers is evidence of how pathetically inadequate their vision of actual wickedness is.

They existed under an apartheid regime where the government and associated paramilitaries had historically murdered Black people with complete impunity for crimes such as "being a little too assertive in a general sense"

Stop doom scrolling, take a couple deep breaths, and enjoy how happy my kitten is.

I often speak of Maurice having "needy" days where he demands to be picked up & held but today I wonder if maybe sometimes he just looks at me reading the news & thinks, "Okay but what would be much better for you would be to be forced to hold a cat & kiss him on the face for ten minutes straight."

Treated myself to a couple of @gailmyerscough.co.uk arts. Look how pretty!

One detail getting lost in the coverage of Don Lemon's arrest? The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.

A+++ Appalachian protest sign:

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

These warehouses are why the push to get Portland to pull ICE’s building permit and evict them is a mistake. It would make white people feel better while making things much worse for immigrants.

Security theater undermining activism is a real thing that happens all the time. People need to sit down and actually learn how to think through threat models.

No vote tonight on the funding deal because — and I am not making this up — Lindsey Graham was insisting on undoing this so he can personally enrich himself to the tune of millions in taxpayer dollars

<<Taps sign>> abolishing ICE is off the table for now, so the immediate the goal is harm mitigation. Harm mitigation is good, even if it comes in banal forms like tying up ICE with red tape.