This is right IMO. “Not who we are” may be aspirational, but the aspiration is important!

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

Poland is só f***ing cool

We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

I know votes on legislative packages often involve cross-cutting considerations, and members of Congress will have to weigh those. But if I were a member of Congress, I don’t believe I could vote for any appropriation bill that funded DHS without requiring changes in ICE and CBP practices.

I actually would disagree with this take - though he might not have known it, Hitler has essentially set the conditions to make eventual defeat and regime extinction very likely (and so his great power position very poor) by November 1940 at the latest, even with the success of Fall Gelb/Rot.

We tend to lose sight of how many war crimes Germany committed in WWI because the Germans were so much worse in WWII; but ofc, you can be much, much better than the Nazis but still be absolutely atrocious

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Almost certainly also true for Trump!

"I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face!"

How to end the war in Ukraine in one simple step: 1) Russia goes home to Russia. That's it. That's all it takes.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.

Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.

They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs. So we need to extract those costs.

Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!

Didn’t Dershowitz say it was okay for adults to have sex with teenagers, like, a couple weeks ago?

Tell me you remember absolutely nothing about the Obama & Biden administrations without telling me you remember absolutely nothing about the Obama & Biden administrations

Trump also responded to the video by threatening to kill the members of Congress who made it, which rather confirms everything they are saying…

Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

Wow, and the hits keep coming today. 'that Ukraine must accept' - or what? Putin will bomb their apartments? He's already doing that. Trump will freeze aid? Who is negotiating for the USA that they think that these proposals are anything but non-starters?

The only appropriate response when people make economic excuses for fascists:

Noteworthy that the gap between the popular vote & parliamentary results in British elections is regularly orders of magnitude larger than the popular vote-electoral college gap in the US

But also maybe they should ruin his life? A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life. Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

If the MSM possessed a sense of object permanence it might note that this flatly contradicts everything he has said about tariffs and prices for years.

My most woke opinion: White people should be banned from voting for two election cycles. Mainly as a laboratory experiment. We choose such fucking terrible people again and again. Let’s see what everyone else can come up with for a couple of goes.

I don't follow UK politics very closely, but my sense is that Starmer has essentially mirrored all of Joe Biden's failures, but more quickly and with fewer institutional excuses

This feels metaphorical

Reminds me of when Bill Donohue claimed that the Catholic Church doesn't have a pedophilia problem because most of the victims are "post-pubescent"

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Desecration.

NULLIFICATION!

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

This should be one of the requirements for opening the government. The longer the shutdown continues, the more Dems should add to the list.

I'm convinced that at least 75% of the discourse on The Life of a Showgirl has little to do with the album itself. It's an above-average record that's neither a masterpiece nor a bomb and being leveraged by many solely as a useful proxy for folks' competing resentments with the world and each other.

Realists will go on and on about how Russia can't help but feel threatened by NATO expansion but will never consider that their theory, if applied universally, also explains why former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact states would want to join NATO.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

This is genocide language…

If nothing else, it would force Trump Admin lawyers to say in court explicitly “this is a necessary part of our policy agenda” — make Trump supporters face the fact that this is what they voted for!