I've now read this article three times, sent it to multiple people, and ILLed a Girard anthology from my local library. Besides being just wonderfully and clearly written by @laurabullard.bsky.social, it may be a skeleton key for unpacking a lot of What's Going On Right Now.

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Renewables are stabilizing Texas's grid during record-breaking usage peaks, according to the infamously lefty environmentalists at [checks notes] ERCOT.

Setting aside the absurdly xenophobic framing, once again, there is ZERO truth to any of this. Everyone qualifies for Emergency Medicaid equally. Hospitals do not receive more for treating undocumented immigrants in an emergency than Americans. Speaker Johnson is flatly wrong.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

NEW: Texas Bishop Mark Seitz just met with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from migrants terrorized by the Trump administration — apnews.com/article/vati...

Is it possible to double-cancel a WaPo sub?

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

I'm terribly amused at the idea of a red-faced Brett Kavanaugh pounding beers angrily because people are accusing him of being responsible for the things he is responsible for.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

if this is what is going to pass for "news" why not just put up a screengrab of Sal's Pizzeria burning

a huge sign of overconfidence is letting Miller talk on camera. a uniquely revolting presence in an administration of sentient red flags.

One Battle After Another is the movie you probably need right now.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

making up a reichstag in my head to get really mad about

Sigh. There’s no right way to come to the US as a refugee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Just staggering levels of Are We The Baddies.

Remember when Hillary Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable“?

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Following Stephen Miller will eventually get you implicated in so many war crimes and civil/human rights violations.

This is kind of why it makes me crazy to see people on the left essentially say democrats should do the same as Trump except in reverse. Trump’s actions more or less do not recognize that we inhabit a nation. They are attempting a soft secession and servitude of Dem states, and we are the unionists.

That's what reactionaries want: not some alternative moral system, but a release from morality, from conscience, from the difficult work of being good. They want permission to indulge their darkest instincts. They don't want to be good, they want permission to be bad. Thus, whataboutism.

This is the key thing to notice about whataboutism: it is not actually a moral argument at all. It's not saying, "the thing you accuse us of is actually good," or "we didn't do it." It just says, "everyone does this bad thing, so you're not allowed to hold us responsible." It's permission.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

This is really, really great. It explains the whole Peter Thiel/Antrichrist thing and its roots in Carl Schmitt. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

Literally: "the underground railroad is too woke."

I think you should have to watch Mountainhead before using Sora 2.

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

Any solution now is going to be long & difficult. There was a super-easy solution -- just don't let the guy win the election -- but everybody had other priorities, I guess, so here we are.

And yet, Camus reminds us: www.justinreese.com/2025/too-stu...

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

He means us

I picked a hell of a day to make an offer on a house in the United States of America.

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.” This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.

American president declares war on American citizens.