I just had an Anton Ego eating the ratatouille moment reading "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker"

Dogs get to come home from a six-mile hike and just sleep. Nobody expects them to make dinner or “get ready for the week” or anything like that. 😤

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

At what point will our media ask about Trump’s obvious mental decline? He’s so far gone that he does not remember he was president in January 6, 2021

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

“Merit.”

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

FROG 🐸 SEMIOTICS 🐸 REDEMPTION 🐸 ARC

Genuinely wondering how long PTA considered “Hail Santa” before settling on “Hail St. Nick”.

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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...