I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

By the way, this is another reason why inviting the Lincoln Project ghouls and Bulwark people into “the tent” is a horrible idea. They love this shit. This is all they wanted to keep doing the whole time.

Some people told me that it was important to let people like David Frum into the tent.

What just happened ... Comedy: Jamie Kaler

I remember being an irritating political science student asking about US interference in Latin American goverments. I was told by my liberal-leaning prof that we didn't do that sort of thing anymore. This would be right after the invasion of Panama and US election interference in Nicaragua...

Frog and Toad were sad for a while.

I voted for John Fetterman in his primary over Malcolm Kenyatta (and Conor Lamb) because of this. Kenyatta might have been somebody I had a positive feeling about rather than constantly being disappointed by or angry at. Fetterman has been considerably worse than even Conor Lamb would have been.

Bravery would have been refusing to carry out illegal orders. You shouldn't be praising people for just following orders when those orders violate international law. Every last one of them is a fucking coward. And so are you.

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Glad 2026 is almost over. 2027 can't be any worse.

Imagine the ballroom Trump can build when he tears down the House and Senate chambers.

Percentage of Trump's advisers/enablers who don't understand vs the percentage of them that understand perfectly well and are using the song intentionally?

There were some people who were adamant that the US military would not carry out illegal orders. Some were really smugly condescending about it. And some are still posting their opinions today. Even after the boat strikes. Even after yesterday's strikes and kidnapping...

Trump's chief contribution to American politics is revealing that you don't need a respectable veneer for evil, corrupt behavior. You can rob the bank, say you did it because you like money and you'll do it again, and challenge anyone to stop you

I'm getting mixed messages about what is okay to do to presidents

if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble

Not that crazy IMO ➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office ➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result

This is all just a distraction from how terrible the White House UFC card is going to be. /s

I did prefer when the US tried to keep blatantly illegal regime change at least somewhat hidden.

Thought I might do some maintenance rather than doomscroll. I briefly considered getting out a ladder to do a little needed maintenance. Outside. With the base of the ladder on a shoveled but still somewhat snowy area. I eventually talked myself out of this incredibly reckless behavior...

"We need to impeach and remove Trump before he sends your children to die in Venezuela" is a pretty compelling argument, but hey, I'm not the minority leader.

Was worried that 2026 was going to be worse than 2025. But it could have taken a few more days to get there.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I honestly don't understand how this isn't considered just straight up sexual assault of children.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

The ICC part of this had me like 'wait, what's happening now?' so I just did a quick search and apparently this and more is happening now (This article is from a few weeks ago, but my brain has been turned off for a few weeks so I missed it) www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The gun industry's purchase of the NRA followed by the NRA's purchase of Antonin Scalia was some of the most effectively spent money ever.

They want more crime and mass shootings. They like that stuff and want to make sure we can't pass laws to stop it from happening

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

the fires every poster here was forged in are too hot for people whose entire job is to write things like "are we too nice to the homeless?"

I got this email yesterday. I haven’t signed up for anything or installed any new apps or anything like that, I haven’t even installed the latest iOS update because storage space, and I’m confused about this. Why am I now using this and how can I stop if I am

Wow I had no idea it was actually true that vampires can't see themselves in the mirror

I'm old enough to remember when Michael Dukakis couldn't be president because a program started by the Republican governor before him gave a convicted criminal the opportunity to commit more crimes. Because Al Gore hadn't partially redeemed himself yet and thought that lie was fine to spread...

They wanted Cuomo to win and now they want to make Mamdani a failure

Some of the folks newly (finally) fleeing twitter apparently were worried about BSky being such an echo chamber.

I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature

[CSAM, which I guess I should be flagging a lot more than I have been] Musk has been knowingly facilitating distribution of CSAM. But it's going to be completely consequence free for him because his wealth inoculates him from consequences. (1/2)

(That, and because some of us have some basic goddamn empathy, but it wouldn’t all fit in the first post.)

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Well but we'd help you. Seriously, if this weren't ICE, half a dozen Minnesotans would appear with shovels, sand, plywood, muscle, and advice. You'd be on your way in a minute and also have learned how to rock a vehicle.

If you are going to inappropriately anthropomorphize something, can't you stick to the normal things? Like the Roomba.

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

no one stopped him from buying the US election, so he's doing the same with the UK, French and German elections too. Pretty logical progression. Europe's center-right and center-left are just as delusional and paralyzed in inaction as the Dems here were. They can't even log off the guy's website!

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

There was some info I really could only get from Twitter. It actually affected my wallet. It cost me real actual money. I still had to leave. And this was long before grok. [Daily fantasy sports was my main income source for a bit. In certain circumstances, instantaneous info was money.]…

In addition to the absolutely elite can aesthetic and ridiculously unnecessary fictional product lore, I love how they hinged the future of this beverage entirely on the people of Rochester and Dallas

Mother Fletcher’s Sooper Joose (1971-1972):A vaguely cherry-flavored cola from Canada Dry, marketed (with a tongue-in-cheek fictional lore) as a counter-cultural "bootleg soft drink", produced off the grid in a still by a deaf old woman. It was sold/tested exclusively in Dallas, TX and Rochester, NY