"of course he didn't do Venezuela for oil, they have a decaying extraction infrastructure that would require massive capital investments that no prudent corporation would make in a destabilized nation" Ok your mistake here is thinking these guys check these things

To be fair, when they said these things are like PhD students now, they really were telling the truth: Lots of anxiety, ✔️ Uncertainty about their level of consciousness, ✔️

Laugh cry in current news cycle

The two parties are not the same. But god DAMN do the Dems try to disabuse me of that notion some days.

Look, as much as I generally like Costco and support them as a company generally, can we let this idea that they held the line on prices during the tariff fight die? I do our budgeting and meal planning. Prices for my Costco staples are up 10-20%, especially sugar.

When one Fetterman gets kicked out the door, another one climbs through the window.

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The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Man, when I asked to have my youth of 2003 back, I really didn't think the genie was actually just going to give me new episodes of Scrubs, Pokemon everywhere, and invading the middle east

These fucking assholes

Guess we gotta go conquer the world before the Claude subscription runs out

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

We made Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust.

I made a paper airplane out of a sheet of work letterhead, but no matter what I can't get it to fly. I've tried everything, but no matter what, it remains stationary.

When you think about it, Karl Urban did a great job of playing Bones in the new Star Trek, truly adopting and building on the performance of DeForest Kelly. So it's really backwards of what we've always been told by the environmentalists: DeForestation leads to Urbanization

Ok, so Trump's out there already trying to reimpose tariffs under a different authority. Not great, but less worrisome:

extremely funny that the Supreme Court says absolutely nothing about how the tariffs are supposed to be reimbursed ahead of the endless flood of lawsuits that are coming the administration is already running out of lawyers! have fun with that

The thing about these guys is, they really actually do believe in the idea of Atlas Shrugged: that if the "titans of industry" were to withdraw their genius (or in this case, be locked away) that the world would just collapse. Paul Ryan used to make interns read the book. My FIL loves it.

There is literally only ONE reason to post this anywhere right now and you better goddamned not forget it

ok but how is the opposition party supposed to win over his supporters now, have they even thought about that

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

"We can do our OWN mass surveillance thank you very much"

Your routine reminder that Ron Johnson is one of the most soulless people ever to walk this earth and one of the worst people to represent my home state outside of Joe McCarthy.

My wife asked me why I hadn't taken out the trash yet and when I told her the Dow is above $50,000 she did NOT consider that an acceptable answer, so can someone explain what I did wrong here? It seemed to work so well for the Attorney General.

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

Watching this congressional hearing this morning and this is one of the most embarassing displays from any attorney I have ever seen (and I've seen some pretty bad ones). This is the Attorney General of the United States. It's just appalling and incredible to watch.

JFC

Actual footage at the FAA this morning

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

I've discovered the identity of the unnamed White House staffer who posted that racist video. You're not gonna believe this. His name is Donald Trump.

There is no circle of hell hot enough for the people perpetrating this.

ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Don't threaten me with a good time

They were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)

This shit is just all so horrible. This is EXACTLY what the people who wrote the Fourth Amendment hated the British doing.

So, I wasn't going to comment on this, but it's been bugging me all morning. I want to be clear up front: I am neither defending Julie Le's decision nor am I going to put her on blast here. Both I think are far too easy hot takes, and I really don't think either are accurate.

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

What it says to me is that if W*ll and Br*ce are to be believed, a very effective resistance network has decided that they are a threat or at the very least a potential threat, and decided not to trust them. And that W*ll and Br*ce believe an outside authority should override that decision.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

The appropriate question is not, "is it good to light dumpsters on fire?" The appropriate question is, "how do you manage that situation in a way that keeps people safe." And if you cannot navigate that question, you should not be bloviating on the finer points of street protest strategy.

Gwen nails it here as usual.

Sigh... ok, last Will Stancil thing and then I'm done. So, Will got himself punched in the face because he decided to video a guy lighting a trash fire. He's out there justifying it because that's what he *thinks* being a legal observer is. THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THESE KINDS OF GUYS.

I'm a Philadelphia lawyer, member of NLG, Legal Observer trainer, & I endorse this 🧵 - LOing (w/ or w/o capital letters or green caps) is a very specific role - only thing I'd change here is that as LO I would try to alert other LOs, quietly & if possible, if I spotted a cop; def goes in notes

Claiming the mantle of a very critical role in protest space (legal observer) and willfully twisting its definition to mean "adversarially collect footage of protesters doing things I personally disapprove of" is breathtakingly irresponsible. It is DANGEROUS.

So, plenty of people are dunking on Will Stancil tonight. I don't want to be one of them. Here's the thing: there's a *lot* of Wills out there, especially right now. He's not trying to cosplay civil disobedience warrior right now. He's *not* just LARPing this. And he's still problematic.