www.wdtv.com/2025/12/17/o... Just do a different job!

Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case. www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

This week I learned that in America its quite common not to like curry

elon musk: gatorade toilet. the toilet that’s never dry fortune: musk says toilet dryness could be eliminated by 2035

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP. Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

THIS is the story. That the feds are spying on people doing completely legal stuff and characterizing them as “anarchist violent extremists.” The story is NOT that you need to be afraid to court watch or patrol your neighborhood for ICE activity. DO NOT SELF-REPRESS.

“Orthodoxy,” is an interesting word choice to describe the body scientific research showing that lifesaving medicines don’t do what this guy is, at least, implying they do.

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

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This is a 30 Rock bit. This is “Seinfeldvision”.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

This dude’s brain is cooked.

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I feel like you folks should be aware of this:

Good time to remember that racists in this country have long been extremely anti-Catholic. Protestant Christians have long been one of, if not the most, racist demographic in the U.S.

Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops. Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.

NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors. Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw. "If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...

Oh, no. Not corporate taxes. Our poor, starving corporations.

Once again thinking about how difficult it is for the wrongfully convicted to get even a fraction of this kind of compensation, often after having served decades in prison or facing execution for crimes they did not commit.

Donald Trump nominated this man to be attorney general.

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

To the extent there was anything left of the Fourth Amendment for individuals (there already wasn’t much), it is rapidly evaporating.

Conservative ideology is fundamentally opposed to insurance because it requires the communal spreading of risk. Paul Ryan was making an ass of himself because of this long before Trump came along to be dumb about it.

Sam Altman should have to use his software to personally busk for the money.

It’s absolutely terrific.

“Still Tippin’” playing pregame at the WVU game. WVU by 1,000 points.

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

rulings like the one from scotus today hurt me most because i know how many trans kids and adults are quietly dying in the shadows

I sure would love to see if this seemingly weird article giving credence to very old nonsenical racist beliefs is actually mocking said beliefs as weird racist nonsense. But I am not giving up my payment information based on this headline.

As the face of the “progressive prosecutor” movement steamrolls to a 3rd term, let me be the millionth person to note that when that movement loses elections it’s billed in national media as a crisis for the left, while the movement’s high points, of which there have been many, are largely ignored.

Post-conviction work is grueling and wins are few and far between, but every now and again we are reminded why we do the work.

At this point the First Amendment is functionally more protective of a corporation's right to spend billions of dollars to influence an election than it is of the right of individuals to criticize the government.

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

Further proof that "tough on crime" is never actually about safety. It is about violent social control. If that makes crime go down, that's a plus. But if it makes crime worse, that's never a reason to stop--and in fact that rise in crime is (somehow credibly) used to justify more toughness.

The New Guilded Age! It stinks!

Penn State: 3-5, 0 ranked wins Clemson: 3-5, 0 ranked wins West Virginia: 3-6, 1 ranked win

neal brown will never see valhalla

Wooooooooo! #WVU

people are saying west virginia

people are saying that huntr/x has saved west virginia

A Supreme Court justice with money in Big Oil is now deciding whether Big Oil can dodge state lawsuits for wrecking the planet. Samuel Alito isn’t just breaking ethics rules — he’s helping his own investments. Full story from @freddy-brewster.bsky.social 👇 www.levernews.com/alitos-oil-i...

JetBlue has now cancelled my partner’s flight two days in a row. Today it was roughly an hour before takeoff. Glad we have a functioning government and regulatory apparatus to deal with these situations and protect consumers! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

I’m not sure why Brazil was a red line, but this is a good reminder that it would only take a handful of Republican senators to rein in this administration on MANY issues.

American mass media is conservative propaganda.

Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.

These people like the Nazis and want to emulate them.