The Empire Strikes Back (opening day) (1980) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) BONUS ROUND - Movies I have still never seen: Titanic Avatar, any of them Star Wars Episodes 2 and 3 Any movie starring Vin Diesel or Jason Statham

As someone who polled for Gallup briefly in undergrad, let's be clear, this is Gallup cutting off their nose straight off their face. Their bread and butter is polling on behalf of companies but name recognition from political polling is the main reason respondents stay on the line

Quick reminder that Jonathan Haidt's role in the discourse is to provide a pseudo-academic gloss to conservative morality, to make reactionary responses to social issues seem reasonable, and he should be ignored on basically any topic

Warehouses aren't prisons. These facilities aren't built to hold people - they won't have the insulation, HVAC systems, or bathrooms. Either they'll be retrofitted - a huge cost and time sink - or they'll be concentration camps, holding thousands of people in squalor. Which do you think it'll be?

a) Bullshit, the scale of the slowdown is waaay larger than the scale of deportations to date, this is mostly a tariffs/instability issue b) The real economic adjustment in re: deportation is that we're not just deporting those job holders, we're deporting their work product and consumption as well

I feel like we're overlooking the biggest and most obvious Epstein scandal, which is that the President may have killed Epstein to silence him? Congress can pore over millions of documents from a sex trafficking case but um, what about the Putinesque suspicious death in state custody

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

The core difference between a detention center and a concentration camp is whether the people being held there are being given adequate space and care and resources. Dilley - a holding pen *for children*, to be clear - is run like a concentration camp.

Drake's second worst Super Bowl ever

In this guy's defense when you're matching an ambassador with a ruling clique you look for things they share in common

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

the modern equivalent of the ford pinto. they should be pulled off the road.

This is a dumb carve-out and it shows how Schumer thinks. Everyone knows the GOP will not pass restrictions on ICE. Rather than paint a stark contrast, Schumer thinks there's more value in claiming middle ground. Alas, murders in the street force people to take sides. No one is impressed Chuck

most concrete evidence yet provided that BJG is a right wing op

Yes. This is the best way to understand the context of virtually everything in global politics: selfish mega-billionaires are convincing each other they're powerful enough to achieve escape velocity from society. They aim to pacify us with propaganda until they can replace us with robots

This is bullshit and a fine example why you shouldn't listen to unqualified bozos speaking out of their ass. Two sentences, several errors: 1) Having people work a year earlier means less education, which lowers their taxable income 2) For most Americans, circumstances dictate when they retire

This kind of exposes the lie behind the whole "cancelling" thing, right? Being big pals with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker is um, a VERY bad look! If you think getting fired for that is an unfair "cancellation"...what does that say about your moral standards?

Right. The MN protests make an impact precisely because they're recognizably normies doing public nonviolence. Black block in masks would get anonymously pummeled and the press would shrug and both-sides it. This isn't a Klan march circa 2017. The fascists have power, the game has changed

Russian Bots are stealing another election

Trump didn't pivot even a little bit. He wanted to change the narrative and knew he could rope-a-dope the press for a news cycle or two. So he pushed an embarrassing tiny weirdo into early retirement, said something vaguely conciliatory one time in front of a camera. Otherwise he changed nothing

The press gets rope-a-doped by Trump every time. He said "we need to turn the temperature down" ONE time and the press spent three straight days saying "WHEW! Glad that's over! Time to cover worthless legislative pfaff!" Except IT'S NOT OVER. 3000+ Fed thugs are still terrorizing the streets of MN

This is exactly why Schumer and Jeffries are blowing the Dems’ one chance for true leverage: this administration gives zero fucks if something is illegal. It’s adopted the oligarch playbook of do illegal shit, then let it get tied up in courts for years to come after the damage is already done.

This, but I'd go further. Scalps are worthless. Let them sit there, the same people who called murder victims terrorists, and continue being the face of the Trump project. The one important thing is to prevent Trump from using force to subvert or overturn elections. That's your yardstick

People keep pointing out that this is hypocritical, but is it? Fascists don't believe in universal rights. They don't want YOU to carry guns - you can't even have one passively in your possession without forfeiting your right to live. But rest assured, THEY can carry loaded guns anywhere at any time

The problem with any such compromise is that the Trump administration clearly doesn't give a shit what the law says when it constrains them and this SCOTUS will giddily pretend it's not happening. Trump will sign this into law and immediately forget it exists. No more money for ICE, period

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"

The thief of tens of millions of dollars in crypto from the United States' stash of seized crypto assets is allegedly the son of the owner of a company that contracts with the US Marshals to manage said seized crypto.

My LORD if the Senate Dems cave into funding ICE after this Schumer should be shot straight into the sun. No more money for death squad training school.

"classical liberal democracy" = putting individual liberties at the center of political thought, e.g., the ideas described in the Constitution: all of us are created equal, endowed with inalienable rights, etc. Calling that "woke leftist ideology" is either incredibly stupid or shockingly honest

My best guess is, he knows damn well that an MN-style ICE invasion could turn Texas blue, and he knows that in order for Stephen Miller to hit his deportation quota ICE will need to go somewhere with many more undocumented *and* more MAGA support. Which means TX/FL. Curious if DeSantis follows suit

The moron who fell for Jade Helm thinks ICE has gone too far

It's not about immigration enforcement, y'all

Take notice but let's not praise the man. He was fine with being a Republican one month ago, and currently the MN Dems could run the desiccated corpse of Walter Mondale against anyone in the GOP and win by 30+ points. This is a business decision, not a moral one

It’s -2000 degrees below zero. You just flashbanged yourself twenty feet from the front desk. Three hours sleep cause locals who hate you bang garbage cans outside your room all night. The Home2Suits has fallen and you’re not getting that signing bonus for another 4.5 years. Ass. It’s all ass, dude.

The game plan: Subpoena her, drag her before Congress, make her repeat her venal lies under penalty of perjury

REMINDER: If you want Dem senators to shut down ICE/DHS funding here are the Senators to focus on: Cortez-Masto Fetterman Rosen Shaheen Hassan King Gillibrand Peters Murray And also probably Durbin, Schumer, Schatz. Light up the phone lines on Monday am: (202) 224-3121

he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.

New I-35 pit stop, eventually? Looks like they just take delivery orders rn

Everyone in the Democratic party needs to be asking why this is necessary *in New York*. What is so wrong with the state party that this could ever happen? Is Wall Street money is deliberately pushing do-nothings and wilting pansies into party leadership? Worth examining!

They're kidnapping 12-year-olds for not carrying ID

Trump approval, per The Economist — Georgia: -18.6% Maine: -18.4% Texas: -17.2% Michigan: -15.8% North Carolina: -13.6% Ohio: -9.2% Iowa: -8.7% Florida: -7.5% South Carolina: -7.3% Mississippi: -6.9% Alaska: -6.6% Louisiana: -5.1% Nebraska: -1.8% These states all have Senate elections this year

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

Exactly. Anyone who tells you the observers are increasing the violence has it exactly backwards - ICE isn't committing anywhere near enough violence to do a proper ethnic cleansing because - and perhaps *only* because - they're being constantly watched and filmed

It's really annoying that the administration has successfully gotten many people to accept the premise that it would be okay to murder her if he had been nudged with her car at low speed when he was not even, in fact, nudged with her car at all and just fucking slipped and panicked

Yes it's weird and pathetic...but isn't speaking Trump's language (bribery) the best move Machado has? Plus, she just gave him the medallion and a plaque she made. Not the award itself (or the $1.2M). She's getting a lot of leverage for a wall ornament. The only downside is ah, losing some dignity

This is the other thing about all this. It's not like there's a big, substantive affordability platform Democrats have all agreed on that we're supposed to be choosing instead of immigration, Trump's abuses of power and all the rest. People are just saying the word "affordability" right now.

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