So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

The British monarchy is more accountable to the public than the American presidency.

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

The best Star Wars movie remains Rogue One.

I yawned like 12 times reading this.

what's really funny is that the extremely specific example he gives here is something you could only possibly learn from a broad-based education in history and the humanities

There’s a guy in the airport watching Trump videos at full volume and I think we should legally be allowed to waterboard him.

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

It's not even close.

These words mean something, it’s important we figure out what.

“Disagree better” means let Spencer Cox do whatever he wants and if you push back on it you’re a violent hyper partisan member of Antifa

There’s more after the punch in the full video. Pro-ICE guy: “I’m gonna peacefully stand here and support my beliefs.” Hoodie guy: “You can go peacefully fuck yourself!”

Imagining one of those Borgs with a little rotating saw for a hand, cutting sandwiches diagonally

"you're gonna get in trouble for that" *stone-faced* "okay" goddamn son

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

20. But I have the ‘tism and live off the same six meals I rotate through.

I think the most likely outcome is that Dems win in 26 and 28, fix like sixty percent of Trump‘s damage by 2030, and promptly lose the 2030 midterms because the average voter has the memory of a goldfish.

Every-fucking-body knows this could turn into a shooting war, the entire point is that we still have a lot of options before that happens and we should exercise them fully before breaking that glass case

IMO a big thing to worry about is Trumpy lone-wolves "working towards the Führer". Like, maybe some ICE agent, knowing that he has "absolute immunity" if he's saving the country and such, storms a registrar's office demanding all the mail-in ballots (since Mr. Trump made mail-in voting illegal!).

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

a little bit of fiction: It’s the 41st millennium and things are fine. You can see the cities on the Moon from the surface of the Earth. (You can’t see the Martian colonies without a telescope or a satellite feed, obviously.) We’ve been to all of the planets and most of the asteroids.

My mourning? For Adonais.

Old school #DataViz? In a way. This WA Geological Survey plate map shows the time of first ashfall from Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Isochron lines show the ash cloud’s eastward push across the Pacific Northwest, stretching into the morning hours of Monday, May 19.

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.

it continues to be hilarious that that QAnon and Pizzagate believers constructed entire code languages that the secret pedophile cabal use to communicate and then every actual Epstein email is just: Dear Jeffrey, I love the girls you got for me, very nubile. Can't wait to see you at RapeFest 2012!

i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents. and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"

This is kind of a big one. Those crews with the highest amount of ops training and focus as well as recent combat experience are headed across the pond. 10/

The Jedi wouldn't interest Doctor Crusher much, apart from doing some scans to see if she could detect the source of her powers. But if one of them died and came back to the Enterprise a force ghost? The janitorial crewman would be doing triple duty drying the floors all of a sudden.

The Jedi would try to confront Q, who would just turn them into frogs for 10 hours and be like "haha this is what I think of your magic space powers" and then leave and the Jedi would be so embarrassed they wouldn't leave Ten Forward for like a week

Just want to point out, sharing Stancil's updates and also some of the stories he did with journalists was a super easy way for me to point people that aren't terminally online towards getting involved in anti-ICE activism. It was very valuable.

She'd be on the next plane. She'd break up with JD via text from the airport.

NEW: “I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?” Tim Walz asked @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social today. “It’s a physical assault,” Walz told him. “It’s an armed force that’s assaulting, that’s killing my constituents, my citizens.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Three tickets to Melania, please.

One ticket to Melania, please.

One of the big differences between Democratic leadership today and, say, 2006 is that in 2006 they were the left wing of the party and now they are, at best, at the center

"why can't I just vote for good things once and then have politics stop" - a bluesky story

Look at these beautiful people.

His dad lived to be 93! As long as he has any executive function he will use it to cling to power!

Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors

“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day

the Democrats should announce that they will not renew any contracts with XAI, Palantir, Tesla, or SpaceX and bankrupt the fucking tech right. announce that you have the votes to ban crypto too.

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

The snow in Northern Virginia has a crust of thick ice atop it, so when you walk around you feel like you're Legolas, lightly walking and not even breaking the surface. But then every once in a while you do break the surface and you feel like Gimli.