I always do this and then get distracted and quit. But I can't *not* grind for several hours at Mandalia.

This is well done.

Useless lady whose last job was being part of a useless administration and has been (sorta understandably) absent for 10 months wants you to think she has any meaningful ideas about how to do useful things for a country in crisis, or how to beat a party that beat her ass.

You really have to hand it to the people who came up with the concept of “cancel culture” — it’s a tremendously flexible tool usable by everybody. Why, here it is being used to explain why an organization nominally about values can’t reject overt antisemites.

More offensive than the misuse of funds is that this guy has a girlfriend

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

This sounds like a goddamn nightmare

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

"experience" is just shorthand for "i fucked that up already"

Bill Melugin got more details but Anna G. at the Examiner broke the story. Worth noting also that Bill is clearly telegraphing the message that the rank and file at ICE are NOT happy about this. This is going to be a good time for reporters to get inside stories from disgruntled ICE staff.

I was doing this last month when I realized it had been too long since I listened to QOTSA. Hell yeah, buddy.

you will note that the latest report, like all the reports, spend no time dealing with with the media environment or attention economy. (it also weirdly treats political choices as untethered from events)

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Compare this to how Whitmer just dismissed the idea of anyone caring about tearing down the White House

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

This is the future liberals want.

The fact that some prominent Democrats defend a Maine Senate primary candidate’s Nazi tattoo while he isn’t even leading in polls, but not defend a NYC mayor primary winner from false smears even as he’s leading general election polls says a lot. That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

Please get ICE on the task of tackling and arresting our illegal wolf immigrants. I need to see that body cam footage.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

I saw the news the other day about Billups and Rozier being arrested for the poker games thing, but this whole inside info scheme is news to me. I really love Bluesky for what it is, but damn we need more primary sports content around here. Sure, I'm probably not following the right people. Still.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

First, this is a lie. Second, even if it were true, this is the same argument as "govern to meet the polls" BS we keep telling Dems to stop doing. What it would actually indicate is that the absence of meaningful Trek for 20 years led to folks failing to develop decency and empathy.

A) this is not how established case law pertaining to use of force in the US works, even where Qualified Immunity is concerned B) for all I know, by the Supreme Court gets done with it, he might be right

“Don’t protest.” Not great when federal law enforcement leaders start directly and openly denying the existence of the literal and explicit First Amendment.

I bring this up all the time at work. You can use AI to do a thing, but now you've just moved the human work from building to testing... And then you check two data points and say "hey, it's good!"

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Where the founding fathers went wrong is assuming that there was no way any group could subvert all three branches of government at once. They were clearly too optimistic in believing that at least two branches would have enough honorable people in them to stop anything serious from happening.

Welp! Remember what I said the other day? "If white people have to accept some racism in order to get another thing they want, they will do it."

Not just consumers, who have limited options in a market of monopolies. These companies and their leaders need to be held accountable by a Reconstruction govt as well, just like everyone else participating in this admin's illegal and immoral acts. Failure to do so in 08 is part of how we got here.

Zohran should refuse IMO. Start the process of casting Jeffries out. Guy is useless.

This is a screenshot of Graham Planter in a conversation, six years ago, about how the Totenkopf was an SS symbol. If you are one of the people on here who actually believes that he did not know what the tattoo was until just recently it's because you WANT to be lied to

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

You know how when you buy a new car you see that model of car everywhere? You know how when you get a new puppy you see that breed of puppy everywhere? Wouldn’t you think that if you got skull tattoo you’d notice that same skull when it showed up in movies or in history books? He is lying.

propaganda works

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

You know German Nazis can’t get Totenkopfs because it’s illegal here so yanno what they get a lot? The Stars and Bars. I wouldn’t buy it if one of them told me they didn’t know what it meant either .

Another Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter leader has been outed as a neo-nazi and member of violent white supremacist organizations Patriot Front and Active Club.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

it’s not a nazi tattoo, but if it is, he didn’t know it, and if he did know, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, he’s grown since then no, fuck you

Are the No Kings/Indivisible events perfect? No. Are they a really good start? Yeah. There's a lot of folks sneering because it's "not enough". Even if you agree that it's "not enough", people who won't go to a party for two hours will also never show up to throw the bricks, either. So fuck 'em.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Great essay that explains with copious illustrations the question of why Mario dies like that