Absolutely fucking evil. American Stasi, without the style.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

The carnage.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Let’s not deceive ourselves about the evil.

Never forget Trump v. United States and the role Roberts’ opinion plays in the thinking here. They are now entirely unafraid of criminal liability so long as they characterize all of this as the exercise of “legitimate state power."

Imagine these losers hyping each other up all day long in their sad minivan as they travel from middle schools to hospitals to throw people who are at most a foot shorter than them to the ground

It’s happening fast.

Look — until we come to understand that substantial elements (elements that are growing every day) of what we’re confronting are, in fact, evil . . . that evil, which very much knows itself as such, will be using our naivete as a weapon against us.

Perfect. The “Kavanaugh Stop."

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

This post is getting ratioed on X because all the Democrats are like "no they're not" and all the Republicans are like "no we're not"

Yeah. They are.

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

the president has begun ranking generals out loud by fuckability

David Cross folks.

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

No more than nine unassisted pushups, total, in that entire crowd of mouthbreathing dipshits.

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Look. They’re motherfuckers using force against Americans who aren’t in line with their project. The point is to terrorize the weak as a way of threatening the rest of us. We can drone on about the untapped reserves of bravery left in this country, but I’ve seen no evidence that it’s there.

They’re just the fucking American Stasi.

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime." Andrey Vyshinsky

“Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime.” — Lavrentiy Beria

It is impossible to overstate the unprincipled arrogance underlying this Court’s shadow docket. It is unpredictable (at least by reference to precedent), unexplained, punitive, and unashamedly political. It is among the most destructive developments I’ve seen in my 40 years of doing this.

Apt.

Truer words . . .

Incredibly depressing, and accurate. The goons understand that for so many Americans, “liberty” means only the satisfaction of their entertainment and other addictions. A principled, empathetic engagement with the world is tedious, labor-intensive, and returns little in the world they’re creating.

Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.

Gotta say I’m not a big fan of 2 Jim Crow 2 Furious

MAGA's Horst Wessel Moment: Using Charlie Kirk's Murder to Advance Authoritarianism MAGA is using the murder of Charlie Kirk to mobilize their cult & incite hate against all their critics, but the majority is fighting back with our voice and money. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

For these people to come out with something like this at this precise moment takes gigantic, well . . . onions, and represents a type of very, very serious patriotism that the mouthbreathers will never understand.

My God, these fucking people. They are wholly beyond parody.

Are all you white media punidts who have been cannonizing Charlie Kirk also going to start praising Nick Fuentes for practicing politics "exactly the right way" now that it looks like the suspect was inspired by Fuentes' "willingness to debate"? Or nah?

A conclusion with which it is impossible to disagree.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Every day now, you sound like a raving lunatic simply by using plain language to describe the degree of unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional nonsense that we have normalized & tolerated for the One Special Boy, because somewhere along the line we just stopped being a serious country:

John Roberts to America: “Shut the fuck up. We don’t owe you people shit, and we certainly don’t owe you an ‘explanation’."

Entirely apart from its execrable pro-Trump bias, this Court has basically emasculated the district courts and the courts of appeal in federal government litigation. The lower courts are just ticketing kiosks on the way to the rubber stampers at the top. This is how authoritarian systems operate.

Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration. See if you can spot the pattern...

sorry to report my finest work remains relevant

Remember this son of a bitch. Patrick O'Hanlon. If it bothers him that people know his name, there's a reason.