Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

Crazy how I can buy weed at the store here

Wake up another reason to hate this mf just dropped

Huge improvement imo

love the old man steps at 0:08

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

sort of striking how bad her performance was, given that she scripted it

timely!

Have we talked about how these federal agents all look like they're tweaking?

I’m a federal public defender. A local AUSA told me that the DOJ now refuses to help her prosecute jail guards who assault inmates on camera.

nope the $ from farm programs always goes to the owners

this is such a fucking idiotic farce

Disarray! www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

i wonder which of these two posts on her pro slur thread timnit blocked me for

making fun of people's weight is generally uncalled for but in the context of Hegseth's shit this photo is hysterical

american right wing culture war nonsense gets even more absurd when uttered with a non-american accent

The only thing funnier than francophone politicians yelling about Le Woskisme is Spanish speaking politicians railing against EL WOKISMO

Genuinely incredible how the word "woke" completely broke containment from the Anglosphere and seems to have given every right wing brainworms

Endlessly reposting "des charlatans de l'EDI" because lmao

Basically all those cyberpunk stories about cyberspace becoming as real, or even more real than meatspace were mostly right they just incorrectly believed you needed to achieve some form of “Virtual Reality” tech to do it. Turns out phone apps are more than enough

So much of British policing boils down to the idea that there's no point dealing with Low Intensity Crime even though Low Intensity Crime is the crime 90% of people have to deal with

One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Totally normal things happening in HISD, mostly desperately trying to tamp down on the huge negative reaction to the new school plan lol

Anyway I now have a microcontroller that says its AI but twenty years ago an identical one would have used the "fuzzy logic" buzzword lol

"AI" should only be used for discussing Steven Spielberg's seminal 2001 film.

yeah man that's what he did the paintings for, like that was what they all went to

"Forty-five percent" of US construction firms "report experiencing project delays due to shortages of their own, or subcontractors' workers." A growing economic debacle. It does not have to be this way. Wise and visionary public policy can channel migration into lawful, orderly pathways.

Reminder that Benny Johnson took money from russia to spread divisive content in the USA.

I’m gonna give it a 40% chance that Stephen Miller agitates for invoking the Insurrection Act tbh.

Sending this to every person I know that’s ever mentioned Huntington positively

The thing that I appreciate that @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social is saying here is, that when faced with genuine decisions about how to treat these events, too many erstwhile leaders don't know how to respond. It's because for too long forms & norms have substituted for knowledge of function & purpose.

Hence there is a side of liberalism that you frame not in terms of rights but security. Unless you constrain the king, he is a security threat to you!

One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!

have we not, as a society, moved past “elon musk says thing” as a headline

If there is good news it seems to be that exposing the interior to the immigration despotism of the borderlands through ICE’s manhunting seems to be having the exact same radicalizing effect that exposing the North to the slaver despotism of the South did through the Fugitive Slave Act’s manhunters

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police. Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

Something bleakly funny that the tyranny that infects America is not some kind of nouveau 20th century authoritarianism, but truly 17th century monarchic "rule without parliament"

our generations are the most educated of all of human history. people were only less sophisticated in their grasp of politics and history in the times you lionize

Pictured: Hegseth military ideal

to the extent that there is an answer to the mods' stated problem of belligerently off-topic replies, the answer is a lot less "engineer moderation tools" and a lot more "zap several thousand follow-farming resistlib accounts"

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

God I am so ready for a retvrn to turn-of-the-century edutainment politics (now updated to be queer-friendly)

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

They understand, and Biden did not, that the side that starts with command of the security forces and the military has a huge advantage. Their intentions have been obvious since Jan 6 2021 and Biden had four years to deal with the problem. He chose to put us in this position instead.

There was something inspirational growing up in this era, so much hope through science and cooperation Which is why is feels so awful becoming an adult when anti-intellectualism and pride in lacking empathy have taken root

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

this is what I can't stand about the Resistance LARPing: it doesn't fucking matter if Hamas and its allies were entitled to armed resistance when the collateral for their gamble became the entire population of Gaza

I think it’s a mistake to assume that she’ll actually run the place. She’ll be a roving political commissar/snitch, leave the actual work to others, and then when it fails claim she was betrayed by a woke staff and move on.

'bad at it and it doesn't matter because they the significant advantage on the guns' is basically how fascism works. if they don't have the guns, then there are consequences for failure