"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.

When ICE is abolished—which, again, will take not just a new agency but new and more sensible policy—you will have to watch for “Real IRA” or “Quantrill’s Raiders” types who claim to keep the faith. That’s going to happen, and they will have to be crushed.

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them. they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret

We should use this moment to remember that NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT JOHN YOO helped us get here thank you

So that’s how Sohrab Ahmari’s modified, limited face turn is going

This is important. And partly why the entire rightwing infrastructure from GOP to Heritage to Manhattan to ALEC were so terrified of 2020. Millions of the folks marching for racial justice and demanding a racial reckoning were *white*

Even now, even through all of this, the rapid responders in Uptown have continued to locate, pursue, and monitor ICE vehicles. They never stop. Heroes one and all

the "and you're surprised by this?" guys have never been less vital than they are right now

/15 Ritual abuse and deliberate humiliation are baked into the American criminal justice system and approval of it when the defendant is an enemy is a cancer on the American soul. Have a nice day.

4 vs. 70 isn’t ‘misreading the base’ that’s some ‘I don’t give a fuck enough to read’ math even I can tell and I can barely do addition

And did those feet In modern times Walk upon England’s mountains green

"Pancakes are only America's third-favorite breakfast item" is often much more annoying than "so you hate waffles?"

Correct. 25A is no more a medical decision than impeachment is a legal decision. Politicians don't suddenly ignore politics when tasked with determining if an official is "fit to serve."

As I think about it, the 25th Amendment wouldn’t be necessary even for this. Impeachment and conviction are a judicially unreviewable political process. A “high crime or misdemeanor” is whatever Congress says it is. You could impeach Comatose JFK for absenteeism if you had to. Problem solved.

Avoiding parasocial relationships online by pissing people off

Serial killers. Zombies. Vampires. Boring.

I am just a small-town political scientist, & it’s a long way to November, but allow me to again note that it doesn’t appear that The Democrats actually need to do any of the things that Ezra Douthglesias or the Deciding To Win folks or the Crypto-Enabling Word-Policing Senators insist they Must Do.

fictional serial killer after being caught: ah detective, but when you rage at me, are you not really raging against God? I see you, a vulnerable little boy, after your mother died. I know those feelings. real serial killer: well I guess you guys caught me. can I have a cheeseburger?

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

And if the power goes out and the gas stove won’t light, I’ve got two bags of charcoal and a pizza stone

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that woke, for lack of a better word, is good. Woke is right, woke works. Woke clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

I think folks may be wildly underestimating what goes on in a Black woman’s mentions on social media. Especially one who’s been online for decades. That tone doesn’t come unearned, I’m sure.

William Empson: there are seven types of ambiguity Walter Becker and Donald Fagen: seven? you are a little baby

The argument against ICE isn't an especially difficult one to make politically in this moment. The issue is that people who substantively disagree with abolishing ICE prefer having a proxy fight about strategy to discussing that stance. Many such cases.

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

I say this with respect to our friend here, as opposed to others who called us a crank for not kissing Newsom's ass. There's perspective and perspective. The President of the United States is discussing invading a sovereign nation because he feels like it. You can think the Joint Chiefs or -

things are bad! (gift link)

This is two buckets at most

The monstrously depressing thing is that they may win a majority based on average American citizens desperate for someone in power to do ANYTHING to stop Trump's goons, and they will immediately say "See, our strategy was correct. Now let's turn the page on that unpleasant ICE business."

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

“We’re going to train the neo-Nazi who joined ICE in deescalation tactics” says the Democratic consultant who is entirely fine with ICE taking your children and putting three in your forehead

New survey shows relative share of white athletes in each major sport

The double cognitive load of a) the President is deranged, and nobody in power acting he's deranged is stressful, and b) there are millions of Americans who get their news from media sanewashing the President, so they don't *know* he's deranged, so they think *we're* deranged, is ... fun.

And in the absence of kitty litter, if you get stuck try almost anything that won’t destroy your tires. Planks of wood. Flattened boxes. Dead leaves scooped from the side of the road. Paper or recyclable shopping bags.

Today’s Letter Boxed reminds us that word games don’t accept proper names, except when they do

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

Starting to watch Undone on Amazon Prime. I may be a sucker for rotoscope

Suburban Maryland skeeps: anyone know when we might should start looking for Northern Lights?

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

One of my priors is that things are really bad if I am coming across news related to the bond market.

me, trying to show what a regular guy I am by using colloquialisms: “let’s suck off this popsicle stand”

Not sure I would have agreed to turn 65 if I knew I could still get those painful zits on my nose

Gonna spend the day succumbing to BlueSkyism (not creating CSAM from the site’s own tools)

The GOP is made up of people who’d rather live with the abusive father figure than share power with people they see as their inferiors.

Despite promises, the Zombies tell us almost nothing about the way she looked and the way she’d act, and nothing at all about the color of her hair

So many things are getting worse I think it’s important to celebrate improvements when we see them. I hardly ever see snitch-tagging any more.