No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

They're not sending their best people. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing their problems to us. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrest-g...

This is leadership. This is how we need to do what we need to do. Mamdani is a smart man and a good communicator. But don't think that this is something that you have to be a once-in-a-generation talent to do. He is modeling behavior for the rest of us about what politicians should be.

This is like if MiniMetro were Football Manager 2025.

Good on this guy for not being masked, I guess. Though that just means that unlike the cowards he works with, his management will target him for retribution, since they can't pretend to not know who he is.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

The first comment here is what I was going to post, and I haven't liked the Mets since 1969.

I would really like to see the next US government sign on the the Rome Statute. It’s clear that this country is failing to prosecute Americans who commit crimes against humanity, and that’s when the ICC is needed.

yeah man great optics. just keep standing in front of that armored van that you're using to disappear people and say the word 'Nazi' as many times as possible.

so he basically uses a cape to usher in her bull is that it

The thing that Chotiner's interviews reveal, time and again, is that these monsters literally _do not know_ that they're monsters. Their ethical framework is fantastically out of whack with that of normal human beings. And so they just...answer his questions.

Rule of thumb: If an LLM is better at doing your job than you are, you shouldn't have that job. decrypt.co/340418/ai-no...

they’re calling him the biggest bitch made crybaby in the history of mankind

The bitch of it is, Tylenol's surprisingly dangerous. Not because it causes autism - of course it doesn't - but because overdosing on it can cause severe to fatal liver damage. This occasionally happens to people who have a bad cold and take a bunch of different OTC meds that all contain it.

No previously published photo of this author has so clearly communicated that its subject is, through and through, a poster.

#ArtistFaveLP #MusicChallenge Tindersticks (second album) - Talk To Me The orchestral arrangement at the end of this is cuckoo-bananas. One inapt name for their genre is "chamber pop," and I sure as hell don't want to be in a chamber with that string section. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c384...

@hottakekaren has got to be a bit.

I feel that the Democratic establishment has severely underestimated the impact that their candidates being normal human beings can have on the electorate. Also, yeah, I consider this being a normal human being.

terrified that if the rapture is real and the people who think they're going, go, we will have to deal with thousands of dogs trained to bark at black people roaming free

Bouie uses "simulacrum" here, but I think the administration is less and less able to perform that kind of reality hacking, and is more and more engaging in sympathetic magic.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

If someone just shot my wife to death I’d for sure go to bed and not come out for a month, so good on Erika Kirk for bouncing back so hard that she can make speeches and get named CEO. I think I’d do the go-to-bed thing even if crawling over my wife’s body was a huge opportunity.

The more I think about St. Paul and what he was, the truer this feels.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

I don’t have the energy for it myself, but surely someone can capitalize on our national moment by creating an AI incarnation of Charlie Kirk so that his apparent millions of bereaved fans have a way of coping with their loss.

Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that"

ross douthat: i'm not saying change is bad. i'm just saying that real americans have concerns about how fast things are changing. ezra klein: [making constipated face, nodding politely] the no-shit groyper running the federal bureaucracy, paul ingrassia: we should kill this jew with a gun

I think we should be making a lot of noise about not going to any of Disney’s parks or cruises because of its cowardly and un-American capitulation to a dictator.

Not that I'm interesting in dating, but I only listen to three: The Dollop, It's Christmastown, and Swindled. Swindled does something with the form I haven't encountered anywhere else. If you know, you know. If you don't, you'll just have to find out.

The follow-up post is the best part.

The only good thing I've gotten from having a Washington Post subscription for so long is that I could cancel it after they fired Karen Attiah for having the gall to be a Black woman criticizing white people.

So in order to spread the narrative that Charlie Kirk was a free speech advocate the right are working overtime to make sure any person who says a single quote by him is fired from their job

It strange that people on the right seem not to have figured out that now they're in power, the biggest threats to their power (and well-being) come from other people on the right.

'The left have to tone down their violent rhetoric!' This is Valentina Gomez, Republican, 2026 Candidate for U.S. House, Texas district 31.

the far far Right has a far far far Right problem

This guy and Ryan Broderick are who you should be paying attention to if you want to understand what the fuck just happened.

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

7 hbcus evacuated for bomb threats, dnc threatened and evacuated, umass evacuated, a fox news host challenging his millions of viewers to go to war with their political opposition....not even a blip in the news cycle, not a word of condemnation from any politicians or op-ed sections that ive seen

I can find no quarrel with this. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

With the death of Charlie Kirk, I'm seeing people going on about Years of Lead this and Years of Lead that. Over those 20 years about 450 people were killed in Italy. I would be very surprised if a Year of Lead's worth of people haven't already died in ICE custody since January.

Whoever Ezra Klein was, this is now who he is.

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

He literally died as he lived: deflecting a question about gun control into racism while standing beneath a sign that said PROVE ME WRONG. A fully actualized man at the high-water mark of who he had made of himself.

If the FBI still had any half-decent field agents they would already have compiled a list of everyone in Utah who bought a bullet-engraving machine some tome in the last six months. Instead they have Kash Patel spand Dan Bongino. Sad, really.

You have to wonder how long it’ll be before the guys deploying stochastic terrorism figure out what “stochastic” means. They don’t seem to get it yet.

This administration already deployed federal troops because a couple of 14-year-olds beat up Big Balls, which kind of undercuts the idea that we are facing a Serious Moment That We All Must Ponder Because We Are On The Precipice. That ship has sailed.

Certain folks are posting clips of Charlie Kirk that reveal in no uncertain terms exactly what he said, what he did, and what kind of person he actually was. For God's sake, people, the man just died, show some respect.