sorry to say but that's a ....naan starter

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

Lol. The most toxic part of our oligarchy would collapse, and the oligarchs would have you believe that means you, too. But it very much does not.

The Roberts Court loves corporations. Corporations are their benefactor more so than Trump. Corporations were not happy with the tariffs. SCOTUS rules against Trump when it's Corporations v. Trump. End of. Don't let this fool you into thinking this court as any goddamn legitimacy. It does not.

you can come for John Roberts constitution with his blessing, but if you dare come for his 401K....

Free idea for the next Democrat in the White House: auction off the privilege to push the button that blows this thing up. Give the proceeds to refugee groups.

Once Laszlo Cravensworth got over the fact that Steven Toast is English, I really think they have a lot in common and would be good friends.

Charles Nieuwendyk from Man On The Inside and Dr. Paul Rhoades from Shrinking.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

When a white guy is a serial killer:

that’s right. “pour encourager les autres” goes both ways. not for regular everyday crime, but for elite impunity anything else is just a fee they can choose to pay

hahaha seriously though we should charge these people as child sex traffickers

not a novel observation but worth repeating every time - there are basically half a dozen things a day, every day, that would have been the biggest scandal of every administration for the first 30 years of my life.

I think these are the first dice I own from Norse Foundry. Emerald zircon glass with gold numbering.

I’m still thinking about this. Even if you had nothing to do with it, any normal person would say something like “It’s a terrible thing what happened to those girls.” He has never once said anything to denounce all the rapes.

Oh, man! The special edition of Excalibur (the best possible King Arthur movie) is finally on its way to me! www.arrowvideo.com/p/excalibur-...

Just so we’re clear on this: Maxwell recruited Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago.

It's going to be genuinely difficult to figure out how much money he and his family literally just took from US taxpayers. Don't even mean the crypto scam profiteering shit, like actual treasury money that by one mechanism or another he turned into his own money.

Making matters worse, the Trump admin is REFUSING to adjudicate green card applications for refugees who come from one of the 39 countries Trump banned. So under this policy, a refugee who applies for a green card exactly on time, doing nothing wrong, can (and DHS says must) be jailed by ICE.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

I doubt that there's a more effective way to capture unitary executive theory in an image. And because it's the DOJ building, it also captures the notion that the President is above the law.

The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it

This is the straightest line delivery I've ever had, even with the 180° flip.

You can't heal the country unless you destroy the infection, root and branch.

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water. A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems. They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.

The New York Times smeared AOC for saying “um”

The last time a senior member of the reigning royal family was arrested: Charles I in 1647

Decorum in the face of criminality, corruption and cruelty is just a soft, cowardly way of acquiescing to it -- even agreeing with it. Disruption against corruption is crucial.

i genuinely thought this was a wet owl photoshopped onto a doctor's body for a full two seconds. Dr Hoots is startled by what he's seeing here

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

My consistent observation of the Trump administration is that these people just fundamentally don’t want to do a real job and would prefer to just podcast all day every day.

So it seems like my once radical position of “the existence of a border implies the violence needed to defend it so in order to end all war we must abolish all borders” is becoming mainstream

Dead Muppets Don't Wear Plaid

remember when a government murdering people was newsworthy

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang". Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.

oh. oh yeah. yeah we do.

Curious, it’s much more likely that children get hurt, abused or indoctrinated at home or commuting to school or in school or at church than on the Internet, yet no one is banning homes, commutes, schools or churches. But everyone is eager to cut off children’s access to the Internet.

oh so very much this

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

It's mum's birthday today.

this will undoubtedly get me put into a database but nonetheless, I think ICE building concentration camps and dumping babies with bronchitis across the border to die ... is bad actually

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

When the dot com bubble burst, at least we got thousands of miles of freshly-laid fiber optics out of it. When the AI bubble bursts, we'll have hundreds of overpowered data centers that no-one can afford to run.

RAM shortage so severe there was serious fog in TUCSON, ARIZONA this morning to cut down on rendering load for distant mountains

A major cause of death in pretty much every pre-20th century war (especially siege based ones) was highly curable bacterial diseases ripping through people in close proximity to each other, as opposed to actual violence.