Greg gets confirmation that Miller runs the country: I asked Bannon if he thinks Miller’s tweet means federal law enforcement should and will now criminally investigate groups who describe ICE as “authoritarian.” “Yes,” Bannon replied. “Stephen Miller is correct—more importantly he’s in charge.”

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Hey! You! Do you like... learning things? Do you like... laughing?? Do you like... being that annoying person in the conversation who gets to say "um ACTUALLY Einstein wasn't even that smart he couldn't even swim and he KEPT falling in the ocean and making people save him"? Then you'll LOVE my book

tim onion is making me google “bad pedophile sex house los angeles” like its not gonna get the feds on my ass

No matter how cynical you are it's never gonna be enough

This is genuinely a terrifying quote from Hastie's email to supporters

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

"We talked to some numbers gurus, and they said these numbers don't add up."

"Acts of cowardice can be provoked by genuine danger—think of a deserting soldier fleeing the peril of the battlefield. When you’re chickenshit, you capitulate to avoid the mere possibility of discomfort, let alone something resembling real risk."

celebrities out walking the characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

Regrettably, there are actually no hypergrowth ideas left, and once the market accepts this, tech is going to have a rough time bsky.app/profile/edzi...

I think we're gonna see a few of the hyperscalers try and do robotics when they start panicking over AI, it's going to be really funny

KGB: Do you know why you are here? CHOTINER: wait, in American version of this format normally I am the one doing the questions KGB: yes, mr Chotiner, but in Soviet Union, government official interview *you*

CHOTINER: You say that if you wanna battle, you're in– BEASTIE BOYS: DENIAL! CHOTINER: I have to say, it seems a bit juve– BEASTIE BOYS: NILE! CHOTINER: To make an obvious anal joke, you know, about coming from Uranus to check my– BEASTIE BOYS: STYLE! CHOTINER: But, why Uranus, really?

A feed of all the Chotiner memes!

hate to say i told you so share.google/4FfpeWYJ8kEF...

the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost

"We all used to rape children back then" is a hell of a take from the President of the United States.

Hoo boy

I recently resigned working in public ed in IT for 17 years. I'd check student Google searches every morning - white male Gen Alpha is going to be a huge problem, and parents are either ignoring it, enabling it, and aren't ready.

I actually think it's off base for the descriptor of these angry young white men who think violence is cool and/or funny to be "non-political." They are making rape jokes and saying racist things and wanting to sow chaos. That's literally the Alex Jones, Steve Bannon playbook.

I am begging people to stop conflating a person’s ability to make money to a person being worth listening to.

Feels like I'm tempting fate by saying this, but I'm not super scared of an ascendant right-wing debate bro who, at any moment, may have to leave to go accompany Merry and Pippin to Isengard

Already reposted but for those who may see this thread outside of that, here ya go

Damn. This thread.

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

Having gotten used to measuring volumes of water in Sydney Harbour units, now I have to measure time spans in Hindenburg Proximity units?

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

A short, very lucid discussion of tariffs as taxes, from @deanbaker13.bsky.social. If you are only going to read one piece on the political economy of tariffs, this would be an excellent choice. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Again I super encourage everyone to watch Netflix’s “Behind the Curve” documentary about flat earthers because it perfectly summarizes and shows how people get into conspiratorial thought patterns and how there’s always another conspiracy lurking because conspiracy theorists are so reactionary.

subtly downgrade a band: Mumbling Heads

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magazine covers featuring new faces: thread

Definitely worth reading the whole thing but really comes across that noem and lewandowski are openly corrupt sociopaths who are made for each other

Make your own Charlie Kirk tribute!

Interesting to see the distinction drawn here between "free markets" and "capitalism", something I've usually seen more attention given to by the left than the right. Even then, both terms are nebulous at best, although Trump is far more "capitalism" than "free markets."

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

This seems obviously correct re Australia's daft nicotine policy: make vapes more widely legally available and treat people who sell unlicensed cigs or vapes in the same way as people who sell other illegal drugs johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/the-nicoti...

A desperate desire to live forever in the Vinnick vs Santos debate episode of The West Wing, and an unshakeable, utterly baseless belief that if the centre-left throws enough progressive principles under the bus a civil, moderate, responsible centre-right will emerge to engage with.

The entire existing financial system fixes this

Far too many people think they can burst the water main but keep the taps in their house working

Yeah I think they're basically calling into question the base stability that lies at the heart of liberal democracy and I think we're all gonna regret, including them

The 21st of September. Quite a day.