So many people I know, who normally holiday in the US, decided to go elsewhere during the summer. They were scared to visit. Scared. This isn’t something that can be undone overnight.

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

This is unfair. On the House of Lords

Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, prolific actor known for his roles in “Mortal Kombat,” “Last Emperor” and “Man In The High Castle,” has died at 75

Why did I laugh so hard at this?

Welp.

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

Our Elite-loving Corporate Media is going to ask if maybe these powerful white men may lose their jobs in the next few years, but the question should be when will these white men face trials & potential imprisonment for coldblooded murder.

Trump/Hegseth/Bradley's actions make every American less safe, until these men are held accountable *by a court of law* for their murders in our name.

It’s a federal crime to threaten a judge.

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

I don't have any empathy for anyone who ever trusted Donald Trump. What you missed is so damn obvious to the rest of us. Deal with it.

Bongino tries to say of Trump that "he hates crime," but he can't get the last word out, probably because it's so transparently absurd

The Supreme Court isn’t legitimate and probably won’t be in my lifetime unless the klansmen are kicked out. They are proudly corrupt. The branch might as not exist

As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review! Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.

Prior to June 8, the LAPD had not used tear gas in crowd-control settings in almost 50 years, an LAPD spokesperson told L.A. TACO. The full story: lataco.com/city-council... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

The double tap gets all the attention. But the initial strike on the boat has no real legal rationale.

This is the sharpest criticism yet of Operation Kill Them All from a senior congressional Republican. Everything he says is not just correct, but also totally obvious.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

They are mad they have even been made aware of it. And the irony is the only reason we have to talk about it so much is because they won’t shut up about it. bsky.app/profile/bmhu...

Given Hegseth's refusal to cooperate with the IG and to submit to an interview or provide documents, the IG was reduced to relying on the traffic published in The Atlantic. This is unprecedented, and furnishes grounds all by itself to terminate Hegseth.

When Trump endorses him, it's gonna get wild.

🧵As Sanho says in his next post, the extrajudicial killing of people suspected (or even convicted) of drug running is also illegal. It's all murder. It's just that US culture & politics are shot through with the idea that ~bad guys~ forfeit their humanity when we decide they're bad guys.

this is a cool normal guy and i'm glad he has so much power

This double tap scandal has only gained traction since certain gatekeepers weighed in, but many legal experts have been saying these strikes are murder from the beginning

I hate how certain arguments only get legitimized once a conservative agrees it’s bad

Bears repeating a million times that the first strike that destroyed the vessel was murder too

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Where are Somalis in the Epstein Files? Oh wait there aren't. It was rich men, overwhelmingly white men, who raped girls with Epstein. Allegedly Daddy Trump was Epstein's closest friend for 10 years. So where are the Epstein Files? Hit MAGA back and don't let them demonize Somalis. Enough.

The Inspector General says some of the Signal messages on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone about strikes in Yemen had been deleted, so "we had to rely in part on the transcript of the chat The Atlantic posted publicly."

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Demonizing Somalis to distract from Trump’s horrible economy, the Epstein files and numerous scandals only works for the hardcore MAGA faithful, a cult. But even Republicans are cracking and pissed off with how the country is becoming a shithole under Trump

i will vote for any presidential candidate who campaigns on sending pete hegseth to the hague

sometimes i forget why ryan grim sucks and then i'm reminded

Grim called me “insane” for saying Democrats shouldn’t recruit candidates with Nazi tattoos and now that I see who he takes seriously, that take makes a lot of sense

Says the very man doing the poisoning.

I don’t normally read the comments, but these ones give me hope. I know we are all seeing a lot of hate toward our Somali friends and neighbors, but I wanted to share these. I hope they bring a smile to your face like they did mine.

If all these Somali Americans did white collar crimes and fraud that means they can run for office as a Republican or simply have Trump pardon them. That's what he's been doing the past week by the way. They should also do violent insurrections with a MAGA hat and the GOP would love them.

How about a prequel show about young bachelor Santa called Living Kringle. I didn’t think of the rhyme first: I was just imagining Santa before he had Mrs. Claus to ground him (figuratively and literally). Jk I thought of the rhyme first

Is Trump's most recent pardon (of whatever rich white dude he pardons today) because he is being paid $1+ million OR he just wants to legalize white collar crime for rich white dudes OR both?

They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:

TLDR: Texas is empowering Any Random Motherfucker to sue abortion pill providers—from Big Pharma to a physician to Susan who happened to have an extra dose of mife in her van—and to win a 10K bounty for their troubles. And if the plaintiff is related to the fetus, 100K. Great day for abusers.

Ryan Grim: I think the posse will find a lot useful there. Steve Bannon: You’re an intrepid reporter, sir, and a voice of truth. Sometimes people love it and sometimes people love it less, but you’re you’re a warrior. Grim: No doubt about it. Bannon: Let's welcome on Raw Egg Nationalist!

Will repeat the notion that If you go on a podcast or talk show with a Nazi *and* talk nice to the Nazi, you are endorsing the Nazi. Full stop. This should destroy one's credibility and yet...

When Bezos changed the Washington Post's editorial board standards to align with “personal liberties and free markets,” he meant his own liberty to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Love paying higher prices for everything! Thrilled that he’s deporting POC and using the military to terrorize blue cities. Executions in international waters? Iconic. Bulldozing the White House & Rose Garden? Stunning! Making healthcare unaffordable and starving the poor? Groundbreaking leadership!