When do we shoot back?

When one of these thugs is shot, I will not shed a tear

I genuinely cannot wait for one of these guys to get shot in the face.

Jamelle with an absolute SENTENCE 🔥🔥🔥

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

Canary in the coal mine for me was circa 2013-2014 on the Rivals message boards for my beloved FSU Seminoles people would complain about “virtue signaling” which very very quickly turned into something indistinguishable from complaining about *virtue itself* And now its “lame” to care and to say it

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

reader i cackled

It’s like if the Politix Podcast were one person instead of two

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

I have long been disturbed by prisonculture’s theories of justice, while also appreciative of their work with the incarcerated. But their story that’s making the rounds is maximally disturbing to me. If it’s meant aspirationally in any way whatsoever, it is just an awful piece of work. Dangerous tbh

Still baffled why people don’t understand that it’s alarming to most people when they hear “defund” about something they feel is important. “Defund planned parenthood” meant obliterate it “Defund PBS” meant obliterate it. Why would people apply a more nuanced view to “Defund the police”?

her "have you considered that you adopted far-right politics because your parents never taught you to survive in a perfectly normal world, so you reacted to being exposed to perfectly normal adversity by wanting to destroy civilization" post is pretty perceptive for someone completely insane

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Now bring back Colbert.

The great Khan with the Andor quote. Well done, sir.

This message is very important to remind ourselves of and to share with other people.

The online dating journey continues: “I read at least two books a week” What are the books??

Arguably the only thing Trump has ever won is the presidency. Lost that once too.

Social media has wrecked our civic virtue.

Yall don’t want to hear it, but when the economy starts really bottoming out (I think this is inevitable), Trumps approval will fall even further. It is then that we will be in the most danger from this administration. Steel yourselves.

Holy shit

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

I mean they have now kicked us down the slope, it's time to liquidate Fox when we retake power.

The Great Khan of the Plains would like a word 😌

I'm not a late-night TV person (I find most of it cringe & stale). But the gov should not have the power to withhold licenses from TV corps as punishment for the content of their speech. If Biden had blocked Fox's sale of 21st Century to Disney b/c he didn’t like Tucker, that would have been wrong

kash patel always has the look of someone who just found out kash patel runs the fbi

MORE OF THIS ALL THE TIME FROM EVERYONE PLEASE

More evidence that Full Fascism is going to be difficult for MAGA to pull off during this administration…

This whole thread… man idk The stupidity of the American (mostly white, but plenty of blame to go around this time) is almost limitless. How? HOW on earth could you not have seen this coming?? It beggars belief. And no I’m not sorry for them. Fuck them.

Yes and the two are perfectly compatible. It’s exactly how the German state was run during the Third Reich. Vast network of busybody tattletales who ratted out their neighbors for being Jewish/Communist. The SS literally could not have functioned without this kind of help from the citizenry.

Yep. But, to be perfectly clear, there is ONE answer: Donald Trump felt like it.

It's critical to democracy that this happens. Lawfare cannot only be Republican. Deterrence must be restored.

Let me know if there is a reputable organization representing all the people illegally fired for truthful speech about the dead guy as they sue their employers for ten billion dollars. I will donate.

In grad school I learned of the notion of an “atrocity producing situation” - atrocities might not be explicit official policy or the order of higher ups per se, but eventualities that inexorably proceed from the circumstances that have been put into place. Many trump nightmares follow this pattern

This video is JAW-DROPPING. Their farms and economy is about to collapse because Trump did exactly what he promised to do on the campaign trail—massively raise tariffs. And she says “I don’t want to hear political answers from anyone.” 😐

My man

One of the most public-spirited and admirable things @jamellebouie.net has done — and it’s no doubt a costly decision — is refrain from using his exceptional talent and intelligence to become a brand. I thank him for that.

People who mock football etc as “sportsball” need to understand that it’s an important bulwark against that terrible outcome. Community, fun, and a stand in for getting your boys together and cruising the street for someone to kick the shit out of.

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Let me suggest that if I have tanks invade my city, that if the courts declare me a second-class citizen, that if masked men abduct my neighbors, and I go to you, my rep, and say “help me fight my persecutors,” and you say “shush, talk about healthcare subsidies,” you, too, are my persecutor

🚨 The Supreme Court just put all Latinos in the United States at risk—including citizens.

Did you know that they treated anyone who shouted that this was the very height of foolishness as a hopelessly naive political amateur who didn’t understand that voters wanted policy, not scandal? Did you know that those same people are making those same kind of decisions for the party today?