The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.

Most claims of free speech have always been "I am white and I want to be able to say the n-word and call people the r-word." It is literally that simple.

Your New York Giants

It's crazy how the president is a pedophile and everyone knows it

Richard Epstein called Critical Legal Studies "defunct" a decade ago and then he and his ideological brethren set about proving its core tenets.

The central political divide today in the U.S. is not between two sides offering slightly varying iterations of the same underlying political bargain but between a tradition affirming the historic liberal-constitutional order and one that enthusiastically strips rights from ideological opponents.

the fact that this bullshit has even reached the supreme court is completely disqualifying to the entire field of law

it turns out that the fascists were the real threat to free speech all along, not some cringe Oberlin students

So I found out this is one of the ICE agents involved in this incident.

"how the DOJ ideally should operate" and "how we're gonna need the DOJ to operate at least for a bit" are diverging circles on a venn diagram and that's a little upsetting

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

What kills kids in America: 1. cars 2. guns Guess what the GOP has worked relentlessly to support for half a century now?

Amy when you’re done self-promoting do you think you could go get that kid out of that concentration camp

the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime

Next Dem AG please

If you don’t want to be identified while enforcing the law pick another fucking job

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

Many political journalists see their job not as reporting on reality but as a way to assist Trump and the GOP in propping up their false anti-reality.

Republicans have effectively replaced the Constitution with the GOP-majority Supreme Court. We have no constitutional rights as long as Republicans are in power.

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

Bari Weiss is a prostitute who thinks all women are prostitutes so she doesn't get why women are annoyed she's a prostitute because everyone's doing it (everyone is not doing it).

whole lotta people holding on to real-life "fell for it again" awards right now

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

This is what I'm talking about. They don't recognize what they're looking at because fundamentally they reject the concept of social fabric. Morality is keeping yourself safe, your neighbors are not your concern.

we put all the racist c students you remember from high school in charge and it's going about as well as you would expect it to

I’ll be following this developing story very closely

The explanations people give for voting for Trump are simply cover for the real reason: they voted for the TV man that made them feel ok about being a racist

The NRA when asked to defend the 2nd amendment rights of someone on the left:

This line from Renfrew Christie's obituary in the NYT has really stuck with me.

The idea that America needs to occupy Greenland because we actually care enough about native people and want to build oncology centers is enough to make your head fully explode

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

💯. We treated enemy combatants - who may have been very recently trying to violently kill us - with a level of restraint and professionalism that appears to be beyond the imagination of a federal law enforcement organization handling non-violent American citizens.

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

look at some point it's gonna either be the national guard/state police doing this or it'll be the citizenry

At what point do we collectively realize that we are already at war, within our own country, and only one side is permitted to be armed

the costs to society of this derangement are going to be enormous and every one of these people should face judgment for it

Increasingly I become convinced that capitalism is inconsistent, in the long term, with liberal democracy

The biggest media story of the last 40 years is that there were very clear signs of this for the last 40 years but America's most influential news companies spent that time pretending the parties had equal and symmetrical flaws and so here we are.

If there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

amazing how fast they got to "final six months of W Administration" hiring pool

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

one of the strangest and most frustrating things about being alive today is that we have science and research on basically every issue, but it always gets pushed aside in favor of some guy who thought about it for one minute and thinks he knows the answer