"Platner says he wears his Blackwater baseball cap just to get a rise out of those who remember the controversial contractor for its heavy-handed tactics." "Heavy-handed tactics."

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Its a shame this has been barely covered or reported because it’s pretty good! •restore the IRA Clean energy credits •revoke the Trump Gas/oil credits •permitting reform •going after data centers •higher taxes on fossil fuel companies •protection for consumers on utilities •jobs/lower bills

If an outcome of this war is a loss of meaningful freedom of navigation in one of the world’s key energy chokepoints, that’s a world historical scale defeat for the United States (i.e., *the* “freedom of navigation” power).

the problem with both musk and rowling is that so much of the evidence of their insanity is not being reported. despite it being on social media for anyone to see. you sound crazy if you’re literally describing it to people who are casual news followers

1. what in god's name is wrong with you 2. Canadians probably shouldn't call other people 'colonizers'

The LotR memes will continue until morale improves 🚗

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Everyone knows that all American voters hate old people so it should be pretty easy beat an old candidate in the primary. Right?

TWO flips? DeSantis seems like a big dummy

I'll be housesitting my parents' two cats for the next month. They're well behaved, but whenever I don't hear them for a while, I feel compelled to check on them to make sure they're not getting into trouble

Shah Abbas I and Nader Shah once ruled over lands stretching from Dagestan to the Punjab. The Ottoman Sultans claimed a global mandate as caliphs and reigned over territory on three continents. What we are seeing today is in some sense the attempted rebuilding of their shattered thrones.

It's an example of my spicy take that almost all wars after WW1 are relitigating the collapse of empires that died as a result of WW1, but the problem there is China

So Hend Amry’s response to an arson attack on a Jewish charity in London is to say it was probably a false flag attack by Israel. And I know she knows the problem there because she tried hints and dog whistles and the motte & bailey dance, and only finally said it straight after lots of questioning.

Yes. Phones are mostly for stuff that doesn't matter, plus the screen is too small

what on earth happened to zoe quinn

I strongly encourage every American to visit the Gettysburg battlefield site, look down from Little Round Top, and decide for yourself whether Lee was a “brilliant military tactician.”

After Hector reaches the ships in book 15, Patroclus goes to Achilles, weeping. Achilles' first response is to call him a little bitch. It's absolutely incredible how this story is both ancient and modern at the same time.

REPUBLICANS refuse to pay TSA

Hydrate. Stretch frequently. Put more money in your retirement account

About a month ago, I scheduled a vacation to Universal Studios in August. Given the pictures of the Atlanta airport, which is pretty busy on a normal day, wonder if I should go a day early, bring a pillow, and plan on sleeping in the airport overnight

Rufo made himself famous and powerful by lying in order to stoke white victimhood and grievance, and now is shocked, shocked, that the people committed to white victimhood and grievance believe things that are nonsensically false.

The new Overwatch update is 21 GB. why. what's in there

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

if socialism could genuinely have delivered on its promises of greater growth than capitalism could imagine, it could not have asked for a better starting point--france and germany together could not have answered that ask--AND IT DID NOT ANSWER

Something I cannot emphasize enough is that airport security work is immensely stressful and constantly provokes arguments and disputes between security and travelers. ICE is acclimated to responding to angry backtalk with summary beatings. It's going to happen. It's gonna be on camera.

Understand that making ICE do TSA work is essentially an "in-kind reallocation" that was not expressly authorized by Congress

This entire thread is very accurate and worth reading but this point in particular stands out to me. The utter bafflement by the American media complex at why the public isn't culturally realigning in favor of Trump as predicted. The answer is because of Twitter! They think Twitter is real life!

Being neck deep in a cult does crazy things to your ability to accurately assess the world around you, it seems

I would read the heck out of a book or article that explained why a disproportionate number of American fascists have been chiropractors. No shade on that entire category of practitioners, but it's definitely a theme that has emerged in my research on the US far right. Article is from 2001.

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

From Courtwatch - this Middle District of Georgia case about immigration bond hearings seems important

the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

This is completely psychotic. He’s just a guy. And they’ve turned the full power of the nation against him because they fucked up their cleansing operation with him so badly.

It turns out Glenn may have been representing neo-Nazis for reasons other than a principled commitment to free speech:

He should legit face a capital trial for the Caribbean boat murders alone.

I want to be clear about what happened today: While Republicans keep the Senate in session to try and pass their dangerous SAVE act, they also tried to push through a ridiculous ban on transgender athletes. We blocked it.

it's kinda wild that calla walsh is just straight up doing terrorism in eastern europe now and nobody seems to care

I am saying this without doing any actual investigation so feel free to yell at me I think this is probably a literal Russian intelligence operation to target factories providing weapons to Ukraine

you know, it doesn't really matter what my opinion of robert mueller was, the president of the united states saying out loud that he's glad a lifelong public servant is dead is terrible fucking behavior and i don't need to clear my throat about what mueller did or did not do in order to say that

Food for thought!

Robert Mueller, a Vietnam veteran with a bronze star for heroism, and a purple heart has passed away. Perhaps his biggest honor was trying to save our democracy. I REFUSE to let him be a punchline for our deranged president. Robert Mueller was a hero and may he rest in peace and watch over us. Amen.

Yeah despite this place having obvious reputation of being super lib, people here are extremely knowledgeable about military stuff, it’s wild. You can pick up a lot just from osmosis and following discussions.

It's been over 100 years since he died; all the states that arose out of his ideology are either gone or unrecognizable (and certainly no longer socialist). The fact that so many people on the contemporary left *still* stan him is just an advertisement that they're useless cosplayers.

Matt Stoller certainly wasn't alone in giving authoritarians (or Republicans more generally) popularist credibility they never had to actually earn I'm not sure I'll ever get over the supposed "progressive antitrust experts" that helped sell this obvious con

Propter is very good at this.

The American west is currently seeing all time record temperatures for March, temperatures it doesn't typically see until the middle of summer. The Sunrise Movement has not posted about climate change in weeks. Nearly every post mentions AIPAC.

I could go on a whole spiel about how this story reveals the much reported on 2024 surge in crime was horseshit being orchestrated by Trumpian business owners but instead I'm just gonna pull this funny quote about them forgetting to let one of the security guards in in the scam:

I wish the US had single-transferable-vote systems in place for primary elections that have ~15 candidates running. I think the highest-profile place using it is NYC. Alaska might have nixed theirs?

thousands of allied troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, and Kurds died on our behalf following 9/11 and this depraved freak has the audacity to call their sacrifice "moderately helpful" or "mostly symbolic"