If the shark was on fire, this would be 100% on point...

What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.

And what'll probably end up being reality it's said criminals are actually gonna end up actually being ICE.

I have to confess...I'm kind've looking forward to waking up tomorrow and reading about the insane rantings you know we're gonna get from the Orange Turd tonight.

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states. Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for Argentina, ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

Not all heroes wear capes.

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly." The duality of man is incredible.

/3 I've been trying to get the Vice President of Procurement to sign a contract for three weeks and he keeps sending it back with CAPITALISM IS A DEATH CULT scrawled on it. I think it's in blood.

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

"I'm just an owl, standing in front of a sign, asking you not to molest me."

Ditto.

Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)

"Chris is fucking awesome and if you don't vote for him, you're stupid. Release the Epstein files." - New York Times Bestselling author Wil Wheaton

The worst part is that it was all predictable. Everyone knew "grave security vulnerabilities" would be the outcome.

Gliding in for a landing

76% of Texas’s $2.4 trillion GDP comes from the blue parts. - DFW: $709.0 B (29.5%) - Houston: $642.1 B (26.7%) - Austin: $229.2 B (9.5%) - San Antonio: $201.2 B (8.4%) - El Paso: $49.3 B (1.9%) Blue: $1.83 T (76%) Red: $0.57 T (24%) #EconSky #Gerrymandering comptroller.texas.gov/economy/econ...

Don't be a fucking loser

one of Trump's big accomplishments is wrecking the economy of an Ohio town that was thriving until he decided that had to end www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

throwing a sandwich is a gateway to more nefarious food-based acts like tossing tea into a harbor

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for: 700,000 public housing units 500,000 low-income kids receiving health care 500,000 veterans receiving VA care 600,000 kids in Head Start Combined.

🔥 Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

Also under-reported: What's the Opportunity Cost of all the FBI, DEA, National Guard, etc. who are no longer doing their day jobs? How much work won't be done or crimes prosecuted because these people are out strolling around the parks and streets of DC instead of doing what they're paid for?

I’m sorry, but “territorial concessions” by any democratic nation protecting their sovereignty and their citizens to any invading army seems kinda nuts, as well as contrary to what our US has always believed. Why is this on the table at all?

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq. “If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.” National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC. A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

Electricity bill going up? One study found that AI data centers were responsible for 63% of price hikes for customers of PJM — the nation's largest electric grid. Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more private-sector usage of AI and fast tracking permits for more data centers.

What uncritical acceptance and uncritical rejection of AI both miss is that AI is useful, but that the use cases are limited enough to not justify the enthusiasm.

Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Ruth Buzzi, my favorite actor, Val Kilmer, and my favorite singer, Roberta Flack. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Well, that was quite something. The Democrats of the Texas House of Representatives have left their state to prevent the legislature from achieving a quorum to vote on a corrupt off-schedule redistricting plan to provide Donald Trump with additional Republicans for the national House. 1/

But Texas Republicans are now attempting to redistrict MID-DECADE because Donald Trump is demanding it. That's what makes this situation different. National reporters need to understand and make this distinction.

Hot take: nothing has really changed with regards to male loneliness except empowering women to say no to losers and live a fulfilling life without men who won't treat them well. I'll die on this hill.

Threatening to shut down media outlets is what dictators do

When I first heard about this, my immediate response was, "this going to be an effing disaster. Have these idiots never been to Nashville?" I'm increasingly of the opinion that No, they have not. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

I always said that "good Perl is bad programming," and this article explains a little bit of why that's true www.wired.com/story/progra...

The president calling for the prosecution of individuals & companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy

Mark Cuban talking about AI is very reminiscent of when Elon Musk started talking about software engineering. It caused a lot of us in the software engineering space to realize he's just very confidently wrong about everything, and this was probably also the case in other industries too.

It’s kind of surreal reading this thread six years later, because so much of the institutional destruction I expressed concerns about has come to pass in just the past 6 months. It seemed like a possible, but unlikely future 6 years ago. Who knows how bad it will be in 3.5 years.

Of course it wasn't "his." Only a complete idiot pays for porn these days. Actually, when I put it that way, maybe it *was* his porn...

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

Trump says the windmills “are killing us.” Remember how a stampede of windmills just plowed through Texas? That was tragic. All these windmills out here in the west keep reducing our forests to ash too. And it took years for New Orleans to rebound from Windmill Katrina if you recall.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Part of the reason I hate getting spam texts from those grifter "Democratic" groups is that I'm reminded all over again that the information I gave with my donation to a Democratic candidate at some point in the past was subsequently sold to said grifter "Democratic" group. Shitty thing to do.