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WHERE is OBAMA?! His whole thing these days is "saving his powder" for a rare, impactful statement on something important and non "controversial" and standing up like the Normal Rockwell free speech guy to say "NATO is good and territorial aggression is bad" seems perfect for that

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Already raising my 4-year old to be an A24 bro (watching Ne Zha 2)

I think that worrying about Trump’s absurdly incompetent DOJ investigating Walz and Frey is largely doing the propaganda work that they want it to. It sucks ass and it’s not normal or whatever, but keep your head on straight until something actually happens with it.

Issuing subpoenas to somebody is not a public filing and in actually substantive investigations, it's not in your interest as an investigator to make a preliminary investigation public. Something to keep in mind when reading this.

Can I say something without everyone getting mad at me

This is not to say that Republicans don't have a strong incentive to, post-hoc, challenge and undermine the integrity of elections they *lose*. But I don't see how you get anyone in electoral politics to agree to help end elections entirely because of the campaigning gravy train.

The problem is that having elections means less because Congress has completely abdicated its powers and responsibility to let the Presidency do everything. The only thing left for Republican members to do is run for re-election, which they love to do. They're not going to agree to stop elections.

It's also important to remember that he's doing if for X.com content because they don't have the resources to actually do militarized ethnic cleansing at scale. Not to minimize the local horror but they simply can't sustain it in mpls let alone deploy like that into multiple major cities at once.

For any squeamish congressional reps, this should be your basis for getting behind abolish ICE. They're detaining Native Americans, knowing full well that they are natives. There is no plausible legal basis. It's unfettered from immigration enforcement. It's just jailing perceived enemies.

I'm bleeding out, shot down by ICE outside a preschool. I snap the QR code with my dying strength, to send it to my family to seek a measure of justice. The page loads. The 19 year old Nazi administering the DHS website has redirected all profile pages to Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.

the thing is these are good things for their own sake but they do not actually work to increase the birthrate, as the European experience largely shows. pretty much nothing increases the birthrate that we've found so far, whether good welfare state stuff or natalist nationalism and anti-choice shit.

This sounds like they're showing him AI slop videos of suburban moms training to agitate at protests, and I think 1/ that's probably what's going on here and 2/ more people need to ask Trump exactly what he's "seen" and where and from whom.

When I'm feeling sad I flip through the Family Fun Pack like one of Maria's favorite things www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/fam...

Everything, and I literally mean everything, must be sacrificed on the alter of owning the libs. Children's lives. Public health. The National Football League. Beer. The U.S. Constitution. Clean air and water. Heart disease. Wealth. Commerce.

Paddington Bear famously hales from "Darkest Peru." Yet his signature food--the marmalade sandwich--requires oranges native to Southeast Asia. Paddington's world thus assumes the cultural exchange facilitated by British Empire while eliding its violence and repression. In this essay, I will...

When you catch yourself feeling sad and doomscrolling so you think of something useful to read and pop over to the NWAC Mountain Weather Forecast and then get even more depressed because the forecast sucks ass

Sorry to report that Big Structural Bailey has been put down. Sen. Warren would like to introduce: Tepid Reform Bailey!

The good news is that there are more of us than there are of them. Many more.

There are two political factions in America. One who's core belief is that certain people, but not everyone, should be allowed to inflict suffering and death on anyone for any reason and that any restriction on this is tyranny. And one who supports democracy and freedom from fear or oppression.

Me cycling to work now that the federal government has established that mere proximity to a slowly moving cAr justifies lethal force

Admin & right wing gloss on the Alpha News video seems to hinge entirely on "the thump," as evidence that the car hit the shooter right before firing. It's a handheld cell phone video. Look at the earlier videos and frame-by-frames. It's probably the *phone* hand thumping the car, if anything.

So if you believe the administration's story re East Portland: 1/ CBP did a traffic stop at a hospital parking lot?; 2/ fired defensively after two subjects tried to drive away; 3/ CBP let them simply drive away and left?; 4/ the victims who are vicious gang members called PDP on themselves? 5/ ???

So this is bad but I'm also imagining Matt Stoller in this moment, seething crying throwing up so it's a little less bad

I appreciate all the detailed video analyses but I would take a harder line position here: there's no legal self defense justification if the threat is a moving car and your defense is a gun. That's not a reasonable defense. It doesn't work. Case in point it didn't, the car kept driving.

I was just "briefed" on the strike in Venezuela & it's clear Trump has NO serious plan for what happens next. Americans don't want to be dragged into another costly foreign conflict, and they don't want “boots on the ground” fighting a war for Big Oil. No war. No occupation.

I bought it, I played like 2 hours of the tutorial campaign yesterday, having loads of fun with my little fantasy Russian fellas.

I'm eyeing Total War: Warhammer 3 before Steam sale ends. Will I regret this? I game...sporadically. But it's been a long time since I played any kind of strategy game and I kind of have a hankering, plus I kind of dig the over-the-top melodrama of Warhammer.

Show me the evidence that Trump knows that America is a huge oil producer and exporter of energy. Here's the way his mind works: America has coal. Our brave Appalachian mining towns. Oil comes from the Middle East; as he recently learned, also Venezuela. Like land type tiles from a strategy game.

Amongst all the horrors, last night I finally experienced PADDINGTON 2. What a picture. WHAT A FUCKING PICTURE.

This suck ass statement answers ONE question I had about my congressional representation which is that they're not up for this and should retire in shame.

I'm Mike Lee. POTUS told me we have probable cause that xi jinping has committed US crimes. In order to execute a lawful arrest warrant, he ordered a bombing campaign followed by an infantry invasion of China to secure Beijing and capture Xi. This is not a war, he can do it without Congress.

A quiet, muttered "fuck" from Aragorn or Boromir after Pippin knocks the skeleton down the well in Moria

I dragged Mr. 4 year old away from his new Christmas dinos on the promise of kpop demon hunters Netflix NFL halftime show and all they did was sing fucking 12 days of Christmas for 30 seconds and left. He's so mad lol. I'm suing the NFL for emotional damages.

I love to ride my bicycle to my extremely woke Lutheran church for Christmas Eve services

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Santa is also, originally, a Christian Saint. Just some casual sacrilege from your "let's make America an explicitly white Christian nation" goons.

She thinks they *should* have a better legal argument because she wants them to keep doing it and she's trying to make CBS come up with a better one for them but her brain is leaking out her ears and this is the best she can muster.

They are governing by and for X dot com. Subtly doesn't get quote tweets.

Reading actual books and going on little walks in the woods are the keys to happiness. Technology is great for medicine and communication (if properly used) but once your basic needs are met, reading and walking are what will give you superpowers compared to the internet brain poisoned.

One reason that young adults today think that young adults in the 1960s were better off is because their frame of reference for the 1960s is the wildly popular and heavily meme'd TV show Mad Men. They're thinking they'd be like Ken Cosgrove or Pete Campbell.

I just know it smell crazy in there

The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools

Reject the Death Cult. Cast it out, to a man. Exorcise the Pestilence God from U.S. Government. We will win a better future for our children but it's not going to be easy.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

It's seductively appealing to be always saying "well you know the economy/job market/etc these days really sucks" but I have been hearing this consistently since basically always and obviously things have changed (improved) over time. So it can't be true. This should be easy to recognize.

I hate to do the cheap "now imagine if X did it" thought experiment but I must know what these hogs would say if a white person from England went to a U.S. university and did a crime. Is it because Portuguese is too foreign or is it because the goal is "0 immigration of any kind from anywhere?"

In my fed courts class in the heady days of 2012 we spent a a couple days on standing cases where the SCOTUS clerk professor squarely accused Scalia of "Lochnerizing," and that's before we even got to Bush v. Gore. "Liberal lawyers" have been questioning the legitimacy of the Court for ages.