When damned near everything you do is illegal, it's hard to remember if it's just regular illegal or "maybe someone will care this time" illegal.

Disney have spent at least a decade building goodwill with much of the political Left: standing up to anti-gay and anti-trans bullshit from Florida state government. It's stunning how fast Iger managed to flush that down the toilet. I do think he's also stunned about the impact of this.

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Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

This isn’t just! It’s unconstitutional! It’s hypocritical! It’s immoral! It’s illegal! It’s wrong! It’s unprecedented! They don’t care about any of those things. They laugh at handwringing. It’s about acquiring & wielding power. You can’t shame them, you have to defeat them.

Flashback to 2019

Court rules ICE must follow the law at 26 Federal Plaza. Awaiting ICE's rapid "clarification" that this ruling only applies to this one facility...

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my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Here's Trump's "genius". This is the President performing extra-judicial murders of random people, something for which Duterte is being investigated by the ICC as a crime against humanity. Trump just adds a moronically-wrong number to his "defense", and the whole conversation drifts away...

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

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Exactly.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

I agree with this. We're used to be gaslit BY Charlie Kirk, babbling about "free speech" while circulating an enemies list of people who have spoken words with which he disagrees. But now to be gaslit ABOUT Kirk, by the likes of Ezra Klein et al feels somehow extra creepy.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

This you? Just two hours later?

I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.

We haven't seen this level of spittle-flecked rage and Right-wing calls for war and violent retribution since a restaurant changed its logo.

I am usually more sanguine than some others when the Supreme Court hands down nasty opinions, but y'all, I am really stuck on Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. Presidential immunity was dangerous but unsurprising. Many other shadow docket rulings have been dumbfounding. Today was nakedly invidious.

Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.

In light of today’s SCOTUS decision, every person of color with an accent in the US should probably carry proof of citizenship with them at all times - while working and everywhere they go. If you don’t want to be in a detention facility awaiting a friend or relative to bring it.

Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.

JD’s mom was not getting drugs from cartels, she was a nurse who was stealing painkillers from her patients. Her patients suffered and she got high. As a medical professional, I will tell you the lowest life form is someone who steals drugs from their patients. Zero sympathy for JD or his mom.

"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"

I've cared for a child who required general anesthesia for over a month for tetanus, treated near fatal infections in several children after chicken pox, and watched a kid (who asked for the COVID shot) die after their parents refused to let them be immunized. Lifetimes lost to preventable diseases.

Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"

We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.

Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.

he'll always be dead in our hearts

"Ambulances reached the scene within minutes after the call at 8:33 a.m., but had to wait about a minute for police to confirm that there wasn’t an imminent threat." Compare to, for example, Uvalde. All of this sounds like excellent and brave work by the Police.

Yo resisters! A fractured nursery rhyme for the new normal: Three masked ICE Three masked ICE They all ran after the farmer's wife They dragged her away and ruined her life Hope you never see such a sight As three masked ICE Update needed so the youngins will understand the world they live in.

Kid Rock: I will no longer sell my music in California. Scott Baio: I will no longer act in California. Governor Newsom: My policies are working.

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

I love this. I picture Loomer with, say, a Tickle Me Elmo doll. Loomer: *pulls string* Elmo: Hehehe, you're funny! Loomer: Oh, you're mocking me now little red fluffy man! Apologize or I call my lawyer! *pulls string* Elmo: Elmo is thirsty. Loomer: You and the MSM can only talk about my appearance!

From The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s 1949 sci-fi classic (aliveonallchannels)

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.

Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside

For the love of god can we stop airing articles about "X tech bro says this is gonna happen in X years clearly just in service of a publicity stunt". No. It's not going to happen. Obviously. Why are we indulging this?

The pearl-clutching crew need to fucking get over their hurt feelings about Robert Bork, who decades ago did what Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and other once-respectable Republicans are doing now. Those who made Bork a martyr had more of a hand in bringing authoritarianism to the US than liberals ever did.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

"We've found that household bleach will kill pretty much every virus if you just pour it on them on your table. Our last hurdle is making IV tubing that doesn't degrade from bleach and then we'll be golden."