The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

Trump and his goons didn't appreciate the fact that for authoritarians to succeed they must prove competent at running a modern state.

Are these dudes really so uncontrollably horny that they can't trust themselves to be alone in an elevator with a woman for 30 seconds?

A Niagara Falls wreck and the rescue that saved two Americans

I think this is a stupid question, actually

I want to live in this timeline.

One thing I hadn't considered was that coalitions tend to fall apart.

He's going to count this twice

Now I know 'wharfage' is a word.

Pro tip: Don’t let your appendix burst until the end of the quarter. You can get a better deal since surgeons are rushing to hit their sales quotas

I thought the lyric was 'Mona Lisa in Bedlam' but I was mistaken. Which is regrettable.

It is interesting that the administration can order the Coast Guard to seize a vessel, rather than blow it up, when it wants to.

As your real estate deals go bankrupt, so go your peace agreements.

My wife's Wordle streak is at 210.

It must be frustrating to have a plan ("die quickly") and be unable to say it because people simply hate that.

I was 24 once. And I didn't know jackshit.

All those years of watching my friends die for no good reason and we get to watch these tools put their dicks in the ceiling fans

What I learned from the TN election is the Dems will never win that district as it is presently constituted, no matter what. So pour those millions into districts where a 13 point swing wins seats.

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

always thinking about herbert ponting's terra nova expedition photographs

None of this is funny. This is the stuff of tragedy.

They've only had 10 years to come up with a plan. Still working on it!

It's okay to sling mud so long as there is a punch line.

Now we will debate the concept of necessary murder and how much is too much. This is how empires dance.

There's potential value in these 'interviews' in that they let us see that the bats are still in charge in the belfry.

Hard to listen to this without recalling a certain cellar, a mounted deer head wearing sunglasses and a joint hanging from its mouth, using a broom to play air bass (or was that someone else?), and the last fun acid trip.

Peace in our time

'Rome probably achieved peak road sometime around A.D. 150, when the empire was at its most prosperous and extensive. But the database tallies all the roads presumed to have existed during Rome’s life span, from roughly 312 B.C. to A.D. 400.' www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/s....

Imagine a future Karoline Leavitt, a 99 year old Karoline, admired for her excellent memory and ability to count the number of times she told the truth on one hand.

Some days I believe we should just nationalize everything. Capitalism transforms all it touches into a sort of pornography.

Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA, and US government agencies are sanctioning this as an operating principle on a daily basis:

That's going to be some list. They'll be wanting another server.

Why would we expand presidential power when we currently don't have anybody doing the bare minimum?

since it seems like a supreme court majority doesn't believe in independent govt agencies, can the govt stop believing in the supreme court

Every generation quickly learns, and eventually forgets, that it's easy to freak out the old folks.

Christmas trees given to the German frontline troops in World War I

Thinking about Einstein saying Americans are collassally bored.

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

It's okay to date a conspiracy theory, but don't marry one.

Boomer love

Try seeing birthright citizenship not as a prize we award but as a claim the US makes on all its newborns.

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world. n.pr/44Ognqv

“They want people to pay for using zeros and ones,” Mr. Proctor said. “There’s a fight over whether the economy is going to function that way. What are the limits? ‘Oh, you want to turn on your headlights? I’m sorry, you don’t have the headlight package.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

Americans still have the right to call BS on the government. Every day we exercise that right is another day they can't take it away.

#peaceprize #tacos

If it's possible to set aside a moment the fact we are steering toward apartheid, there's the hilarious idea of Trump raising himself over one of history's most remarkable and consequential human beings.

I'm not convinced John Roberts even knows how baseball is played.

Birthright citizenship is unambiguous in the US Constitution and it is a defining feature of the Americas, setting the Americas apart from the rest of the world. It is essential to the US's self-mythology as a land of hope and opportunity in contrast to the "Old World."

Whites don't like all this stirring up trouble, which is curious because no other group has caused more trouble on this planet than we have.