Feels like we bought a ticket for a ride to the future and when the ship showed up it was the Event Horizon

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It's Tacover

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Slow civil war is just that, slow; and then fascism burps, and it jolts ahead. Read the whole terror memo. Read about Comey. Consider the generals. Read this passage. Note what’s now called “terror.” And what “funding” it means. I want to say this is in-the-street news, but I think it may be worse.

This’ll all get worse before it gets better www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

The sun has the chance to do the funniest thing right now

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I finally feel safe

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

"Kemp’s book covers the rise and collapse of more than 400 societies over 5,000 years. The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens."

Empire in decline

The Republican party is full-on fascist. The Democratic party is run by 80-year-olds who are more worried about a few government-run grocery stores in New York than they are about the destruction of our democracy. I have never felt more politically homeless.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

Columbia is currently on step 1 of failing the Lando test. Ask the law firms about steps 2-4.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

No shit. This is why I consider that principle to be garbage.

Summer Learning in 2025

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

America

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

Sooner or later you're gonna have to come to terms with the fact that you can't combat creating concentration camps and kidnapping people off the streets by voting harder

MAGA: “Hold my ‘Mectin tonic.”

Do not - launch fireworks - off your body - this July 4th - America.

I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty. ‪ @sarapayan.bsky.social‬ reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:

Great photo here of Senator Gillibrand

"I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm" belongs in the Louvre

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

“DEI” wth a hard R

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Sure did.

rubber bullets fly by my face. tear gas fills my lungs. a line of federal troops is marching toward me. i fire off an email to my focus group asking what i should do as a baton lands cleanly on my skull.

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

I “love” that the 3rd Amendment is about to become a thing in LA…

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

“Who believes that Donald Trump—fixated on imaginary graves and Photoshopped tattoos—is going to be able to process new and alarming information in the middle of the night, with the fate of the world at stake?”