You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

Worth reposting.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem to President Trump: “You’ve saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean.” Hundreds of millions? That’s everyone in America. All saved. Praise be. theaimn.net/kristi-noem-...

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

If I value it and it's getting creaky, I'll buy the updated edition when that makes sense to me. Everything being a subscription rather than a purchase is just the most consumer unfriendly, barrell-scraping bullshit with exactly zero obvious benefit or reason beyond "we can, so fuck you".

The hyper-masculine military trappings are a give away.

Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.

Just watch, knowing it's not staged.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

I didn't know until this video that she also had a dog with her in the back seat. It's just more and more fucked up. He even switched his phone to his left hand right before his final pass in front of her car to free up his right hand for his gun.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.

This is, sadly, what we have seen, are seeing now and can expect to see for the next two years. Is everyone preparing written submissions to the RC? If we don't make an effort to participate, maybe we shouldn't later complain that our voices have not been heard. #Auspol

A quote from a 1919 book by Sinclair Lewis excerpted in a review by Andrew O'Hagan of a book about the American journalist Walter Lippman in the 25 December London Review of Books:

The military assault on Venezuela, the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, the launch of the White House’s new revisionist website about January 6—these three events convey a powerful and unsettling message from Trump and his crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want.

“Guzzler,” by Barry Blitt:

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

I'm sure all those Republicans who utterly lost their minds about Hunter Biden and Ukraine will be all over this news. (Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...)

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Hired goons off the leash.

There is no bottom.

Looking into?

This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.

Is it fascism yet?

Still joking around, good old boys.

Just a coupla guys joking around no matter

Normalisation at work.

The misrule of my country is now so hideous and profound that I am running out of things for which I am as an American rightly proud: Baseball, barbecue, Broadway musicals, African-American music, peanut butter cups & a walk on the streets of any diverse, pluralistic metropolis. Wish I was joking.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Fox Producer: Jesse Watters would like to invite you on his show AOC: He has sexualized and harassed me on his show. FP: That’s not true AOC: He accused me of wanting to sleep with Stephen Miller. So why don’t you tell me what you think is acceptable to tell a woman.

Modern wine tasting has left me behind.

Anyone withnessing the chaos and barbarism of the untrained thugs masquerading as law officers for the last nine months understands ICE is raw human trash gathered into a lawless street gang. That's all. This isn't policing. It isn't legal enforcement. It's just incompetent, undisciplined terror.

"dangerous times" indeed, but why?

We are the shithole nation. From Caracas to Greenland to Minneapolis, we are the problem in the world, we are the source of the tragedy, we are the affront to all human dignity. This is the United States now. We are the evil.

I watched a news segment of J6ers “retracing their steps” and placing flowers “in honor of” Ashli Babbit at the Capitol. Reminded of how the Nazis mythologized the Beer Hall Putsch and turned the 16 people who died into martyrs who were ritually honored on the attempted coup’s anniversary each year

He can change his mind, can't he?

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘭𝘦 like they’re overcoming an obstacle and not VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL LAW. “What an absurd headline.”

Goodbye, Mr. Chip

See? It's not about stealing Venezuela's oil. It's about Donald Trump getting rich off that stolen oil.

I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...

Not just disappointed. Very disappointed.

"Marco Rubio, we salute you!" A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.

How about 'falsely claims' rather than 'asserts'?