Welker:

Copy and paste from 1850s Know Nothing fear mongering.

Oh fuck all the way off

The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.

I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.

"“When a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep your life” is a perfect description of an authoritarian police state. None of this is Constitutional, every bit of it is deeply antithetical to the American values we grew up taking for granted."

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

This is your reminder that Benny Johnson was one of the guys involved in "Tenet Media" the Russian funded media influence operation

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

How about lifting sanctions on Minnesota?

Shermer was one of the major people in the atheist/skeptic movement who was publicly accused of repeated sexual assault around 2013 The other was Lawrence Krauss, who ended up in the Epstein Files Maybe time to dig up some of the creepy emails Shermer sent me back in the day

What if Jefferson Davis had been President of the US?

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.

They all think they're protected and it will just mean the agency getting a TRO. Nope. If they were acting outside the scope of employment, they aren't entitled to agency legal protection and illegal acts are outside the scope.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

the disgust with which they regard the "blue hairs" etc, is off the charts. i've been trying to write about it forever

Interesting fact. Make of it what you will. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s visit to Beirut today was not wholly business. He brought his whole family with him. He’s expected to remain in Lebanon for the foreseeable future.

All the ethics classes and tests we had to take for work and MBAs — worthless.

Apropos of nothing

I still cry over Iranian kids arrested for making videos to Pharrell Williams' "Happy" youtu.be/IChX-oO8cE8?...

I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponent’s secret police is a bad idea. This should not be a difficult concept.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

F the NYT. Paper of record my ass.

They have lost McChrystal

Governor I was not familiar with your game

Luckovich is a national treasure.

I haven’t been able to talk to anyone in Tehran for the last couple of hours. They either have no internet or are out without their phones. Or both.

This seems like the beginning of the sort of story that shows up periodically in the Hebrew Bible and that does not, as a rule, end well for anyone.

Well. My military hospital officially no longer carries the pediatric doses for the covid vaccine.

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Um, you're not allowed to go door-to-door hoping to randomly find someone violating the law. You need a warrant. That's is basic Constitutional shit.

Only 1 person in the US has absolute criminal immunity and that's Donald Trump for "official acts," b/c of a bullshit opinion by SCOTUS. "Absolute immunity" is not a real thing in criminal law. That no one is immune from criminal law is an essential part of the rule of law.

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Ah yes, the Kavanaugh stop. A brief law enforcement encounter that lasts a mere *checks notes* 25 days.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

they're not going to get them

??? Is she talking about the hundreds of criminals President Trump pardoned?

Once again, a mere handful of people in Washington could caucus today with the Democrats & put an end to ~90% of the worst things immediately. They even have names: bsky.app/profile/mcop... We should stop giving these people free passes every day & yell at them like everyone yells at Democrats.

writers deciding the last ship money episode was too subtle and now needs to involve literal ships

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Safe?

Again, it’s worth pointing out that the supposed mission of most of these people is to “preserve western civilization” and “promote christian morals”, and yet at every turn their actions and rhetoric show that they don’t give a shit about either, and actually have profound contempt for both.

Sent by their god, they say.

ngl the “Trump’s policies are really unpopular with American voters” cope isn’t all that comforting