The 30-50 feral hogs guy ended up being right. I'm okay with giving people the benefit of the doubt here about the sea lions if others will listen to my complaints about the sandwich artists as well.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

The last thing a defensive end from 5 seed Georgia sees before a pulling guard from 12 seed North Dakota State helps him go pro in something other than sports

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):

Millions of Republicans now see Canada and the EU as enemies. The rapid recent rise in negative sentiment recalls the big rise in Republicans’ opinion of Vladimir Putin in 2016. No consistency, no principle, no sense of national interest. Deeply cultish, ready to abandon anything on leader’s whim.

It's funny that people will use their government names while doing the racism. Have some dignity and use "Mold Bug" or "Richard Hoste" or MAGAMOMMA1488

When you lost Bill from King of the Hill...

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Good example of what an institution the size of WaPo can do that is very difficult to replace. Local, worker-owned publications & nonprofits do excellent accountability work but I don’t imagine any could set up an ME bureau, with staff across the region, logistics, legal and security support, etc

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

The simple fact of the matter is that we have a president that is too lost in the sauce to understand that the country hates all this & all of his viziers are too dedicated to their own projects to give a shit about public opinion. This is what that looks like. Its groupthink at a terminal level.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

1/WSJ blockbuster. Key takeaway: Court interests not national interests are driving US foreign policy. In secret deal, UAE buys stake in Trump/Witkoff family crypto firm months before US does U-turn on advanced chip sales to UAE. This is what neo-royalism looks like. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Wait, what?

DHS learning the valuable lesson to not shit where you eat.

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

wake up babe an italian guy is doing phrenology about norweigans bsky.app/profile/zack...

White supremacists *have* to pathologize whites who reject white supremacy, it's such a threat to their brittle worldview bsky.app/profile/zack...

But how are you going to do eugenics if you prevent people from dying?

This should get some sort of award.

Just a reminder that the paper is owned by one of the wealthiest men in the world who recently paid $40 million to distribute a documentary about the first lady.

We already have a precedent for "Lock [them] up"

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

"Down with the traitors, up with the stars"

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

The way those fucks scampered away like they just lit a mortar firework that they found in the back of the shed.

A government fictionalizing real events and presenting it as real is a repugnant development that only damages its own credibility further. So any time the White House posts something, you’ve got to assess whether it’s hyper political AI slop or not. Bleh

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

At about the 35-second mark the officer says "IF YOU FUCKING MOVE I'LL FUCKING TASE YOU," followed immediately by "GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR RIGHT NOW." Which contradictory order are you supposed to follow, knowing that either could get you tased? Or worse? bsky.app/profile/petr...

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

The fuck did I just see

This is actually important: Trump (as far as anyone can tell) doesn't believe that *anything* is on the level. He doesn't as much oppose democracy and the rule of law as believe that they've always been a fairy tale that only foolish dupes fall for.

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

I've said this before and I'll say it again. It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.

We can definitely make this the most blocked account here

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia. It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.

friendly reminder The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone. which they will be