Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

Has Mamdani appeared in a Spider-Man comic yet? I know it’s only been a month but it feels overdue.

today, donold trump became a true american leader,,

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

another kamala win ‼️ #girlboss #woah

anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.

that’s why they keep saying that we need a strong republican party. aka a party can discipline its far right flank, like the dems do to the left

If your plan is setting fire to the Reichstag, I hope your OpSec is truly poor.

the same guy who thinks everyone would immediately get on board with his ideas if only The Media stopped suppressing them, will also be a enormously condescending asshole to new people who come to his meetings

we say this guy chases polls or the Baileys or whatever, but the reality is that he’s just misaligned with Democrats. the polling is clear that this is not what Democrats want. Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.

Gonna develop a theory that Bitcoin has no utility in a world where you can just pay a bribe to commit crimes

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

The last good Republican?

Full Bad Bunny speech

The regime’s inability to change course reveals some key weaknesses. The Trumpists have bought into their own propaganda – they really believe they represent the “will of the people.” And they exist in a rightwing information bubble that constantly affirms such nonsense.

suing the IRS in your capacity as President? that’s not very unitary executive of you

Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.

dawg they’re 3D printing their own challenge coins. if i was dhs i’m packing my bag tonight and leaving before the sun comes up

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

MORE THAN THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

It is immensely frustrating that there are so many good people of genuine faith in this country who recognize the evil in front of them but do not get credit for being religious people because they’re not screaming about abortion.

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

That thing you’re waiting on me to do? Sorry, I didn’t get it done. But I did add some photographs and citations to this Wikipedia article!

Was it really facial recognition or did he look up her license plate and didn’t want to admit he borrowed a real cop’s login to do it?

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

a lot of Democratic officials have asked the protesters to be careful to not "give Trump what he wants" and I think it's fair to ask them to do likewise

This is a terrific piece of rhetorical construction that also happens to be a very good point. A lot of us have been heartened by the courage and integrity so many Minnesotans have shown over this past week, in the face of intimidation and spiteful violence.

Undo DHS

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

The moderate position is unwinding the entire post-9/11 security state

Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.”

A big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.

Once you've been through enough cycles, it becomes easier to see the candidate elites are trying to make happen vs. ones that have genuine popular appeal.

“it is possible for two things to be different amounts of bad” has broken so many brains

You can feel NYT bitterness in how well Mamdani handled the blizzard. But fortunately they quote several random X users in order to balance out the reality of job well done with some attacks on the bitter enemy, the Mayor of New York.

This New York Times story is not paywalled, and it shows a second-by-second breakdown of what happened. Please scroll through it. This is not what America, or anywhere, should be www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The beauty of mass nonviolent resistance and mutual aid is that every kidnapping, every murder, every beating, every lie—the only weapons they have—invigorates our solidarity and commitment and weakens them. It turns their violence and propaganda inside out. We’re winning and it’s not even close.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

"Equal obligation" among citizens and government agents to "avoid violence" is a Hobbesian view of governance, the kind explicitly rejected by the Framers in favor of the Lockean social compact. The state is a trustee, the agents fiduciaries, the citizens beneficiaries. Read a book you dullards.

oh hey it’s the Bush administration’s “legalize torture” guy

a lot of them, not all, but a lot of them, are only fascists to begin with because they have a horribly distorted and broken risk assessment system in their heads already. when "hispanic guy taking the bus" is the existential nightmare to you, you're already dealing with disordered perceptions

And I know, I hear you read to shout, 'but ACAB!' and I get it. But you, the blue-team protestor, do not need the cops to be heroes. It'd be nice, but you don't need it. The *regime* needs them to be villains. You just need them to either 1) just do their jobs or 2) decide to be somewhere else.

This post cracked the code of 90% of NY Times op-eds.

Same

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

This is brilliant! also: why are urban planners so incredibly bad at naming things

Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles

They definitely can’t believe people would risk injury and death to help protect other people. They never believed it, they thought it was virtue signaling.