Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

Masked government paramilitaries are killing people on the streets in cold blood. No one is held accountable and a third of Americans are fine with it. Hard to believe, but here we are.

The overall point here is that trans rights is actually an issue of bodily autonomy, and you can't attack transness as a concept without also hitting everyone else in the crossfire. Which is not to take the focus off trans people, because of course these rules *won't* be applied equally.

Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.

As an older model, Mitch McConnell will sometimes spontaneously deflate. Right now they are pumping him back up with all that blood they just spent a month draining from Tom Kean.

New Mexico says US Justice Department is hindering the probe of former Epstein ranch. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

sic transit gloria mundi

the tattoo should have been an antisemitism scandal, but instead the antisemitism scandals have all been about Israel, because the ADL has simply stopped caring about the interests of American Jews.

Like this is unitary executive theory, boiled down, right? It’s either “the president accrues all power unaccountably and becomes a dictator” or “the entire government ceases doing nearly anything at all” with nothing in between.

I do think we should stop using the term "unitary executive" in public discourse and simply call it what it is: dictatorship

Basically allowing him to fire whomever he wants leaves no ability to ensure that he’ll actually execute the laws that require those positions to be filled.

ICE lied about Renee Good. ICE lied about Alex Pretti. Why should we believe them about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo? We can see with our own eyes that ICE is killing people in cold blood.

he is not being covered as if he is a terminally unpopular lame duck because the media sees him attempting a coup and attempting to rig elections and think it would be more fun to help him do that than it would be to help stop him

The secret police who have lied about every person they’ve senselessly killed in the streets have once again lied about a person they senselessly killed in the streets.

Look if an enemy's leader was a legitimate target then you can't be shocked when they think your leader is also a legitimate target. 🤷‍♂️

Not liking the Nazis isn't an edgelord position, and if you find yourself in a situation where you don't hate Nazis as much as everyone else, I suggest you shut the fuck up, that's what I'd do

This kind of thing, ICE killing a different person from the one they were searching for, wouldn’t happen if they’d just stop killing people.

A left which won't acknowledge that the reason we don't have Medicare for All is that the American people don't want Medicare for All and need to be convinced to accept it, is a left which will be perpetually unable to take power as opposed to merely critiquing it.

This is a lie, it is an obvious lie, there is no conceivable reason why this lie unless they are also lying about how and why they killed him.

Some guys saw a man that was (in their perception) only a hair's breadth from power only to have it ripped away from him over something he believed he had left in the distant past. These guys are both terrified and enraged because they can imagine it happening to them. 1/2

Roy Cooper: "Michael Whatley is the former chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, recruiting stellar candidates like Mark Robinson…He was also the chair of the RNC. This president anointed him to be the candidate. He will do and say whatever this president tells him to."

N.K. Jemisin China Mieville Jeff VanderMeer Adrian Tchaikovsky Alastair Reynolds I like what I like

I am glad that we have twice now recently confirmed Democrats will not stand for rapists. The Republican Party is once again a cautionary tale about where you can very quickly end up

If Platner were leading Collins by 10 points in the polls, he would still be the nominee. You can debate whether that is good or bad but the fact that he was in line to lose in the general is unavoidably a factor in his collapse.

And they now require sponsors to attend ID checks where ICE agents are present. In many cases, ICE has abducted potential sponsors from these interviews, essentially using their kids as a trap.

Dude, what do you want from me, the feminists and gender theorists were right. Not every one about every thing, of course, but on the big question of does this matter, is it causal, does it help explain things — after the past two years, who can deny that they Have A Point?

Thank you Governor [email protected]

North Carolina mentioned!

Imbecile. But also continues to suggest both Ukraine and Russia started this when this war is purely a result of Russian aggression. Also implies that US interests in the "fight" are even. Which they're not. Ukraine is defending democracy and Europe. This is Trump reading Putin talking points.

I am going to Spain in August, I have had this trip planned for almost a year and if Trump somehow manages to interfere with it...

Here is how I understand Trumpian foreign policy: in Trump's mind the United States is the World Empire and he is the World Emperor. All other countries are vassals. Importantly, this includes not only traditional American allies (like NATO) but also traditional American enemies (like Iran).

These Rashomon deals keep happening so often that maybe upon securing a deal, they should write up a shared understanding of the deal and have both parties sign it. Then there won't be so much confusion.

The possibility that Vance/Kushner/Witkoff lied to Trump about their deal with Iran—so he really believes Iran is making concessions they never agreed to—in no way absolves the president. If anything, it makes it worse. His failed war, his envoys, his humiliating surrender (or more of his war).

Our media will of course learn no lessons from this, but the initial ICE narrative about the two murders it committed here in Minneapolis was 100% false, slanderously depicting the victims as aggressors attempting to kill federal agents. Literally zero reason to believe ICE here. Zilch. None.

Just spent 20 minutes talking to my good friend Mitch McConnell. The STACK has fallen and everyone has started calling him "king of the MUD" but he remains in good spirits. He will be back on top any day now.

Americans will write this off as unfortunate collateral damage but collateral to what? When you use force in an unauthorized manner and kill people, that's called murder. All involved should be court martialed.

Last 24 hours has really been a banner time for blocking the deranged

Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives

This isn't complicated: Don't rape women. Don't ignore issues in a ballot box that would be massive red flags in a job interview. Don't confuse performative theater for the job of a legislator. The Republicans have proven what happens if do those things. We don't need to copy them.

Ok so at what point are sports teams just going to stop taking Trump's phone calls?

The Missouri Compromise was a mistake

OK Maine Democrats. Let’s have a talk. You guys fucked this up. In fact, you’ve been fucking up so badly that you haven’t elected a Democrat to the US Senate in 38 years. Only MS, KS, WY, UT, & ID have gone longer But you’re going to get yet another chance to get this right Do Not Fuck It Up

👇🎯 So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are

Years from now, the term "oysterman" will be shorthand for a hastily-pushed and unvetted political candidate

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

Platner holding a press conference to announce that he killed Mitch McConnell

nice to have the methodology spelled out here. If we lose we say it was rigged.

So tired of living in this maniac's world of nonsensical delusions. "DC was the wild west. Terrorists attacked the reflecting pool. The whole country is overrun by godless muslim communists. Simultaneously our country is hot as a pistol and it's a golden age" it's like psychological torture

“Anytime I lose I just yell RIGGED” is about as blatant a confession as you can have

People who want to grind move to the city, guy who wants to dick around on an ATV works in a warehouse and owns a cheap house in the middle of nowhere.