Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

I think it is morally repugnant to treat immigrants to the United States like subhuman playthings.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

Increasingly wondering if Trump's demand for a Nobel Peace Prize was in essence an extortionate threat: give me the prize or I will start a bunch of horrible wars.

Feels like a step closer to a North Korea-style society full of fear-driven praise for the ruling regime.

Did Donald Trump cancel Jimmy Kimmel? We need a free press, not a few corporate media giants bowing down to Trump.

The "protest opsec" discussion desperately needs more math. Many decisions *could* result in your imprisonment or death, but often at very low probabilities. And probabilities matter.

new from @tusk81.bsky.social: Cary López Alvarado, a U.S.-born American, was days away from giving birth when she was violently restrained by masked deportation agents. She’s among several Americans filing claims against DHS, ICE, and CBP for racial profiling and civil rights violations.

Charlie Kirk: Democrat Party hates America, Democrat president must be executed. Republicans: We declare Charlie Kirk a saint. Any objections? Democrats: Nope.

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

this is will's google scholar page, if anyone thinks it's relevant to this

It's pathetic how contradictory this is with Hegseth's supposed obsession with military "lethality". You'd think that that would mean *less* fixation on meaningless aesthetics. Bullets kill just as effectively if a bearded guy pulled the trigger.

Just as background, for a while a big part of Imani Gandy's Twitter identity was "the barge", a joke idea to commit ethnic cleansing against cisgender white men

First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.

In this headline the metaphor is literally that the media is a disobedient pet and Trump is the pet's owner who rightfully insists on domination and control.

The function of the New York Times is to normalize Trump to readers Fox News can't reach.

The New York Times Opinion page Ezra Klein is a part of has plenty of conservative voices. The reward: conservatives don't read the paper and Trump is trying to destroy it with an abusive lawsuit

If Ezra Klein thinks liberals should go on speaking tours debating conservatives, why doesn't he do that himself? Be the change, Ezra.

(Trump wins another shocking victory at virtually no cost to him) Ha ha he's overreaching, this is a sign of weakness

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online, MSNBC has learned.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest

Theory: there's a second political axis, orthogonal to the traditional left/right axis, of how averse a person is to conflict.

Sorry, folks. The only comedy that's fully legal now is specials called TRIGGERED: THE UNWOKE, UNCENSORED TOUR with a thumbnail of a guy with a piece of duct tape over his mouth. Everything else will be placed under review for content by the FCC.

2016 GOP: It's a free speech crisis that foreigner Milo Yiannopoulos isn't allowed to speak at colleges 2025 GOP: If a foreigner says something we don't like we just deport them

It's absolutely worthwhile, as an exercise, to imagine a strong argument against your own position, but it's delusional to then assign that argument to the people who oppose your position. It obscures what their actual arguments are.

I mean I kind of agree, which is why I'm not on the side that waves signs that say "MASS DEPORTATION NOW"

This was such a massive failure at the congressional level. The misguided and widely criticized attempts to ban TikTok only empowered Trump and his conservative media allies in the end—like many critics of the ban legislation feared it would

Vance is right that "one side has a much bigger problem": Political violence of any stripe is relatively rare, but political killings in the United States are about six times more likely to be motivated by right-wing ideology than left-wing. www.cato.org/blog/politic...

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Remember when Trumpists thought the idea of immigrants being attacked by wild alligators was just a big funny joke?

Oreo CEO has told analysts that people who don’t eat Oreo cookies may one day “fall sick and die”

The New York Times has always had a policy of encouraging a wide range of opinions, all the way from white upper-middle-class centrists to wealthy white conservatives.

#5 "In those bird species where one sex sings elaborate or beautiful songs, it is always the male who does so" cracks me up. You heard him girls, Woman is when Doesn't Sing Elaborate or Beautiful Songs

SO sorry about the treatment your specialists and engineers received at the hands of our secret police goon squad. That's normally something we reserve for a different race of people who we like even less, hope you understand. Please come back

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Less than a month before he died, Kirk ordered Taylor Swift to "submit to her husband", demanded she change her name to "Taylor Kelce", and said "she should have more children than she has houses". He was a misogynist who believed that women were his inferiors www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Breathless reporting across the industry on unconfirmed reports that Kirk's killer may have once breathed same air particles expelled by a trans person, meanwhile no interest in ironclad proof that yet another school shooter was a Nazi.

The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

The Cato Institute came to the same conclusion. open.substack.com/pub/alexnowr...

CHARLIE KIRK: "Joe Biden should be put in prison and/or given the death penalty"

For people who say they consider someone their "MLK, Jr." the implication, of course, is that they don't consider MLK, Jr. "their" MLK, Jr. of MLK juniors

NAZI: I think all Jewish people should be rounded up, shipped off to camps, and killed. ANTIFASCIST: Fuck you, you worthless piece of shit. CIVILITY POLICE: The Nazi is being civil and doing politics the right way. Why can't the antifascist be more like the Nazi?

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

No, they just mean “convince me with words and if you don’t, too bad you have to live with racism/transphobia/misogynoir/etc”