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Not that anyone cares, but referring to ammunition as "less lethal" is like saying "less pregnant." It's weird and inaccurate. The original term was "less-than-lethal," as shown in this 1990 journal article. But at some point around the Ferguson unrest of 2014, the press dropped the "than."

This is wild. 41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober. He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases. Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers. 1/2

Yes, one theory — the one endorsed here by the Dallas Morning News — has been tested repeatedly for 25 years, having never succeeded, failing each time. Unsurprisingly, the conservative DMN suggests Democrats try it one more time. The other theory — the Jasmine Crockett one — has never been tried.

One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.

This sounds bad. It's also spliced together twice between 0:06 and 0:08. Is that for clarity or deception? Would definitely like to see the unedited clip.

The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism

What's weird is how Jeffries' ineptitude isn't penetrating the Democratic Party's rank and file. If I go to an event in Dallas and say, "Abolish ICE" or "I love Mamdani," people cheer. But if I say, "Hakeem Jeffries is an ineffective collaborator who must be replaced," they'd likely grumble or boo.

Dem leaders in Congress can’t pivot b/c some centrist memo written months ago said “affordability is everything - always re-direct to it.” That’s why we hear insane things like “The real tragedy involving Alex Pretti is that his funeral expenses are 28% higher than they would have been in 2024!”

Just once I’d like Schumer and Jeffries to show up on tv and not sound like wet noodles. Today isn’t that day. We’re faced with fascist thugs trying to destroy everything we believe in and the both of them are playing out of the safe consultant playbook like it’s still 1993.

This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.

Bingo. When Trump is mad he’s clearly mad whereas Jeffries and Schumer look like they’re on SNL doing a bad read of cue cards

Regular reminder that no one is immune from cooking their brain on X or ChatGPT. There is no safe level of consumption.

We are far too tolerant of this and will eventually regret not taking more radical action to end it

Christ this is bleak

Know what keeps me awake at night? Awareness of how much damage has been done to the military and civil service since 2017. The entire culture of public service inside agencies has been shattered, and fixing it is not simply a matter of hiring back some people and rewriting a few policies.

You cannot reform this. Burn ICE to the ground, piss on the ashes, and salt the earth. Then build a professional agency with standards and accountability to accomplish the critical mission they were supposed to be doing.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

An exceptionally bizarre list Feels like a LLM trained on the Facebook posts of 1,500 Army spouses actively involved in a MLM scam queried with “give me 40 books about leadership in the Army”

The text on the center flyer reads: ICE goons: You will face justice in this life and the next. You will rot in jail, and burn in hell. Resign. Repent. Repay. The other fliers simply say ICE OUT with a flower. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Been saying that we're way too lenient with ICE and CBP agents on the street; that we're way too lenient on fascists in general. Brown hoodie kid understands this.

I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.

“A grave risk of fatalities.” that’s warning FAA gave to Pentagon about using anti-drone laser near flights Then Pentagon and CBP used it anyway — without telling FAA. The new requires coordination with FAA, but a top official decided to…ignore that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Fun fact: Pete Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, both included on this list

Imagine if you told someone even 15 years ago that Republicans in the Department of Defense would be denying scholarships to military personnel going to MIT or John's Hopkins because they might learn something about racism or climate change. The entire party is consumed by 4chan brain.

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

The CEOs of these concentration camps must be prosecuted for their role in the unfolding atrocities they are overseeing. They know exactly what they are doing. They have known the entire time. And in the privacy of their boardrooms, they cackle over profits at the cost of human lives. Abolish ICE.

Trump’s brutal DHS operations across our cities aren’t just about “immigration enforcement” — they’re *violent crackdowns* on immigrants, demonstrators, and bystanders alike. And it all connects back to the upcoming midterm elections ⬇️

If they’re losing the “I’m not political but I love America” guys in Callaway hats…

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." We got a serious Mandela Effect going on here. I'm pretty sure I've heard this line attributed to Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci for decades. The Guardian says it's from 2010.

Congrats to all the low-information voters in Dallas who unknowingly did exactly what Ken Paxton wanted them to do

Whether or not Trump succeeds in canceling, rigging or suppressing the vote in November, it must be treated as an existential emergency NOW. The time to acknowledge and address the threat is *before* it succeeds, not *after.* Then it's too late.

My 7-year-old said the same thing, but the press did not take him nearly as seriously

Alt Headline: Pentagon begins push for dumber officers

Once again, it is bizarre how the media seems to think that only Democrats have agency.

Billy Jack in high school

Chuck Schumer and his band of Dems just want a kindler and gentler ICE - which will do the kidnapping of children and shipping people out to concentration camps - the right way. Seriously, why is it so difficult for Dems leader to say - they need to dismantle, gut & restructure this agency?

I really don't care about anyone's "he can't do this because states run elections!" argument. This is an explicit pledge to rule lawlessly by the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military, who is also currently constructing a nationwide system of detention camps.

I’m begging liberals, progressives, and the rest of the anti-Trump coalition to stop association with Hasan Piker

This is worth reading, but read it with both your eyes open: it’s clearly coming from ICE’s Lyons, CPB’s Scott and Tom Homan to preserve their secret police while marginalizing their bureaucratic rivals

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Can’t wait for the tribunal.

I don't normally keep up with what the Army is reading these days, but I happened to click on this official recommended reading list for junior officers and it's appalling. 53 of 66 titles are corporate-style self-help books. This is a great way to hollow out and dumb down your military.

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions...

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...