even if we were to presume that there were no logistics over and above occupying a country with a highly centralized population, a military occupation of the United States would require on the order of tens of millions of troops. there are about ~140-160k servicemen in infantry-like roles.

one fun fact about vindictive proseuction is that any documents inside the DOJ tending to show that Donald Trump personally ordered the prosecution are subject to absolute and incontestable privilege under Trump v. US, even if they are necessary to Comey's defense.

Bonfire of the Bathroom Vanities

the good news is that by next year the DOJ will just be every bus lawyer in South Florida, and we can just disbar them all at once

Finkelstein is Patient Zero for the fuckery that's brought America to where it is today. Obviously there's a longer history too, your specialty. But so many of Trump's key advisors have a direct line to Finkelstein. The world of "gay MAGA" comes directly from him. Even Grenell worked for him. 2/

Trump has gone completely mad. We have to force this conversation.

We're epsilon away from "roaches" and "vermin". Genocide territory.

Calling for an elected to be put to death for encouraging the 1st Amendment right to assemble & peacefully protest is beyond the pale. *Has any elected D said anything close to this?!* John Gillette moves us one step closer to it happening. You know Temu Goebbels wants to do it. 🧾 is.gd/yz6p5m

the total capacity of the DOJ is, if you push it, perhaps 70k cases a year. even presuming that they will go after a list indiscriminately, you want to put your ticket into the government oppression lottery, because it is strictly better that they spend it on a NTB in a blue city than anything else.

the answer is still "yes."

Comptroller Lander’s 2nd post says “Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention” The federal government is openly disappearing people, then attacking their families

a "prosecutor" who has only been involved in three federal cases, and never tried a criminal case, is going up against the most feared public corruption prosecutor of his generation in front of a Biden judge who used to be the federal defender on every major national security case

GOP lawmaker calls for Dem congresswoman to be executed for urging Trump protests Rep. John Gillette escalates rhetoric despite colleagues’ calls for civility after recent political violence azmirror.com/2025/09/25/j... via @jerodmacevoy.com

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

Aside from being a signum efficax of Yarvin's personal stupidity, this is also just factually incorrect. Slaveocracy was always aggressively expansionist, and correctly and presciently felt threatened by free states and countries. Some CSA leaders also had plans for a trans-American slave empire.

What an incredible homage to its two inspirations, Embassy Vestibule In A 2003 First-Person Shooter and Buffet Room In The Old Soviet Hotel Where I Stayed When I Had Covid In Ulaanbaatar Last Year

I'm only going to count to ten... one... more... time

Trump thinks he's a king and Republicans refuse to negotiate. That’s why we’re 5 days away from a Republican government shutdown. Democrats are ready to pass a bill to prevent this. But Republicans would rather increase your health care costs, than do their jobs.

‼️ Russia: “Sberbank reported an increase in the number of mortgage borrower bankruptcies.” There are a lot of headlines in Kommersant today featuring the word 👉 bankruptcy www.kommersant.ru/doc/8062321

also, to be really clear about what’s being argued, johnson jammed thune with a CR that thune’s own members aren’t thrilled about, dems offered a better CR that some reps are interested in, thune does not want to negotiate and vought wants to destroy the government. who is at blame here?

there are real harms to a shutdown, but i don’t think that vought cosplaying as darth vader improves the republican political position on one. “if we don’t get everything we want, exactly as we want, we will burn this place to the ground” is rarely an effective negotiating or political tactic.

CBS got their hands on a rendering of Trump's big White House ballroom. We'll let you pass judgement in the replies here.

Violent rhetoric exists among low level left-wingers, but within the Republican party, this is something that the very highest people regularly engage in. No Democratic president would ever appoint someone with such a history of insane rhetoric.

These are crimes. DOGE affiliates committed crimes. They stole our information.

Jon Finer and Phil Gordon, both of whom served as senior members under the Biden administration's foreign policy team, now claim that they're in favor of conditioning and even suspending military assistance to Israel altogether.

If a man can't even accept an innocent bag of cash from undercover FBI agents ... www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...

people do not really understand that once a movement's popularity starts falling towards the 30% mark, it begins shedding even core supporters. this is because you can no longer maintain the information environment inside that core. there are just too many leaks.

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

How do guys like Jesse manage to start their cars in the morning without running themselves over?

jfc, if I have to re-memorize my SSN, I'm going to be *pissed*

GIFT ARTICLE: Inside the White House Struggle to Tame the Epstein Crisis www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Forgot to quote this para that I wanted to highlight:

Encouraging piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Ukraine's strategy of attacking Russian petroleum infrastructure. A good read.

NATO ain’t playin around www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In what ways were things different in Palm Beach in the 1990s, Donald Trump?? Please, do tell. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

They thought they were the kind of highly skilled engineers ​who could help fulfill President Trump’s goal of reviving American​ manufacturing. Mr. Cho was checking his team’s balance sheets in his office when he saw helicopters and armored vehicles outside. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

scoop: Karen Attiah, The Washington Post opinion writer fired by The Post earlier this month over social-media posts related to Charlie Kirk's death, has responded with a four-page letter, saying she was wrongfully terminated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...

This is an illegal and dangerous weaponization of the federal government. That Jack Ciattarelli and the Trump admin are breaking the law and exposing private records for political gain is a violation of anyone who has ever served. No veteran's record is safe. www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

LOL if the GOP candidate who supports the President who has cheated on his wives, taxes, laws, the Constitution, an election, the public, and his golf scores is going to make an issue of a distinguished naval officer's failure as a cadet to turn in fellow students for cheating. LMAO.

2/ start to break and people get mad it’s on them. Their economy, their govt, their government services. All on them. Voughts a degenerate criminal. Let him do it.

This seems to be their angle. If there’s a shutdown they won’t furlough employees they’ll fire them permanently. The fact that this is illegal kind of isn’t the point these days. I don’t see why this is much of a threat. They don’t have to do this. It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …

Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union: “Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”