BREAKING via AP Hamas to release all 20 living hostages this weekend, AP sources say, as Israelis to withdraw from majority of Gaza.

Believing the lie is a test of commitment, the wilder the lie, the more intense the commitment. As I keep saying, all this stuff is obviously paving the way for violence. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” etc.

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

Trump heard we had an all-volunteer force and he got the wrong idea

🥴 I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing' but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Man how cool is this

I hope everyone sees how completely horrific it is that they are conflating armed masked men assaulting a residential building in the middle of the night with a religious revival. My white evangelical brothers & sisters, aren't you horrified yet?

Huge if true

The most important political thread of our time.

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Everyone wants to name their kid Hunter but no one is brave enough to name their kid Forager or Pastoralist

So chatGPT finally became sentient

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

The MAGA political project in a nutshell

[insert all the curse words]

Mongols steamrolled 1/3 of the world because they didn’t gaf who you were or where you came from, but promoted exclusively by merit. Everyone else who didn’t do that was crushed under their feet

It says "POLICIA" on the goddamn shield.

What could 10,000 ICE jackboots each cost to recruit, Michael? $3,000,000? Wait, that cannot possibly be right *checks math* "The [ad] campaign... is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year." Oh wow oh fuck jesus christ what the shit

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are. And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.

Read this. open.substack.com/pub/jasonint...

Hand to hand combat with a large frog-wizard in an inflatable suit

Important distinction between kidnapping and arrest is that arrest is done 1. Pursuant to legal authority and 2. The arrestee is guaranteed due process and a neutral arbiter to mete that out. ICE is doing whatever the hell they want to, with no guarantees of anything to anyone. Kidnappers? 100%

take heart and recall that you can only be brave when you are afraid

Our warfighters don’t need paychecks. They live off pure adrenaline and the tears of the vanquished

Sorry but I think that running society based exclusively on the ever-changing whims of an aging warlord is not the best idea

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Civil war? Dude, I don’t know about you but I gotta get to work tomorrow morning, wtf I don’t have time for this shit rn

"Nothing really happened... just a little pepper taste... I'm Mexican, what do you expect?" Why the outfit? "I like frogs!" Legend.

Trump is a warlord, not an American president

Right. Republicans are basically like animals or children, and Democrats are rational adults. You can’t hold animals or children responsible for their actions, so the only question is whether the adults are handling them well enough.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Worth watching the whole thing, past the political dunks, very moving message.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

This is an astute observation by Judge Young. In employing ICE — and in seeking to deploy the military, as Trump expressed yesterday — as the primary mechanism for "law enforcement," the goal of the Trump administration is to skirt the legal system entirely, eliminating citizens' say as jurors.

I get beside myself angry when I think about how a presidential candidate repeatedly fucking said he’d be a dictator and the press response was ha ha that rascal I’m sure he probably doesn’t mean it

lol, countdown to headlines that "some experts say" he can't do this

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue: 1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims 2- see above

Another Friday afternoon, another #SCOTUS grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration—this time to allow it to continue eliminating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. The three Democratic appointees all dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

My advice is that joy is also a form of wisdom.

Don’t forget your kind heart today. Don’t forget your gentle heart that is full of love for this world and the amazing creatures in it. Don’t forget your eyes of wonder. It is still a beautiful and precious life we have, for just a fleeting time here together. Don’t forget to light your lamp.

When I lived in central Spain for a year I wondered why all the apartments had super heavy doors and complex locking hardware (key bolt, interior bolt, bars that extended into the floor and ceiling in addition to the side.) Oooooh that’s why….