Buckle up

also see @masnick.com:

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Few public figures have been as publicly committed to a staunch and fully intentional far-right worldview as Stephen Miller in my lifetime.

At what point do Congressional Democrats need to start calling for an independent investigation of Trump‘s complicity in Epstein’s crimes?

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Welp

Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

He seems like a nice guy. 😳

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

A society that has any aspiration to be free and democratic cannot - it must not! - tolerate the existence of an agency like ICE. In both personnel and institutionalized culture, ICE is a stronghold of violent authoritarianism, simply incompatible with the fundamental values of a democratic society

Burn it down. F*ck ICE F*ck DHS Public Criminal trials Convictions That’s where this ends.

It’s TACO Wednesday 🤗

“We will keep punching American consumers in the face until Europe gives us Greenland” is not the Own you believe it is, MAGA.

Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re going to reconstruct the Southern states to make them more hospitable to multi-racial democracy Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re going to deconstruct the multiracial democracies in the Northern & western states to make them more hospitable to white supremacy

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

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Trump posting that he’s the president of Venezuela and also seeing news that bands of masked militants are roaming Venezuelan streets pulling Americans out of cars are two stories that fit the current script quite well. #venezuela #usa #america #trump #abolishICE

Ok so the only problems with the murders in the Caribbean are: 1) no authority 2) no Congressional approval 3) civilian targets 4) no war 5) no evidence of drugs 6) no evidence of threat to US 7) stranded survivor killing 8) perfidy Is that it?

TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU

Trump isn't even hiding that he views ICE as his personal retribution army.

Democrats who want to abolish ice should start introducing legislation to roll back the creation of DHS. It was a specific post 9/11 law that combined previously extant functions into a single new department. Let’s start getting that model legislation out there. (Is it already?)

Tennessee Dems not holding back👇🏽

Dear media covering Homeland Security's killing of a woman in Minneapolis, Homeland Security has routinely lied about violence against the public. It was caught lying repeatedly in Chicago. A federal judge determined that Homeland Security lied. Share any government statements with that context.

Whether it's Elon Musk creating sexually explicit pictures of children with AI or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, leaders on both sides have presented the public with disturbing tableaux.

Jan. 6 was widely condemned at the time, recognized as a violent attack on America. Trump clearly caused it by lying about the election to attempt a coup. Within a year, Trump, GOP politicians and right-wing media flipped Republicans to neutral/positive, rendering it another muddy partisan dispute.

hate it when my elite pedophilia related government cover up gets in the way of my domestic ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns while I’m trying to invade other countries

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries

The greatest military power in history and the biggest economic engine on Earth has spent an entire decade focused on a game show host and real estate swindler. And America's only hope right now is a Big Mac induced blood clot.

He watched it from his house. Not from the seat of government. And experienced it as a TV show. He is a non-president.

“Some folks are born made to wave the flag Hoo, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord” “It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son, son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no furtunate one, no”

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Ya know, I’ve been on the fence in the past about him seeing the inside of a prison cell and if that is something that would be good for the country or not. As of this moment in time I firmly believe that is the only way we move forward. He must face accountability NOW.

So did you ever see a guy who just needs to be punched? Just a good punching…nothing crazy but a good solid few punches. Not bringing this up for any particular reason…just wondering out loud.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

The French would have burnt half of Paris by this point.

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

I like how he pauses and smiles here to be sure everyone caught what a racist piece of shit he is. “Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

Holy shit. This is really something to behold. There should be an army of men in lab coats.

The echos of mid 1800s America are undeniably growing louder…does anyone know what happened when those echos became screams? Say, around April 12, 1861ish?

Candace Owens has said that Bill Gates uses laced mosquitoes to make people allergic to beef, that the earth may not be round and that the moon landing was “fake and gay.” Her MAGA fellows draw the line, however, at her comments on Charlie Kirk and Israel. wapo.st/3MKjPwg

Trump gets the most generous coverage of any American in our lifetimes and there’s no close second

Wowza

It is OK to look down on the people who voted for Trump and to remove them from your lives. Nothing is gained by being in their presence. Ezra Klein is wrong.

I bet they’ll provide the coolest armbands.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.