I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

HOLY SHIT Yes, this is not something that ever happens. Like, literally ever. Needs to start happening more, IMO

The analytic error that centrist dolts make is that they try to identify the issues that might excite the 5% of swing voters (and always fail, because these people are not policy-driven) rather than sticking by the issues that have demonstrably excited the 45% of the country that votes Dem.

"Stop it, you're totally overreacting with the Weimar comparisons & the use of the words 'far right' & 'authoritarianism'” 🤔🧐🤷‍♂️

honestly i find this quite revealing. they find being *called* a racist low status, but they have no issues *being* racist

I was apparently too optimistic about at least some of the left's capability of understanding things.

The Constitution LITERALLY mentions news broadcasts, Joe. That's the whole "freedom of the press" thing

It CANNOT BE THE CASE that everything goes Back To Normal; the GOP has shown that it is no longer dedicated to democratic governance. There needs to be BOTH a deMAGAfication (or at least a lustration), and a serious attempt to reseat the government on a democratic footing.

And it currently doesn't have much legal weight at all. They will certainly use it to bluster and harass, but they're mostly waving an empty gun. He's saying "this is why we don't want to load that gun."

Yes, bans on free speech don’t prevent horrible things from being said. They just give powerful people the ability to decide which horrible things are permissible to say.

On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.

The fundamental contradiction is that if your institutions work well enough that they don’t have to put muscle behind the reasons they’re there, the muscles atrophy by the time they actually *do* have to be used (on top of not understanding *that* they need to be used).

Not wild at all, unless for some reason you believed at any point that any of those people were actually concerned about "freedom of speech" rather than "the possibility of consequences for their own actions"

"Fuck Joe Biden ..."

Look, I get that he's really unusually shaped for a professional athlete but it's time to just accept Alejandro for who he is

Could have ended this post after three words, without the video, and on any given day

Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.

There is no cognitive advantage worth walking around with glasses THAT ugly

EVERY word of this

Well, that's nice. Not even a yell from the distance, just a flat-affect "Free Palestine" (with hostile stare) as a greeting from teenagers walking past me at the central bus station here. Haven't had that in a while. The fearlessness needs to be fixed; alas, I had a connecting bus to catch.

It is shameful that people keep trying to shoehorn their own agendas into this when it’s clear he would have wanted us to permit the building of more and denser housing in high-demand areas all around the country

"I've never dehumanized my colleagues [offer not valid for Sarah McBride]"

So, uh, imagine being on the board of THIS charity today, @oceanbound.bsky.social

This, by the way, is the answer to "what did Charlie Kirk say about George Floyd, Floyd was a father." I'll judge my own actions by the standards of Charlie fucking Kirk the day hell freezes over. And since hell doesn't exist ...

A dude who called me a crisis actor in 2012 after Aurora demanded I show "respect" and mourn Charlie Kirk this morning, and folks, that's one for the surreal memories file.

It isn't difficult to despise violence and the atmosphere of encouraging it more than one hates Charlie Kirk individually - especially as the former still lives and isn't mortal. But in God's name, who asked you to turn "non-celebration" into mourning? ...

there is a reason why i spend so much time fighting with people who think that the only way out of this is violence

Every last bit of this. That I'll shed no tears for Kirk doesn't change any of it.

I would very much like to see both guys fired immediately after week 4's game

To my lawyer friends and helpers it's finally coming together. Many thanks to @smouritsen.bsky.social, @nealgoldfarb.bsky.social, @akivamcohen.bsky.social

probably worth thinking about what it would mean to pursue accountability for what increasingly looks like murder www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

/2...spending the time, and the mental energy, and one's own credibility to present those distinctions requires a leap of faith, a suspension of disbelief: it requires asserting that it's plausible that those rule-based distinctions are the actual reason for the difference. I decline.

This is WILD - we've got CENTCOM located there and I cannot imagine Qatar is going to continue to be a willing host if we greenlit a violation of their sovereignty

It would look like a 9-0 SCOTUS with a supermajority of rubber-stamped Trump hacks, a slate whose power exists in sum total to coronate Trump Emperor within the year.

Love to read a passage like this and be like "wait I thought we blew up the boat" And then be like "oh I see, this is a DIFFERENT war crime involving the summary execution of an entire boatload of civilians"

Given Justice Jackson's recent dissent, I think this particular shot lands even harder than the one Rick quoted

62,000 people follow this deeply antisemitic loon

"Make Measels Great Again"

This is imperialist against vampires

This opinion is a crime against humanity, Meredith

Remember this is the same DOJ that said Judge Boasberg's oral order was meaningless and didn't need to be followed

Sub-post out of respectful non-confrontation: there is no meaningful distinction between right-wing and left-wing antisemitism now, and especially in reference to the RW kind it comes off as exonerative.

Was I sleeping when the Supreme Court reversed its 1999 ruling finding media ride-alongs like this to be unlawful? Or, you know, did Patel just undercut his own agency?

I should put this in my bio, but as a reminder: I block MAGA trolls, but I also block for leftist sanctimony. Today's example is "why do you write about X, when I want you to write about Y, which I have deemed more important?" You are always free to write what you want to see in the world, folks!

World's least surprising reveal

"WE ABSOLUTELY ARE ENGAGED IN GOVERNMENT ACTION ON THE BASIS OF THE CONTENT OF THE SPEECH WE ARE TARGETING. Thank you for your attention to this matter"

You'll never guess the subject of the story this totally-not-an-antisemite is responding to with this

This is the appropriate paralegal/attorney dynamic

I'm pretty proud of this year's fantasy football team name: Kaf Lamed Membou

I'm going to somewhat disagree BP here, because of an exhortation repeated endlessly in the Torah itself: Be kind to the stranger who lives among you, because you experienced slavery in Egypt. No, trauma doesn't inherently teach. No, there's no special duty. But there's an *opportunity*