NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

It's still Politico writing about democrats, guys, like at some point we need to ask agree just not to click the links.

ICYMI: in my latest for @wpr.bsky.social, I discuss how an embrace and even enthusiasm for using violence abroad inevitably links back to violence at home.

I don't know; I don't really think it was terribly subtle.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Imagine if they wrote about other crimes this way. "the shooter's actions have drawn scrutiny from legal scholars, who warn that the shooting could raise serious questions under American and state law"

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

I know a lot of people need to hear this You know how you want the Ds to start investigations the second they’re in power? Part of making those investigations as strong as possible is sending the “strongly worded letters” now. We need the paper trail so stop shitting on it.

of course the thing about Eisenhower that mattered was that he needed to get a bunch of prima donnas to cooperate

I haven't been in combat. But I do know of those who led Armies in WW2, almost all of them did have combat time. Some were cowards, many incompetent, and a large percentage lost. Some won! But, it doesn't seem like "having combat time" universally makes one an effective leader, strategist, etc.

[bravely]: daycare should be a uniformed service and they should get nice outfits that show their name clearly, are comfortable to work in, and do not have ribbons or small buttons. they should get a pension. the boss of daycares should be called the governess general.

When actual suffering families overseas beg Americans in op-eds not to vote for the guy who will make it worse when he’s the guy who reversed decades US policy on settlements in the first place, you should listen to them instead of foreign state-controlled media.

I think this may take on the failure of '21. Like the normal argument "Biden WH wasn't good at communicating their wins" which is true but also fundamentally misses the forest for trees. Comms just doesn't generate/sustain majorities in and of itself

Ah, President Biden was behind it all. Of course! 🤦‍♂️ Who was president on "Sat January 9, 2021" 🤔 Oh. Donald was.

This was a realization that glanced off me in 2016, and then which absolutely floored me in 2020. By 2024 it was simply a reality I had long ago accepted.

The problem I have with actual anarchy in theory is the same problem I have with actual communism in theory: the theory demands rational selflessness and cooperation at scales that simply don't work outside of a tiny co-op. Past that and any opportunistic douchebag will exploit it and subvert it.

Every single criticism of BlueSky is valid except somehow the one the pundits stumbled upon, which is roughly equivalent to kicking down the door of a KFC and incredulously asking everyone if they are aware they are eating fried chicken.

If you've been under a rock, or have taken good care not to see it, you may not know that this is a normie Jew's primary exposure to the phrase: as a safe stand-in for a racial slur or threat. Not fair, but so is this.

As I await my flight home, my wife has decided that our children will watch the Chinese version of Prince of Egypt and I honestly don't see why not.

Note: One reason Trump may be saying "we have to act fast." The comments Jim Comey made to Congress they want to prosecute were made on September 30, 2020. They've got 8 days to charge it.

In order for that to happen folks need to vote in their local elections continuously so that the people you elect aren’t in the minority and they’re left with no power 🤷🏽‍♀️

I keep saying this but watergate was incredibly subtle and relatively inconsequential compared to shit that happens every day now lol

plugging this fantastic article everytime magneto discourse comes up

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

The entire problem we are discussing is that Magneto reflects the historical presence and perspective of Zionists - by the same token - arguably a situation like contemporary Israel's government is the end point of over-idolization of the Magneto Was Right response.

Which is fine as far as it goes, but fundamentally the people who go "Magneto was right!" but also oppose Zionism to the utmost cannot conceive of a world in which Jews are the Mutants of the analogy or at threat from the world at large; they assume Zionism is an ideology of established power.

Your periodic reminder that the historical inspiration for Prof. X and Magneto were not MLK and Malcolm X, but David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin.

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

Does anyone on here truly think Will Stancil doesn't receive a greater number of death threats from people than most of us? Keep in mind we can see them daily in his replies, and also someone who was literally threatening him did in fact commit a mass shooting!

This is fucking gross (and I don't mean from Stancil). Imani Gandy has always struck me as a clout chaser more than anything else, and I recall thinking something similar even pre-Twitter back when she started blogging on balloon juice. She obviously does not read criticism in good faith.

"Is it me, or is my partner an asshole?" I ask the Flattery Machine, looking for advice

Pretty clear that running socialists within the Democratic Party has been the most successful electoral & rhetorical strategy of US socialists in 40 years

New type of guy who posts doom and cynicism accompanied by a chart showing the opposite of what he claims, just not caring because he assumes no one knows how to read charts

The thing about unchecked power is it often makes grave mistakes. One of the reason Putin decided on the folly of war with Ukraine was the lack of those willing to tell him he was making a grave error. I fear @realDonaldTrump will stumble into a war, costing troop’s their lives.

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is actually a very strong endorsement of nonviolent protest and electoralism, and it’s striking how few people seem to have actually read it given that it’s a) one of the most influential political texts since WWII and b) it isn’t very long

It was a good 85 year run but I think they've finally run out of material for new Batman comics

Ppl using Politico and Axios as the gospel of what Dems are saying or doing is exactly how we get people believing Dems are doing or saying the exact opposite of what reality actually is. B/C one doesn't have to actually read the stories, they just have to swallow what someone reacting to them says.

The TL;dr here is that instead of getting angry at Kamala Harris over this mention in a book, we should be angry at the mainstream press for twisting any little comment a politician makes about us into anti-trans propaganda divorced from the content of their comments

I’ve seen a lot of trans folks get outraged at Kamala Harris over this news article A brief thread on why I would really suggest *reading* the outrage bait posted about our community by major media platforms before hitting “post” on social media Here we go… 🧵

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

To add to Melissa’s point (not to dunk on her at all). But as @admcrlsn.bsky.social pointed out, progressives didn’t primary out pro-life Democrats or pro-gun Democrats. A lot of the rural Democrats lost during Obama’s presidency because of their vote for the ACA. It didn’t matter how they voted

Tragically, Will Stancil is actually the closest thing this age has to a moral paragon because he was exposed to people being mean to him on the internet without becoming a Trumpist out of spite, a test which seemingly every other major Discourse Generator online has failed.

I’m seeing a ton of people on the left clinging to the idea that Tyler Robinson is a groyper and asserting that the text messages in the court case are therefore fake and man, I participated in some of the early speculation, but I feel like it was really, really harmful and I regret doing it.

It turns out they do care about ratings after all, and you can't spend culture war

we're going to win

My moral values do not change based on the government or religion of where you were born, and I don’t make myself a fellow traveler with people who think people‘s genes have an inherent tie to land

This is not an issue where GOP legislators can even pretend that they agree with the policies being set into place. There has seldom if ever been so transparent an example of a group of elected US representatives so utterly cowed by a demagogue as to abandon their constituents so completely.