To hell with any other veterans out there who refuse to condemn the ungrateful coward. You dishonor not only our allies, but all of us.

The whole “thank you for your attention to this matter” schtick is so fucking weird.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

We'll see, but I don't think the apparent TACO on Greenland will last long. It's just another case of "last person he talked to," and that won't be the Europeans once he's back at the West Wing / Mar-a-Lago. For their own anti-NATO reasons, too many in the inner circle are determined to push this.

Fucking hell.

14% of Americans want a war predicated on security that will wipe out historic alliances and ramp up global instability. That’s 1.4 out of every 10 Americans. It’s like the combined population of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois but everybody’s The Joker.

When somebody’s house is on fire and the fire truck is on fire and the fire station is on fire it’s not a good time to tell them they should care more about starving babies.

Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I’m so mad about this. I listen to a lot of podcasts out of duty. Monkey Cage was one of the few I truly loved and looked forward to.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

ah, well, nevertheless

One half of the Special Relationship needs to go to the bookshop pronto

Are Nazis carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign or is it mere authoritarians carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign? Productive American discourse at its finest!

Tech companies’ access to UK ministers dwarfs that of child safety groups

2/ let's not forget this. this is all on SCOTUS. these tariffs are comically, absurdly illegal on their face. but even if SCOTUS strikes them down in the coming days they've allowed to be in effect for more than a year, reorder the US and global economies. a one year dictator mulligan isnt democracy

About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty: A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."

This is something I’d attend if my chief credential wasn’t slacker.

I get it: Billy Joel could write “We Didn’t Start the Fire 2” using just headlines from the past two weeks. That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office. Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.

Shocker.

Yeah people don’t understand how insane the surge here is. The insane videos you see are examples of stuff happening dozens or hundreds of times daily. (Although, again, there are signs they are departing for outstate after being roundly rejected by the community).

He sounds like a guy explaining “Settlers of Catan” to a group of people who will never, ever play “Settlers of Catan” with him again.

“Too much bullshit for Andrew Sullivan” is quite an achievement.

Said it for years and years. It only got me yelled at on the internet.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This week, I spoke with a St. Paul woman who told me ICE came to her door and asked her to report on her "Asian neighbors." The Hmong community, the large majority of whom are in this country legally for decades now, is in hiding.

Woah. These photos are really amazing.

LA Times sums up the state of our government: federal Nazi propaganda. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

BREAKING: The DOJ is investigating Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on claims they conspired to impede federal immigration agents, sources say.

I feel pretty misunderstood by people living in rural areas, and yet mysteriously, this isn’t considered a problem. I’m sick of putting up with this idiotic display of obeisance to chucklefucks simply because they live in rural areas.

BIG WIN! After intense public pressure, including a letter I signed with more than 100 members of Congress, $2 billion for mental health and addiction treatment grants have been RESTORED.

This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.

Journalists confront new reality in reporting after FBI raid. By @sarahellison.bsky.social Patrick Marley and @colbyitkowitz.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Every day is Transphobes are Trash Day, but if we want to go harder on Wednesdays, I’m in.

The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

Land of the free, home of the proper ideology.

In college I’d joke around by calling my comparative religion class, “competitive religion.” I’d talk like a high school coach firing up his team: charging them to get out there and “dominate the eschaton.” Good times.

There are countless examples like this just stacking up with absolutely no accountability from any case, just operating with absolute impunity to commit overt crimes and trample any semblance of rights to US citizens and immigrants alike

In DC during the federal surge, citizen parents started coordinating “walking buses” to take children of immigrants safely to and from school. The city-by-city targeting can feel isolating, but it’s also shown how people can share and develop techniques of resistance over time

We are now 25 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

imo what makes this so impactful isnt tying the issues together, its the very simple “THEY are doing this to YOU” part of it

Fight the Gestapo.

Parking lots have more to do with housing issues than immigrants.

ExxonMobil CEO, acknowledging objective reality: Venezuelan oil is dirty, the infrastructure is poor, the security situation is bad, we don't want to invest. Trump: Oh yeah, then I won't let you invest in Venezuelan oil! (This is what a flailingly weak leader who doesn't think ahead looks like)

"Congress needs to investigate the Department of Justice" from two different GOP Senators now.

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