Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

I haven't seen anyone else say this but if IFK doesn't slide the Blue Jays win in the ninth

I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

Jesus Christ baseball

Please you only get one chance to ever try this

Oh man this defense got me rowdy

3 pitches to get those three huge outs in the bottom of the ninth. Insane.

I wonder if a lot of grandfathers think the dementia tests are IQ tests

Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government

Back in February I said Trumps administration didn’t understand the geography, the culture, or Putin himself. They wanted a quick fix, parroting Russian narratives line by line. Alaska was a disaster, they still can’t make a decision about anything, it’s just awful diplomacy from start to finish. 🤦‍♂️

This is the same General Counsel who said withholding funds to Ukraine, the basis of Trump's first impeachment, was perfectly legal, and this sounds like similar bullshit.

Lankford was in the Senate when the Intelligence Committee wrote its giant report concluding that Russiagate was not a hoax, and it's criminal negligence by CNN to let him say this on air with no pushback.

All of it, there aren’t any checks anymore.

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

The Tomahawks were never going to Kyiv. Moscow will not get its new Yalta. A Budapest summit will end as another loud diplomatic farting noise that doesn't help Zelensky, Orban or Putin. A lot of people need to get used to how useless America will be in a post-American world

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

She is 77, she should retire.

1000%, and it will not work out well

The debate over “lustration” in Ukraine post-Maidan was vicious, the process was discouraged by the west, and ultimately was unsuccessful. We see clearly how those traitors who kept their Parliamentary mandates laid the framework for 2022. Unpunished evil will *always* come back.

Fascists and aspiring fascists across the world have no sense of humor whatsoever, mockery is in fact the best way to attack those who demand to be feared or taken seriously.

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

Nobel peace prize officials investigate surge in bets for winner www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

“The pattern is one that involved modeling agencies around the world serving as fronts for human trafficking…This may very well be what Trump is trying desperately to keep quiet in the DOJ’s Epstein files.” tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-transnat...

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

wow, it's this kind of iconoclastic, out of the box thinking that really stands out

it’s all just a grift

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

That should do it

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Ok we did this in graduate school, and I got to go to a school with accreditation.

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

Congress is still relevant?

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

Unfortunately their inability to understand the signals and communicate them to their audiences means understanding will be replaced by the agendas of whoever is talking about the shooting.

As other commentators have noted, this indicates participation in the sort of irony poisoned, nihilistic, extremely online forum cultures that traditional media usually does an awful job on reporting on.

Trump is raking in billions of dollars, often from dubious or unknown sources. Literally unprecedented corruption.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

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1 Small Thing: Trump tried to change DoD’s name Reality check: Only Congress can do that Get Smart: Access journalism in the age of Trump has hidden risks. Why it matters: Authoritarian regimes lie, deny, & distract from corruption & failures. Honest journalists shouldn’t repeat claims unchecked.

I feel like drip coffee, black, is extremely lib-coded and has been for like 20 years now