This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

It's fucked up that we have to both shit AND piss. So inefficient. Birds have it down to a single emission, can we really say we're so much more evolved?

an 80s style movie montage of a guy watching numerous actual 80s movie montages

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

i think what we need now more than ever is slow, incremental change

Special prosecutors on day 1. Everyone in this administration who broke laws— including every ICE agent who ever kidnapped anyone— must go to prison. All of Epstein’s buddies prosecuted too, Democrat or Republican doesn’t matter. Has to be this way or this country won’t survive.

Louvre heist guys clearly played Blue Prince

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

Why be scared that Iran has nuclear weapons, since nuclear weapons don’t kill people, people kill people

If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.

Cannot emphasize in how many different ways Zohran Mamdani seems to have answered the questions Democrats have been asking since November, and the response has been "no not like that"

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

It will be a great injustice if ICE isn't abolished and its leaders imprisoned

“hi i’m johnny knoxville, welcome to jackass.”

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight

Obama and Biden both failed to do anything about right wing extremists and the big change we need is someone willing to use the state to confront and dismantle their networks, including using state force. For this to be successful it won’t look very “liberal.”

Framing like this should be considered a form of misinformation. Antisemitism in America in 2025 overwhelmingly emanates from the political right. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

California Protesters throw rocks at ICE

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

Spent a couple of weekends with Zohran Mamdani on the campaign trail. Come for one of Mamdani's canvassers calling him "our generation's Fiorello La Guardia." Stay for a retiree stopping him in the street to grill him on the viability of his tax plan. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/31/z...

Ohtani bored watching Dodgers take BP vs the Yankees

average comment section in 2025

for sociological reasons the public messaging from Democratic insiders about abandoning lines of conflict always pretends to be about strategy but it's important to be clear eyed that a core faction of Democrats are *ideologically* opposed to anything vaguely progressive

huge night for my "everyone hates that motherfucker" theory of politics, which has been in dire straits since november. willing to accept a "we are a uniquely dumb people" rider if the evidence bears it out

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

Some of the big ideas I've been associated with in my career: 1. Open borders is dumb, just get rid of countries 2. Fresh Prince of Belarus 3. Do the jackhammering in the afternoon not the morning 4. Pronouncing "brontosaurus like "rhinoceros" 5. Having your fursona be a homo erectus

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

Any point in the last 20 years would have been a great time to rollback the existing US system of extralegal detention without trial. Ah, well!

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

today on will it pretzel: char siu bao

stocks keep going up and down bc the invisible hand of the market is making the jacking off motion

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

i feel blessed to be in the .001% of humanity that lives in a time when i can see a zip car with a dozen parking tickets on its windshield

Economist In 2126: It’s foolish for President Pepsi Kardashian to impose tariffs. We did that one hundred years ago and it caused The Flensing

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again