A random WWII hot take If Patton* were in charge of commanding Operation Market Garden, it would've achieved all its operational goals** *Far from Patton's biggest fan, a flawed but quite good operational commander **Another hottake: OMG wasn't a "failure"; it just wasn't maximally successful.

I put my thought into print here zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...

Prison guards rushing to take jobs with ICE. Almost like all of this is connected. I wonder which people have been making this case for a few decades.

My MTG take is that she’s got a better paying gig on the way. Congress is a launching pad for an influencer/pundit career for these folks. Will be genuinely surprised if she retreats into private life.

Of course. This may in fact happen by midnight. The thing is that Mamdani will be able to say 'well that's not what he said when I met with him' and keep it moving.

MAGA: Trump is going to strip Mamdani of his citizenship! Trump: I’d like to see Mamdani strip

This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust. Their intentions are clear.

House Republicans refused to condemn fascism just a few days ago newrepublic.com/post/203347/...

When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!

One of the key insights of Sefton Delmer, a WWII British propagandist, had about Nazi's when he was a journalist during the interwar period in Germany, was that Hitler & the party gave people permission to live out/play out their most sadistic desires. substack.com/@thehiggstap...

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

It certainly sounds like he was murdered after just 4 days in custody. And that he's not the only one.

Not a fan of Infinity Saga “everything was better back then” revisionism when what I consider to be the “most joyous MCU movie” exists in this era.

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

And this is what the *height* of success gets you in the end under this vision of society.

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

Steph just made his sixth 3 of the night against the Magic. I thought, "Man, six is a lot of 3s. How many times has Steph made six or more 3s in a game?" The answer: 285. sports-reference.com/stathead/tin... No. 2 on that list? James Harden ... with 128. sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on? Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.

Good use of a tank. An American tank rolls over a Nazi banner laid out in the street after its crew helped take the town of Lembach, spring 1945. U.S. Signal Corps—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

well, it's not a straw man because it is true. What it is getting at is people asking "how are we going to actually win" to the point where every election isnt existential. It is important to devise a strategy that makes it so we don't have to win every election forever & ppl need to know that

The Canadian County Sheriff (who was at the Capitol on January 6) is also the president of the National Sheriffs' Association.

Now might be a good time to ask your immigrant neighbors if you can help with errands

Madison, WI folks will understand this: Ken Burns is the Dave Cieslewicz of "historical" documentarians

@solomonmissouri.bsky.social I know you're not Baptist, but the SBC is betraying its congregation. Don't have any connections to Southern Churches, but thought i'd pass this along to someone who could organize/pass along to organize a response thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

The SBC left the Triennial Convention of Baptist churches, so they could uphold the institution of slavery. The National Baptist Convention should open up their doors to protect those the SBC is betraying

The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...

This is the dystopian bullshit so many of us feared. It's not coming, it's here.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Five seconds ago we were about to go to war with nigeria for allegedly not protecting persecuted christians and now here comes DHS with OPERATION HO-HO-HEROD

Everyone knows this is true

President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is: 1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can 2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise 3) other people should also get loud 4) not violent though

in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!

One thing I love about Madison is that you have pretty good odds of bumping into Rob Dz on any given night. A delightful person who has also fought some long uphill battles in our local cultural scenes. Rob had a heart attack last week. Please help him out if you can.

The elevation of the US pundit class to the position of respected experts is a major contributing variable to the current shitshow that is US politics. By and large these people are midwit bloggers that occasionally have moderate statistical training.

"The fact that JD Vance has openly cited Curtis Yarvin as an inspiration and that Thiel is the person most responsible for creating Vance as a politician should be viewed as a national emergency." My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

How is this a real headline? The White House can release the Epstein Files at any time, but won’t. Now, after fighting to stop a House vote and failing, he says go ahead, presumably figuring he’ll work to stop it another way. One of the worst uncritical “Trump says” headlines NYT has ever done.

I know why they abuse drugs and alcohol. I know why they can’t sleep at night. I know why they’re divorced and have supervised visitation with their kids and are not allowed to have communion at church.

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

It is the norm.

This is the publication most responsible for pushing the narrative that leftist thinkers and organizers are the ones who live in a bubble.