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This is the greatest threat to my productive free time in a while

A periodic reminder that DC is what we call a one-party consent state, meaning you should record any interaction you have with these people because you have the right to.

Like the God of the Old Testament I will turn my back to their suffering

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

on January 6th, while attempting to overthrow an election, multiple rioters wore Nazi paraphernalia. they declared their intent to murder elected officials. the right stood steadfastly behind them and are now more powerful than ever. you can stand behind someone waving a Mexican flag.

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

Some of abundance’s defenders have tried defending more anodyne reforms, but I’d trust them more if it wasn’t a former Grover Norquist intern making their argument

if Democrats don't want to be accused of stuff like this they should stop letting Republicans like Barro speak for them imo

I'm not a political scientist but if you're advice to the Democratic Party is pushing out unions, immigrants, and queers then I think there's already a party for that

There are few feelings better than breaking through a writer’s block

starting to think we need a modern temperance movement to crack down on digital forms of gambling (crypto, sports betting etc)

Bush became unpopular - an electoral millstone around the neck of Republicans - so the media invented a fake story where the current crop of Republicans repudiated Bushism even though literally none of their policies changed except for being harsher on immigrants.

“Laken Riley didn’t get due process, so why should accused members of Tren de Agua?” — this is the thought of a barbarian. The state you envision could never provide the security you claim to desire. It would be locked in brutal, endless war with its people.

Third is the mayo

Reminds me of the wingnut welfare on the right where the same conservative book clubs would purchase then give free books to their members thereby pushing all conservative authors up the bestseller lists

I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people

At this point I'm honestly just calling my reps and bluntly saying you're old between the two of us I'm the one more likely to survive an ecoli infection. Maybe do something about this.

I was 28 as well and I concur

I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing...

NEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

And here is why the respectable publications like the New Yorker that inflated their traffic by hyping this phony company's bullshit should hang their heads in shame: “Pick your favorite species and call up Colossal.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

as usual they are confused by mainframe date field storage

The unspoken "solution" to this is prison labor

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

Thinking about these guys

So many things Trump has done are confoundingly self-destructive unless you remember a major part of the plan for after January 6 was creating the conditions for mass civil unrest in order to justify invoking the Insurrection Act

Y'know, the idea that government authorities have a cheat code by moving people out of the jurisdiction would have just a bit more persuasive force were it not a specific offense of the crown listed in the Declaration of Independence.

starting to think that centering your campaign around the most viscerally offputting man in history isn’t a reliable winning strategy

Strikingly, a type of gang that does actually use tattoos to ID their members is cop gangs in Southern California www.latimes.com/california/s...

This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now. That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.

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You have to understand that they hate you. Yes you, the educated liberal or leftist reading this on educated lib-left dot com. They took away AIDS medication from children for the specific purpose of making this video to trigger you. Triggering you is the goal and they will murder children to do it.

What are the moral obligations of the citizens of a country that embarks on an unjust war of conquest against an allied nation in violation of multiple treaty obligations? Seems like we ought to be prepared to take some risks and break some laws.

it is ironic that everyone voted to get 2019 back, but that is not how time works, so were are continuing right with 2021 as if the actual 2021-2024 never happened lol

anyway, if you were wondering why David Shor keeps arguing that Republicans will never pay an electoral penalty for racism under any circumstances, this is why

🎶 You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone 🎶

A friend sent me a quote recently along the lines of: how can you be on the wrong side of history when history is repeating? You’re failing an open-book test

"It is truly chilling...we are in a very dark place because if you accept the [Trump] argument that there is no due process for people then what is to stop them from going after citizens & political enemies?" I spoke to @therickwilson.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social about this dark moment.

This is terrifying and should be seen alongside the CBS settlement, Gawker, the efforts to overturn Sullivan--billionaires putting their boot on the throat of free speech. This is the actual cancel culture.

arm the college educated women

Back in my day the obscenely wealthy had good taste in food