I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

German broadcaster DW interviewed the new chair of the KMT, Cheng Li-wen. Cheng says that the 3% of GDP defense budget is excessive, calls Putin a democratically elected leader, and that NATO is to blame for Russia's war against Ukraine. Here are some gems (?) from the interview:

I’d rather live next to a Spanish-speaker than a MAGA, I can tell you that much you freak.

william hockett was a forcibly conscripted nc quaker willing to face a firing squad before helping slavers. the last line in his diary entry after deserting goes so hard the captain ordered two men to take me to the ranks forty or fifty yards away, but I did not feel free to walk in that direction

No, Bernie, sending squads of goosestepping fascists to conduct mass raids and terrify entire communities is not "better." This is a godawful take and you should feel bad.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Every Vlad out

Boooooooooo hatin ass ump

I think the BJs put lube in all the M's gloves

My signs from No Kings today

No Kings, Anacortes, WA

Rizzs's grandslam call

I want Robles back 😭

I’ve had it with these motherfucking leadoff doubles in my motherfucking park

Can we PLEASE get a leadoff on base?????

RANDY WHAT WAS THAT

Ok, let's not do that again

I have plenty of issues with the text-based stuff but I think it does have some actual use cases AI video generation is pretty much entirely a net negative, this is barely scraping the tip of the iceberg in terms of the damage this shit will do

If there was any doubt (there wasn't), yes, these people are literal Nazis.

One the one hand - thanks? On the other hand, seeing Brits do mental arithmetic on 'desirables vs undesirables' doesn't feel right. It seems like we're in the 'desirables' bucket simply because they think HKers are productive and not because they are actually deserving of some dignity as *people*

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th [Sun rises] [Sun keeps getting bigger] ADAM AMIN: yes [World engulfed by flames] ADAM AMIN: oh god yes AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

Gdi

LEO F’N RIVAS

Skubal, more like cue ball, amirite

WHAT A THROW

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

We had fed the heart on fantasy, The heart’s grown brutal from the fare. —William Butler Yeats, The Stare’s Nest By My Window

There’s a lot to be said about the intellectual benefits of seeing yourself as a part of an intellectual tradition rather than some reinventor of the world

If the former, then an American Starmerism makes some sense as an accommodation to a public that holds reactionary views on critical issues. But if it is the latter, then the public’s view is still something to strongly contest and is liable to change.

I mean, just because we're used to it, the fact that we need passports to cross national borders isn't a good thing either (and in a lot of cases a comparatively recent thing!).

There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state. Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.

Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention.

Guess what show this is from

What movie do you consider "perfect"?

so much of this shit "should you register for protests", "is it good to have the US flag at them" is just people wanting to be given some kind of deference as Protest Elders\Veterans in a little subculture of people who enjoy doing this shit, and for the most part..no. Can't gatekeep mass politics

South Korean protest culture is one of the country's huge strengths and it relies in part upon having large networks of people who can be mobilized at short notice. The U.S. is at nowhere near this stage of organization but it badly needs to be.

Also, the mindset that prevents authoritarian consolidation is "they can't get all of us" Not "cower, they can get any of us"

They want you to perceive violence so they can achieve violence.

"I think we should be able to do two things at once. And that is, condemn his killing & give our condolences to his family. But also speak truthfully as the man as he actually was."

Wow. Just had a peek at Twitter for the first time in months. People really do be losing their minds over there. Like former mutuals who I respected just palling around with actual fascists.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

it's carved into the fucking statue of liberty there's your god damn message