this is, in its least ambiguous form, an example of harm reduction

Fundamentally, when these people talk or think about "politics" they are not talking about the same dynamics, phenomenon, institutions, frameworks, ideas, etc as you are. Zero overlap, completely different thing. Not even wrong.

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

Poster child of the revolution Rosa Luxemburg wore cute little hats and dresses and made Lenin play with her cat before she'd talk politics with him

Calling up your Dem senators and thanking them for doing this is how you encourage them to hold the line, no matter how low your estimation of them is

this is fucking insane and she's barely trying, you will never convince me AOC haters on the left are not just weird freaks

GOP Congress is fully onboard with Trump’s corruption. And they need to take an off ramp today.

Hey @icegov.bsky.social come arrest me, if you think you can. Literally. Make my day.

On the one hand, these anonymous tips have relatively little inherent worth to them. On the otherhand, LMAO they deleted the URL and made themselves look way worse to the Glonzoists.

to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.

I think college kids should demand better of people nominally on their side

Reps 'being primaried from the left' and 'desperately trying to distinguish himself in a clowncar field' have stumbled upon something very good

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has been blocking a vote on the revised government funding deal, says he is lifting his blockade in exchange for a vote on his bill to end sanctuary cities.

Utah voters have the power to refer a piece of legislation to the ballot and then reject it. They can do that here. They should!

Lutnick’s choice to list all the ages of the kids on the yacht is particularly unfortunate

Bovino still has one chance to go out with a blaze of glory

"the hereditarily xenophilic vikings a trahi" is so fucking insane that I have to wonder if it was inspired by the Malleable Invaders tradition from Crusader Kings 3

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Reforms that would be in the acceptable tier but not huge Ws include: 1) significantly enhanced training requirement with funding. 2) significant restrictions on CBP ops away from border. 3) badge/ID reqs with teeth. 4) mandated state coop on probes of DHS behavior.

Reforms we should get but that don't get Dems any credit imo are: 1) anything that was already negotiated in the DHS funding. 2) statutory prohibition on deporting citizens. 3) expanded body cam package.

Bovino gone for real is the minimum personnel outcome and if that's all we get I will be unhappy. Bovino+impeach and miss on Noem is an L but an acceptable one. Bovino+Noem quits or gets fired or gets successfully impeached+removed is a W. Bovino+Noem+Miller is a big W.

DHS getting a long-term CR is an L. DHS getting funded through reconciliation is an L. DHS never getting funded is I guess an outcome I'm okay with but it's extremely stupid; how i feel about it depends on how it plays politically. DHS getting funded but with significant reforms is a W.

Look if you don’t want to be recognized at a protest wear a frog costume

Man arrested on charges of impersonating an FBI agent in an alleged attempt to free Luigi Mangione

Ma'am you are spending 1/3 of your post-tax income on doordash

This whole administration and all who supported it need to be [REDACTED]

this is one of those lazy final season plot singularities

packing the court should’ve been a litmus test ever since they threw out roe

Real talk, if Thomas Paine were alive today he'd currently be in prison for sending "The Case for Bombing Their Homes" to his 500,000 Substack readers and then minutes after hitting the publish button attempting to purchase 57 tons of fertilizer

Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

first world model output i've seen that i thought was actually good

the fact that this bullshit has even reached the supreme court is completely disqualifying to the entire field of law

he’s doing his best to make me think this was premeditated

like either 1) trump is implying the BP agents had advance notice of this or 2) this was not material to their decision to murder him if its 1, that opens a whole different set of questions, none of which make the agents involved look better.

The fact that activism carries some risk—and in the Information Age, just about any public activism carries a nonzero amount—is part of what makes is noble. Safety is in numbers, documentation (eg video), the morality of nonviolence, and associated public sympathy, not from the state being unaware.

Some very thoughtful people are saying that it's a win for Dems to have successfully separated the DHS package from the other 5 funding bills. I agree. But I think a two week delay is a massive gamble/high potential to be a punt. The pressure and focus is now. Two weeks is an eternity.

boy if you've liked the weak governor-strong ag dynamic of walz-ellison, you'll love its much wetter follow-up of kotek-rayfield

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 4.6k). After Greenland I doubted Trump was ever going to find another 4%-er of an issue but by god he did it -- 4 percent of Americans agree with Donald Trump's position that the government should actively try to increase home prices. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

Yeah, the person who acted like we were all going to get rounded up and shot for giving an email to 50501 WOULD also be the one who gets somebody kicked out of a group chat for petty internet drama, that actually tracks perfectly

News cycles are being manipulated to make people think a problem has been solved when it hasn’t. Bovino removed didn’t change anything but people have been tricked into thinking it did, so they move on. Same as it was. Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.

i think this is going to be characteristic of the Bovino to Homan pivot

This is what the W-appointed, former Scalia clerk, Chief Judge of Minnesota said about Lemon last week. The selective prosecution case here is going to be lit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's always the next Dubai with these freaks, never the next New York City or even Miami or Dallas.

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

this was a real guy, the guy conducting the trial voted for him to be executed but also for them to delay the execution

According to this sheriff's report there are anti-ICE actions underway in Rock Springs, Wyoming, with enough people attending to fully block in the ICE agents. A Trump +50 geography wyo4news.com/news/rspd-an...

A lot of folks seem mad about this but don’t seem to understand it?