He's selling blank pardons that's the headline

if the democratic party would like to see less hostile responses to their fundraising tactics, they need to rebuild trust with their base. that starts with new national leadership and stopping the predatory tactics that scam our elderly parents

People who try to argue by telling you what’s popular are liars who are afraid to take their own side in a fight

If little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, and little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, our resident expert has informed us that little nonbinaries are made of pineapple, cats, and demon rats.

I hope the last few days have buried the weird optimism of "Trump is transactional". That is not true and it's not going to start being true if only we want it hard enough. Being transactional requires trust (from previous interactions) or the presence of a regulator to enforce transactions.

Yes, we can already mine in Greenland and stage military operations there. But unless we own it, we cannot do ICE raids, ban trans athletes, and take away their healthcare. by Donald Trump

even moderate members of congress are finally realizing that the BS they've been sold about centrism from the democratic consultant industrial complex fails to account for uncertainty or shifting public opinion, and thus has zero external validity here in the real world. let me just say: welcome!

Cool, glad you're getting the message Have you seen this? www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

This is so ridiculous, because the very first of the large scale operations in Los Angeles led to the widely publicized, burning and destruction of multiple police vehicles! Meanwhile, the most “violent” thing to happen in Minneapolis *done by protesters* was a car got broken into late at night.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Pedocon is a theory like gravity

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

It's going to be hard for Minnesota to stay at the top of the headlines if this occupation grinds on, as it seems like it probably will, so if you care about the deeply courageous people fighting to end it, follow people like my friend Norm here. He'll still be there when the influencers have left.

Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.

"And although the posters called whatever Trump did this morning the crime of the year, Geidner knew, it was only January 18 — and there were 347 days to go."

I don't know Ilan. But it is my opinion he is a sycophant. It is also my opinion he should be shunned as a professional, has his tenure reviewed, and be remembered in infamy the same way we remember Nazi legal academics like Carl Schmitt. So yes, that's my opinion.

and yet it won’t happen. Relinquishment is almost always “chosen” under extreme constraint, or (as it was in the Baby Scoop era), blatantly coerced. You will never see #adoption advocacy groups campaigning for real social support for pregnant people in crisis; it contradicts their business model.

Hot take: Adoption is designed ALWAYS to serve nationalist purposes that are never benevolent and never about child welfare. “Lebensborn handed over the younger children to SS families for adoption…they became increasingly robbed of their memories and their identity as they became Germanized.”

They all casually use the language of abusers.

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

Lead

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."

One of the kids I used to nanny texted me for my thoughts on his homecoming outfit. I am the coolest person who ever lived.

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

Todd Blanche is helping cover up a murder. Our federal government is run by monsters.

The billionaires want to make Greenland Epstein Island North--where the age of consent is as low as the temperature!

Really wish John Roberts hadn’t torched the Constitution.

Nothing like having your 73 y/o mom explain the real meaning of PBR 👀 “Well that’s what I thought too but then Logan explained . . .” I was not ready to hear my mom say that phrase y’all

day 2 of posting margot photos from the archives until morale improves

first, how dare you, second, yes

Nobody in the US public wants Greenland. This isn't even popular among republicans. Folks are not going to be enthusiastic about bearing economic pain for something they already think is bonkers.

Feel like I’m going to lose my mind explaining to people that what’s happening now is an expansion of domestic policies to larger scales, not an introduction of foreign policies to domestic life

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

Friend: Can I just say something? Me: One moment, let me brace myself. Nobody's ever had to ask that before they gave a glowing review of the situation.

just increasingly obvious that everything online Dems got excited about in casting Newsom as a “fighter” was simply the skilled efforts of a comms team who knows exactly what online Dems will fall for, while the man himself has a spine made of absolute tapioca pudding

That's right

That one CIA excerpt on how to be a wrecker taken as literal advice.

What was that post that was like, "if you're doing this and not getting paid by the FBI to do it maybe check in with them and see if they'll spot you a few bucks for your effort"

the dominant "rapid response" group in DC is deliberately discouraging the use of whistles and offering no alternative system to alert people who are in immediate danger. wrecker behavior at best, at worst infiltration.

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

This is now the practical centrist stance

Bessent cosplaying as secdef again

Peace through war is kafkaesque insanity and god forbid anyone point that out

I've wondered if the reason he always makes some huge conceptual error or soft pedals something horrendous in almost every column ist it's the only way he can still be 'the conservative protestant columnist.' It's like God forbid he ever correctly grasp something fully or what is he there for.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.