Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

Sauer’s argument had a resentful “excuse me, but I was told that you were on our side, and that it didn’t matter that our arguments were stupid” tone.

Some of you gotta stop making us look crazy online. Yes, it is grossly unfair that your bad posts do more PR damage to trans people than causing a mass famine through foreign aid cuts, then blowing up a school and causing an energy crisis did to cis people. But things tend to be unfair for us.

East Germany apologists have to be the funniest. Lads they had to literally build a wall to keep the population in

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

palestinian: i would like some civil rights please kahanist: i can't believe you want to rape and kill us palestinian: i never said that self-hating jew somewhere in los angeles: they should be allowed to rape and kill us palestinian: i never fucking said-- shsila: they should burn us alive

Let’s cut the red tape, modernize codes, streamline permitting, and lower costs. It’s time to build, Illinois.

This article is horrendous (non-pejorative), consider whether and when to read it in the same way that you'd consider whether and when to visit the Holocaust Museum www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

“We’ve bombed 38 bajillion targets!!!” Okay. Is Hormuz open? No? Then who gives a fuck.

Yeah, Republicans voted to take a bunch of money out of the healthcare industry just last year, which many people predicted would lead to rural hospital closures. It’s odd for a candidate running in a Democratic primary to avoid saying that with…this.

One reason I'm still kinda bullish on the TACO/revert to status quo possibility for the Hormuz Crisis is that the thing it would require is for Trump to make a deal to give away a bunch of Americans' money to an authoritarian regime for little to nothing in return, and Trump loves doing that

NEW: On Monday a judge said videos of recent depositions from DOGE members can be published online once again. The ruling is something of an about face for Judge Colleen McMahon, who originally ordered plaintiffs in the DOGE-related lawsuit “claw back” the videos they had published to YouTube.

Yep, just an objectively terrible human being

Mary Fong Lau, the 80 year old woman who killed four people including a baby and a toddler after crashing into a bus stop going 75mph the wrong way down a 25mph street, has been sentenced to probation and will not permanently lose her drivers' license. This is a despicable miscarriage of justice.

Trump's supporters will either never hear about this or think it's funny. That willful ignorance is why they should be legally barred from voting until they can adequately demonstrate to the rest of us that they have changed

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

The Wall Street Journal published this one week ago.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Really starting to feel like some consultant pollster memo went out across the party saying that every candidate needs to have some kind of means tested tax cut. No other explanation makes sense.

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

I struggle to communicate my fury about the easing of sanctions on Russia's oil as a result of the Iran war. Unlike basically anything suggested as an objective in this fool war, containing Russia's ability to brutalize and dominate Eastern Europe *actually is* a vital US security interest.

fun fact: the department of homeland security added restrictions last year to its nonprofit security grants program that help synagogues and other jewish institutions hire security that effectively makes it so that liberal jewish organizations can't qualify

Authorities say the shooter had explosives in their car.

Really having a hard time with having a *third* synagogue I had friends attend being attacked.

My rough timeline: If the Strait reopens in the coming week, we have weeks of energy market disruption ahead but things have settled by the Autumn. If the Strait is closed for another 3/4 weeks we have months of disruption. If the Strait is closed for longer things get very bad, very quickly.

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

This is an astounding and irresponsible and obvious lie by the Commander in Chief. This feels like another unthinkable red line crossed.

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' people.com/trump-says-i...

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Lewis faked testimonials from ex-staffers in an attempt to convince an Ethics Committee she wasn’t mistreating staff. Obviously bad and stupid. Peters conspired to let a bunch of right-wing crackpots tamper with secure voting machines (which had to be replaced) & remains totally unrepentant.

Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

A St. Paul police officer fabricated a massive sex trafficking case and had multiple people locked up under false charges. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a ruling that she can't be sued by her victims. She appears to still be employed by the St. Paul PD. ij.org/press-releas...

I'm pretty sure "Trump used your tax dollars to blow up a school full of little girls" would have a lot more purchase with voters than the conventional wisdom would lead one to believe

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

Wrote this piece in 2016, and it's sadly aged perfectly www.vox.com/world/2016/5...

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...