About to be the family that owns TikTok.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Just got sent another Demo consultant's memo on how to win the shutdown. Spoiler alert: they want Democrats to focus on "costs" and "healthcare" and talk about how they're for smart budgets. Absolutely nothing about Trump being out of control. The consultant class should be shot out of a cannon.

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

I’m sorry, the message was literally “ANTI-ICE” written in pen?

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

When your claims of executive authority to harm people are too broad for John Yoo: "a broad, amorphous military campaign against the illegal drug trade ... would violate American law and the Constitution"

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

The Khan is the only one I've seen who gets what kind of situation we're in on a real level.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Authorities - what a lot of people don't appreciate (mostly because until recently it was taken for granted) is that there is (or at least is supposed to be) direct traceability between any order for military action involving the use of force and the authority authorizing that action

I no longer think it's just SOCOM; there's almost certainly quite a few naval officers who need to see the inside of a jail cell

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

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listen, if this is what it takes for the left to stop treating labor like it’s a movement of saints, and not real people with the capacity to do harm out of irrational self-interest, then good.

I have watched some of these "debates." Agree 100% with this assessment. (As mentioned before, I spent too much of my high-school time on [successful] debate teams. That pursuit has its quirks and flaws—but miles better than what was being served up here.)

Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.

at one point Albania was on the brink of civil war after the collapse of pyramid schemes that had sucked up roughly half of GDP, and now that is only the *second* stupidest thing the country has done.

Olivia Nuzzi back at Vanity Fair is an excellent encapsulation of the current state of the press, complete with the journomerta coverage as if she was out for a speeding ticket or a bad post instead of an incredibly gross undisclosed affair with her subject

I click "cancel subscription..." and get this. Not letting people unsubscribe has the whiff of fraud, don't it? Got the same -- what a coincidence! -- when I tried to unsubscribe from Hulu. ("Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.")

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

one interesting thing is how often this particular breed of supposed leftist just swings straight into homophobia when pushed even a little bit.

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Here’s a lot of the stuff about Charlie Kirk that the right is now currently engaged in a nationwide witch hunt to suppress. Share it, repeat it, don’t let evil win. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

So…they’re disappearing people. This is all just ticking along as expected. Now I know how the junta in Argentina lasted so long www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A very Shklarian day, I’m afraid.

Pretty crazy how "America is a legit, no bullshit fascist country" is now a NYT headline.

I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

Fox News' Marc Thiessen, without a hint of irony: "Imagine if – we didn’t see this on the right, but imagine if after the George Floyd killing, people had gone on in saying he was a POS and that I’m glad he's dead... do you think anybody would have employed them ever again?!"

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Props to the Brazilian judiciary telling both Trump and their own attempted dictator to eat shit

I was handicapping the Charlie Kirk shooter as follows: 100% odds it’s a white man, 60% odds he’s a fascist groyper, 30% odds he’s a Luigi Mangione bizarre kind of right wing nonsense, 10% odds he’s Dem-hating leftist. Just saw the FBI photo and it’s the groyperist-looking groyper on earth

Once the suspect turned out to be a white dude wearing an American flag shirt they decided they'd rather not get any tips.

i still think these were migrants, not drug runners

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Looking forward to the Sunday shows where every single reporter asks if Democrats' rhetoric is too divisive without mentioning anything Republicans say even once or the murder of a Democratic state senator and her family by a radical right wing killer everyone collectively forgot about.

what a fucking way to find out magic is real