Huh weird how those Southern dad jokes about greeting your daughter’s prom dates with a gun seem to evaporate in a situation like this.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

You study history and you think you know how fake things are but things are even more fake and violent and stupid than you can imagine, huh?

everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

this man is pure fucking evil. this is the face of hell.

They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

nazi shit

I have never seen an image or this guy, regardless of the topic under discussion, where he doesn’t have that same shit-eating grin plastered on his face.

15 is outside the range of “barely legal,” actually, megyn. that’s kind of the point.

In defining rape in law and public discourse, Catharine MacKinnon wrote, "The level of acceptable force is adjudicated starting just above the level set by what is seen as normal male sexual behavior, including the normal level of force, rather than at the victim's, or women's, point of violation."

Conservative criticism, even if bad faith, is treated as legitimate and spurs change. Liberal criticism, even if good faith, is sneered at and dismissed. A recipe for rot

“valuing women as women” rings several alarms in my exmormon brain. i’ve been here before.

Might I suggest that a newspaper that was far too cozy with the most famous pedophile in the world constantly concern trolling about gender affirming care mutilating children's bodies is, in fact, two sides of the same coin.

This is the Challenger Disaster of ethics in media.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

Just noting- college students aren't children, they are adults and are accountable for their actions.

I’m fine conceding that a bunch of nebulously incriminating Epstein statements do not a story make, but in that case neither does the Biden Parkinson’s nonsense, or literally any component of the various Clinton/Wikileaks pseudo-scandals, or tons of other right-wing stuff the paper has laundered

i keep thinking about the social function david cameron fucking that pig. fucking a pig in front of an audience bonds you and the audience together in a network of mutual blackmail. epstein was nothing special. he was a pig that everyone fucked. www.gq.com/story/why-is...

a thing that drives me crazy is when I hear professors are really harsh in their grading about minor style errors in their citations. I have been doing copyediting for 8 years and the number of books and articles I’ve worked on that had 100% correct or even consistent citations is maybe 2, at most.

Oh, fuck you all the way to the fucking sun Bob

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

So the media, and even many elected Democrats, don't talk about them. They may make noise about the latest scandal, but they then move on to the next thing. WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE MOVED PAST ACCESS HOLLYWOOD! We should be reciting the list of Trump's misdeeds like a litany every day in every outlet.

It is high past time for the Democrats to go full-send on a rampaging, ferocious, fire and brimstone anti-corruption push. The people thirst for it.

remember that “immigrant” has become a stand-in for a wide range of ethnic slurs for this whole movement

The BU student who complained that prized "American jobs" at a car wash were being given away to immigrants is himself British. I wonder if he has any opinions on whether prized spots at American universities should or should not be given away to immigrants?

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time. for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

I know it speaks poorly of me, but I take intense vindictive pleasure at the revelation that the closest thing Donald had to a friend privately despised him.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

"Another thing you don't have to worry about in the EU, or really in any developed nation outside the U.S., is the threat of a mass shooter. What I've come to realize is that America is a country being run by mass shooters." madness.ghost.io/an-isolated-...

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

so can anyone who’s ever been investigated for wrongdoing just get millions of dollars from the government? or just rich Republican politicians?

people are being so normal about this in the replies

I am sort of sincerely worried about the effect it’s going to have on me that everyone I thought was dumb is in fact even dumber

this applies to several republican representatives right now and i think it would be very good practice to observe it.

what the fuck man

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

trump should be understood not just as a frequent visitor to epstein, but running a (friendly) rival project out of mar-a-lago and his child beauty pageants

get them out of homes and into punishing state custody, where we will spend much more money on them

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

this scene could end up in like six movies in the next 20 years

people get mad because the irs temporarily holds a few hundred extra dollars of tax withholdings from pay every year, and trump is boasting about how he's taxed americans for trillions and trillions of dollars, and he's making fake promises to issue somewhere around $700 billion of "refund checks"

impeachment and removal remains the goal & it’s not clear there will be a better opening for democrats to start talking about it than right after this vote

so excited to see emails 8-20 years ago that were clearly never expected to be seen by anybdoy else claimed to be "fake" "allegations" "planted" to "hurt trump," as if gizzy and jeff were acting out an intricate fantasy role-play in their inboxes in case trump got a second term in 2025

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???