All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.

Maybe I’m naive, but my takeaway for scroll Xitter all day was that a lot of Trump fans were disturbed, especially as they had been screaming about how awful “The Left” had been in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. And Reiner appears to have been killed by his troubled son…

the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"

The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

Is it? The perception of the importance of Twitter is way overblown — it's actually not a big group of people talking to each other. If you really want to influence people, get on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube.

I hate to say... I've been gawking and trolling.

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

Sheeesh. From the official White House rapid response account. To their credit, there are a lot of Trump lovers in tge responses saying they don't like this.

So many smug MAGA types were patting themselves on the back 11 hours ago about their considerate reaction to Reiner's death. Which is the other thing — using someone's death to assert your superiority is gross.

Trump is insinuating Reiner deserved to die.

We are living in weird times.

mass murder. straight up www.propublica.org/article/usai...

The dumbest timeline.

I regret that I never heard the term “competitive authoritarianism” before because it perfectly describes the yearnings of the Republican Party since I’ve been a child — authoritarianism with the false odor of democracy. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

Yah. I’m perfectly willing to admit I’m old and prefer reading to watching vids. But I ain’t the norm, and definitely am not the future.

Forget about it, Elon; it’s Bot town.

ICE has to be dismantled. It was questionable how useful it ever was, but now it’s clearly a legion of psychopaths.

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

State-sponsored domestic terrorism.

I don't think it's good for public safety that unidentified masked men just show up and start terrorizing people, and I don't think that masked men who do so should feel safe in public.

The epitome of impotence. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

What conservatives mean when they say they are "under attack for their views" is that they are being accurately understood as the sort of people who hold the sort of views conservatives hold, and that makes them afraid they will be treated the way conservatives treat those whose views they scorn.

And here I thought Republicans cared about the plight of the Uyghars… Guess that too was just lip service.

Agree with Greg — this part has long confounded me. Abrego Garcia agreed to go. But the admin wanted him to suffer. These people are monsters.

Just cynically spitballing here… but isn’t Ellison merely betting that he’ll outlast Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...

This is awful. Gambling is bad.

WTHF.

People born here do not have immigration documents. If you're an American born POC with only a Real ID to show for yourself, be prepared to be manhandled and detained by the secret police 😡

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

It’s really atrocious how they threw the full force of the federal government at this one guy because he embarrassed them by being innocent of everything except trying to live his life. Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.

honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

Smarter Republican politicians recognize that Trump's cruelty agenda is extremely unpopular — and true-believer MAGAs are violent thugs who will turn on other Republicans in an instant. But that group is likely a minority among the public, but over-represented within the Republican politicians...

I'm going to regret clicking on this, aren't I?

They should Trump back on the road to call these people stupid.

Yes, I love seeing my tax dollars used for pointless shakedowns.

As I suspected, the group that even knows who Nuzzi is let alone cares about her actions is tiny and very unaware of how irrelevant they are to most Americans.

Fascinated by Indiana’s redistricting resistance on a few levels. 1) Team Trump seems to have spent a lot of political capital to try to pick a meager 2 seats. Sounds sweaty on paper, but I wonder if it was more about Team Trump trying to ham-handedly squash even the most minor of resistance…

I kept saying this… they did not care if they ever came back.

"antifa is our primary concern right now", and he can't name a headquarters, can't estimate the number of people in the organization, can't name states where they operate, doesn't know who runs it, like, come the fuck on, i know this is all horseshit, but it's horseshit *they don't even believe*

When will weak, spineless Republicans stand up and say enough is enough? Are they that afraid of the senile old man in orange makeup?

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

Feels more and more like bluesky has its finger on the pulse of what normal people want and X is an echo chamber of weird men with no social skills

I totally fell for this.

Kinda wild that the organization the FBI considers the biggest domestic threat is ... largely imaginary.

Tractor maker Deere has warned that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring on American farmers, prompting cash-strapped producers to delay replacing aging equipment. Deere has had to cut production and workers and says it is likely to cut more jobs in 2026. www.ft.com/content/523a...