i am specifically recommending a ruby ridge every week until these people stop showing up to protests and literally leveling their front-carried assault rifles with bump stocks at the entire crowd to make the protests stop. this is from 2020, about 90m north of my hometown.

there's a through-line in my mind (probably pigeon superstition tho) from the Malheur fiasco to this, where it seems like the Dems really do believe there's enough agitated right-wingers ready to start shooting that they need to walk on eggshells to avoid a civil war

yeah one thing don't understand is that in large parts of the Mountain West, you can expect that if you come out to protest something the right-wing paramilitary gangs don't want you protesting, you'll probably see at least one guy front-carrying a weapon he could kill at least twenty if you with.

Trump keeps finding ways to spook SCOTUS badly enough, yes, even THIS SCOTUS, into telling him "No". He will find yet further ways.

"the president is retired" theory remains undefeated

new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...

Gorsuch continues his project of "radically expand the power of the coercive apparatus" except for Indian issues, where his position is apparently "the white man's writ does not run, the palefaces shall pay for their perfidy"

It’s an important distinction! There are Stephen Miller Republicans, who thrill to the idea of a white ethnostate backstopped by cathartic mass violence against minorities. And there are Bush Republicans, who think the former group is faking it for votes, and can be safely handed the keys to the car

Kavanaugh has spent months watching masked street thugs brutalize Latinos on TV for the crime of being Hispanic in America, watching the entire Latino population of America turning on his party, and realizing it was all directly attributable to him. I bet he’s wanted to melt into the floor.

These fucking chuds

Man it's just gonna be Uvaldes till the end of time, ain't it?

Not to put too find a point on it, but “ using torrents to get around regime censorship of the media“ is very much an “authoritarians state undergoing rapid unscheduled disassembly” momeny

When liberals are in power again in the US, we need to get comfortable killing--not arbitrarily, but still quite a lot. Russian troops rampaging through Ukraine? Help the Ukrainians kill them. Nayib Bukele? Drag him to the US, dead or alive--and if the latter, put him on capital trial.

The wannabe dictator running the US into the ground is a child rapist.

woof

Also, European voters keep coming very close to electing “kill all the $slurs race war now” parties and so Americans pretending that that’s normal or that they are somehow Wise and not at all TurboReactionary is insane. The AFD is the 2nd largest party in the Bundestag!

i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year

also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM

jesus man

MY SOUL IS READY, BONDI. HOW ABOUT YOURS?

Congrats again to the East Coast Democratic elites who told us that Scott Bessent was a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right schools & cocktail parties.

>america is building battleships in 2025 to threaten her neighbors with NEVER BEATING THE IMPERIAL JAPAN REDUX ALLEGATIONS

this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

Give IRS agents access to indirect fire support. Me and the boys executing a search warrant on Peter Thiel's home:

He was a hugely influential patron and organizer for less prominent far-right figures. He was practically a big brother or father figure to them. That’s why his death—and the reaction to it—terrify them so much.

Wow he actually followed through

The reality of social media really boils down to “a literal handful of nasty people or bots can make it feel like you’re being hounded by a mob but judicious use of the block feature eliminates this phenomenon.”

the anti-semitic Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories spreading like wildfire seems to have sparked a genuine panic among MAGA conservatives that the brand has turned so rancid, combined with, by and large, a complete inability to acknowledge that this was an inevitable result of the movement.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

What makes it even funnier is that Steven Spielberg had popped onto set that day. So his overriding memory of Tim Allen - who Allen was desperate to impress - ended up being Rickman's God-tier burn of the man. Which Allen had no idea even happened.

social media bubbles fostering elite psychosis is probably going to be looked back on as the reason for a lot of This Stuff happened with academics and activists during peak woke and now it's happening to the richest man in history and the entire federal government

It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media

all of these people have to be made to pay

A violent Neo Nazi organization with close ties to and funding from the Kremlin appears suddenly to get a green light from Kash Patel's FBI.

So many of these regime idiots think that they can just automatically win by pressing the 'political violence' button, and they're going to be in for a thoroughly nasty surprise when they go all in on that strategy sooner or later.

Their rhetoric is about 'apologizing for being white' but I have spent my entire adult life in academia and while those spaces (rarely) existed, you had to volunteer for them. What they are actually mourning is the loss of *domination* the loss of white as the default, normal.

The history teaching they experience as demanding 'apologies for being white' is just 'factual descriptions of trans-Atlantic slavery' or 'factual descriptions for how the United States ended up with so much territory.' No one is actually asking you to apologize for that, but they don't care.

What is striking here, of course, is that no one was apologizing for being white at any point, outside of some very unusual academic hothouse environments. What the experience as 'apologizing for being white' is actually just 'accommodating non-white people living as full citizens and equals.'

The articles framing is sorta funny because this clearly isn’t a centrist vs progressive thing as much as it’s a fight vs don’t fight thing

New York City has bought more than 125,000 acres of land to provide a buffer around water reservoirs. It’s much cheaper than spending billions on filtration systems, officials say.

Legit Steve Martin in that movie where he’s a faith healer. That disco ball jacket he had? Can’t remember the title. What a flick. Anyway he’s a con man and a hack that doesn’t even want to recognize God when he works through him despite his many faults and these people are so much worse.

Trump is a brainless brute but Vance has clearly looked around and decided he can build power by performing the most repulsive caricature of white supremacy. He deserves profound suffering.

i think software engineers insisting that everyone needs to pick up LLM tooling as a part of their job are mostly showing the depth of their own ignorance with respect to how other professions work on the basis that inevitably they must be right in some marginal way about the adoption of technology.

Oh, it gets worse. This guy has, by his own admission, rotted his brain on every single antisemitic Kirk Assassination conspiracy theory, and now wants to "take the country back from the people who took his life". This is not fucking good. Not fucking good at all. (hat tip: @publius24.bsky.social)

The President of the Republic of Korea was a man very similar to JD Vance, and that's exactly how he made himself so insane and stupid that he was willing to do the coup attempt.

the vice president is a klansman

By the way, everyone, you realize that this is JD Vance obliquely admitting that he's binged ALL the antisemitic conspiracy theories that Candace Owens et al have been putting out about the !!MOSSAD!! or whoever supposedly murdering Charlie Kirk (instead of the actual self-confessed nutjob killer).

it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president

Here's a 1941 letter that a "heritage American" named Grace Wick wrote to FDR complaining about the "alien, Jewish refugees" flooding into the country and replacing "native stock" Americans like her. She says FDR is inviting a Hitler to emerge in America to deal with this problem!

the post revolves around two very basic tactical points: one, the culture war exists and can't be run from, and two, the "richardsonists" are the most committed base of the democratic party conclusions? don't run against your own base. you have to fight the culture war so you might as well win it.