it's fascinating how like, apparently neither mills or the Maine GOP ever decided to look at the old newspapers on Platner

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

The Forrest Gump of showing up in the wrong places

yeah i think he's a psychopath for that one. nisour square was a straight up massacre for no reason. if he thought blackwater was cool for it it's almost certainly why he joined: for the chance to maybe kill civilians

Well the good news is that this is definitely not how would-be authoritarian governments consolidate control over the largest branch of the armed forces

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

Realism vs. Reality

The Trumpists clearly want the USMC to become the Republican Republican Guard but for some reason we all pretend not to see this.

ICE is in fact the worst of the worst

TRUMP: I did a mail in ballot for elections in Florida because I felt I should be here REPORTER: You were in Palm Beach the last few weekends TRUMP: Yeah. And I decided that I was going to vote by mail in ballot because I had a lot of different things

Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

I know people hate theory but necropolitics should be a lens more people are familiar with right now.

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

When the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, finding the former president had stolen hundreds of classified documents, one question stood out: Why? Former special counsel Jack Smith has concluded that Trump took the documents to help advance his business interests. trib.al/MjvDL3A

Call me a scaredy cat, but I would not attempt this in a board game much less with actual troops.

This is a hell of a euphemism for the US abandoning their military bases. The New York Times is a propaganda rag. Archive link to the article: archive.ph/e7yOL

I just absolutely love how since politics is now so overtly produced for peak shock/entertainment value, the country's top entertainment outlets — People Magazine, now TMZ — are like 'hold my beer' and, from a pro-democracy POV, starts covering politics in a way that will reach the masses:

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

fwiw I see both the bad shit around Newsom and Platner as symptoms of a misdiagnosis of what went wrong in the 2024 election and the kind of stuff that is going to quickly fall away as we have to deal with the very real crises that are looming for America

'Israel’s military chief of staff...warned ministers... the military was struggling to mobilize reservists after more than two years of war, & that active-duty soldiers were facing “total collapse.” The remarks, attributed to Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, were not made publicly' www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

"how else are you going to beat lindsey graham!" beloved the serious bigots are not going to vote for the democrat because she made a cocksuckers joke and the casual bigots do not vote on bigotry, you just want to say bigoted things and be thanked for it

errybody wanna be a cool leftist dont nobody wanna do no hard-ass solidarity

Yes. We have to start putting CEOs in jail.

Still waiting for Trump sleeping through everything to get the @Axios double siren treatment like when Joe Biden got new Hokas.

Right. This is why I’m a bit wary of paeans to mutual aid. I think it’s great! I’m thrilled, encouraged, and humbled that people want to do it! But we’re leftists, which means we believe a lot of that ought to be done by the government and paid for with broad-based taxes. 1/2

I love authoritarian leftism. There I said it. Give me that big state run monopoly that can muscle out the little guy (insurance companies, landlords). Put it right in my veins.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

The move isn't surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who wants to ban mail-in voting, said he had the right to vote by mail-in ballot in Florida’s special election Tuesday “because I’m president of the United States.”

Reminds me- early in the Gaza response at USAID, my colleague was tasked by USAID response leadership with providing the location of our NGO partners in Gaza to the IDF, ostensibly for "deconfliction." Those locations were soon struck by the IDF.

Former KY governor delays child support hearing by asking Supreme Court to remove judge. Matt Bevin remains under arrest warrant for contempt of court. @dyetter.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/26/f...

c'mon now

being honest about what Republicans actually are upsets Republican sources, readers, event sponsors, and ownership, costing corporate media money so you get this bizarre kayfabe where Republicans are given bottomless credibility they never had to earn

doubt it’s a coincidence that multiple prominent D candidates have suddenly started posting homophobic jokes that weren’t even considered acceptable for Ds years ago. the backsliding into casual bigotry really scares me. and i want to know if party consultants are recommending this.

Once again just pointing out that even if you grant all this crazypants bullshit, if the point of the war was to destroy Iran's nuclear program we have not done that and it will not do that, & the only reason we're in this situation is TRUMP THREW THE NUCLEAR DEAL IN THE TRASH

So sick of this racist piece of shit.

MacFarlane: Michael Flynn is about to receive a significant amount of taxpayer money—more than $1 million—in a reported settlement with the DOJ over what he claims was a wrongful prosecution for making a false statement to the FBI about Russia.

The great irony is of course that no nation in history could have more easily afforded an equitable social organization with dignity in life for all WHILE also allowing the 1% to lead fantastically privileged lives. But their wealth just isn’t sweet enough unless they see the rest of us suffer…

America was designed as an economy cosplaying as a democracy. As soon as an enslaved workforce was no longer available, we turned to slavery by other names in our social policies as the stick and technological innovation as the carrot.

The end result of all of this is that we’re gonna collectively burn up the entire world’s petroleum supply in one shot, thus FORCING the entire global population to move to renewable energy whether we want to or not? I mean that’s one way to do it…

You can’t go around excusing voters for the fiasco we’re currently enduring while at the same time asserting that come November voters can pull us out of the fiasco we’re enduring. Voters got us here. Only voters can get us out. Looking at you, my fellow white people.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

People died for this. He wore his stupid hat when they were wheeling those dead Americans past him. The fuck are we doing here man

lowkey love her being like EYE have a passport bc I'm rich but what about the rest of y'all broke asses? I still know an unconstitutional poll tax when I see one!

Americans struggling to afford groceries who've just learned their military children are being deployed to Iran will be comforted to hear that the robot can serve champagne.

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.