Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

New approach to pulling stats out of his nethers: “Numbers so high that they are not even to be mentioned”.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Guess who suggested that illegal orders should be ignored when Obama was president?

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

“This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one”

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day

Fascinating how "do your own research" just means "don't trust real research"

"Intellectuals" in the American conservative movement are just people who invent new sets of keys to jangle in front of the simpleton goons that make up the Republican voting base. There's really not much more to it than that.

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out

What I take from this is that the pressure on Tesla’s sales and stock price is working.

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

If there’s any silver lining here, it’s that reminding the world what a greasy worm Marco Rubio is, is back in style.

“We must reduce waste by no longer giving life-saving $5 pills to dying children. Also we will be spending half a billion dollars on the ugliest and least reliable vehicles ever made, so everyone in the world can spot our diplomats broken down at the side of the road and give them the finger.”

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen

I do not understand how some people think www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

for no reason at all thinking about the fact that trump was a known associate of jeffrey epstein and the mysterious way jeffrey epstein died in custody in a federal prison, while trump was president, with the security cameras outside his cell disabled. just a thing bouncing around my mind today

Good god. A Trump boat parade earlier featuring Lara & Eric Trump was joined by Neo-nazis. They shouted “White Power”, “Make America White Again,” & “Heil Trump”. Who would have thought Trump’s racist and fascist speeches would attract racists and fascists? (📽️credit: PatriotTakes/X)

We will solve the housing shortage by deporting all the people who build the houses

"To have been harmed by the pager attack means that one is a terrorist, because the attack was directed against terrorists. This is the logic of genocide: we have marked all terrorists for death, a status only we can impose or remove, and thus your death will always serve as its own justification."

ironic, Trump attacked by man who also hates windmills

Whomst among us would not cynically decide to transition in a country where being transgender is illegal so that we might amass a lifetime record of 9 wins, 5 losses as an amateur boxer. This is a thing that makes sense. My brain works good.

We can see exactly what a conservative-run America will look like: the beta version is already out. Read this thread!

Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

Currently watching Beacon 23 and I’m beginning to think this Hugh Howey has a real thing for living in cylinders.

Reminder

Maybe if we start calling it Unborn Baby Earth instead of Mother Earth republicans will be more concerned with its well-being.

"Left wing students are getting too censorious" turned into "arrest those left wing students for protesting" without even tapping the brakes

Don't let the door hit ya on the — never mind, there's no door

Amazing. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Originalism makes a lot more sense if you see it as a project of undoing the reconstruction amendments.