Is there a better illustration of the banality of evil than commuting Nazis?

Billy ponders a nearby squirrel.

The white supremacist group, Patriot Front, was seen marching through Capitol Hill this morning.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Mr. Trump’s billions of dollars in profit did not inspire any outrage — “Let’s just be honest, people are checked out right now,” Ms. Koch said. “It’s the Fourth, schools are out, and it’s hot...” MAGA Base Stays Quiet After Trump Reports Billions in Personal Gains www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Dozens of intel officials have started receiving notice of their terminations under Trump's unqualified acting DNI, Bill Pulte. The individuals are officials "who they believe are deep state" and whom leadership claims have not provided complete pictures of available intel.

Dear Americans, spare me your performative patriotism. Help your country by helping your neighbors Every. Day. Being loud isn’t being good. Grand gestures are for frauds. So don’t be a fraud.

Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. No modern Western leader has ever publicly disclosed such big windfalls while in office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

One for each attendee. What’s the problem?

260. Two hundred. And sixty. This is an indefensible misuse of government resources and, in any other administration, an impeachable offense. Even if Trump's claim wasn't complete fiction, the statute of limitations has run and the FBI has no business wasting time investigating this.

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This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.

Schisms are clearly in this summer. If you want yours Irish-style, check out my 2012 book on the topic.

Today, in "the metaphors write themselves..."

“And this little piggy went weee, weee, weee, weee … but soon stopped struggling and was eaten.”

I'd be more convinced if he looked at more than US usage of the term (besides the one quick UK reference.) Other countries have been more deliberate & careful in their usage & definitions (Canada, for example). Yes, there are problems, but I think many issues here apply to any "category" of VE.

NEW: Trauma and the extremist life cycle - study of former fighters in Lebanon. Cool new work (and #openaccess) from Janja Mikulan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bennett Clifford with a robust critique of NVE: "analytically suspect, based on a faulty definition, a contradiction in terms, a category error, and several fallacies about the nature of the modern threat actor networks to which “NVE” was intended to pertain." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/nihi...

When the regime slams people who "get master's degrees and doctorates in irrelevant things," it's pushing for Americans to know and learn less. Ignorance is the regime's secret sauce, though it's not really a secret anymore.

Important to know who these people are so that they can be ignored on this and all related (as well as unrelated) issues going forward.

I can’t be the only one who’s embarrassed, right?

So this Mt Olivet Baptist Church mock execution video appears to be legitimate...

This country has an awful lot of growing up to do.

“The U.N. report, published June 18, alleged that Israeli authorities and security forces have “deliberately carried out acts inflicting death and severe bodily and mental harm on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children””

What is very notable here is that the note says that the person will lead a terrible life, it is not a threat to do anything. This is just state police intimidation.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

IMPORTANT: this new rule allows OPM to directly and summarily fire any federal employ who has "failed to comply with routine legal obligations", including but not limited to 'having failed to file any tax payment or return on time'. No de minimus and no time limit stated. 1/

The most corrupt administration you have ever seen insisting it wants to fire federal employees because of its high ethical standards.

In between writing stints... Hokum: So very good; let down by a poor ending. Lee Cronin's The Mummy: Absolute abomination. Pure laziness. Project Hail Mary: Fine. Preferred the (less goofy) book. Exit 8: Loved it. Could have been 15 mins shorter. Deep Water: Ridiculous, and tons of fun.

Livestream of the Great American State Fair

I spoke with @lechronoscope.bsky.social about terrorism, terrorists, psychology, and how the Trump administration has catapulted us backwards in terms of terrorism prevention. lechronoscope.fr/john-horgan-...

Me: ”Hey baby where is that new football we got?” Her: “umm … you mean Molly’s new ball?”

For any Wittgenstein fans out there - I know there has to be at least two or three - this was really great. Bleak and illuminating, and unintentionally (that's my guess anyway) funny.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?

"If this is the kind of speech that the administration, that DHS wants to go after, then they are trying to fundamentally redefine the First Amendment and the scope of permissible public debate," Grossman said. "And that is wrong. That is ridiculous." www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

“How long are you two gonna keep fighting?”

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

Minnesotans are living through a coordinated campaign of retribution from the Trump Administration. Funding cuts. Lawsuits. Terrorizing our citizens. Today, I filed 16 FOIA requests to find out how far this campaign reaches.

Alright let’s go

Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block on ICE's policy of conducting arrests at immigration courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The radical transgender extremist algae will never get past this fence

It’s great how this administration has hired people to create explicitly white nationalist propaganda for them, and then simply mentioning this fact in a classroom can get you fired.

"Ms. Adams was investigated under a controversial law passed in Indiana meant to further “intellectual diversity” and prevent students from being subjected to political views unrelated to the course." The course: “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice.”

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

Preparing for an upcoming presentation, and an ideal opportunity to use this perfect quote from @jmberger.com

There we go.

This is huge. For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia. We just learned DHS is cancelling it. The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.