Trump's agents have been snatching people off the streets without due process — and over 170 US citizens have been caught in the mix. Outrageous and unacceptable. The lawlessness must end.

First good SCOTUS news I've heard in months

What a thug trash administration.

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

block this shit

Those Epstein files must be bad. #KY04

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It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

This is just really fucking sad

Have said this before but I do think Qui Gon Jinn would be way more interesting as like a dirtbag Toshiro Mifune type but he's decidedly a very noble Liam Neeson despite all evidence

It really is so crazy that Qui Gon Jinn rigs a bet so he can win a little boy

this is where Qui-Gon Jinn had a child slave do a death race for a space cartel to win some car parts

Shmee: oh god, we are saved, a knight of the republic. My son won't have to ride this bantha rocket Qui-Gon: sorry daddy needs a new transmission

Treating the Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances like a to do list. "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people." "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate …".

In the chaos, one trader profited ~$150 million from well-timed shorts. With an offshore trading platform, potentially offshore trader, and no regulators apparently interested in crypto enforcement, the possibility that someone was trading on White House inside info will likely go unexamined.

And now UVA!! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... MIT, Brown, Penn, USC and now UVA have all rejected the loyalty oath “compact” for “excellence” in higher ed. Five of nine! (I wonder if this decision was final before today’s planned meeting www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...)

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

"It was unclear why Adm. Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure....But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

I refuse to feel anything but schadenfreude over this.

I’ve watched OPPENHEIMER 3 or 4 times now and I’m still in awe of its narrative construction. Nolan packs enough incident and characterization to fill a prestige miniseries into just 3 hours, and conveys it all in overlapping nonlinear narratives. It should be completely unintelligible!

Billy, this is Rooster Cogburn. He's a bonded US Marshal. His defect is that he throws funny. This guy should cost $2 plus 10 cents a mile. We can get him for $50 .

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Unbelievable

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

One commenter replied, “based song choice,” which was liked by the Border Patrol account. Another commenter wrote, “if you know you know.”

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

i don't have much of an opinion on what kinds of sex work should be legal, but i have a very strong opinion that journalism should not be a kind of sex work

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

He still had this up *after* the story about the Young Republicans group chat with the Hitler praise was released.

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis. OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is basically Evil Ned Flanders

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community. Cruel.  I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

I really just once a reporter would reply “oh are you gonna cry about it”

democrats are perpetually associated with extremist tankies who openly hate the democratic party, but even outlets that report on nazism among republican party staffers will never hang this albatross on republican officials

a real water is wet scenario here

RIP Drew Struzan 💔 “.. Spielberg once called him ‘my favorite movie artist’ and later added, ‘I had to almost live up to the art that we later were going to ask Drew to create for the poster.’” @thr.com www.Hollywood reporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-struzan-dies-movie-posters-1236400361/

this explains a lot

gene kelly is antifa