Yep, like everything else in his life, he stole and plundered it. Every asset and achievement of his has an asterisk next to it. Obviously, the Nobel Peace Prize is not transferable in any officially recognized capacity. It's now literally a participation trophy for him. bsky.app/profile/eric...

The only people who "need an explanation" don't really want one in the first place. They just want their open displays of authoritarian domination. There's plenty of ways to enforce immigration laws without a bunch of masked thugs in Siege of Fallujah gear. It's been done. bsky.app/profile/dave...

If the president were a saboteur whose mission was to trigger a civil war or the breakup of the union, I'm not sure what he would do differently.

Real "show me you've never used a kettlebell before" energy, right across the line. The kid on the right in the greyish shirt keeps throwing his hips and back like he's cuttin' a big ol' hawg in the ass. Wonder if there's any workout music on the field. #YMCA bsky.app/profile/atru...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Lol, I was on Win Ben Stein's Money in 2000, and Jeopardy in 2015. 2nd place on Stein, 3rd place on Jeopardy. Sucks being a cliché.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

just curious if NFL playoff games this weekend are going to have charlie kirk esque moments of silence for the innocent mother shot in the face?

Revising some reporting I did for @rollingstone.com in late 2024 pre election, which Fox News clipped to implicitly mock me for being hysterically loony and TDS riddled Yep. Apologies. I was way off :/ www.foxnews.com/media/trump-...

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

To the extent that any part of the Dem Party is still yoked to any sort of moral compass, AOC is the undisputed leader of that segment. She should be running the entire party. Nobody else is even close. It's a bunch of gormless puds who'd sell you out for a plug nickel. bsky.app/profile/simp...

Just when Mayo Pete squirms back into the Maybe One Of The Few Remaining Good Dems ranks, he goes and reminds you: nah, he sucks too. We do not need masked kidnap squads busting taco trucks and daycare centers, period. We have cops already. This is not complicated. bsky.app/profile/bria...

Awful nice of the Oberst-Gruppenführer's old lady to take a break from getting plowed by Elon Musk's butchered micropenis, to lecture folks on their attitudes and life choices.

Tim Walz is a fool. ‘Safe and legal’ protests are not going to work. These people won’t stop until they are stopped.

There is no Democratic senator -- and precious few other Dem pols -- who are saying this. #AbolishICE bsky.app/profile/grah...

After the George Floyd protests, right-wingers needed something to counter demands from the largest protest movement in US history. Fortunately, they found a word that fueled their white backlash AND demonized anyone who supported police reform, equality or human decency. "Woke"

This entire thread. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/kenw...

Stephen A. Smith when Trump finally buys the farm on his spray-painted crapper:

This is yet another in an endless line of jabronis this dipshit nation has made rich and famous for nothing more than fifth-rate drunk-asshole-in-a-barroom prattle. AFAIC, he's basically Black Trump. Fuckin' *Blump*. Surprised he hasn't been invited to the White House. bsky.app/profile/medi...

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.

We decided both as a culture and a government a while ago that law enforcement, ICE included, are a very special profession who, unlike almost any other on the planet, should not ever have to face repercussions for being bad at their job. Much of this is solved by changing that.

I'm not the hugest Frey fan but yes, respond to bullshit media narratives by mocking them. This is the correct response. No one gives a shit about Democrats' language. JD Vance retweets Nazis. The first issue should not be if they're polite

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

Holy fuck they actually did it

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

I think the best thing to do if you're in a social media space where you have to encounter people who say stuff like "well she had it coming" is to remind them of this. Tell them you know exactly who and what they are.

I'm sorry honey, did you think being the rented concubine of Ketamine Clyde was going to end any differently? Did you not read the "keep your cakehole shut and cash your check" clause on your Repopulating Earth NDA? These fucking people, seriously. #HyenasEatingFaces

Yep. The dynamic is exacerbated when there is no functional opposition party, or even an institutional entity, to decry this sort of thing. Everyone with wealth, power, and/or influence is waiting around for the rabble to Do Something -- then they complain about *that*. bsky.app/profile/thom...

Democrats will continue to vote for Republican judges (like this guy, who refused to say who won the 2020 election) until Democrats are punished for voting for Republican judges

This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.

"Elon Musk, the white nationalist..." with no hedging or qualification is an objectively stone cold factual description that no mainstream media outlet would ever allow be included in an article about him.

the last 10 years have greatly strengthened my conviction that evil is a real force in this world, intrinsic and ambient and capable of exercising its will. at the same time, my belief that good - even if it’s simply defined as opposition to evil - is also real. i am become mani-pilled.

I talk about politics as a "product" and "marketing" it and other business terms that might seem cold, but to me it simplifies things. High minded ideals are great, but when nobody even pretends to bother living up to them anymore, then you have to deal more concretely with managed expectations.

Ultimately, what we as political consumers must reckon with is a hopelessly defective product manufactured by lazy chumps who'd literally prefer to hand pallets of money to David Shor to set afire or stuff in his pockets, instead of simply talking to their own constituents. bsky.app/profile/inte...

everyone knows that what trump is saying about renee good is a lie, including ICE and CBP. the messaging needs to be a lie in order to be effective. what they are communicating is this: opponents of the regime have no rights which you are bound to respect, and the conspiracy goes to the top.

This is one of the dumber things I've read in a while, but the year is new and already farkakte. I take the first part as sort of a quiz, where you get creative with answers, such as "dump them on a South Pacific atoll" or "make them pay child support." The second part, well, fuck 'em, right?

*Everyone* has the right to defend themselves, especially when they're not committing any crime, but are being attacked by murderous nazi psychopaths.

I have given a compliment to every person who has come into my office today. there WILL be kindness and love in this world if i have to put it there by myself

Someone did this for me yesterday. I was so touched. bsky.app/profile/brig...

Bowie threw down the gauntlet. I’m all these people & things, he said. If you do the work you’ll find you’re lots of different people too. There can’t be another Bowie because he did the hardest thing of all: he smashed the mirror. That’s why he’s ever present. Like he vanished into it.

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

They will move the officer across state lines. They take all the evidence before you can investigate. They don’t cooperate with local authorities. We saw the same thing in Illinois.. As much as we want to hold people accountable the feds actively work to make it impossible.

This is horrible, but it's also yet another moment for reflection / clarification. I hope it gets spread far and wide. I hope every single American is confronted with that video and is forced to choose. We can no longer pretend to ignore the monsters. Fight or be consumed. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Stuff like this is exactly why I put my mantra on heavy rotation: "Every candidate or politician, no matter how great or awful, is an accurate representation of their median supporter." This is an axiom as ironclad as the law of gravity. We should understand it well. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is a really good question and article, it seems that it all comes down to the old question of "where you sit" -- if you're an investor / owner, a worker / reporter, or a consumer. In our glorious end-stage predatory capitalist system, those roles are at cross purposes. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

I just keep coming back to how the United States was devoured by its obsession with artifice. All of our claimed exceptionalism was as hollow as a dollar store fake chocolate easter bunny or a grade school paper mache project.

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

Every bit of the tone and approach from the bearded gentleman in the video makes my shriveled heart grow by three sizes this morning. Hopefully we see more of this, and these goons start to realize just how deeply we despise them, how they bring nothing good to the world. bsky.app/profile/vict...