ilhan omar might be the bravest american in congress right now. solidarity to her forever, i wish she could be president

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Like, the utility pole act and the lights in the stadium flickering were not just random. The power goes out in PR all the time! Because we ran their utilities into the ground! That’s political!

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Bovino is, god willing, going home to spend more time with a bottle of scotch and his service weapon.

Important not to lose sight of what’s starting up in Maine right now.

exactly. ICE wants to do "well what was she wearing" to people's cars and guns. doesn't change the essential fact of the violation.

They shot him 10 times, while he was on the ground, and they already took his holstered legally carried pistol away. To paraphrase Malcolm X, we do not need to negotiate to have these barbaric agents fire only 9 bullets, or 8 bullets, the next time.

Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.

There is no natural way to immediately go prone and immobile when you are being manhandled by a half dozen cops. Any single natural impulse your body has will be explained away as a violent provocation.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

"Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump." (cheers) "Fuck AI!" (big cheers) "Free Palestine. Protect trans kids." (cheers) "...and go New England Patriots!" (boos) www.youtube.com/live/ZqTFIms...

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

The Iranian regime has reportedly killed over 16K protesters and wounded over 300K

if you try to focus on Trump’s authoritarianism, Schumer will deflect and say people want us to focus on affordability. but when Zohran Mamdani made affordability the heart of his campaign Schumer refused to endorse him because they disagree about Israel. it’s all mealy mouthed bullshit.

Democrats are simultaneously beginning to refer to ICE and CBP agents as "poorly trained." This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it.

we’re living through the national version of that conversation where you’re like, hey, I don’t think grandpa should be driving anymore, but our cousins are all like, fuck that, give him the keys! grandpa rules! I bet he could drive 1000 miles per hour!

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.

They were angry they couldn't drag her out of the truck so they shot her while she tried to escape. She had the audacity to run away from ICE before taking punishment, that's what happened

yeah as a visibly queer person that's also my takeaway. they want their base to see that they murdered someone who "has pronouns in bio"

Andor is a documentary

i simply will not vote for any Democratic candidate who does not promise to prosecute the members of the regime responsible for these atrocities and I’m confident many other Democratic voters will feel the same. It’s up to Democratic politicians in 2026 and 2028 if they want these votes or not.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.

Trump visibly falling asleep in the background, very inspiring.

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.

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

Rick Steves rules. Good dude!

Have to imagine it’s a good sign that a historically unpopular, dictatorial president who has continually alienated and offended the military and its leaders is now announcing an out of nowhere bribe for them.

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

Perhaps the least credible thing I've ever read is Bob Kraft's anecdote about how, after his wife died, Trump was the steadfast friend who was always there for him. It's impossible to believe that the man has ever had a moment of compassion, grace, selflessness, or decency.

If you're saying that Israel as a Jewish ethnostate is the only way to protect Jews like me, what I hear you saying is "it's too hard to not kill Jews in our own countries so we're not going to try."

Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.