Bouie keeps getting slammed for these sensible and sober minded Takes because there are people who've come to see anything short of maximal Doomerism as somehow complacency - you're saying I *shouldn't* feel maximally bad!??? Yet it is obvious on reflection that maximal doomerism breeds complacency.

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This is madness. Absolute madness. It's Norm and The Parents vs the Federal Government

Any local or state politician who shows outstanding physical courage and leadership in opposition to the regime has a chance at becoming a barracks emperor. I'm surprised we haven't seen one emerge.

Meanwhile.

at the very least it gives some weight to the complaints when it’s not just “people say ICE is violating people’s rights” but “judge rules ICE is violating people’s rights in defiance of a restraining order”

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

this says visiting Reddit but this is exactly how Medieval monks felt when joining monasteries

This is how it’s done. Total control. Not one shred of power sharing with Republicans.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

since i am still seeing it i would like to point out that the solution to having dissolved an agency consisting of a lot of bad and violent people is easy. you pay 20% of them to hunt the other 80% with some responsible adult supervising

Biden would not have won without the movement for Black lives protests etc... PERIOD. There is EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE about this. I am sick of the bullshit.

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

"Abigail Spanberger, has asked at least 5 members of the [UVA BOV] ... to resign" There's already 5 empty seats. Adding 5 soon-to-be-empty seats means 10 of 17 spots—a clear majority—would be available for immediate appointment by the Spanberger

the republican party are basically bentonite eugenicists underwritten by unchecked capitalists who are willing to sell the entire world beneath them for profit, as did occur in much of the American midwest as cities like St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, etc ascended.

ice openly fucking with peoples kids is the shit where you gotta stop pleading for calm. who’s listening at that point

This is some late stage flailing shit TBH. As prosecutors are resigning because of their overreach, they’re starting *more* high profile investigations? Fuck outta here.

That's Stephen Kapos, a child survivor of the Holocaust.

The entry to the Mexican restaurant (Don Julio) in my hometown of Forest Lake MN that closed as a result of ICE has become a shrine. Two-thirds of voters in Forest Lake supported Trump in 2024.

Lotta people out there gonna be trying to eat slurs

Now this is art.

A caricature of what they accuse libs of

Never about “free speech” or “debate”, always about indoctrination.

Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

And no, Gavin Newsom’s *social media team* being lil sassy stinkers online while he lets Ben Shapiro dog walk him on his own podcast is NOT the degree of cold-blooded ferocity against MAGA rapists and murderers that I’m looking for.

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

open ai making this statement like

Trying to explain why something is wrong to the right: 'this is like something a minority would do'

NRF are the assholes who lied about "theft rings" to justify this type of shit before quietly retracting their numbers a month later (but it was too late, we are stuck with this shitass reactionary "anti-theft" legislation now)

Actually, a lot of people do travel abroad to get healthcare. But most can't afford to. Everybody knows this EVERYBODY KNOWS WHEN THESE GUYS LIE. I hate fascists.

who needs this. who has target volume so high they simply can't goto the actual website.

I have a pet theory that this is incredibly common, people are still alive after police shoot them, but the cops either deny medical care, slow-walk it, or lie. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

They are calling it the most phoned-in manufactured pretext for the Insurrection Act ever

"We gotta win the midterms" FOR WHAT

There’s a video I saw recently interviewing a guy at a Minnesota protest where the interviewer starts to ask “are you worried this could take us to a dark pla—“ and the guy explodes, “we’re already in the dark place! Look around! They’re murdering us! We’re already here!”

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

if these fuckers invade Boston all I ask as a Massachusetts native is to hear a bunch of guys from Southie going FACK YOU YA FACKIN NAZIS on camera

This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

He probably just thought no one would notice, and someone did.

Not many people know this but if you steal Usain Bolt's gold medal from off of his chest you become the fastest person on Earth. You have to catch him first, though, either by running faster than him or by using your army

It's a weird point of pride for them. They don't love their kids or wives, but they know it looks bad not to have them around. They want them as accessories or trophies showing what a solid trad provider they are. But they just want to "have" them and not actually do the work of a husband or father.

always enjoy this specific angle because you know they don't actually want to see the kids more or do things one has to do for kids

still waiting for "Elon Musk" to be revealed as an Andy Kaufman style character about the most pitiable man in existence

one of my sort of recurring Themes that I care about in history is: when we change the name of a place (a room, a street, a house, a website) is how long people do the "Gamma, formerly known as Delta" thing. it varies a lot and is really interesting to me

Murder. And not just the one who pulled the trigger.

FRFR this is a huge issue

Can confirm—I saw SPPS’ post on Facebook saying that classes are cancelled next Tuesday & Wednesday (no school on Monday for MLK Jr. Day) so teachers can prepare for the pivot to distance learning. It’s worth noting that yet again, it’s MAGA and its acolytes terrorizing children, not trans folx.

Look at this absolute queen