Just putting these out for no particular reason:

Trump administration checking the blocks in quite literal terms ✅️ Ignorance is strength ✅️ War is peace 🟩 Freedom is slavery

It’s not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down; The end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

This was from 2017 after first time Trump was “elected”…chills every time I see it

A patriot. “For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors' eyes?” — Yeats

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

This machine kills fascists.

Wow.

"Give us the funding or we name the Port Authority Bus Terminal after you"

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

This is Alex Pretti.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Minnesotan born and raised, You Betcha!

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

Today I feel like posting President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, for no reason at all. 😏

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

No PAVLOVIAN? It was right there NYT. #SpellingBee

They really stuck the landing on this one.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

This plaque was demolished this week by our president. Seems relevant. h/t Patrick S. Tomlinson (via twitter)

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

It's almost like they're trying to tell us something... ht: @magacultslayer.bsky.social

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

Any guesses where this is from? He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1

What I really resent is being treated like an idiot, reinforced by the press, because we all knew the anguish over votes was just kabuki and this terrible bill was always going to pass by “razor thin” margins.

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

Georgia teen Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.”

Opinion | America's elite universities have failed in their educational mission. That is why so many of their graduates like my columns. by David Brooks

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

Every factory on earth, except those located in the United States, can get the inputs they need from China, without paying an additional 145 percent markup.

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

IYKYK www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -Maya Angelou

Very informative chart from Washington Post

What happened to the gold old-fashioned fascists that could at least make the trains run on time?

I know this makes me effete coastal elitist and so forth but this discussion in a public forum is just so absolutely trashy. Like being drunk in a wife-beater shirt taking swings at your ex on the front stoop trashy. And yet damaged young men see that as “masculine.”