I was pretty close!

It's gonna come out that this guy attacked a Mormon church because he somehow blamed Mormons for Kirk getting assassinated in Utah, or something.

Why would she serve as a mouthpiece for Trump? If he has condolences, he can post about them on his social media platform.

Ah yes, who can forget the rich tradition of Communism first espoused in the Roman Senate by Karlus Marximus. (Also Mamdani is not a Communist)

If I were a hostile nation state with the capability to carry out a first strike attack, a gathering of the President, Secretary of Defense, and all of the US's top generals would be an insanely rich target.

I legitimately do not want to hear a single person ever complain about Biden's mental acuity ever again. Did he have some problems? Yes. Did he make social media posts using AI slop of him announcing new policies rooted in Internet forum conspiracy theories? No.

I am not a legal scholar, but is there a reason that @jbpritzker.bsky.social does not order state law enforcement to arrest these agents for violating the civil rights of his citizens?

History will not be kind to the 6 members of the Supreme Court who are effectively allowing the President to ignore the Constitution. Kagan sets groundwork for that here by making it clear that Presidents do not enjoy unlimited power. They are bound by the Constitution.

Fucking amateur hour.

Who called it a shitty and inferior version constantly trying to take over how you go about your every day computer business and not Microsoft Edgelord (cc @atherton.bsky.social )

Probably not great for the guy dispensing child medical advice to not know how to spell "hepatitis."

CDR USINDOPACOM wondering whether he's a Zhukov or Tukhachevsky.

This was the inevitable endgame of Musk allowing people to pay for blue checks and eliminating anti bot measures. And Musk knew this is what would happen. It's intentional because it obfuscates the news environment and makes people dumber, allowing him to get away with pillaging the state.

Once again feel the need to make the comparison here to literally any other event in history. Imagine Obama coming out to fireworks at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after the 2015 shooting. Imagine Clinton doing that at Columbine. Imagine LBJ doing that at the funeral for JFK.

In any other administration, the revelation that the President sent a message to his attorney general directing the AG to conduct politically motivated prosecutions would be a presidency ending event.

What could go wrong with the US government having control over the algorithm of the third largest social media platform in the US.

I mean not for nothing here, but the US did not build Bagram Air Base. The Soviets did.

Blaming (or crediting) Michael Corleone for Moe Greene's business decision to sell his Las Vegas casino stake to Michael is wrong on the facts.

Committing career seppuku because he brought dishonor on his daimyo.

Several days ago Ingraham denounced political violence in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Now, because it's a democrat, she's OK with it. (And yes, I know @katmabu.bsky.social is OK, but this is still political violence, being carried out by the government against its citizens)

This is effectively saying "do not be a journalist. be a mouthpiece for what information we want to give you"

My "I asked for this get out of jail free card because I thought my actions might land me in jail" t shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

They are, in fact, allowed to do that.

How do you say "lebensraum" in Hebrew? www.bbc.com/news/article...

darth this is how you get taken off the air i am serious

If it was red she could be Carmen Sandiego tho

Patel worked for the DOJ from 2012 to 2017 and was part of the DOJ's counterterrorism division in 2015 when the attack occurred. Impossible to believe he does not know who Dylan Roof is.

I'm thoroughly convinced that if DC put red light cameras at every intersection it could eliminate its income tax.

I'd love to read a good piece on how: 1. Political violence is really bad & has no place in a free democratic society 2. Instead it's a tool in autocracies for both the regime to cling to power and the opposition to try to topple the regime 3. The U.S. is rapidly moving from one to the other

"Regime Threatens Crackdown on Political Opposition" is a headline you read about in authoritarian states, and only authoritarian states.

The different reactions between the mainstream left (expressing opposition to political violence, sympathy for the family) and the mainstream right (calling for killing people on the left in revenge) really make it clear that one side of the political spectrum goes to therapy and the other does not.

Good marketing but would have gone with Tippler, Tooter, Sinner, Spy myself

George Soros' lawyers clapped gleefully at this statement that the President plans to bring a politically motivated case against him.

oh hey a functioning democracy with functioning courts

My God, could it be? That's E. Howard Hunt's music!

Trying to imagine the level of right wing apeshittery that would have occurred if Kamala Harris had flown the caskets of the 10 black Americans killed by a white supremacist in the Buffalo supermarket shooting in 2022 on AF2.

The right framing here requires more than just "murder is bad." As a society we also have to grapple with the fact that the rhetoric on the right is VERY disproportionately in favor of violent action. Kirk fed that rhetoric, and right wingers are literally calling for blood today.

ah so i see fox is having a normal one

New Salem trials bout to drop

We KIND of have all these things. And the president is actively working to undermine all of them. Yes, political violence is abhorrent but let's not be any less sanguine about what will happen if we lose the levers of civil discourse.

Trump's gonna demand he lie in state isn't he?

So, uh, we may be in an Article 5 situation here but no biggie I guess.

Its all part of the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Foreign substances introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual? Certainly without any choice. That's the way a hardcore Commie works!

If I were a reporter assigned to cover a president who notably hates the press and who has recently decided its OK to disappear Americans without due process, I, uh, might not get into that motorcade?

I know this is not the main point here, but Robert Duvall's character in Apocalypse Now (LTC Kilgore) was literally meant to be seen as a bad guy. He murders a village full of civilians so he can fucking surf.

Hope JD doesn't ever want to go see the Netherlands

Can't bomb Cambodian civilians anymore because of woke.

They're not even hiding the racism behind a fig leaf anymore. They've just gone full on indecent exposure, waving their erect bigotry for all to see.