Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

A lot of the Male Loneliness Epidemic can be traced back to the fact that most cis dudes don’t participate in communal logistics.

The nurses and doctors at Pretti's hospital taking a moment of silence for him.

This isn’t left vs right anymore. It’s democracy vs fascism. Many trapped in the GOP know something is wrong but see no safe exit. If leaving means exile, they won’t leave. We end this by giving them an off-ramp with dignity, & a way back. We can only reclaim our society - together.

"antifa supply lines" lmao

Good to see that New England playoff bullshit carries over across generations

I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.

For some reason, these days I find myself thinking a lot about how SimCity players would eventually get bored and start triggering disasters.

How things function and why things happen are very complicated and require nuance (and involve good-faith disagreement between people of decent moral standing). And also the fundamental moral questions of our time are extremely simple.

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.

I think this is right. So much of how they’re going about this, from the needless brutality to the masks and unofficial gear, really only makes sense if the calculated goal is to provoke violence against ICE agents.

"It might be a mistake to think of counterculture following a 60s model, what Christgau called ‘mass bohemianism,’ a left-leaning, ecologically oriented, sexually open, drug supported movement. The counterculture today might be white nationalism." - Greil Marcus www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

How dare the press *checks notes* focus on the president threatening to take an ally's territory by force because he didn't get a peace prize, which would then lead to the destruction of the world's largest security pact.

i would *love* for americans to feel a greater civic duty than reducing grocery prices, and the next dem leader should focus on that, but it’s going to be one foot in front of the other and not much more complex than that for awhile

Regardless of the outcome Caleb Williams is a steely-eyed missile man

Speaking of fuckwits, the idea that naturalized citizens are inherently suspicious persons who must be made to justify themselves to armed agents of the state as necessary is the central premise of the Kavanaugh Stop.

I have a bunch of reservations but they’re not nearly as important as the bottom-line things this gets right. Didn’t expect David French to put The Dual State in the pages of the NYT.

WTF

I’m very concerned about the midterms. Trump isn’t going to cancel the elections. He’s going to mess with them. He’ll post ICE outside polling places in Democratic areas to harass people on the pretext of stopping “illegals” from voting. He’s going to question the validity of mail-in ballots.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

The entire statement is nonsense. NATO already protects Greenland. We already have missile defense systems there. Satellite monitoring. Listening stations, weather stations, etc. Nothing he claims we need requires any change of the status quo. If we wanted to build more stuff, we could have.

They don’t want Greenland. They want to end NATO, and Greenland is just a way to do it.

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

It isn’t the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to the Nobel Peace Prize given it was once awarded to Henry Kissinger

The best way to think of how Trump would "invade" Greenland is Putin's "little green men" annexation of Crimea. The US military would simply deploy more troops to its base there, and then one day they'd raise the US flag over the capital. 1/x

Thank you CNN for pointing out that everyone opposed to this regime has normal, pro-social links to the organizations that make up a liveable society where you can do normal shit. Next article you can talk about how the vice president, by contrast, is in nazi groupchats with minors

the great David Gutenfelder who’s photographed so many of the world’s most intense conflict zones in the past three decades now reporting from his home town www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

we've sort of reached the platonic ideal of the paradox of tolerance here. they've repudiated the social contract, thus it definitionally no longer protects them or binds you vis-a-vis them

As we contemplate the regime’s depiction of Renee Nicole Good’s murder, one must remember that the main point of propaganda is not to propagate a lie—it is to demonstrate that the propagandists *have authority over the truth itself.* Propaganda doesn’t just misrepresent reality; it DEFIES reality.

This is joy

This is what happens when journalists decide their role is to police some imagined middle zone that exists halfway between the right's and left's arguments.

The Church Committee's investigation into the crimes of the intelligence community is about as good a model as we have for the kind of investigation into the crimes of ICE and other agencies. This is really a must-read for understanding our own moment.

“Organised gangs of wine moms.” Paramilitary groups of soccer moms. Auxiliary corps of woke girls. They are what strike terror into the hearts of fascists.

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The tl;dr of this report is not that these administration officials are upset about ICE having murdered Renee Good; it's that even these goons realize Noem's lies about the murder were so poorly crafted that people aren't going to believe all the other lies the administration tells the public.

ICE shot a man in Glen Burnie and the story they told was contradicted by: 1. ICE’s own photos 2. Bystander video 3. Lawyer for another immigrant at the scene 4. Anne Arundel County Police Now ICE is revising its story. The latest from Alex Mann: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

*grizzled sarge voice* up and at 'em, boys, those lazy equivalencies aren't going to falsify themselves.

Normies are the bulwark of democracy

The Don't Tread On Me folks are sure turning into Comply Or Die.

The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”

Various outlets have done frame-by-frames of the video confirming that Good was turning away from the ICE agents when she was shot, but you can just look at the agents themselves. Nobody is lunging out of the way like they think a car is barreling toward them.

"This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."

"As Trump and Stephen Miller work overtime to pump more ICE agents into American streets, they are taking no great pains to prevent random, unnecessary violence like this. In fact, at least in the abstract, Trump welcomes it..." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

Too many Americans treat "we're the good guys" like it's some intrinsic quality, instead of something we have to live up to.