Certified dudes rock moment. Glad he's free and got his chicken wings

CNN reports the Trump Administration is considering bombing Venezuela.

YOU CANT TAKE OUR COUNTRY AND YOU CAN't TAKE OUR GAME (BASEBALL)

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

"Wake up, samurai. We have a media environment to bully into altering the tone of its coverage."

In Boston, every day is No Kings Day

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

German word for "concept on social media that is correct but also does one D20 psychic damage"

@lauren-egan.bsky.social: "As the country careens into a succession of crises brought about by the hand of Donald Trump, it’s semi-shocking to see Democrats resort to humor as a primary form of pushback." Mock him. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/can-democr...

he should deploy the Illinois State Police on 10/18 “for crowd control at a permitted demonstration of constitutionally protected speech” in a posture of providing first aid and handing out water bottles.

Used to know some shonky libertarian type who would joke about the People's Republic of Northern Virginia. And yet...

I'm sure there's a better episode name. But @birchsmith.bsky.social floated the idea that whatever comes out of the Right after Trump will be worse than him, so I had to

Winsome Earle-Sears — that is, in fact, discrimination.

"I am a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I am not fearful, I am fearless, and as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper." - @newyorkstateag.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a 2022 interview warned supporters of reproductive rights that "one day it’s going to be your turn." "Murder is murder. And one day it's going to be your turn."

We are officially in a constitutional crisis since Texas National Guard has arrived in Illinois: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-lea...

BREAKING: We just won in court — again. A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 1: Hypnos In Flames 🇸🇪 Lord Hypnos The Jester Race (1996) Melodic death metal “I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos Your garment alive with your song” #ClassicsTober

just stunning

Neon Liberalism #44: The end of history left elite liberals in media and journalism with a hollow conception of liberalism—as a mere referee between the right and the left—not as an active force fighting for itself. How can we regain that energy going forward? www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined in studio by astrophysicist @adambecker.bsky.social to talk about his new book More Everything Forever, the BS AGI story, why we should ignore Eliezer Yudkowsky, and why billionaires love LLMs. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Earlier this year I was given the opportunity to join The UnPopulist as a contributing editor, and I was glad to take it because I knew I was joining a team that understands the danger this moment presents and is committed to opposing it. I couldn't be happier to be a part of this work. Subscribe!

Obituary: Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

GWAR, famous for knocking it off when puritans yell at them...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This is serious 2015 Brain in action. Yes, actually, my dislike of Charlie Kirk is super-relevant right now because we are in a very real contest to determine whether I have a right to express it.

Title says it all. The admin thinks it has a second wind based on its behavior the past couple week, but it wouldn't be the first time they overreached. open.spotify.com/episode/3RUe...

What Trump said is a fucking outrage. It’s against democracy. If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.

requiescas in pace, Tomas Lindberg (MCMLXXII - MMXXV) 🇸🇪

According to Spotify marketing emails, I am a 'top fan of Taylor Swift.' Confusing, but we take those

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

Bit late to the party, but we talk about Epstein this week. The impulse to say "don't remind me I shouldn't tolerate evil" might explain the last decade of American politics. open.spotify.com/episode/0CEf...

A Musk space colony, assuming it lasted longer than ten minutes ("wait, you let someone vibecode the airlock?") would make Bioshock look like Animal Crossing

Fascism.

To the extent that we have a civic religion, this is actual blasphemy, and we need a Jesus fucking up the moneylenders plying their wares in our temples of democracy.

Quick react episode on the lethal US strike on the Venezuelan craft. Also, @birchsmith.bsky.social argues that ignorance is worse than malice when you're facing an authoritarian moment. open.spotify.com/episode/6hi4...

Bsky today for some reason

if you're an embittered person looking in from the outside, then its easy to transmute the fact you're on the outside into some existential rejection of your values

Trump take band shirts

If that happens, I WILL learn to make short form videos and I WILL make reels with Mongolian folk metal songs

The ubiquitous right wing talk about getting swooped up by gubmint "black helicopters" was always a form of aspirational projection masquerading as anti-government libertarianism.

"If you want to be a patriot, it means you stand up for the Constitution in our first amendment and those people (MAGA) do not." — Tom Palmer at @theunpopulist.net 100% this. Liberals own the flag. We own the Constitution. We own the greatest chapters of American life. 🇺🇸

"So I actually like the deep state. I think that any functioning political system has to have a civil service that meets these basic Weberian requirements of being non-partisan, expert, professional, and the like." - ‪‪‪@frankfukuyama.bsky.social‬ at #LibCon2025

Read theory:

Ludicrous. This part of DC is cartoonishly, irrationally safe

Eventually At The Gates