the graphic from a few years ago that showed that cargo ship that fucked up the bridge and it was bigger than the USS Enterprise genuinely laid me out I had no idea

The notion that a bunch of committed racists didn't understand the racism they were doing when racism is the sole reason they were interested in doing it is wild to me

Conspicuously absent: Amy Gleason, the purported administrator of DOGE at the time of Fox’s employment. WHO WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE???????? #WITAOD

Q: Do you have an understanding about who was creating the directives and the priorities for your team to address? A: Elon had made it clear that there was a number of small agencies that needed DOGE leads…So, him.

Q: Who did you understand to be the top people at DOGE at the time of your employment? A: Steven [Davis], Josh [Gruenbaum], Anthony [Armstrong] Q: Elon Musk? A: Yes, although I had limited interaction with him.

NEW: DOJ is barely even a functional law firm at this point. Each day there is more proof. Jeanine Pirro's effort to subpoena the Fed hit a wall. At the same time, DOJ was also forced to "clarify" arguments made in court about the Pentagon's new press policy. Today, at Law Dork:

Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!

This is, to put it mildly, a double standard. This guy was part of a government that encouraged online social media figures to engage in routine harassment of government employees to the point that many were fired or went into hiding. Some of it was done by Elon Musk, this guy's boss.

I know writers who barely disguise their fetishes and they're all cowards

torrents are undefeated: www.404media.co/the-removed-...

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

I think about this a lot.

Excellent, EXCELLENT piece that deftly unpacks the hot takes and knee-jerk reactions, and gets at the real meat of the question (which, surprise surprise, is not a simple yes/no).

I talk a lot about how Article I of the Constitution (Congress) is not in effect, but Articles III and VI as well as their explicit powers from Marbury v Madison (Judiciary) are also not in effect.

but it's effectively antisemitic propaganda! the largest mainstream Jewish institutions are just vomiting out antisemitic propaganda at volume. the institutions set up to advocate for us and protect us are putting us at risk! it's a nightmare.

Zionists have just been doubling down and doubling down on the idea that Jewish identity justifies apartheid, genocide, torture, unending war, and then attacking anyone who points out that this kind of cynical linking of Judaism and atrocity is effectively antisemitic propaganda.

like, i still think this is a bad idea, but i imagine the *idea* of saying the bar is 100k is to help 2-income families who are making less than 50k each, which is at least a much more sympathetic group of people than *individuals* making 90k a year.

can someone exain to me why everything is always measured and detirmined by "household income" and not, idk, income-per-person-in-household? A single childless person making 70k at their tech job is in a VERY different economic position than a 2-income family making 35k each and caring for children

As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders

"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill." What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

I also suspect there is something poisonous in the institution of policing itself that creates these conditions, and which requires an abolitionist framework to analyze. What kind of culture shapes its people such that large numbers of them are willing to commit atrocities for career advancement?

Why are unprecedented violations of the constitution happening? Because the Supreme Court keeps encouraging Trump to violate the constitution with de facto impoundments, overruling lower courts that have actually tried to rein him in.

Few people have done more to increase the amount of antisemitism in the U.S. than Jonathan Greenblatt.

anti-zionists have been saying this for decades. zionist efforts to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, which is always framed as trying to "protect Jews", actually makes every Jew around the world less safe. Its only ever been about Israeli state interests, never Jews' safety

I want to be very clear here that I do indeed think assigning blame/responsibility to random Jews for what Israel does and conflating Israel and Jews generally is wrong. That's also why I think Jewish institutions and leaders should stop doing it.

honestly im gonna say all "edgelord" posturing is cope. Edgelords are ppl who want to do and say heinous stuff *bc it benefits them to do that specific stuff*. when theyre socially rejected for it they backfill "edginess" as part of their identity. Its pure "dont put in the newspaper that i got mad"

why do you trust a racist's self-reporting of why theyr racist? they literally ALWAYS lie about this. racists are not accurate sources of information about how racists think. theres nothing 'rebellious' about racism. in fact they DESPERATELY want their antisocial bigotry to be validated as normal

flashback to this banger of a locked tomb meme

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

The Ever Given has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever...

This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position

am i too dem-brained? i may see the strategic utility in the gas tax thing. its still very stupid, dont worry. what if Ds believe, if they didnt sponsor leg to drop the gas tax, the Rs would do it 1st, and then theyd have to vote for it anyway, lest Ds be blamed for gas prices i told u its dumb

some cold nights when the (prescribed) ambien is popping off, i sometimes get a glimpse into a future in that maybe i have solved all my own problems one day. or community and me have

im so fucking disregulated. i cant eat and i have lesions on my pancreas that are PROBABLY nothing but might be something and i have to get an endoscopy next week and i ran out of my cats medication and the government wants me dead. i do not need any more bullshit

never let it be said that i do not change my views when faced with new evidence. sometimes people do stupid things that will inevitably hurt themselves and people they love. its tragic. if you are *revelling* in finally having a Brown woman to credibly call a liar, i see your fucking glee

AND ANOTHER THING: making your vampires mindless absolutely ignores everything that makes vampire stories distinct and interesting. It feels like the Original Sin of a story that wants to be a pulpy action monster-killer, rather than a cerebral meditation on the nature of evil. but its a COP OUT

Nekima on the Target boycott.

oh my god THE STRAIN (2009) by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro made me so mad I DNFed even tho the prose is good bc ITS JUST AN AIDS PANIC NARRATIVE. WHY ARE YOU DOING VAMPIRES WHEN YOUR MONSTERS ARE FUNCTIONALLY ZOMBIES. WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE CDC GUY IS EXTERMINATING SICK PPL.

this explains succinctly why I view the WH rhetoric and actions towards "lethality" to be genocidal even when it doesnt yet add up to a genocide. Indifference to civilian life, multiplied by the known quantity of "insurgent math", spirals into a policy of total population annhilation. Thats Gaza

giving "We have met the enemy and he is us" whole new meanings here

Big Purr National Park

great piece. i hadn't thought before abt how these DOJ resignations are really meant to in-and-of-thelmselves produce a check/speedbump on power, not just a statement of personal ethics, bc it empties the office. but bringing in the JAGs is just trying to defang prosecutorial discretion entirely

WHOOMP THERE IT IS

BREAKING: Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act. Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases. New, at Law Dork:

my solution to my fear of bees and wasps is to talk to them like they are an exceptionally rude customer. "Maam? Excuse me, maam? What are you doing? This is my personal space. How dare you. Maam. Maam I'm going to have to ask you to leave the premises."

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT ELON WAS "DEFACTO". i got to the end of Fox's depo but no luck. Need @annabower.bsky.social to recover from her illness so she can tell us if anything else in these depos got us closer to finding out #WITAOD

Rly hoping there's some #WITAOD tidbit in these depositions that hasn't come out. timestamp link: "They were closer to Elon, and, Elon was defacto [pauses, makes a face] the relationship with Trump. And so, prioroties coming from whoever's closest with Elon" he almost slipped! Elon defacto WHAT??