EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

"I’m a US citizen; a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason." "ICE cannot be allowed to operate in the shadows, unchecked & unaccountable. Civil rights mean nothing if those in power face no consequences for violating them. Accountability is the only way forward."

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure. Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing. 3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes. You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

The Critical Drinker is a chudtubing lying piece of misogynistic, fascist piece of shit. He says in his "review" video (filth I will not share here or anywhere) about "Tron: Ares" that the female lead character is a "girl boss" (in reality: She needs to be saved by the male lead for no less than 3

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

There hasn't even been enough time for there to have been an outrage cycle of pushback. The people in charge simply have no idea what they're doing.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

All the videos we see of ICE/police/military assaulting people on camera are happening because they know they will face no consequences for their actions. They're breaking the law because they believe the law no longer applies to them. What kept them in check before was fear. Now they have none.

Tilly Norwood is a fantastic name for an actress who was born in 1897, appearing briefly in silent films before dying of tuberculosis, which she contracted on the set of London After Midnight.

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know: help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/ tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

Trump is a billionaire who is trying to take your health care away by pitting you against brown people who are not even eligible for ACA subsidies. He wants vulnerable white people fighting vulnerable brown people, so that no one pays attention to the billionaire trying to consolidate power.

Says CSIS, "the sudden decline in right-wing terrorism is both more striking and harder to explain" but actually it's not; right-wing kidnappings and attacks on civilian transports have increased dramatically but aren't categorized as "terrorism" because they now occur under the aegis of the state.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I know there are a lot of Judge-Raleigh MVP opinions floating out there, but have you considered that Judge plays for the Yankees (annoying, very bad) while Cal Raleigh plays for the Mariners (lovable in spite of themselves and their accursed history, good).

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.   Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.   Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

On Wednesday, Brian Kilmeade went on national television and called for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. "Just kill 'em," he said. There hasn't been one word about it in The New York Times or The Washington Post or USA Today.

The simple way to reconcile these two things is to recognize that the first is a bad opinion & the second is an outright lie

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

This paragraph is brutal.

Gail Simone is a fictional character that is referenced in comics like these. She's very entertaining and so cheeky! You could never get away with what she says in real life, though.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.

Once again the swift limits of "ethical capitalism" folks

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Slightly diminish a band The Whom?

Slightly diminish a band Ben Folds Four

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺

Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Jeffrey Epstein procure and sexually abuse young women, was transferred to a cushy minimum-security prison in Texas in the midst of Trump needing her support with the Epstein files. We all know what's happening but shouldn't lose focus. www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

No imagination or shame in this administration. It's a well worn playbook.

Everything I see about the 80s today is cool glitzy neon hip retro memphis shit, but if you lived it you know what it really was: wood grain furniture and wood wall paneling, brown carpet, earth tone paisley, pinecone patterns on couches, tar-stain yellow, amber light fixtures, and reaganimics beige

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Wow they always go in threes: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, and Chuck Mangione and absolutely no one else

Calvin and the Packing Paper: A Story in Three Parts.

I bet you freaking communists of Bluesky have some second thoughts about releasing the Epstein lists now that you know it might include your favorite politician of all-time William Jefferson Clinton

What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

This is not “parenting.” There was no misbehavior that needed to be corrected. In fact, there is a manufactured issue based on the whim of a narcissist parent. This is “narcissistic parenting” - based on a need for control and to feed his own grandiosity & to be the center of attention.

Fox News live mentions today as of noon ET: Biden: 46 Epstein: ZERO

The United States summed up in two headlines.