I don't think anyone has called Schumer a "political moron" for this? The Republicans are fucking things up enough that the Dems likely coast to a win in the midterms. People would like to know if the Dems have power they are going to Do Something about the right wing militia terrorizing people.

Everybody loves Musicology Duck, a lovely duck who rides buses *four hours later* We regret to inform you the duck has been kidnapped.

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

Democrats coming up with the one strategy they know; asking people to give them money, lololol

Watching the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man and it's as good as it ever was but, lol, why is Macy Gray in this movie

Enough news for today, I am full of incandescent rage and it is not good for me. Time to play Battlefield 6, a game certain to calm my absolutely fried nervous system.

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.

Get fucked.

Chat, I think she likes it.

what a legend lmao

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

If you want to really throw a wrench in the works, start pushing the narrative that "we're canceling those $50k bonuses you thought you were getting, so you might as well quit now before it's too late."

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

It doesn't matter if they have the votes for removal, they need to do it because his crimes should be on the record and read out for the public to hear, over and over again, and they need to make the Republicans say on the record "I'm okay with all this."

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

This is why I hate seeing “ICE is now the largest police force in the US.” Not just wrong on the facts—it has less than 1/2 the officers of the NYPD alone. But it DEF lacks the staff needed to police the US as a whole. It has ~3,500 commando cosplayers. In a national of 325,000,000. Cannot win.

The only thing I would disagree with here is that the Vice President "dropped anything". As far as I can tell, Vance isn't involved in any policy or decision making, he spends his days arguing with people online. Vance is so slimy and repulsive that nobody in the admin wants to deal with him.

This is fucking horrifying.

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

I've ordered some heated cat beds to be strategically placed for Persephone in her favorite spots, since she does not like that the house is not kept at 80 degrees at all times. This cat loves a fleece blanket and to be covered at night, so I am hoping they see some use (probably not).

A day so wretched that even FedEx fucking up a delivery worth about $400 barely registers as an event.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

It's not hard to see why the rest of the world thinks Americans are largely okay with what's happening, given that corporate, billionaire-owned American media largely writes stories designed to sanitize or downplay what's happening and provides cover for how unpopular he is.

Speaking of The Shield, it is hilarious to me that Vic Mackey, an absurdly corrupt cop, ends up working for ICE. The feds also had knowledge he had done SOME shady shit and still offered him immunity and a job! They didn't know the full body of work, but they were all "well, some crime is okay."

The Shield and The Wire strike me as two shows that had absolutely perfect endings. Both had very different tones, but the ending for each character in each show felt completely earned.

The past several years have forced me to develop a very high tolerance for opportunistic anti-Trump grifting, but Literally George Conway running for office as a Democrat is where I have to draw the line. No. Go away. You have much more to do to have any hope of atoning for your sins.

Battlefield 6 where shoot gun and blow up thing with tank has been a marvelous coping strategy for me, personally, this weekend. Fuck you news, I am still not insane.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

Pretty sure we've heard this story before.

We have to impeach him.

In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.

Poll for anyone who actually reads these silly skeets of mine: what do you use for podcasts after nuking Spotify? (Also please bear in mind I am a non-iPhone having ass, but something that has a desktop application as well as mobile would be a preference, but not a deal breaker.)

Joined the "finally got rid of Spotify" gang. Should have done it months ago, like so many other things I should have done months ago and haven't. Going to give Qobuz a shot since most people on my feed seem to like it!

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

"If only the people on here were fluent in the good grammar of civility, like me. I was only trying to deploy decorum. For what agenda, you may ask? Who can say."

I don't even have a degree and the sentence made perfect sense to me.

ChatGPT about to suggest the best handgun for blowing your head off, while cheerfully reminding you it's "down the road, not across the street."

An icon. Rest in power.

Chickened out of chatting up Lizzy Caplan in a bar in Austin.

Found it, buried in a pile of laundry by the washing machine. ??? I hate my brain.

If anyone needs me I'm spending the rest of my day playing Ace Combat 7, a game I must have bought and installed a zillion years ago but somehow never played?

My meat probe seems to have vanished between Thanksgiving and now, and I have a 10lb slab of beef to roast. Folks, we are officially rawdogging Christmas.

anyway you don’t even have to read between the lines of this piece to see that the real complaint is that nikole hannah-jones won a macarthur fellowship and he hasn’t. which, talk about ego.

Normal yule log? Boring. Expected. Overdone. Lithium-ion battery yule log? Relevant. Unexpected. Educational. youtu.be/rc6Txma85Ac?...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

AltNPS's posting history doesn't paint a picture of a dedicated "coalition" of park rangers fighting for our public lands. It shows an all-purpose engagement farm that just jumps on the hottest trending topic.

This makes me so unbelievably sad. I hope he's at peace. A monumental talent. Time for a rewatch of Generation Kill.

on the bright side three years from now will be boom times for businesses that specialize in removing garish brass letters from buildings