this is an underrated point - rebuilding the government and Doing Things are going to be important but that is going to be a hard job that takes time and the federal budget is a shitshow the easiest and cheapest way to show voters that you are Doing Things? revenge

evelyn normielib is real and she is coming to a primary near you I cannot count the number of conversations I’ve had with normal offline liberals that would be TOS violations over here

It’s just latent bad reputation from the 2006 E. coli outbreak

Nooooooo

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

note how the anti-AC contingent usually try to change the subject when you point out how massively popular air conditioning is in tropical Asia

I'm 31 There was exactly one election I was eligible to vote in that had nothing to do with Trump. I know this has made me worse in ways I can't fully describe and I can't imagine what it does to people with less mental fortitude

This! People think primaries are more small-d democratic, but they're not: They put the nomination in the hands of a tiny number of the most fired-up voters (often not, uh, the most knowledgeable) - who can be targeted by consultants and pollsters much more easily than convention delegates.

look at this thing and tell me it's a human being like you or i

i should have been allowed to tattoo this on myself in sleeping dogs

Senator, l I need you to get your head out of your ass, and start seeing your Republican "colleagues" for what they are: they are traitors to our country, they are our enemies, they are the single greatest threat to me, my community, and my family. I need you to do this, toute fucking suite.

Donald Trump looked every single man and woman in this country square in the eye, and said: "You're no better than a dog. You're no better than a child. You're no better than a slave." That is what it meant, when he attempted to stay in power in 2020

clicking "next" a few times and selecting the time zone you want your computer's clock to display is incomprehensible to the average person on the internet. big tech turned everyone into 75 year old grandmas who get mad at you when you tell them the purple gorilla is malware and needs to be deleted

A lot of people don’t want to hear this but Ace Combat’s community is roughly as embarrassing as Sonic’s or Megaman’s

the country we know dies within these camps. anything short of their total destruction and the prosecution of their architects will doom us.

Go after the lawyers and a lot of Trump world falls apart.

I'm easily rotating sending American War Criminals to the Hague in my brain

Hey, if Rubio struggles to imagine this, I’m more than happy to have him and all the rest of those he mentions swiftly suffer the constitutionally prescribed maximum sentence for treason under domestic law, too

What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now. It’s a good reminder… always do what you know to be right, right NOW. And when you recognize you crossed a line, that’s ok, but come back.

Unfair of them to be correct in contradiction to the immortal science (my priors)

Whether this story is apocryphal or not, how we shit on Lindsay Graham today matters. Other Quislings who are still alive and enabling Trump need to know how they will be remembered if they don’t turn on him immediately. This is the legacy that awaits them all.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that political elites cannot affect public opinion, only pander to it. Even then, you must anticipate trends in public opinion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to anticipate that an internal masked authoritarian police force will soon become unpopular.

I’m considering storing away a fine joint of meat and a fatted bird and a bucket of saffron and cooking them all in the fashion of the feasts the Byzantines once would throw after they’d defeated the latest flavor of plains nomad.

warrior culture is only fighting wars on weekends, killing people who can’t fight back for content, spitting on allies who fought and died for you, throwing a hissy fit and making toothless threats, violating the trust of female + trans + black personnel who paid into the system, being real swole

If Flock cameras are only used for catching criminals, why are they tracking what stickers you have on your cars? Imagine searching a database to find all individuals with stickers indicating "left-wing tendencies". This is an actual Flock display.

Karl von Hegseth assures me this is impossible because we killed more people than they did.

The American census says there's 340 million Americans. It is wrong. There are many more than that, they just haven't made it home yet.

It's important to understand that neither Israeli or US leadership, because of racism, view Iran as a real state led by real people.

we can't let the right have all the good memes

I would not rule this out

The victim's brother said that ICE agent approached from the passenger side of the car, stuck his hand in through the window, and opened fire. He says that ICE officers kept shooting even as the car had come to a stop and was put into park.

I must emphasize that Columbus was so bad the same Spanish monarchs that started the literal Spanish Inquisition hauled him back to Madrid in chains for what were essentially crimes against humanity

Stop playing devil’s advocate unless you’re admitted to the Hell bar!!!!!

I think "how did someone as clearly flawed as Platner wipe out Mills" and "why can people like Swalwell survive so long in Dem politics" have very different answers in terms of institutional dynamics

I do not consider this to be a recognizable factional fight when mainstream Obama Dems played a huge role alongside the insurgent left to boost this guy. It was largely led by upper class men insecure with their masculinity across ideological lines in the party

Hegseth is, first and foremost, a gutter racist who hates the fact the Union won in 1865.

For those who don't know (other white ppl?), this is more administrative racism; pseudofolliculitis mostly affects Black men and other people of color, so ending permanent shaving wavers will make the armed forces more white

Garffeld Pt 4

Gentrification is when you build new apartments in a city where the typical home costs more than three and a half million dollars.

“When Stephen Miller or other MAGA types suggest banning pregnant tourists from visiting the United States, this is a view of children not only as objects but as essentially a material resource in a race war. That is how you get The Federalist’s Sean Davis saying we may have to sterilize people”

I think this is skipping past the real argument, because the issue isn't about Platner being a newcomer, it's that we had multiple warnings that he was bad & they were shouted down.

Frankly I don’t care that HSI used to investigate real problems; anyone still working there is a bastard now that they do ERO pogroms and their old area of responsibility should be given to a new agency under DoJ in 29

ICE is claiming the officers who killed Lorenzo Araujo in Houston didn't have bodycams bc of "two Dem shutdowns." Put aside that the GOP has the majorities. And that the OBBB gave ICE a huge shutdown-proof slush fund. Here's an article from 5 months ago abt TRUMP explicitly slow walking bodycams:

First launch of China's LM-10B Falcon9-class methalox rocket is successful, including first stage recovery on a ship. A Falcon Heavy-like variant with side boosters will be used for their upcoming human Moon flights

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