This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

"Teaches at school, wants kindergarten child's parents deported." "You make it sound terrible, you make it sound like it's terrible." "Oh, I'm just writing down what you're telling me." They are terrible people, and should be forced to live in shame for the rest of their lives.

It's the same issue with attempts to identify the logic driving his foreign policy. To even refer to it as 'foreign policy' assumes coherent reasoning that simply does not exist as all of his actions flow from the fact that he is a gaping void of narcissism, rage, ignorance and poor impulse control.

Yeah, no. Though it would be hilarious to start each broadcast with this

The entire ruling is very much worth reading "When masked, unidentifiable agents emerge from an unmarked vehicle and take hold of a person on an American highway, the seizure does not announce itself as the people’s authority. It announces only power."

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Good news: we just paid $200 billion in extra taxes that will now be “returned” to corporations.

This is what a large proportion of the violence in internal conflicts looks like: a state relying on regular people for intelligence, regular people weaponizing the state within their own communities, and security forces not knowing/caring what’s motivating the sources whose information they act on.

I urge you to listen to this with the sound on because this is literally what his attorney whispered to him

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

That list of prohibited course content basically includes most sociological research findings from the past five decades

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

This has taken far too long, but this seems like a big deal… pretty important precedent for other local law enforcement agencies. If your policy is “we don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement”, there need to be clear and immediate consequences for violating it or it’s not really your policy.

if gaslighting were an olympic sport this would take gold

Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”

once again pointing out that Trump vs. US is a treasonous decision--the Supreme Court equivalent of January 6--and the justices who voted for it have forfeited any claim to legitimacy (or indeed due process) whatsoever

Good fucking riddance

Republicans are successfully building out Orban's state media model here in the states. It's really not very subtle.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

I don’t know if Spanberger has presidential aspirations, but in the 2x2 of progressive v mainline Dem and fight vs fold, there will be an appetite for the “fight-mainline” quadrant and she’s positioning herself there well

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

The Median Voter Theorem is a Clarity Trap www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-median...

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

An essential article 👇

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The fact that she thinks this is a positive talking point illustrates the moral and political failure of the D gerontocracy when it comes to immigration.

LA is like every worst supermajority blue city stereotype. ribbon-cutting ceremony for 'la sombrita' while throwing away millions of dollars that would have funded actually useful things. meanwhile LA metro opposes building dense housing near transit

The kid watched the new Muppet Show, having never seen it before. They theorise that Beaker was originally a human guest star, hideously warped by one of Dr Bunsen's experiments.

roses are red cherenkov is blue just use a screwdriver what's the worst it could do

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

UCLA wasn't always the walkable and bikeable campus it is today. These photos capture the surface parking lots that nearly covered campus in the 1950s & '60s. Learn more about UCLA's transformation from auto-focused to multimodal here www.its.ucla.edu/pub... #UCLATransportation100

An excellent essay

Want to hear the dumbest encounter with military law enforcement and federal prosecution I ever came across in the Army

It will very much be worth your time to read this.

This became its main function at one point with the anti-ISIS mission evaporating. There is a lack of appreciation for the kinds of resources that were necessary to defend this vulnerable outpost at various junctures.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Quite the chart

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

More reporting: At the WEF in Davos, Moderna’s CEO said Moderna will "stop investing in late-stage vaccine trials that are a crucial part of the approval process," b/c “You cannot ‍make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Powerful statement about who/what they are playing for: “I really love what's been happening there now, with people coming out, showing the love, compassion, integrity, respect for others...we are playing for the people of Minnesota, and the people around the country, who share those same values.”

I’m writing this post to share a new article, co-authored with @mmgarrity.bsky.social, that examines eliminationist politics and proposes an analytical framework for their study, published in @scmrjems.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... nationalisky | polisky 1/8