The Bundy occupation at Malheur in early 2016 (and the lack of consequences they faced for it) was a sign of what was to come. Right wing white anti-government vigilantes cast as “patriots.”

oh look a real unemployment problem

Intriguing idea

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Is the data so bad the government cancelled it in October? No. Previous shutdowns were only "partial." Now we have November data. Trend is bad, but we're still floating. Policy changes can fix a lot of this. @geohussar.bsky.social

If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States

I'm about 1/4 the way through Skin in the Game and from what I have gathered: you must have skin in the game to improve society. also the guy really hates academics, civil servants, and journalists. Which is odd because the latter routinely have skin in the game all for the sake of a story.

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

TRUMP: "Venezuela is completely surrounded" THE MAP: 😬

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

We need a name for fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and children we can no longer can see nor hear because of the lawless secret police and their wildcat internment camps. “The Disappeared” has an appropriate sense of dread and moral failure as a label.

Breaking news: U.S. Coast Guard allows a new workplace harassment policy to take effect, downgrading the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite facing backlash over the new language.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Oh no. Stop. Don't do that...

Yes please do that it would *so* own the libs.

This is not a humorous book at all. However the narrator, Tom Beyer, reads excerpts of speeches in the tone of all politicians quoted. When he does Trump it's like a bad version of Colbert's Trump. Which takes me out of the content of the book momentarily. 😅

Born of a dissertation research trip gone awry.

in conservatism, an ideology built around personal responsibility, it's always someone else's fault. bsky.app/profile/donm...

I don’t think even Paul Verhoeven would’ve included the McDonald’s logo.

I studied Chilean history (to be a prof of Latam history). To echo a bit about what James Bosworth has said - Chile is a nation of moderate voters who are fed up with the status quo. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Federal law requires the government’s files to be released by Dec. 19.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

"Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE."

RIP Rob and Michele Reiner. This is tragic.

Chile votes today in the run-off for their presidential elections. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

Listening to the @ifbookspod.bsky.social Sapiens episode and it's clear to me that book had no editor or an editor who hated the author. Why would you allow that to be published?

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

Knives Out is a Thanksgiving movie. Glass Onion is a Labor Day movie. Wake Up Dead Man is an Easter movie. I won't elaborate.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social "We spoke to 3 quitters on why their former colleagues also will refuse to fight."

The president of the United States has decreed that the country’s most important cable news station must be sold to a conservative. Here’s why my US-based free speech organization will spend the next few years focusing on AI regulations and free speech in Europe.

Taco Bell at midnight and my IBS

Could do a double feature called Josh O'Connor dirty in suits: Wake Up Dead Man & La Chimera.

Bucs in orange, Falcons in black...yes, NFL...sometimes you can do color vs color. I love this

1997 Star Wars re-releases. I left the theater wondering why things were different from the VHS tapes I used to rent from Blockbuster. Everyone older than me was grumbling about it. 2nd to this was the silence that fell over the theater when Galadriel did the VO in LOTR Fellowship intro.

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

I'm searching Getty Images and found some photos credited to the Boston Herald that redact the faces of ICE/federal agents. They don't redact the face of the guy they're arresting. I'm curious about the ethics of doing this. I don't think I've ever seen this on Getty before.

Trump can't decide whether he's going to invade Venezuela or not, so he's playing pirate in the meantime. theracket.news/p/pirates-of...

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data. My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys.

I need Muppets Les Mis.

Congress scholars call them "show horses" vs. "workhorses," but you're right that it applies to most elite professions, incl. academia & media.

Yea this is 80% of our problem right here, how this signifies

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Review of How Capitalism Took Over the World by Sven Beckert | “Beckert emphasizes how capitalism has depended at every stage of its development on the military power of the modern state and frequently on practices of extreme violence…” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...

LOOK AT ME, I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW