A key consideration in the $100k H-1B bounty situation: the Feds can waive the requirement for any person, company, or industry. It is structured to encourage graft, and to force companies to ingratiate themselves to the administration.

Vought is singularly focused on bending the entire government machine to Trump’s will. He believes that any check on the power of Donald Trump, who Vought literally describes as a “gift of God,” is illegitimate. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

Oh my god THIS:

The past 8 months have been the GOP going down a list of every single demographic key to a midterm election win and alienating them as aggressively as possible in an attempt to manifest a thousand-year Reich out of woefully insufficient tools.

This is exactly it. They're gonna cancel the 2026 elections is just a crybaby way of saying these folks don't want to door knock, donate, or phone bank. "I'm just gonna stay home and watch OracleTok."

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

Tucker Carlson is a pretty wretched human being. But even he understands that what is being attempted with Kimmel can happen to him, too. There's no such thing as 'the First Amendment for me, but not for thee'.

These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.' Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.

I miss the time when you could go days without even thinking about the president, when you assumed the government was working quietly in the background to keep you safe and improve your life, and now it’s this absolute sh*tshow of an administration every minute of every day 🤬

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Just talked with my wife, we are cancelling our Disney+ subscription. If you have one, I encourage you to do the same.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

the reason that i specify the disney+ subscription is that wall street loves monthly recurring revenue, disney+ has been growing at double digits year over year, and you eliminate viewership on several of their properties all at once, cancel it for at least a couple quarters to send a message

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

it’s real easy to doom and gloom on this site but this simply isn’t going to work. 360 million people aren’t going to just shrug and say “okay I guess I don’t have bread OR circuses, will die in corner i guess”

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

As a member of the Dropkick Murphys said this week: "No one is coming to save us." That just means WE HAVE TO DO IT. We have to get off our butts and mobilize. Now. Take that fear and anger and channel it into organizing with your neighbors & friends. Prague, Gdansk, Tallinn. Look em up. Learn!

So, my lovelies...none of you are ever allowed to think you are bad at your job again. During a Congressional hearing today, the head of the FBI did not know who Dylan Roof was. No matter how hard you think you are failing, the FBI guy is failing way harder. Go forth and be kind to yourself.

"The bottom line? The bar for limiting access to proven vaccines with good safety records needs to be high. Allowing it to be limited based on anecdote, whim, or flawed research is reckless and irresponsible and will put lives at risk." Read it all! ⏬

every single day, at least one member of this administration says something in public that's absolutely disqualifying for public service or civil society, which is what makes all of the condescending admonishment from people like klein so hard to take

Many in the media today are acting like it’s news that RFK Jr. intends to change the childhood vaccine schedule. We have been telling you this for months, and it is very frustrating that you did not listen.

And the campus "free speech" folks continue their eerie silence.

In saying not to sign up, they're not saying "Don't go the the protest", but I think is part of the panic anyway. Dudes (and I gender that on purpose): we can attend a public event without an RSVP!

Brad Lander's comment during the NYC primary that people view Dems as either "fight" or "fold" people is the best characterization of how lose -- this is a fold strategy, and people want their candidates to fight for them, not step on their necks trying to reach across the aisle.

The family of Trey Reed is seeking an independent autopsy following the Delta State University student’s death on Monday, when his body was found hanging in a tree on campus.

And of course Starmerism is wildly ... uhhh .... successful??

This is actually crucial context to basically everything that's going on around us. The public *hates* it. Republicans are still committed, full blast. And the press seems to be choosing to largely ignore how much we dislike all this -- but they were bird-dogging Biden daily for low polls.

Turns out a party system that has byzantine layers of process, starting with multi-hour ward caucus meetings saturated in Roberts Rules/parliamentary procedure, followed by state district conventions that struggle through endless resolutions and deadlock on endorsements, then upwards all the same...

This is why elected Democrats wanting to "compromise" on trans issues has been so incredibly toxic and disillusioning. I'm not next in the dominoes falling, but I can see the push coming. And I can no longer have any confidence that Jeffries, Schumer, etc. give one single shit about me.

Trump's polling has gotten *worse* since this skeet. He and his flying monkey squad are in attack mode because time is running out ... people are pissed. This is not the time to compromise or surrender!

How insane does your use of military power have to be in order for *John Yoo* of all people to question it? Seriously, this is bananas.

Yes this is really it: Schumer saying this week that they'll work for "bipartisan" elements of funding bills sounds delusional/insane to us outside the Beltway — because Republicans are openly calling for Dems to be thrown out, jailed, etc. Bipartisan WHAT, exactly, Chuckles? What the genuine fuck.

One week of intense conversations in Kyiv convinced me that Ukraine has no need for Trump any longer. Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver. Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.

WebMD is a hell of a lot more hip than I realized.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I disagree with most everything Utah Governor Spencer Cox says, but on one thing we do agree: social media companies are conflict entrepreneurs that have hacked our brains, addicted us to outrage, and turned us against each other, all to generate profit.

The Democrats make an active choice not to involve themselves in the arguments that currently shape America. The party has utterly failed to represent and defend the millions of people who vote for it.

So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

Think about how the news would cover any President besides Trump with -50% approval with independents

PS- If you haven't already make an appointment to get your COVID vaccine booster. It's still worth it and importantly it is safe.

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

This is why elected Democrats are fools to do anything with Kirk except a brief "We abhor violence." When the show is on the other foot, the right just lets their contempt run fill tilt.

Yes, good add. “Not at the scale they want” doesn’t mean “not at all,” and they will be able to hurt people along the way. But making them lose makes them look like losers and makes it easier to fight them.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

This would explain why a recent rhubarb upside down cake was so thin and kind of measley looking 😣