Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

There is a certain kind of continually self-victimizing grifter, who if they say a movie is good and you say it is bad, claim that you're oppressing them by telling them what they're allowed or not allowed to like. It's pathetic. And she wonders why the OP blocked her.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

"Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital: The Israeli military had said they targeted a Hamas camera in an August strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device actually belonged to the news agency." -- www.reuters.com/investigatio...

We have a white supremacist gestapo with complete immunity in our country now.

these morons are really gonna make me stan james comey is there nothing negative polarization can't do

some of these people suck so bad it's unreal, though i have no doubt twitter remains worse i'm gonna have to go to threads or something

Your Major options right now are Europe, writ large - deathly afraid of the concept of spending money for public good China - deathly afraid of spending money and also the public good India - not capable of paying for the public good And Russia - lol, lmao The midmajors are somehow worse.

as someone with high-functioning autism i don't fully grasp why this framing is bad. i also have an ADHD problem and a depression problem. even if HFA is just a neurodiverse quirk, its more severe cousins are not pleasant to have. nobody enjoys being nonverbal and unable to take care of themselves.

Why exactly would it not? "Let people build suburbs AND apartment blocks" is not exactly an incoherent policy. Midcentury America and modern Japan did it just fine.

I want to write something longer on this, because it’s not just science. John Oliver’s show, which I really like, could be titled “here’s a thing that sucks that you’ve never heard of.” The admirable liberal instinct to improve things has instead convinced everyone that we live in a failed society.

In this house we believe: USAID saves lives Impoundment violates the separation of powers Jawboning violates the First Amendment Executive immunities have no constitutional basis War criminals belong in the Hague

I fear that the reason a great deal of the change achieved 2008 to 2024 has ended up feeling so ephemeral was that much of it - by no means all, some obvious exceptions - was achieved through top-down exertions of elite power, both legal and cultural. When the power vanished, so did the change.

Even casually browsing X I'm surprised by the degree to which the Republican base despises Chinese and Indian immigrants. So much for the "model minorities." At the end of the day it really is white people versus everyone else. More fool me.

Even 18 months ago you could not have made me believe this. Gun to my head I'd say no, it couldn't be. I don't know how you make the America-the-idea that I still fanatically believe in, into an actually existing society. Some ~30% of my neighbors have vicious souls and a servile peasant mentality.

It’s like a warrior culture chafing against ceding the battlefield to the common soldiery, ironically enough.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Especially insofar as I would like the Politics Knowers to have a plan that is not dependent on "the economy is bad in obvious ways".

relevant comments www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

hard not to suspect that people who talk like this aren't weirdos who have never engaged in any kind of real political action before, which isn't done undercover by sleeper cells, but by people acting in public, whose exact location at a particular date and time are known well in advance

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This person is just a wrecker, full stop. bsky.app/profile/angr...

This post is like an IQ test for Bluesky and the results aren't looking good.

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

Also, the mindset that prevents authoritarian consolidation is "they can't get all of us" Not "cower, they can get any of us"

"America’s entire power structure has been taken over by the very same sort of dumbasses who have been yelling at all of us on the internet for years." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

I think Charlie Kirk made the country a worse place. I believe his murder makes the country even worse Why Charlie Kirk was killed, by John Ganz

“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

and nobody's going to be able to grab the ring - CERTAINLY not Fuentes - because you need to be able to code-switch between Christian Pastor and also Charm The Grandmas and ALSO gutter-racist antisemite Branch Hitlerian Dialect. and nobody is going to be able to do that like he could.

it's time for all patriots to join together in purging a social contagion and cancer on the body politic: gamers

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Note how the center is being disciplined here: when the right is impolite you must listen to them with respect; when the left is impolite they must be cut off instantly and permanently. The goal is to isolate them until they serve the right exclusively

A scathing editorial in Hankyoreh on "imperial tyranny" and racism in the United States. A view from the left but close to the government and likely to the views of many Koreans. www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

they used to have picnics at lynchings. they’d take photos, smiling in front of the dead body hanging from the tree.

it would be extremely funny if the killer escaped because everybody stopped looking once kash patel announced he had the suspect in custody government by the dumbest people in america

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

My take on the Kirk thing is that while political violence is bad, one-sided political violence is even worse. There are Senate Republicans who voted to acquit Trump because of fears for their personal safety. One-sided political violence is one-way ticket to fascism.

Every elected Democrat is going to say the right thing, but remember that when 2 Democratic state legislatures were assassinated, elected Republicans went on a smear campaign of disinformation blaming Tim Walz and Democrats themselves.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

legit do not think that this does anything to help palestine

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

Mike Johnson should read Federalist 8. The Democrats have the opportunity to become the party of the Constitution now that Republicans are eagerly shitting on it.

It just highlights so clearly the contrast between a generation that had the confidence that came from having walked through the greatest passages of arms in human history and came out the other end thinking, "maybe 'defense' is a better word" and these insecure manchildren afraid of seeming 'woke.'

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard. The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

i'm sure a lot of people out there enjoy being autistic but it's been no fun for me personally whatsoever