There will have to be accountability after this, for sure. In 2029, ditch qualified immunity and then start putting these guys and videos in front of juries. Let a jury of their peers decide if they are acting reasonably and lawfully in these moments. I do not think they will like the answer.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social Every time I see one of these, I get echoes of Verres.

This makes my blood run cold.

It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.

Trump falling asleep in meetings is just plain rude. He’s posting all night on social media, just like a small child who has no parental supervision. If he can’t do the job, he needs to step down. Any other president would have.

Mark Warner, the top Dem on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he reviewed the DOD IG's Signalgate report and Pete Hegseth either needs to be fired or resign.

Trump is such a simple-minded, destructive troll stuck in the 1980s.

More than 1 million bags of shredded cheese is being recalled because they may contain metal fragments. This is what happens when you cut food safety standards and gut the FDA If you have cheese by the Great Lakes Cheese Co sold at Walmart, Publix or Aldi…check recall alerts

If you’re not as mad about Signalgate as you were Hillary’s emails then you’re in a cult.

You don't get that kind of old-timey pizzazz in congressional resolutions these days. Spice it up. Scandalous harangues. Bitter menaces. Nothing works as a combination better than classy erudition combined with withering contempt. That's how you make this stuff quotable.

Article X of Johnson's impeachment charged that he did "make and deliver with a loud voice certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and did therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces." As always, the Radical Republicans were right about everything.

The coverup of his hand is nearly as bad as the Epstein File coverup.

everyday i learn about a new empty headed idiot who happily gobbles up the administration's slop in defense of the utterly indefensible

The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.

GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump’s approval in the 30s. The White House is openly beefing with a universally beloved celebrity. The administration is plagued by corruption, incompetence, and cruelty scandals. Republicans getting whooped or underperforming in off-year elections. Welcome back, woke America.

This week Trump pardoned a private equity fraudster, the drug-trafficking ex-president of Honduras, and a Congressman who allegedly took bribes. Meanwhile, he's weaponizing government to go after his enemies. An utter mockery of the rule of law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0

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Yes, I'm laughing. But you have to figure that over time this becomes a bit demoralizing for federal public corruption prosecutors.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

I'll get excited about the "blue tsunami" when liberals stop being candy-asses and start going to war. A thread.

It’s pretty sick Republicans are once again pushing dystopian free market healthcare at the same time Trump is taking a government stake in private companies he wishes to exert control over

"While Hegseth did not make an appearance in the briefing room, he and his wife made time to sit for a chummy interview inside the Pentagon with former Trump official-turned-podcaster Katie Miller, where she asked about his favorite chicken wings and the current shows they are binge-watching"

Important: WaPo is doubling down on its reporting on Trump's bombings, asserting expressly that the second strike was ordered "when" the two survivors were "detected." Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Trump ally admits goal of eliminating same-day registration in federal voting rights trial Cleta Mitchell was compelled to testify in North Carolina over a recent law that hiked up requirements www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Armed masked DHS Population Control agents force their way past a gate & onto private property, pushing past the residents saying they don't need a warrant b/c it's just a "knock and talk" & they're not going inside. NOT HOW THIS WORKS, TRESPASSERS. Get a warrant or go to jail.

the number of subsistence-level fishermen living in desperate fear right now because Kegseth and co have to make snuff videos for twitter is just...you get very angry if you think about all this too long

Don't know the final results here but looking like maybe a 15 pt swing toward the Dems from 2024. You absolutely can't extrapolate a special election to a midterm. But that kind of flip in a special is a Defcon 1, we're all going to die type warning for the House GOP.

a generalized 15% swing in 2024 would have shifted MT, TX, MO, NE, OH, PA, and FL to the dems, flipping the senate to a 54–46 dem majority.

This is why you should act like everything a potential leader says is sincere. If they sincerely believe war crimes are good, that's disqualifying. If they say it insincerely, their lying is disqualifying.

They thought it was an act! They assumed Hegseth was insincere in his open advocacy of war crimes because they too are insincere in their beliefs. I also think this is why the media lets so many Trump insanities slide: they assume he is insincere because they are too!

LLM at work on an ancient coint: some pieces of uncannily accurate knowledge, a lot of hallucination

Trump hasn’t got the discipline to stay on message

Thats the sort of messaging that will win them the midterms!

Again, this is the cognitive test that Donald Trump thinks was very hard.

Communication from colleague, 'students here don't applaud at the end of the last class of a course like they did at [previous institution.]' Uh, they do though - some of the time. Ask me how I know!

It will not shock you that "these categories were largely meaningless to the Romans/Greeks, who had different (often similarly bigoted) categories" is not an answer that anyone asking this question likes.

I have to confess, I hate Pete Hegseth with a visceral sort of feeling that is probably decidedly un-Christian. I hate that he comes to a job where the lives of so many people depend on him with a smug arrogant overconfidence and incompetence, married to astounding callousness.

Well and the "combat decisions he has made" is the shiv in the back - that's Hegseth stepping out of the blast radius by claiming that Bradley made the double-tap decision on his own. The intensity of the double-talking cowardice here is astounding.

Ladies and gentlemen: let’s all watch the chest-beating lethality macho warfighter dude trying to scurry away at the first sign of trouble.

Pete Hegseth stands behind our troops and behind Admiral Mitch Bradley - juuuuuuuust far enough behind to make sure they go to jail instead of him for the illegal strike that Pete Hegseth ordered. Here for the tough man talk, gone for the tough many consequences. Profiles in cowardice.

LLM at work on an ancient coint: some pieces of uncannily accurate knowledge, a lot of hallucination

In many countries, throwing the military under the bus and blaming them for stuff you made them do, often breeds the sort of events you read about on the front pages of papers like coups and revolutions and whatnot.

I’ve never been a “defund the police” type of guy. I believe that police are necessary, despite their flaws. But ICE is different. I am 100% behind ending their existence and prosecuting every single one of them. ICE must go. End of discussion.