Maybe the most straightforward example of “fascists test their tactics on sex workers first” I can recall seeing

Of course RFK Jr. lied about the Samoan people whose deaths from measles he is responsible for. Literally no one believed his lies except people like Bill Cassidy who chose to believe him in order to please the King. And now RFK Jr. will continue to get people killed by preventable diseases.

One thing I’ve learned that is that arguments in favor of something that does measurable harm to your community — using genAI, skipping vaccines, not wearing masks — are generally not reasoned or based in science or even deeply held beliefs. The actor simply does not want to *have to do something.*

a top contender in the wet t-shirt contest

I especially enjoyed the, "don't take bribes or sell secrets to foreign nationals" training we had to do regularly at HHS

Doing art badly is good and sacred

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

They knew, and in return, Karine Jean-Pierre compared protestors to Nazis and antisemites. Biden said Palestinians were lying about the dead. Then they sent Bill Clinton to yell at Arabs in Michigan that the Bible and Quran mandate the Palestinian genocide for some reason.

AIPAC's statement on NJ-11 claims that the election of a pro-Palestine candidate was an "anticipated possibility" when they decided to spend $2,300,000 against a pro-Israel candidate who committed the sin of not preemptively agreeing to unconditional support for Israeli military assistance.

it's fat fae friday already!?

What makes this passage really funny is that Roberts "invented" a whole stupid analytical framework for the case, whole totally ignoring the ancient tradition of how we handle illegal, ultra vires action by executive officials

We've normalized it all. We normalized kiddie rape with the Epstein Files. No one is being punished. We're normalizing the Gestapo and concentration camps. We talk about bodycams for murderers and less money for kid prisons. We re-elected the guy who did J6. 2009 is happening with crypto now.

Get ready to be a GOP voter for life then, the Democratic Party will never, ever, ever be as pro-Israel again as it was two years ago.

My mother worked as a psychiatric nurse for the elderly for may years. Her take? “They are absolutely themselves but more so. The internal breaks are off”.

pointing this out has nothing to do with motivating people to outrage. it has to do with understanding the path we took to get here, the consequences of what was often called "common sense" politics, and the work ahead to not just dismantle it but prevent it from recurring.

I cannot begin to express how happy I am that everyone, including the people I hate viscerally, now agree with me specifically

During most of the 23rd century, the most absolutely hardcore badasses in all of Klingon space, the toughest and most dangerous soldiers in all of Klingon history, were tasked with hunting down tribbles across the galaxy in spec ops squads.

“Some people say we can’t get rid of an institution, but didn’t Donald Trump with just a few words in an executive order defund USAID? The reality is we could do it if we wanted to.” This whole interview— yes to all of what Rep. Ramirez says!!

here is what i think 1. my gender is ultimately just my business, like anyone's 2. if 'woman' is a thing i count as one 3. people tend to both have extremely rigid ideas of gender and also completely operate on vibes with zero respect for those rigid ideas 4. liberals can be some of the worst there

it's best not to enter conversations with people who have more skin in the game than you under the presumption you are the expert in the room. this is largely unavoidable for ppl whose political footprint is tied up in the ted talk/seminar circuit

A lot of people don’t seem to even know the degree to which they are geared to automatically see abuse from the abusers’s point of view, to telling the abuser story. This drives a lot of the “paths to redemption” talk. Abuser culture sets an instinctive goal: restore the abuser.

libertarians and radical centrists bursting through the wall like the kool-aid man to make sure everyone knows they think children can be hot

This was the craziest argument I heard constantly in 2024 btw, that somehow Biden withholding military assistance in line with very specific provisions of US law would be comparable to Trump holding Ukraine over the barrel because he was obsessed with Hunter Biden.

cool, shut it down then

Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

We're currently on track for a protracted shutdown of DHS, and not the rest of the government, which is what everybody said they wanted a few weeks ago.

this guy was kicked out of medical school for sexual harassment also he thought the nurses were hitting on him all the time (they weren't)

There is a ton of literature on lawyers in Germany in the 1930s who thought they could handle it, maintain their morals, "assist from inside", or avoid blame while working for the Reich. They couldn't.

It's so cool how you can clearly track whether or not we're close to bombing Iran based on the frequency of "photo of hot women in [Muslim country] in the 70s before Islam ruined it and made them unfuckable" posts across Reddit and other social media sites.

I mean!!!!

watching elite consensus-makers egg each other on in seeing who is willing to put their name on the "pedophilia isnt that bad actually" article is so cool. that used to happen in private smoke-filled parlors! now it happens in substack comments sections. that's digital democracy in action

I appreciate the optimism here but the reality is that the executive will just flout 7 and 8, and they may flout any judicial attempts to enforce them too. The problem with creating new rules is that DHS literally just doesn’t care about them. Reasonable people can disagree on this but, yeah.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

strangely enormous numbers of people think that criticizing the democratic party on this website somehow resulted in or will result in destroying the party's electoral chances. bizarre!!!

Yes. Yes! Thank you

Always tell the ER staff the truth about why you're in the ER, it's considerate and safer for everyone

Elon's attorneys must be the most miserable people alive

All these wellness grifters like Attia and Chopra showing up in the Epstein files is really no surprise to anyone who notices how the grift works, by taking advantage of innocent people through power and money, so of course they were involved with guys like Epstein

The federal government is just disappearing children.

"I drive around checking out various daycare centers looking for small children for reasons that are very normal I can assure you"

On X, @osinttechnical.bsky.social reacted with this bloosk by @tommchenry.bsky.social

“TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY. YOU MUST KNOW THEM. MELANIA.” I'd donate to this place simply for that advertisement alone.

Being Arab in 2026 is so cool

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

No way, a libertarian comes out on the wrong side of a "is it wrong to rape kids" discussion, Robby Soave you have let me down for the last time

”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.

Randomly remembered how Harris's campaign learned to never use dril's tweets in their press releases.

I mean to a Palestinian I don't think it matters much if their kids are killed by Harris or Trump but then again I'm not a sociopath