I'm feeling a sense of dread over all the escalations of late from the Trump regime. However conversely, I'm also starting to get a sense that a bunch of people who were putting up with Trump's bullshit six months ago are growing tired of it.

What's fascinating about this is Tyler Austin Harper was the guy who a year ago was prattling on about young men being terrified of being drafted, something they had very little reason to actually fear since the US hasnt had a draft since the 70s, and now he wants to draft them.

Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple. He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated. 📸: Pierre Lavie

If you want better policy, elect more Democrats. Every race, every year, every place. This dumbass solution is the only one that works. The advanced version is "also, elect better Dems whenever you can". It requires holding two ideas in your head at the same time so many struggle with it

“Democrats are your allies, not your friends” is also something that people have a hard time with. Like, they’re messaging to try and win, not to make you personally happy.

I'm genuinely unsure what this could mean other than insisting Walz should have done something violently confrontational like trying to deploy the national guard against ICE, which wouldn't have worked, and would in fact be something that would give the Trump admin a solid case against him.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

1. This is one of the greatest abuses of power in US history (which now happens daily). 2. It won't work. 3. They're losing badly and they know it. 4. This is so stupid and reeking of flop sweat that only Miller could've ordered it.

I quote posted this in response with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ then saw like 5 other people had replied with the same exact post, and felt compelled to delete mine. I sucked. I love ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this guy, I hate having to delete him. Feels like I never have enough chances to post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the libertarian hellscape described in 2008 has come to pass, and 99% of don't-tread-on-me-r's are cheering it on.

Imagine showing up to this, realizing you're sitting next to her, and then realizing she's in your seat, her seat, and the other seat next to her.

Can't say that I'm any more interested in the salacious details of Sinema's life than I am in Nuzzi's. Granted, it's further evidence that she was utterly derelict of her duties and should never hold a position of importance again but, like (hopefully) Nuzzi, that doesn't seem to be a problem.

You also have to ask what end Walz can reasonably achieve. Their stated goal is to get ICE to leave. They can achieve that through prolonged and massive civil disobedience. Pretty much every other strategy leads to failure or surrender.

The logic here is really pretty shocking. Usually, the message would be, "we'll put more resources/people/police/troops into the area to establish peace." But Noem says basically the opposite--do what we want or the violence continues. She's admitting her actions cause and sustain it!

In Trump I you'd hear about someone stepping down after something f'd up happened and you'd think well maybe things will get better, now though you just sort of assume it will somehow get worse.

really have no patience for criticism of Walz. A lot of the suggestions for what he supposedly should be doing lay bare the actual problem from the beginning: Bsky users expect Dems to be Sinn Fein or the Hamas political wing, not an actual opposition party

Everyone will love it until all of their credit cards are closed by their companies and every credit card company folds

They want to have it both ways. They want to be "We won't tell you what to think, here are both sides you decide" but also "We are going to challenge you, and you aren't going to like what you hear"

okay the longer this goes on the more inclined i am to think they rule in favor

So, one thing I’ve been concerned about (attempt-wise, not success-wise) is Trump trying to extend the umbrella of his (bullshit) immunity out farther and farther. Already he seems to have extended it out to agents of the US, and this is an assertion that the immunity extends to state and local law.

A form of diplomacy that essentially relies on exploiting an old man's dementia faster than his courtiers can seems doomed to eventual failure.

You can measure the intent of the Trump admin by the relative depravity of the personnel assigned to the crime.

Recently spent 15 minutes looking for my wallet and it was literally just sitting on the seat I'd been sitting in last.

It's really incredible (but predictable) to see Republicans embrace their self-appointed roles as the abusive dads of America, complete with the disbelief that the corporal punishment isn't producing the desired compliance.

A problem with “papers please” societies is that when the masked, armed man asks for your papers he can just say they are faked. Or he can walk off with them and then a different armed, masked man asks you for your papers. If they want to get you, they will get you

It's interesting to note that right wingers are now okay with using white women as a slur when they tack liberal in front of it.

The Daily had an interview with the MPD chief. They’re getting regular 911 calls because federal agents are leaving cars in the street after detaining people. Local officers are overwhelmed, feel ICE/BP are putting them at risk with dangerous tactics, unraveling progress made since George Floyd.

This is something I realized they'd do yesterday but didn't want to post it (out of this irrational fear I would manifest it by putting it into words.) When they immediately labeled her a domestic terrorist it would in their view, "compel" them to treat her like one and investigate all associates.

Did Scott Adams die? Trying to piece together fragments of posts I'm seeing.

While we'd lose out on bits of cool, stop motion gore (although, now I think about it going mixed media would be rad), I'd take a 'Darkman' anime series in a heartbeat. Just a whole show of pulp hero crime stories in a 90s anime style (and throw in some extra Bruce Campbell cameos, why not)

What sort of madman uses the word legerdemain instead of slight-of-hand? I am too old to be learning new words.

Tbf this guy is making his criticism from an 'optics' POV, not that he disagrees with the substance. It shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of coalitional fracture. However, it *is* a sign that things are not going well for them

Although always possible they succeed, this is the thing, they've repeatedly failed to get indictments.

Like I said earlier today, he's just dumb. That's all there is too it. He's arrogant and he's dumb and all of this shit flows from that. Theres no deeper strategizing at work, just stupidity.

Oh, oh shit.

It feels like any day I check out a bit I come back to half a dozen insane things.

A question that keeps popping up in my head is “why?” ICE isn’t an occupying force it isn’t trained in crowd control, yet they’re using it like it’s the National Guard putting down riots.

Well some good news. I solved the mystery of the missing meat. It plagued me, what happened to my sliced pepperoni. I brought it came home, then could not find it. I searched and searched I was so scared it got lost in the car, somehow, in spite of all the searching, and it would end up stinking.

(1) lol NYT and (2) he looks *bad*

A government agent with a "Don't Tread on Me" flag. Many such cases.

I'd also guess that it costs them more money than they're comfortable spending to generate all these images.

If it happens, imagine how many of them are going to argue for Shah 2.0

Pretty obvious cover-up here.

Is there massive internal polling data Democrats are getting that they need to call everything a distraction or pretend nothing else matters besides "lowering costs"? I mean don't get me wrong I think the electorate is shit so it might be true but its so uniform that its gotta be poll driven

It’s funny how many years he pretended to care about duterte’s victims and set him up as a major enemy of America, only to go work for nothing but american dutertes

I'm fully against this movie but not for the reasons you'd think, I'm fully onboard with teaming these guys up again, love the time travel angle, and giving them guns is the cherry on top, but why 1970s New York City? Done to death as a setting, why not San Antonio?

I don't know how to describe it, but there's this profound brokenness in the American body politic where nobody can take the implications of anything seriously. People keep saying things that should be existential threats to the political system, and then everyone just keeps going on as normal.

as previously discussed downthread from the patient zero discussion that ended with sky off of here, the amount of subsidy to make this profitable (and thus palatable to any US company) is hilariously large