This is a gift link to an old story on this subject, which is still more or less my last word on it. A bunch of HOA tyrants and snitches who are too degenerate and emotionally volatile to hold down any real job are in charge of the state. It's not what you want. defector.com/the-united-s...

doctor doctor gimme the news ive got an unworn pair of baby shoes

This is hypothetically good news, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

whew buddy

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

Some personal news

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

they should make a fun and triumphant movie about Epstein kind of in the style of that new Michael Jackson biopic. like have George Clooney play him maybe? Jacob Elordi as Chomsky, Bradley Cooper as Bannon. just a bunch of rich geniuses winning. john maus soundtrack.

anyway, i’m at the point where people starting new substacks/remaining on substack really bums me out but can’t spend a ton of energy getting mad about it. bigger fish to fry and all. it just confuses me how so many continue to ignore the evidence of how much they suck.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

For anyone wondering what Greg Bovino has been up to lately…

if your uncle jack was having trouble getting off a horse would you help your uncle masturbate the horse to completion. wait, sorry. let me start over. so say your uncle is jacking off a horse

very spooked rn… I put a piece of paper in the photocopier asking it “are you alive?” and now the dang thing is asking _me_ if _I’m_ alive! https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

the sort of information environment where you wish the FAA was not run by a contestant on the Real World, the Department of Defense by a Fox and Friends drunk, and DHS by Corey Lewandowski

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

You can’t have an abortion but you can kill your grown daughter if she disagrees with you

you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it

In the face of fascism, “Fuck you. Make me.” continues to be the right move.

Literally two years ago to the day!

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

The morning so far

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

I know how the Congolese militant group m23 can very suddenly make themselves real popular kigalidailynews.rw/reports-emer...

I think writing off the election-stealing talk as “bedwetting” is unwise. If you were chicken-littling in January 2025 about how bad Trump II would get, you look prescient now. The “military would never obey an obviously unlawful order” people, for instance—pure egg on their faces.

"If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone."

No sympathy for a team whose owners let ICE use the team jet to deport people to concentration camps.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

this is the funniest chorus to sing over chugging blues rock in 1975

Schumer: ball’s in your court Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules

we almost never saw pieces like this when the prevailing epstein accusations were based on totally made up claims from the right. now that the actual evidence in the files implicates trump and other right wing figures, we get 5 articles like this a day.

bring back shame

Chris Rufo doesn't have a career outside of being a "culture warrior." This is his movement. He made his bed. Now he gets to lie in it.

Kid rock guys are doing stolen valor but from line cooks

Lotta jokes about Kid Rock makes music for people who steal catalytic converters but like Not in my experience. Those guys listen to ICP & Tech9. Kid Rock is for guys who work normal jobs but inexplicably dress like they steal catalytic converters

Hunderfossen Adventure Park in Norway (Rauraggen)

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

That’s why my team and I created the Data Privacy Office policy that just passed 12-0 😉

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

I really need people outside of Seattle to know how much Krist Novoselic sucks

got some drafts locked and loaded thanks bluesky

i had to wait behind a sovereign citizen type old man arguing with the only lady working a line at the post office for like an hour, flushing a small segment of my living life on earth down the toilet because this shitty old mans brain wont say whether he has mercury in a package he is mailing

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

ME: Awful to see gambling platforms and futures markets, clear methods of exploitation, achieve social escape-velocity. ALSO ME: How can I honor the spirit of Erik Prince by making money off the possibility of Erik Prince getting k

I skate onto the ice to the opening chords of “We Are Charlie Kirk” wearing a sequined version of his usual white dress shirt & black slacks a long red cape flowing behind me I check to make sure the squibs are secure in the collar of my costume I give my partner in the stands a quick thumbs up