entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

So many bad things about the Jimmy Kimmel dust up but one of the worst is how our weak regulatory system is about to allow a single company to own 80% of the TV stations in America.

Here's what will happen if Trump's $100k fee on H-1Bs stands: America's top tech companies will accelerate the expansion of their overseas offices, which are already huge. Net effect for the world: "Brain Gain" (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City

People do know that there is an area in Utah called “Dixie” right? And the history behind it?

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre. Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.

Just when I start to like Ezra Klein again he goes and does that thing he does

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

Getting booed out of a neighborhood by schoolkids in backpacks and mom with a stroller.

America was founded upon white vigilante violence so not surprising that these folks would continue to advocate for this

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

How the hell did that new episode of South Park get past the network execs and the censors???

So this was just posted by one of the enforcement arms of the federal government.

Google to discount cloud computing services for US government, FT reports reut.rs/3GDpIss

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

It’s beyond madness that the American government is building concentration camps right before our very eyes and most of the media isn’t even covering it.

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

No name. No badge. No ID. No warrant. Face covered. That’s not an officer that’s an armed thug with government protection. If you can’t show who you are or why you’re detaining someone, you have no business laying a hand on them.

If someone shows up with no badge, no name, no ID, no warrant, and their fucking face covered that’s not law enforcement, that’s a goddamn kidnapping. It should be illegal, and the fact that it isn’t already is a terrifying failure of democracy and the law.

#Mamadani isn't a "fringe" candidate. His policies, including increased taxes on the wealthy, abundant affordable housing, and free transit & child care, are mainstream ideas in many wealthy nations. What's fringe is a US political system that crushes candidates campaigning on those popular ideas.

very easy to see what is happening. trump will run for a third term, he’ll try to bring the dispute to federal courts, where his election denying judges will rewrite the 22nd amendment to mean it only refers to “consecutive” terms.

wait for the punchline

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

Lest we forget - it’s the Republicans who have for years squashed any attempt at normalizing the status of the millions of undocumented migrants in our country. It’s never been about whether they have status, and always about the color of their skin.

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

Split screen between US troops deployed against American protesters and US troops marching to celebrate Dear Leader's birthday is going to be quite something

This is happening because the White House is sending ICE agents is balaclavas and camo to arrest people who are cooking our food. This is not law and order, it’s gratuitous violence against human dignity.

Another demonstration of the fact that there is no point in bending to Trump, not just morally, but strategically. Columbia gave in & he just hits them harder... MAGA's goal is to destroy the universities (& newspapers & law firms etc etc etc) and the only logical approach is to unite and fight back

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?