It's nice to see a Senator talking about the need to Do A Nuremberg on the current folks in charge.

This is part of the same social pathology that has, e.g., NYT pundits and politics reporters always defaulting to MAGA being composed of people with legit "concerns" who "feel disdained by coastal elites." Like, exactly the same. Backward white people are America's most protected protected class.

Similarly, it turns out that -- get this -- members of the North American Man-Boy Love Association aren't primarily motivated by their concern for the welfare of children. Whoda thunkit?

Second-and-Three-Quarters Way.

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

The precedent is “The Great Purge, 1936-1938.”

She just means that the one time he read something, he was in a well.

“one of President Trump’s favorite units of time.”

It reminds me a bit of Richie Aprile’s jaaacket. A singular fixation on essentially nothing.

He was worried that someone might leak the fact that he decided to create a makeshift situation room at his Florida golf resort.

Louis C.K. will headline Netflix's comedy festival, so everyone crying about “cancel culture” for the last decade can shut up now. www.jezebel.com/louis-ck-hea...

In a city where bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace, a new wave of activists has decided that if the government won't act, its citizens will. The full story: lataco.com/anti-ice-par... By Lauren Bethke

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Woke Kristol is really something to behold. And good for him, I guess, but has he ever really owned up to having knowingly, affirmatively, and willfully played a central role in creating this nightmare world? I’m genuinely asking.

top 2pm stories right now: CNN: "TRUMP FIRES BONDI AS ATTORNEY GENERAL" MS NOW: "TRUMP FIRES PAM BONDI" FOX NEWS: "TIGER WOODS BODYCAM VIDEO RELEASED"

If the Iranian government had just fired its top law officer and the Army Chief of Staff in the middle of the war, it would be described as a regime in meltdown. But brace for tomorrow’s US front pages to completely normalise this madness. Again.

A very High IQ Frontiersman.

The president of the United States is insane.

People who work at this magazine think it's interesting or counterintuitive or whatever to blame the left for what the right is doing, but when *every single article* posits the same thesis you're not challenging your readers, you are coddling them.

Everyone's making fun of this piece -- appropriately, because it's embarrassingly bad -- but among other things it is one of the cleanest examples of Murc's Law you will ever find. Reactionaries hate immigrants ... because of the word choices of left activists & academics!

As people move closer to reactionary politics (whether right-wing, "left-wing," or centrist) the less apt they are to cite specifics. MAGA is the worst: they've spent a couple of decades calling Obama a "socialist" despite not even knowing what the word means. But they all do some form of this.

And I have never once heard a single one of the editors or journalists involved even *reflect* on it, much less grapple with it or apologize for it. They feel zero remorse & would do the same thing again -- in fact, *will* do the same thing again, to whoever the Dem candidate is in 2028.

The Atlantic being all Atlanticky again.

Zeldin, like Mullin at DHS, will be treated as a relative return to normalcy and dialing back the crazy, rather than the reality: he's still insanely unqualified and would have been unthinkable as an AG nominee in any normal administration.

As @frankfukuyama.bsky.social astutely points out here, it's just such a betrayal. Trump spends years developing a strategy: meeting with the most sophisticated national-security experts, consulting the best research and analysis, running scenarios. And then just abandons the whole thing.

Gotta love it. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

This exchange

This is what I immediately thought of. This was like one of his Covid speeches, but if he was the one who created Covid.

ok we’re doing funny tweets again so I’ll do a thread of just stuff that’s already on my phone.

an all timer. a hall of famer.

Another Homeland Security murder.

Twenty fucking thirty fucking two.

this is pathetic "The Trump administration is very accessible," says Cook

Imagine how much worse this would be if Trump was speaking in a raspy voice or stumbling over the word "Medicare".

***Leaked White House Video*** Trump criticized “stupid” Republican Supreme Court justices, even ones that he appointed, for being independent and ruling against him

I like it how you can see the time when Trump's speech occured

"The Democrats didn't offer voters an acceptable alternative."

When you’re doing man things (wars, killing) there is no time for women things (like care work)

Oh lord. "She is a birthright citizen herself." Does Liptak see himself as a "birthright citizen?" No, he's a *real* citizen, because he is a white and his parents were born here.

I just want to once again thank white conservative American men especially for single handedly erasing my imposter syndrome because why the fuck shouldn’t I believe in myself when you’re out here showing your whole ass to people without shame

When I was a kid watching the news and some labor story came up (back in the Before Time, in the Long-long Ago, mainstream journalism covered labor as a beat) I thought there was something called "the Rankin File."

I guess I knew this, but never really articulated it to myself: the reactionary-centrist mind is constantly seeking out rationalizations. One great example: @nealkatyal.bsky.social's litany of them for defending truly sinister, vile corporate behavior and for supporting ghouls like Brett Kavanaugh.

Great item today from @cheetah.bsky.social on JD Vance's forthcoming conversion memoir. TL;DR: Although Vance is Catholic, the cover photo for his book depicts a (very photogenic) Methodist church. www.thebulwark.com/i/192730409/...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This comic was recently removed from the Smithsonian as well as from all the libraries and schools in Shelby County, Alabama.

LIterally one second before I saw this, I had just seen a post with a bunch of headlines about how the justices are reacting to the arguments, and thought, "But you fucking *agreed to hear the case*. This is like agreeing to hold a debate with Charles Manson and then saying, "WTF? dude is nuts."

Minneapolis Wedge Cat Tour: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

I searched on this headline, and got this helpful bit of insight from Google's idiotbot:

Somebody needs to bring a tuba to the airport and play stupid tuba music at the ICE agents.