Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump

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149. A poetic coming-of-age story of the Greek goddess of witchcraft finding her power in the land of the dead, this start of a Goddesses of the Underworld trilogy is full of fascinating portrayals of gods and Titans from Cronos and Hades to Thanatos and Styx. #booksky

Per The Atlantic, An Indiana Republican isn’t running for re-election because “I’d rather my house not get firebombed” - because Trump is mad he opposed his seat-stealing redistricting plan there. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Sesquipedalianism

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

148. I dunno if there’s been many Star Wars novels actually set after the most recent trilogy. This YA novel partly takes place afterward, but it’s also largely flashback in a pretty sympathetic look at First Order Stormtroopers, including the ones who would later become Finn and Jannah. #booksky

In case you think I am exaggerating when I say ICE/CBP are slave catchers.

The pretend University of Austin teaches "Forbidden Courses" with zero pushback even as the real universities are forbidding courses due to political pressure

Hey, thanks

elevating a broad range of political views, from the guy who was friends with Epstein and represented Trump at his impeachment trial, all the way through to the former spokesperson for the NRA

When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz" -____________-

Any random Jaime Hernandez page is a masterclass in composition and comics storytelling. I don't know that he's ever drawn a just-okay panel, ever.

147. This Emily Wilson isn’t the Iliad/Odyssey translator but the former editor of New Scientist magazine. She spins quite a yarn here about the goddess Inanna and good old Gilgamesh, enough so that I can hardly imagine what’s left for the rest of her Sumerian trilogy, but I’m here for it. #booksky

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy. Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.

There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing. That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean. Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

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okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them

detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

146. I’ve dug every Scalzi book I’ve read, so obviously I was gonna love this one about a secret ecological group studying giant monsters from a parallel earth. It took me a while to notice Scalzi avoids gendering protagonist Jamie, who I initially assumed was a woman for whatever reason. #booksky

145. Of course I had to read this memoir about a middle-aged guy becoming a mailman during the pandemic. He was a rural carrier in Appalachia, very different from my city route in Berkeley, but a lot is very familiar, especially his rant about the rattling death traps we still drive around. #booksky

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office. They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.

They line up perfectly.

7-odd years of researching homeschooling, I have a special needs child who may require homeschooling, and these are facts: 1) homeschooling does not on its own harm children's learning or growth. 2) homeschooling has a massive accountability problem in almost every state 3) homeschooled kids are --

Choose your Mentors wisely.

My favorite piece of content today.

Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship. She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST

BREAKING: Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time. This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."

I appreciate that Marjorie Taylor Greene, even when resigning from Congress, uses an antisemitic dog whistle almost immediately in her resignation lmao.

No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.

While Donald Trump may have been intoxicated by Zohran Mamdani today, he will be humiliated by the general takes that Mamdani totally played and outsmarted him. Expect petty retaliation.

Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there. "It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."

hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."

aged 79 and a half, Donald Trump made his second ever friend.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

men will literally make liking marmalade their whole personality

It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.

I know I've said this before, but if Claremont truly wanted Madelyne to be Scott's happy ending spouse, then she should have looked like anyone but Jean. Because even if the romance was completely okay in every other respect (and honestly, there were other issues...) -

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

It is time to see clearly and speak honestly. Today the President of the United States called on his followers to murder his political opponents. At the risk of stating the obvious, incitement to murder is itself a serious crime, and he should be arrested and charged.

Like, it's THE hate symbol by which all others are measured, but go off.

Every day is worse.