Many are arguing that they wouldn't be acting this way if they thought they were subject to free & fair elections. Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

JD Vance stop giving me reasons to make this joke challenge bsky.app/profile/anna...

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

at the cork board stringing red yarn between one pin labeled “TED speakers” and another labeled “everything wrong today”

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

/7 Here, the Trump Administration’s lies about the murder victim did not impact her property rights because the Trump Administration had already murdered her. In short, our federal government can usually kill, kidnap, abuse, and lie about us with impunity.

Sorry I'm still belly laughing about weapons training

Abolish ICE. Really.

Guys, with understanding that everyone is angry right now, I am honestly going to start blocking people who say things like, "Who cares? The law doesn't matter anymore," or "They can do whatever they want, they can't be stopped" etc. I mean, if you really feel that way, you're a part of the problem.

I’m not reposting the video or commenting on it, as I’ve now seen it. It’s a murder on video (you hear the shots, don’t see them, but there’s nothing to suggest provocation or defense). You don’t need to watch this for some stupid bearing witness reason or whatever. Keep it off your timelines.

The White House is laser focused on having ICE agents shoot people in the face. Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?

you can put any gross caption here and it works. "i'm the reason porn sets have mandatory STI panels," "the urban legend about the guy hiding under your car is real and it's me," "you can get court-martialed for farting on a submarine," all of them true

Sharing in case this is useful: I teach courses where students have to write, but I am not teaching them to write. I have learned that especially for undergraduates (and sometimes grad students) I cannot assume that they understand how to cite, so I made this: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is 1930s Germany foreign policy. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

No problem at all here, nothing to see, everybody just keep moving.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

my personal fav

So we’ll be running the country by playing “hot or cold” with bombs.

One way to describe the collapse of American democracy is to say the Presidency and Supreme Court have taken all the power. Another way to describe the same problem is to say Congress is supposed to be the most powerful and representative branch of government, and it’s failing on both fronts.

We didn’t occupy the country, but also Rubio is running the country.

I take care of the sickest in the hospital and am here to tell you that this *does* make sense and is an example of why vaccines are so important, but also a glimpse of what we will see more of under RFK Jr's anti-vax leadership

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams

A historic moment: The President, head of CIA and Secretary of State nervously await Secretary of Defense Hegseth's efforts to persuade Grok to provide images of a naked Sydney Sweeney

Hopefully people won’t use the utter lawlessness or recklessness of this to blunder into suggesting Maduro or his government were good, or to disparage the people who have suffered under him.

Just saying out loud that I remember this morning when they were saying that they weren’t going to do anything besides the Maduro kidnapping Before they announced they were also going to run the entire country I remember a few hours ago

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

JD Vance: This is a law enforcement operation to bring a narco terrorist to Justice The President:

The position of the US is that it can kidnap the president of a foreign country and try him in a US court for alleged crimes which were not carried out under US jurisdiction but the US president cannot be tried in a US court for alleged crimes which were carried out under US jurisdiction.

🤣

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Do the journalists who think Grok "apologized" also think that when you get married to an NPC in Skyrim, you're married in real life? Do they check "married" on government forms after completing that side quest?

Come on, Boomers. This is fake.

Telling my kids this is Bari Weiss

Every generation passes down less knowledge and more passwords.

Mayor Zohran Mandami’s crime reduction strategy notches early win.

This aged well.

keeping the lore sucks a lot of the time

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