Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid. A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.

it's another thing that's directly copied from Nazi Germany & would be the only thing on the news in any other administration!

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

tom stoppard: "jesus fuck, that's not what i should be remembered for"

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Lots of shoving from NYPD to create an empty area for ICE to RETREAT after their planned raid got exposed LRAD now ordering dispersal outside parking garage to force dispersal.

Yes.

At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.

And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.

“A leaked internal memo shows UPS' entire fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo planes will be grounded longer than expected because they need more extensive repairs than previously thought.” (The reason for these repairs and maintenance is the recent deadly crash near Louisville.)

So the BBC did a news story on the horrible conditions in the hotels were people seeking asylum are forced to live and instead of the media talking about humanity and compassion about improving conditions and letting them work, this was the outcome:

Hey remember when that soldier blew himself up in a Cybertruck outside Trump Tower Just a totally normal thing to happen in our totally normal world

What a great headline

I haven’t seen anyone else draw this (grim) connection, but it feels like there’s a psychological connection between Trump’s fear of AIDS and throwing away of Roy Cohn (fair) and his subsequent life of importing and preying on women (and allegedly girls) that he thinks of as maybe removed from it.

At left: a New York Times letter to the editor from October 9, 2001, warning that "the newly formed homeland security office" could lead America to a very dark place At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security

grog, make fun to thog. more mean fun, grog. use no no words

/Getting chastised about sex stuff by Nicole Kidman in her camisole/underwear outfit from Eyes Wide Shut "Yeah, yeah, for sure, I hear you but I have to go rent a mask and robe thing. It's for sex-related reasons but not what you're talking about. It's way worse. But let's circle back."

Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’” open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.

what hegseth describes is deeply criminal under international law and, before his tenure, accepted law for the US armed forces. we cannot let this go. it's not about policy difference. it's murder under the color of law.

Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ" The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.

incredible quote lol

It may not happen soon, but Mitch Bradley should remember that he can be recalled to duty someday and court martialed for ordering murder.

"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."

The only solution is to dismantle ICE and CBP completely. This lawlessness and cruelty cannot be reformed.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

if you enjoy supernatural horror you have to suspend your disbelief about a lot of stuff for vampires, werewolves, etc to make sense, but i draw the line at accepting any of that going down in vancouver. grand conspiracies, secret cabals, magic, sure. but vampires living in vancouver? i'm out

A veteran moving to the Pacific Northwest, then driving to DC to stage a mass shooting of government agents? Sounds like he assimilated into American culture pretty successfully.

unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country

Resistance is futile! Submit to the machines! When the bubble bursts people are going to look at this as extreme tech dipshit hubris. Everyone HATES this shit and they’re insisting it’s inevitable. Futurists telling folks they’ll hate the future.

There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...

This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

this is just gutter racism

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist. Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.

Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

This is such incredible news