I'm sure prices will go down any minute now

The “core things to know about Trump” starter pack is probably: (1) He’s not smart (2) He’s very pampered (3) He’s extremely petty (4) He’s incredibly thin-skinned (5) He fucking HATES windmills and wind turbines

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Trump has ordered the Treasury to send him $10 billion in cash & $10 billion for a slush fund (on top of the $200 million in cash stolen from Venezuela for another slush fund), on top of $10+ billion gotten from foreign governments in exchange for favors, but do go on about not taking a salary ...

Who needs a salary when you're taking billions in bribes

The Idiocracy comparisons are always so vexing to me, because like Camacho GAVE A SHIT. He was a lot of things I wouldn’t want in a president. But one thing he had going for him was he was TRYING to do right by the American people.

When I see Captain von Trapp tearing apart the Nazi flag, I SHARE Captain von Trapp tearing apart the Nazi flag.

All Trump policies follow this arc: 1) Rage against institutions they don't understand 2) Defund and tear down institutions 3) Realize that the institutions actually did necessary functions 4) Build potemkin replacement institution that is less efficient and lines Trump's pockets. archive.is/oDhiR

for arithmetic fans, Trump is stealing 100 times as much in his suit against the Justice Department because they prosecuted him for breaking the law and 4,000 times as much in suit against the I.R.S. for letting 2 years of tax returns leak -- and he gets no credit!

Trump has doubled his net worth since being reelected through blatant and egregious corruption. The salary is peanuts.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

This is fundamentally my big problem with Rise of Skywalker. I thought it looked good, I thought the acting was fine. I was invested in and cared about the characters. But the writing was complete dogshit.

I think this is a valid complaint, but my favorite fan explanation for this was actually a joke: “Why would it work in this movie, when it didn’t last time?” “Oh, because Lando went.” “Why does that matter?” “Oh, he called in favors from a bunch of his exes.”

The Washington Post opinion section would not have allowed this to run.

This is the key point. To impersonate somebody else, you have to (a) know where they vote, (b) effectively impersonate them according to state ID laws, and most crucially (c) know that they HAVE NOT ALREADY VOTED.

Every time conservatives talk about voting I swear it's like they've never done it. It's not like going into 7-11 and picking up a six pack, you have to be on the list

Nobody wants to have the nuanced discussion about this, but there is a BROAD range of identification documents in this country, and most Americans in favor of “voter ID” mean different things about what they consider reasonable.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” Yeah man, it’s called anything that can be useful and make my bills go down instead of a thing that can’t do anything without my help and doubles my electricity bill

The Heritage Foundation is now calling for the overturn of Plyler vs. Doe, the Supreme Court ruling that banned states from denying an education to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it doesn't seem ideal that we're going to have to create a network to smuggle drawings and letters our of our national network of punitive detention camps and keep them anonymous so that the authorities can't retaliate against children.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

To say nothing of the additional bureaucratic burden this would cause AT THE PRECINCT, that they want to place on election workers with less than 8 hours of training.

Hey fella, this is fucked up.

Nobody who has said "don't worry, we have a human check everything the AI puts out" has ever been telling the truth. If you paid humans to check it rigorously enough to match the previous human quality you would immediately lose all the money you saved and defeat the purpose

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

There's nobody more conformist than a conservative white dude who fashions himself a nonconformist.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This Weeks Onion Magazine: ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics

The comedic timing on this is incredible.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Then why are agents shooting Americans in the head?

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.

@davekellett.bsky.social has me refreshing my browser like 3x a day because this latest arc has been so good. The suspense is incredible!

This is all performative bullshit. Believe it when you don't see ICE in Minneapolis/Saint Paul anymore.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Basically anytime I see anything about Nick Fuentes, I understand the wisdom of the 8th Amendment a little bit more.

Attempting to do the most base level academic history using primary sources on well documented subjects in a time period as recent as the 1980s will quickly dissuade you of the idea that everything is online.

11 Feb 2026

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

“Federal agents are killing Americans in the street and I think that’s great” —President Donald Trump, in the subtext

So much of the anti-voting sentiment to me seems to boil down to “I want to be praised for doing the thing I wanted to do anyway, without any extra effort at all.”

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

This passage is absolutely bonkers to me: a guy who was smugly chastised by the most outspoken Libertarian I know because I was willing to call Trumpism a form of American fascism.