The most devastating thing my kid has said to me in a long time: “you look like the kind of person who would go to Chilis.”

Is changing lanes without signaling against Sharia law? I may be about to adjust my position on this

Can we do the wild speculation weekend again? That was fun

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

Look, NOTHING is "getting enough attention" these days, enough with those posts!

One of the most remarkable District Court rulings I’ve ever read.

Officers thinking: I didn’t spend four years at the academy to be lectured by Sunset Tzu here

This meeting could have been a TikTok

It's becoming clear that this is not an administration that is popular or skilled enough to do the consolidation needed to implement actual fascism, so they've decided that constantly creating fascism-flavored content is good enough

Yet. SCOTUS 2029 in US v Hegseth: “In order to meaningfully effectuate the immunity we granted the President, that immunity must necessarily extend to those who execute the illegal orders so immunized.”

Ruin a band with law: The White Per Stirpes

INXSive force

So many echoes from this article for US politics....

So exhausting..

If you think political attacks are normal, this analysis shows they’re echoing a 1945 Army definition of fascism—so it’s not just drama, those who rid the world of Nazis warned that fascism at home would look exactly like this. https://americanmanifesto.news/this-is-american-fascism

Frank Zappa foresaw all of this in Joe’s Garage

HEGSETH: Real warriors FIGHT GENERALS: [noise of restrained approval] HEGSETH: Real warriors DRINK GENERALS: [somewhat less noise] HEGSETH: NOBODY tells real warriors how much to drink or when or where GENERALS: [awkward silence] /1

That power wasn't originally there then, but it's originally there now.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

I've seen a lot of left-wing organizing. It looks like this: training in de-escalating conflicts at demonstrations, delivering water to voters and demonstrators, delivering medical care to civilians injured by police, speaking empathetically to voters and political opponents, helping people vote.

Unironically, track down the friends and teachers you remember from elementary school and just tell them you remember them. This will lead to a few conversations that can change your life.

Being persecuted by a regime like this one is a badge of honor

Stop researching this, stop publishing that. We have a whole government full of people whose fondest wish in life was just to never have to do their homework

Had a dream that I was sent to infiltrate a white supremacist prison gang. Was so very glad to wake up.

If your type of guy is a grifter in a business suit, how do you create space for him to make money? Well, FBI has only so many agents and DOJ only so many prosecutors. Have the agents wander DC looking for immigrants. Have the prosecutors chase opposition politicians.

Shouldn't we be requiring peer review for manifestos?

Can we call this behavior OnAInism?

Ruin a band with law: James Brown v Board of Education

I wonder what it is about popular, working class, successful, intelligent, handsome, London born, well educated, happily married, child of hard working immigrant parents, human rights advocate, thrice elected London Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan that Trump doesn't like?

Subtly downgrade a band: Pearljelly

I'm seeing him a couple days later on YouTube, if at all, so fuck Sinclair

The United States Sentencing commission reports that, in fact, 93.6% of sex offenders are men. (www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts.)

EXACTLY!

Welcome to America.

Venezuelan fishermen couldn’t be reached for comment

Woke up not raptured. Again.

The proper responses here from the delegates would have been sustained, uproarious laughter

Does this mean we can send Musk even further than South Africa?

Responses from Antifa to the administration's allegations: 1 Well-organized? We're leftists, we can barely organize a drum circle 2 Well-funded? All our money goes to organic groceries 3 Ideological? Any dozen of us have 19 separate ideologies 4 Dangerous? Ha! - all our firing squads are circular

Not bothering to write is a very loud way to send the intended message: there is no more reason in American law, only power - resistance is futile

It’d be the same thing for Don Jr, Eric, or Barron. He wasn’t lying about Kirk. He just isn’t capable of grief because he fundamentally doesn’t care at all about other human beings.

The Founders said a democratic republic wouldn't work without an educated and virtuous electorate. We don't have that and we're not likely to anytime soon. So, what if MAGA is right that democracy won't work anymore? An authoritarian state is a terrible response. What should we propose instead?

As the original fascist dictators discovered only war allows the full mobilisation of mass hatred that truly reshapes a society. Trump's 'genius' is in picking 'enemies' that will allow him to produce a Baudrillardian simulacrum of war that delivers all the benefits and no risk of actually losing.

If the Rapture means all these “Christians” disappear, I’m all about it

Do y'all remember this from 2016? I think about this a lot. ❤️

Let’s all raise a glass to Rule 8

Don’t ask me to let you be clear about something. Just be clear.