This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Does Douthat think it's an appropriate object of therapy to change, say, someone's religion if it is causing distress? (Which it often does.)

Just an absurd act of cowardice by supposed political professionals who couldn't tell that it'd grow moldy faster than a vote for the Iraq War.

I do not know if people understand how much the Reilly Act made this a one way ratchet. If we don’t repeal it the MOMENT we get into power in 2029, it will hang around our necks for a generation. And that will require votes from people who voted to pass it.

Okay, but CASABLANCA really really holds up. Oz… kinda doesn’t.

Nathan (a man with the AO3 username of EmperorNorton150) posted this and managed to get three gullible souls,including yours truly, to make Emperor Norton jokes in 5 minutes like they were brilliant comedians.

maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood

Our immigration policy is now based on what Stephen Miller assumes are the inherent racial qualities of each group: Chinese people and Asians are untrustworthy and suspicious; Latinos are criminals and drug smugglers; black people are stupid and lazy; white people are hard-working and virtuous.

The European Colonial Empires of the 16th-20th centuries feature both continuities and discontinuities with the broader history of Imperial expansion, and I wish more discussion about the way the modern world was formed by it really tried to engage with those questions.

look a lot of this falklands discourse is dumb but for personal reasons it's very important that islands belong to the state on the closer side of a body of water

"Just a few years ago, conservatives struggled to navigate a world in which everyone was expected to pay fealty (whether sincerely or not) to the idea the US could be a multi-racial democracy in which equality was the goal toward which we all strove. But now, they’re pretending nothing of the sort."

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I know this isn’t remotely the biggest reason or problem, but it’s really infuriating to spend an hour trying to get through airport security because DHS is spending all its money running a kidnapping gang in support of a white supremacist ethnic cleansing agenda.

jesus christ; he didn't have "reasonable concerns." He was literally impeached for trying to get Ukraine to smear Biden! what the fucking fuck?!

The NYT giving people involved in all of this anonymity to protect themselves from accountability and so they can try to get others out of war crimes, murder charges, or both is a choice.

I love New York.

You should honestly all be following Nathan both on social media and for life advice.

Hey look, 45k of fun spanky gay smut written in like 10 days by my friend and the half of you that follow me for kink shit should read it.

great rundown on the hidden role that fire departments play in anti-density pro-car design. i think it speaks also to my own bugbear about "defer to the professionals." professions are often both insular and narrow-minded, unwilling to weigh costs and concerns beyond their internal cultural foci

ahhhh

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

Has this been posted yet

My prior had been that ICE/CBP was full of of washed-out cops but it seems from this reporting that it is significantly washout *correctional officers* which might somehow be Worse.

"We get to invade you and you're being hateful if you get mad"

unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."

One of these days I want to write a screed about the defensive “please don’t hurt me, I’m one of the good ones” approach to their persecutors of a certain kind of exvangelical gay man.

Trump is a principled opponent of corruption and fraud prosecutions, generally.

One of the most surreal aspects of the 2024 campaign was how everyone just ignored the fact that Trump was president from 2017 to 2021 and pretended like all the drone strikes and assassinations and pardoned war criminals just never happened.

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I feel like I’m gonna be using this panel from yesterday’s SMBC a lot:

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

I maintain that if Democrats could learn to talk with one-half of the plain spoken moral sense of Republicans who have turned on Trump, like this Indiana Republican who refuses to redistrict on the president’s command, they’d win 400 electoral votes dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...

Maybe if we weren’t wasting 1,000 FBI agents scrubbing Epstein files and an insane number going after political enemies, we’d be able to vet properly.

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?

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...

i think we have to throw everyone involved in this down to the seal officer in charge in prison for war crimes honestly

I do think the political economy here is dicey. SO many institutions have collaborated that were not going to be able to purge them all without triggering massive defensive backlash.

Hey so as someone who has a degree in global politics and spent a significant amount of time studying international law — this is a textbook example of a war crime.

Part of why this stuff keeps getting underreported is that our media class can’t get it through their thick heads that this is not a weightless debate over political ideology, but a declaration of war on over 100 million Americans, which DHS is announcing an intent to eliminate

Does make me wonder if Slotkin, Kelly, and the rest of Congress were hearing stuff prompting the video they made about not following illegal orders

This might become my pet issue but it’s crazy how center left parties are hurting because they’re seen as the party of snobbish technocrats when the actual “experts” they go to are lawyers who think anesthesiology and TV manufacturing have seen similar productivity growth

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

Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.

Jesus Christ, this is so fucking bleak and fascist.