Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Literally yes.

Former Presidents consistently talk about the difficulty of getting good information as President, how everyone has an agenda, is telling them what they want to hear, etc. Most Presidents make some effort to mitigate that well-known problem, but Trump's like "moar bubble, I want only bubble."

there's a lot of things dangerous about AI and the AI boom, but it's important to get them *right*

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

all stick no carrot included the troops

A city is not the aggregation of the financial interests of the people who currently live there. It's the aggregation of the dreams of all the people who desperately yearn to live there.

It's funny because even my most libertarian friends will agree that monitoring infectious disease outbreaks is one of the few things you need a government for and can't really privatize, and these guys just want to burn it all down, anyway.

also we gave argentina $20B for no clear purpose

it'd be funny if Trump II gave us the rebirth of the social gospel and a woke Great Awakening

Great Awokening

it was very easy to believe that Epstein was a Glonzo of middling to little salience but man the House GOP is not behaving like it's anything less than catastrophic

i just got back from Antifa headquarters. they're making an INSANE new set of demands. first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

chat I'm not sure they're thinking things through www.axios.com/2025/10/10/s...

Trading SPPs like they're Pokemon cards is maybe the most middlecore activity possible

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Yeah I’m going to keep hammering this drum: who the armed men in the employ of the state are loyal to is consequential, they are not an undifferentiated mass, and specifics matter a lot here. Blue state govs and big city mayors need to be quietly looking through FEC records and making staff changes

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

There’s a point where being locked provides a sense of comfort and security and being unlocked causes a sense of discomfort and mild anxiety and then you know you’ve crossed an important line.

somehow, Side B went secular

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

This has been one of the biggest things the Trump admin has changed my mind about. I used to be indifferent to billionaires, but I no longer find that an option.

Sorry, best we can do is a three-branch structure replicated at all levels of government, often with executive power split between various offices so we have to hope the median voter knows what a "county surveyor" does.

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum: "Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online 2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

One of the reasons to reject the obligatory demands for conservative affirmative action in liberal institutions is that the people who take advantage of it almost invariably function as a fifth column explicitly dedicated to destroying the institution from within.

Wooooow. This is a REMARKABLE clip. Wonder how many points this moves the race.

Fond memories of 2020, when it was decided by the media that it was definitionally impossible for Republicans to be homophobic even if they opposed SSM or gay rights, in the same way that "everyone agrees" that racism is bad, ergo nobody important can ever be accused of racism.

When a vanilla artist draws a diaper as part of a joke or meme but the diaper has four tapes

You know what? Fuck it. This is a funny gambit.

american labor liberalism just does not really chart onto european politics because its effectively a blended traffic light coalition

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown. Where are House Republicans? On vacation. Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Also the idea that you have criminal immunity for official acts (that are nonetheless ultra vires) was invented from whole cloth by John Roberts three entire years after the investigation started!

Not the most important part of this Harvard Crimson article about Vermeule but it seems worth noting that LITERALLY THE SAME DAY OBERGEFELL CAME DOWN President Obama gave a major speech in a church focusing on divine grace and then literally sang "Amazing Grace"

This is the part that kills me. Rs literally did this *mere weeks ago* and it was barely a one-day story, already forgotten to the mists of time

sorry champ this is bdsm, it can't file your accounts for you or fix your relationship with your father, the dom to sub ratio is crippling so you pick whoever shares your very niche interests, a 4 is the new 9, that's frank he's the only rope artist in 30 miles but he's really into transformers

Well that's not how appropriations work at all *WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

The pricing software/ blackrock obsession is so funny to me because it basically posits that there was no housing crisis before, like, 2018.

The Problem is Providers is a sucky answer, but it's definitely true (we'll have to eat medical school debt and make med school functionally free to fix this, because you also can't ask people to take on med school levels of debt without an insane payout waiting at the end of it).

I think about this a lot. The only place that seems to have gotten their act together on this is Canada. Which. Like. Understandable. International stove touching theory is not looking great, guys.

It’s really cool particularly since the solitary places in Europe where the “rest of the world looking at American fascism and deciding they don’t actually want the fascist internationale in power” were Romania and Moldova for reasons that had very little to do with American and very much to do with

Anyway, bullying is bad, flippant comments lionizing bullying are bad, even when your targets are themselves bad.

I mean, a lot of prominent posters on here love to say that bullying works so

This is how like 70% of affirming Christians (including the gay ones! ESPECIALLY the gay ones!) talk about queer people.