every 6 months or so bret remembers his J card and chucks it at the nearest Muslim like a ninja star

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

i think appealing to the much broader number of possible democratic voters of all genders who think nazi tattoos are bad is likely a better electoral strategy than going after “radicalized young men” by backing a candidate who has not in fact shown “contrition” for his nazi tattoo. pick a new guy!

i wasn’t a marine but i am a person covered in tattoos w a long history of getting (very) drunk, & i’m here to let anyone who thinks this happens by accident know you can’t just walk into a random parlor & get the SYMBOL OF THE 3RD SS PANZER DIVISION inked on you. that’s a special kind of shop y’all

anybody who’s ever worked in service in the united states can affirm that rich people (with a few always appreciated exceptions) are notoriously bad tippers.

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

the legislative history is utterly forgotten. We got the aca because of a republican senator switching parties and an unexpected death that gave dems an extremely narrow super majority for liek 60 days in session. It passed on New Year’s Eve quite literally the very last moment it could have passed

Idc, "4 people disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in 7 minutes by rolling up to the second-storey window on a basket lift" is an objectively hilarious event

John Atkinson Grimshaw, English (1836-1893), October Afterglow, 1885 oil on canvas, 77 x 63.5 cm, private collection

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

This is just straight-up treason by rubio, he's wrecking our ability to fight organized crime in order to help bukele cover up his apparently cozy relationship with MS-13 leadership and possible theft of us foreign aid, all so trump et al can get photos of us sending hairdressers to torture prison

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

As outrageous as the murder spree was on their own terms as announced, it was obvious from the beginning that the boat strikes would get worse and worse as we learned more about what really happened.

My little rural/suburb area here in Texas had close to 2,000 people in a No King’s gathering, today. That’s a little under 10% of our entire city’s population. And that says everything, imo.

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

i am a person who has an email job and occasionally i am completely paralyzed by anxiety about it and from now on i’m going to blame it on bears when i don’t answer people for like four days

being dunked on by both stancil and grok within three posts has got to be some kind of record of lameness lol

What's up Bluesky, this is the Department of State and we're here to post some Hatch Act violations

gofund.me/2bd07526a hey y’all if you have some extra cash please consider donating some of it to my friend ericha who is confronting a lung transplant in a country that makes you pay for shit like that because we don’t believe in healthcare as a human right or social safety nets :(

i know this skeet was not meant this way, but to be fair there are a lot of men that i would leave for a 1958 plymouth fury in daily driver condition

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

so many people--left and right--are desperate to peer through the mists of history and see their own politics reflected back at them. like they're afraid they might find something else. but all they see, in truth, is their own pantomime shadow www.patreon.com/posts/chapte...

a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis

these people know how extreme they are

all of this!

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

i have moved into a new place and i keep forgetting where the bathroom light switch is. it’s been like two weeks and i’m still hunting around for it when i get up at night. how long will it take until i build my bathroom light muscle memory lol

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Imagine sending an airborne division after this guy

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours. 'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

This is the thing they'll never understand about "wokeness" or "political correctness" - huge organizations didn't implement these policies because of "cancel culture" or secret communists, they did it to stay competitive and viable. It's what people wanted