Ivy+ elitists have such flattering narratives. They know it’s their own culture that got us here but much easier to “moderate” by blaming woke than admit your clique don’t have any real merits

If you’re kid is currently between 18 and 25 please send them to remedial etiquette school. These punks are so unconscious of how they are in shared space

Asperger’s man notices human qualities

I’m pretty sure doing sets of more than five squats is a violation of the Geneva Convention

Agreed. bsky.app/profile/davi...

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

Pretty revealing, in my view, that Scalia spent his entire career ridiculing diversity and affirmative action for underrepresented groups, given that the Reagan White House put him on the Supreme Court in part because it really, really wanted to nominate the first-ever Italian American justice

"The main legacy of Merrick Garlandism isn’t failure to mete out justice for past crimes; its that he created incentives for future ones. If they could transgress as far as they did and get away with it, why not go further?" 🎯 @brianbeutler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

This is the end result that the US government wants

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also crucial from Rep Chrissy Houlahan: One reason she and other Dems did the video about Trump's illegal orders is that they're hearing from inside the military and intel services of actual live fears that they're being given unlawful commands: newrepublic.com/article/2034...

i don’t think it is appreciated enough how much roberts has right-wing legal theoried himself into being a dumbass

Priorities are a choice www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/r...

I don’t know anyone who’s first thought about CIA agents is tough, hardworking or thourough. I would guess sociopath, dangerous, and manipulative 😂 These elitist fucks are so far up their own asses they could give themselves dental exams

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait. It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

lol

This opinion comes on the same day that the DOJ dropped ALL CHARGES against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent 5 times, who DHS accused of ramming a car and pulling a gun on CBP agents. It strongly suggests they couldn't prove it in court and didn't want embarrassing evidence shown publicly.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Parente also addressed how, in a press release about the incident on Oct. 4 during which Exum shot Martinez, DHS referred to Martinez & her codefendant Anthony Santos Ruiz as "domestic terrorists." DHS applied the same label to southwest side community members who protested CBP's presence that day.

Were DOJ's demands to tech companies like Apple and Facebook accompanied by threats? EFF is suing to find out www.eff.org/press/releas...

Tierra Walker died because she could not get an abortion in Texas to treat her severe preeclampsia. This is what Republicans have wrought with their anti-abortion crusade. But let’s be clear: Abortion bans aren’t pro-life. They’re pro-control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3oLwO0OEE

So clear being on X reduces you to a prop in this man’s drug fueled psychodrama

Cw: suicide This article is devastating. Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him. Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.

I don’t know if a president vowing to send the military after has political opponents meets the legal threshold for treason, but it comes a hell of a lot closer than saying that if so ordered, the military should refuse.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Weird. Nothing on the @nytimes.com homepage about the President of the United States calling for the execution of members of the opposition in response to their political speech.

2. I wish I could show certain politicians the weekly suicide notes that reach my inbox, or the death threats. I wish they would care. I can’t make anyone care, but I hold onto the hope that you can help make this world more bearable by being the ones who do.

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

Seems like flailing. Immigration remains their only issue with >-10 support. So they just want to tie everything to that, retreat and retrench in their minds. Probably millers idea since it’s his only idea

"This war can be brought to an end, but the basic logic remains what it always was: the Ukrainians have to be supported so that Russia no longer aspires to destroy their country. That is the foundation. Negotiations will work when that has been achieved."

Another campaign promise I need is a total investigation of the tech firms. Who is in Facebook? How many of them are real people? How many ads have they sold that weren’t seen by humans but bots? This whole company is a scam

Driving the car well in the wrong direction

Since Im in the bottom income portion of in this yellow zone here my experience is that housing is actually fairly abundant, lots of units are kept off the market though. Three 1/1s apartments around me are empty for a few months but the landlord won’t lower the price. New homeless people everyday.

Yaassss Here’s the reason he wants to hang dems today. We are on a steady march to -15. Good to draw back 2pts for historic shift, so assessed at -13 today but that -20 is in sight

The campaign promise I’m looking for

Somewhat interesting that he conflates it with “Israel is hemorrhaging support” since lots of non Nazis don’t support Israel

the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

An ICE agent engaging in child sex trafficking really shouldn't surprise anyone at this point

This will probably not even make the front page of any significant national media org. That gives you some sense of how far through the looking glass we are.

Trump talks and acts like he's already consolidated authoritarian control. But he hasn't, not even close, and the prospects of him achieving it are getting more and more remote. So I suspect these outbursts are motivated to some degree by his own growing sense of impotence.

i thin that the internet has largely ruined political cartoons. people don’t know how to make actual cartoons anymore. all they do now is draw an obnoxious stand in for the artist and a giant text bubble

Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times

Don’t forget to bring up politics at Thanksgiving so you can save money at Christmas

It brings me no joy to report that the last great political cartoonists were Ben Garrison and that one obnoxious leftist guy on Twitter from back in the day who made every person he disliked into some kind of instantly recognizable horrid hybrid of Hieronymus Bosch and HP Lovecraft.

Hmm.