shit ain’t over til it’s over

Pleased to speak with @gregsargent.bsky.social about the legal issues raised by the lethal US strikes in the Caribbean and a draft use of force authorization that would be a blank check for war on "narco-terrorists" globally.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Fuck health care, Senate Dems should not vote for any budget that when the President is using that money to literally murder people.

multipurpose aircraft built to be sleek and avoid detection: dishonorable, untrustworthy, feminine close air support aircraft built around a giant impractical gatling gun that makes the plane go backwards from recoil: brave, virile, masculine IT’S JUST GENDER AGAIN

This may be unpopular to say, but I suspect President Harris might’ve joined them on this.

Popeye’s Bucket

I voted against the Republican funding bill today. This is a pivotal time in our history. We must stand up against this wannabe-king. Read my full statement here: quigley.house.gov/media-center...

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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

we. will. not. be. intimidated.

Don’t skeet lies

Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."

The word "Luddite" is not an insult in a world where refrigerators play ads

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Not one person who has ever posted a version of this has ever been able to name something Democrats can do that they are not doing. Unless you can do that, you’re posting this for bluesky clout and that’s loser wrecker shit.

"Politics is not the nursery." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Ganz: "If you strike terror into people’s hearts, they will obey, far beyond their actual exposure to danger. ... the modern dictatorship does not need to rely on bloodcurdling terror ... as the fear of nuisance, the fear of trouble, the fear of harassment." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

The whole thing can be summed up as a project that essentially says it is unacceptable to hate someone for their words and actions, but morally neutral to hate and even promote violence against someone for immutable characteristics.

The GOP is the party of censorship.

this is the thing, from top to bottom. we had maybe the best deal any country has had in history. our decline is a series of people voting to throw that away because they cannot understand that it is a good deal

This seems bad

Tonight at 11:30

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Well, now. I must say, this left-wing political correctness on campus is out of control.

Media conglomerates need to be broken up for their own good

and like the real failure is in civil society and amongst elites more broadly

Comedy is legal again, which is why we have used the power of the federal government to coerce major broadcasters into canceling the shows of comedians we don’t like.

This could've been the US in 2017 or 2025 but alas…

Green Room Class Solidarity

I think the only way for a Democratic administration to respond to a podcaster running the FBI is to commit to their own podcaster as FBI director: Michael Hobbes

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

“Ideas don’t deserve platforms simply because someone is willing to argue for them loudly. They earn legitimacy through evidence, peer review, and sustained engagement with reality.” Excellent stuff as always from Mike.

Sorry I'm sorry I'm trying to delete it.

Deleting this because @benjaminkabak.com made the same joke literally one minute before me. You lose focus in this game for one second...

I am now starting to suspect that people doom posting themselves into saying it doesn't matter that Trump is wildly unpopular because he is going to do a dictatorship are themselves an op. Dictatorships aren't stable by magic, they need people to buy in and go along with them. This matters.

RIP

He killed again defector.com/how-do-you-s...

“The latest orders include removing information at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia, two people familiar with the matter said, where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt.”

Ezra Klein really needs to listen to whoever wrote this op-ed:

This is a bad thing for the AG to do and is quite clearly a more substantial and direct threat to free speech than anything that has ever happened on a college campus or from the left

I am going to become the joker.

Ezra Klein has crowned Ben Shapiro as Charlie Kirk’s successor

Verhoeven remains one of the most insightful directors re: American culture, given his outsider perspective and up-close Nazi experiences. He saw proto-fascism in America decades ago. The internet, esp this week, feels like the Starship Troopers newsfeed, flipping between murder and award shows.

new episode of the pod on starship troopers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

People have got to stop framing existential threats to our democracy in terms of simple policy disagreements