One of the most enraging aspects of any Republican presidency is how everybody in media has to just completely suspend disbelief and pretend to be complete fucking morons. It's this collective, mass self-delusion that really fucks with the psyche.

This is awesome. Now I get to boast to all my friends that I'm going to imminently start touring with Metallica...as soon as I have the capability to shred like Kirk Hammett.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

What Americans will read this weekend when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. @people.com people.com/trump-says-i...

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔 [*It is not remotely interesting to me]

Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias?

...monkey's paw finger curls...

Donald Trump once bought me a beer at a Cubs game.

"The world is entering a post-literate age, with huge implications for societies’ politics & structure. The smartphone’s emphasis on photos & vids has driven a decline in reading, a consequence of which is that a growing number of people are unable to grapple w/ complex ideas and nuanced arguments"

"Our interest, I think, very much is in NOT going to war with Iran.  It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country." - 10/27/24

My big takeaway from the invasion of Iraq—which I regret having supported—is that the US should go to war only when it has to. It should not engage in preventative wars against nebulous threats based on suspect intelligence and without a clear endgame. Yet here we go again. wapo.st/4seF5K1

THIS IS THE WAY

If a Democratic president ever said something like this about Republicans in a State of the Union speech, the corporate media would be up in arms. I doubt this will even register because we’ve normalized it so completely when it comes from Trump.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Since October, 73% taken into ICE custody had no criminal conviction and only 5% had a violent criminal conviction, according to a Cato Institute review of ICE data. www.wsj.com/opinion/mass...

One of the key messages from the Alex Pretti murder and the ghoulishly Orwellian PR response to it by DOJ is that w/o the vigilant determination of ICE observers - including Pretti himself - to record these events for the world to see, the government would literally be getting away with murder.

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

This is where the plaintiffs should be laser-focused. Use Bondi's letter to paint the federal government's efforts as explicit attempts to coerce MN to adopt preferred legislative positions on immigration and to turn over voter rolls. That's the slam dunk commandeering/coercion argument.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

These monsters are sick.

A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation. 🎥 dangjessie / Threads

wikipedia page of the day: "The purpose of the trial was not only to try the defendants but also to assemble irrefutable evidence of Nazi war crimes, offer a history lesson to the defeated Germans, and delegitimize the traditional German elite." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe...

I fully understand the impulse to always put forth a full accounting of American history. But the death of the American mythos - for all its self-deluded and self-righteous grandeur - is a big part of why tens of millions of Americans care more about the cost of milk than the death of democracy.

A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

Fight the Gestapo.

I do not recall making this but stick with it

Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of.

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue when people are working from shared values. MAGA has a totally different worldview which prizes domination of the out-group as its highest good. They’re fascists. www.thebulwark.com/p/renee-good...

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

Blood and stuffies. Trump’s America.

This right here. Rip the entire awful growth out, straight from the root.

So much for no step on snek

It is impossible to shoot the driver of a vehicle point-blank in the face through an open driver's side window if you are in the path of said vehicle. Physically impossible.

So what's up with Maria Corina Machado jockeying to be installed by the U.S. as leader of a country by claiming to have won an election in which she wasn't even on the ballot?

This is what it looks like when one party has a propaganda Death Star and the other's media power is akin to throwing rocks.

I demand that the next Democratic candidate for President campaign on completely tearing down this entire agency and rebuilding it from the ground up after purging it of MAGA traitors.