New rule: Anyone who wants to comment on the US military has to spend 8 hours in the San Antonio airport first.

Saying, "Don't worry this thing with explosives is ENTIRELY safe." will just always bite you in the ass.

Great thread.

This was the dynamic at my local protest too. The small maga contingent had to carry literal Trump/maga stuff or they'd just look like they were another in the mass of genuine flag waving No Kings patriots. One realized this and stopped using his flag. This is good!

When this is the best that even Mike Lee can come up with, you're doing pretty good.

Positive to negative car reaction ratio was maybe just shy of ten to one. Most of the dozen or so maga people left when they saw they were failing to spark confrontation. It was a great time.

Today will be my first protest ever. I'll be going in a red white and blue shirt, my Marine Corps ball cap and belt buckle, and I dug out of storage a pair of boots I wore on a deployment. No Kings. And without Article 1 strongly enforced and exercised, the Executive is a King.

My first corporate job, I got encouraged to apply by the CEO who I happened across while volunteering. To my complete shock, she called out my English degree as a plus. Turns out, really "listening" (whether hearing or reading), then really thinking, then communicating well, was valuable to her!

Our government is directly giving our money to the president again.

The most embittering part of this for me is Vance was a Marine. He served with Men and Women who shouldered the most intense responsibilities in the human experience, and did so with honor and excellence. But these wannabe Hitler shits -- WHO ARE OLDER THAN MANY MARINES -- are just kids.

New on FOX: Precedent™. Hear it from the Justices themselves. Tuesdays at 8/7 Central.

Lots of people today leaning Newsmax has a complex, weird independent streak.

This sounds stupid. Until you put it next to the Wounded Knee medals. And the confederate statues. And the war crimes pardons. At some point you have to think the unthinkable.

Packers fan.

The Verge generally, and Sarah Jeong specifically, has been killing it this year. This piece and the framework it explains, are very good. So good that, in spite of it being very clearly written, I'm going to have to reread it a couple times to really internalize it as much as it deserves.

Wow, that footnote.

2 other things: 1) They don't have to charge-or-release in 48 hours like normal LE does. It often been longer for US citizens to be released. 2) No document will stop you from being detained. They've just called IDs fake without even looking at them.

Prediction: Tax breaks if landlords give 1% stakes of buildings to the federal government. Then they're all Federal buildings. They've done crazier things.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Kristi Noem, I *did* stand up and fight for our freedoms. You do not get to invoke my name like that. I... I fart in your general direction!

"We're not ________, we're just bad memers" seems like it should be its own meme.

Funny how the TikTok news just kinda disappeared.

I've been hesitant to give the "Is he dying?" thing much attention, but it's getting hard to not at least consider.

Been a long time since my last crowd control trainings but I'm confident that was inside the minimum safe distance for a spray canister like that.

And that Thomas Jefferson tree of Liberty quote people love? It was part of his explanation for why everyone should chill out about a little insurrection-ey violence in Maine. He was saying, actually I think it was kind of a good thing! (iirc) (just interesting history, don't be violent obvs)

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Can we drop the only dead people in currency thing please? Commemorative coins are different, are still legal tender, and have honored and even depicted living people. www.usmint.gov/learn/coins-...

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I know it seems small but it pisses me off so much that this draft dodger was going to give Dwight fucking Eisenhower's sword to a foreign fucking king. America first my ass.

I know it seems small but it pisses me off so much that this draft dodger was going to give Dwight fucking Eisenhower's sword to a foreign fucking king. America first my ass.

The memo literally lists civil disturbance as domestic terrorism. What these two great writers are saying isn't supposition. It isn't forecasting. It certainly isn't hyperbole. It's what is happening, now.

Brutal 🤣 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Like there's a single example in the gospels of Jesus being confronted with a death penalty situation, and he gently shamed everyone into not enforcing it, then told the woman being judged to go and do better.

Legitimately do not understand how this is not considered a treaty? Which would be unconstitutional?

It also didn't work for the Confederacy! England was like, ok so you're telling us you want to be unreliable? Egypt it is!

How is this not a treaty? Like this is very unconstitutional, and illegal, and impeachable?

This can be true & valid and important, and it can also be true that most people huffing & puffing about this know it's true and are being insincere... AND it can be true that Disambiguation is a common, useful, & important part of having a modern directory/pedia, and this was an unforced error.

I expected the whole trumprx dot com things to be a nothingburger joke but I wasn't imaginative enough to understand how nothingburger it could joke. For example his little website will just be a directory. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Too bad in WWII we chose to build all those carriers with those expensive planes when bullets from battleships would have been so much cheaper. They should have seriously considered it. Too bad they didn't have a smart leader like we do now. We might have won that war.

One things I'm confident will come out of Hegseth's prep really lecture is a group PT session or moto run, and an official video released of him hazing and screaming at some sweaty general not keeping up. This will be positioned as evidence of his rightness.

The problem is having dumb ideas takes zero effort and less than zero actual knowledge. It’s cheap to pollute the air with your own shit ideas and then blame the nerdy pencil pusher bureaucracy for your woes. But it’s under the blanket of that bureaucracy that you sleep, son.

The big question around value is, which of these will happen more successfully: 1) The new US ownership getting Creators and their followers to install and use a new TikTok app, or 2) ByteDance getting Creators and their followers to install and use an entirely different app? I'd bet on 2.

This is as far as it goes right? Like under this, a city worker or elected could be targeted for using a permit to a protest.

When you're scared being *too good* at planting anti-ICE messaging will raise suspicions that *you're* anti-ICE, so you play it safe.

Huang and Altman's comments seem carefully phrased and could be read as expressing, or at least consistent with, an expectation that their companies or their industries receive a waiver -- after all aren't they strategically important and incentives should be aligned toward them?

One dynamic here is Sinclair is so far up a creek that there's not a path forward without the merger. They need FCC approval more than they need viewers. They need Trump more than they need advertisers. s3.amazonaws.com/sec.irpass.c...

Been seeing lots of takes speculating about whether a new US TikTok ownership group can get current TikTok users to install and use a new TikTok app. But I think that's the wrong question. The right question is, which of these two things will happen more successfully:

Seeing lots of takes about whether a new US TikTok ownership group can get current TikTok users to install and use a new TikTok app, but I think that's the wrong question. The right question is, which of these two things will happen more successfully:

Shot/Chaser