Life comes at you fast

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NEW: How ICE mistakenly deported Alejandro Juarez to Mexico. Alejandro was detained in NYC, put on the wrong ICE plane and sent to Mexico. He never saw a judge, no deportation order - a likely violation of law. W/ @haleaziz.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

I know this won’t be a popular opinion on here, but Donald Trump is right to finally install an indoor toilet in the White House. It’s appalling that for 200 years the American president has had to crap in a wooden outhouse with flies buzzing around it

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

😑 DOGE for the win! 'Despite the high-profile efforts of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the 2025 federal fiscal year ended with the federal government having spent more money than it did in the previous fiscal year' - via @ericboehm87.bsky.social reason.com/2025/10/10/a...

It's wild how you can just say "no" when the would-be authoritarians tell you to do weird, illegal things This should become a trend

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives believed participation trophies were a bad idea

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers. That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made? ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met DHS: denied

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Independent media!

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Who won the Battle of Thermopylae

Absolutely love to see it. And I hope this trend catches on in other circumstances too.

🚨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

What if we just let people peacefully exchange goods and services? What's the downside to that idea?

Seems bad!

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

Reporting outside the Baltimore ICE field office for @statesnewsroom.com where hundreds are gathered to protest the potential deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

Yup

Right, because the people doing the public executions in the Bible were the good guys? Someone might need to re-read the gospels a few times

A mediocre life sounds a lot better than whatever the hell this is

The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.

So the trade deals don't actually exist, then? If a business owner wants to understand the rules for importing/exporting, what exactly should he or she do?

In most cases, Trump's tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods. So much for reciprocity and fairness. reason.com/2025/08/18/t...

I hope it was worth it! (It was not)

No offense necessarily intended, but it is very funny to negatively frame The Argument for being "flush with $4 million in startup cash" when you cofounded another magazine/publishing outlet, Compact, that had a far more expensive website and Thiel/Soros funding. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

Thuggish behavior from those who are supposedly in DC to provide law and order

The persistence of the “chicken tax” suggests something about the long-term impact that Trump’s myriad new tariffs — including the dozens of country-specific tariff rates that went into effect this month — could have on the economy and federal trade policy. The latest from @ericboehm87.bsky.social:

Tariffs tend to be quite sticky -- and some persist for decades after the political moment that brought them into existence. That's why it's essential that Congress and the courts block Trump's tariffs before they can take hold. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances, government data show.

Sorry, "Forever Domestic Peacekeeping Deployment"

The Trump administration keeps arguing that "if you make it in America, there will be no tariff." This is nonsense, because a lot of American manufacturing depends on raw materials that aren't produced domestically. For example: cocoa beans. reason.com/2025/08/01/t...

Guy who was convicted on 34 counts of first‑degree falsification of business records says the numbers were rigged.

If you visit DC this summer, beware: The city manipulates traffic signs and cameras to take your money. Example: This is Massachusetts Ave. NW, which runs from Maryland into DC. Months ago, the Maryland side lowered its speed limit. It posted big orange signs to alert drivers. (1/6)

To keep Social Security solvent without cutting benefits would require a massive hike in payroll taxes, which would fall entirely on working Americans.

Great Moments in Central Planning 🫠

🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific. One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

It's easy to lose perspective on how bizarre and dangerous this moment is. But man, "current president posts AI-generated video of himself grinning as he orders his predecessor hauled off to prison" is some fascist, dystopian shit.

Still thinking about this illiterate line in the Trump WSJ lawsuit

The other day an old friend dismissed reports of ICE disappearances as "sob stories" and said there was always something in paragraph 17 that made you realize you shouldn't have swallowed it. I wonder what the sticking point is supposed to be here.

In the UK they are getting ready for Trump's visit by putting up pictures of him with Epstein everywhere. I salute the Brits for their commitment to trolling Trump

They came masked and armed to the teeth to protect us all from the horrible problem of a few dudes outside the Home Depot looking for good honest work.