Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Tacking on “anti-semitism” here for the kicks

Nothing like trawling thru random replies to find something worthy of moral condemnation

bluesky is a sealed epistemic environment and also i am going to make sure that no one can correct me when i say tendentious things like “kirk was killed by an ideological opponent”

Who could possibly have foreseen this? /s (Answer: Anyone whose knowledge of immigration-and-economics, especially through US history, extends beyond Jean Raspail's "Camp of the Saints.")

Also in here: I spoke with a person who has been out monitoring ICE in Minneapolis — a religious high schooler who has done the same in Chicago for months. He told me ICE’s response to observers like them in Minnesota is already more aggressive — on average — than they’re used to.

Brave principled stands like this that leave one a bit more hopeful (link to video of the remarks is in the replies below this tweet)

In case there’s any doubt about what TCW means here, his subsequent retweet of David French makes it clear

Hard to see this as anything but pure ideological blinders. It’s not “economics” by any stretch

Since last year, Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder): Protect them “no matter what." Trump laid out ways to retaliate: —Refuse to hand over an agent —Charge local officials with “obstructing" —Threaten to cut off more funding led by @swin24.bsky.social

checking in on elon musk, the guy who absolutely did not give a nazi salute last year

Ah the civility police are back on the beat

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

Read @polphilpod.bsky.social’s latest, on why free movement is good and we should say it!

"U.S. officials in recent days have presented a U.S. move against Greenland as an increasingly concrete possibility in conversations with European counterparts, said a senior European diplomat" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It's as if America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and then put Qusay in charge. "There is no sign that the United States’ demands include less repression. Instead the regime is taking the opportunity to crack down." www.economist.com/the-americas...

Cronkite wept

Right, if 40% of people hold a reprehensible belief, it’s time to hit the diners and empathize with them in their natural habitat

i love how like the Reason crowd find this depressing despite the fact that even the Manhattan Institute polls finding that most young Republicans hold genuinely reprehensible beliefs

Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.” A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words: “The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”

lol this is incredibly on brand

Really liked this piece, made me appreciate even more The Last Jedi aka the best movie of the sequel trilogy

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So hard to pinpoint but 1996 saw a confluence of the Gingrich shutdown, Limbaugh at his peak and the start of Fox News

I’ve literally seen only the airplane scene from this show but yes this

Very good read, found the comparison points with Noriega helpful

Well Elliot Abrams IS an expert on human rights under Latin American dictators

“Dumb Nuremberg” is awesome but I feel like best saved for something else down the road

Read this thread. A terrible injustice, willfully perpetrated

Oh he read “On Smarm”

A sibling to “and yet you participate in society”

Wait is Hamilton is bad and cringe or is refusing to perform Hamilton bad and cringe? Hard to keep track

This is some peak Doctor Who dialogue

A searing and righteous read

A (very typical) story in two parts

New theory of journalism for you @bgrueskin.bsky.social

The rest of OP’s argument here is no better: in short, that moral shaming doesn’t work in today’s politics/culture and is thus useless. By that reasoning nothing should ever be boycotted. (Of course there are other reasons to boycott besides shame but even on its own terms this is wrongheaded)

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

This combined with gutting consumer protections (in US at least) means a lot more scammed, destitute elderly

Was a delight to edit this wonderful tale by Leo Mirani about an object cynically conceived by Brits in India becoming something meaningful to Jains in America over the course of a century (and somewhere in the middle there Howard Hughes owned it)

doesn't swing his arms like an american doesn't wiggle his hand like the queen can't name a single white sock comically foreign, WHAT DID HE MEAN

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

“The Saturday Evening Post barred him from painting people of color in anything other than subservient roles”

What a quote.

This and also Stewart is a lab leak truther. Not great!

Don't forget that Ilya cited this as THE usecase he was most excited about.

I hope to read the doorstop of a Buckley biography instead of just talk about it, as he’s so essential to understanding the trajectory of modern American conservatism. But in meantime this review essay about it is a great read

Fire departments mostly do two things nowadays: EMS calls and helping Frederick Sykes slip out of his apartment