In case I wasn’t clear, this is a major escalation in terms of impoundments from Trump and Vought

Sounds kind of illegal.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

X is not the “commons” in the way that Twitter came close to being, because a) no such thing exists anymore b) if something comes close it’s a video app.

No, it’s going to be 12.5 million humanoid robot armies at most. Im an expert.

The antisemitic post on twitter is fine, actually, because user numbers on bsky are down? The implication seems to be that no one on bsky has standing to point out a bad post because other people on bsky were mean about some unrelated thing? Does this guy know that individual people are real?

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

I mean, not really but half of journalism today is shamelessly trolling for clicks.

Aside from the fact that no one of consequence is talking about “disarming”: The notion that if you believe America’s epidemic gun violence is a problem you cannot also think that the threat of Trumpist authoritarianism is real is disingenuous nonsense. Not something a serious person would argue.

goddamn, making congress vote on continuing a 10% tariff right before the midterms is so funny

me at the merzbow concert by myself absolutely edibled out of my mind realizing i could probably get an uber to drive me thru white castle on the way home

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The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this

none of these people can conceptualize loyalty beyond a racial basis, as if people can never be motivated by anything except tribalism. the idea of fighting for rights, ideals, etc just doesn't compute to them

But why? There are easier and less disgusting ways to do cocaine, even in a public bathroom. Does he have like a germ fetish or something?

Where is matt taiibi when you need him?

Oh so it’s literally all of them cool good to know

For the CEOs and university presidents and other responsible leaders who have been biding their time and waiting for him to cross the magic red line before speaking up, maybe when he starts arresting Senators is a good time to get off the fucking sidelines.

Wtf is this?

a society losing the plot in real time

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

"Trump voters urge him to tone down the rhetoric and focus more on domestic issues, especially clearer pathways to legal status for law-abiding immigrants", proving they unaccountably had no clue who they were voting for.

Macbeth: SHIT

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Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

This Claremont twit is so fearful of “wine moms” with cell phones and whistles that he’s demanding Trump crush them with violence. Or rather, more violence.

Anything that will hamstring ICE at all! So essentially all of the bill of rights. These guys literally hate personal freedom despite using it as a slogan their entire lives.

This whole heap is gonna go public soon. So he made twitter investors whole with AI venture money and soon he’ll make the AI investors whole with public equity market money, on the back of an enterprise the US government won’t allow to fail.

White House Aide Fired After Telling JD Vance About Super Bowl Party https://theonion.com/white-house-aide-fired-after-telling-jd-vance-about-super-bowl-party/

Trump's secret police are roaming our streets, killing and maiming with impunity. But I read an article in the Atlantic about kids at an elite university complaining about their dining hall. I have never felt more politically homeless.

We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel

If only the little father knew

I have a generalised version of this - while there are specific exceptions, it just feels like a _huge_ proportion of the American conservative movement revealed themselves to not really care about anything? Like, nothing concrete at least. It's all just vague ressentiments around Gender and Race.

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

Presumably this policy won’t withstand judicial scrutiny. And presumably the lawyers at dhs know that. But they also know they can hurt a lot of people in the meantime, which is their apparent mandate.

A soon to be geographically misdescriptive trademark

Every law enforcement agency in America knows how to manage the car after an arrest at a traffic stop. The Trump DHS leaves them open on the road like that to terrorize the rest of us. A nationwide policy.

Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous There's a line buried in Adam Serwer's recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally…

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

There's not really a contradiction here. They never meant "Don't Tread on Anyone."

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

Sharing this because his story matters but even if he wasn’t a U.S. citizen…even if he had a criminal record…even if he had interactions with law enforcement… even if he wasn’t kind and no one liked him ICE shouldn’t have murdered him

My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

the snap election is one of those boring ass electoral system design elements that turns out to have immense political implications

For my part, I think immigration to the US should be extremely easy because immigration provides both economic and cultural benefits to the country. Every single anti-immigration argument is rooted in lies, racism, and fear.