Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

The most ironclad proof that some governments will actually spend money to keep people homeless that you should ever need.

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Surely the side at your left hand is the left door. That is the observer's prerogative. But which face of a door is observed? The front, that which faces outward; an exterior door has an agreed-upon front. So perhaps an interior door always faces the larger of the spaces enclosed by it... (1/?)

Congratulations, if you ever contacted Discord customer service the IP address of your Discord account has been forever recorded in the panopticon.

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Wow. Immergut not having any of it.

This seems frankly like an attempt to ask the Supreme Court whether Trump can have little a civil war, as a treat

There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is. He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT

If there's just one piece of wisdom I can impart to everyone, it's that trying to post your way though it almost never works out the way you think it will

everything is just so relentless

I finally got around to starting this a couple days ago and it's just unspeakably good. Easily one of the best narrative games I've ever played.

This is all too stupid. I don't know what kind of meltdowns and conversations and weird rich person psychosis is going on behind the scenes, but from the cheap seats it's just a big stupid clown car wreck with grievously injured clowns scattered across the highway. Why is everything like this now?

At the risk of not singing in unison, when people say "this is not who we are," consider that they might be inviting the listener to identify as part of a living, present "us" that excludes the "this." To be part of a "we" that doesn't mean "all Americans, Nazis included." Try to hear both things.

I think the new thing gets three or four days but only if it's not picked up by the media. Oh please.

Can't say I got this one wrong, but it was obviously the safe bet. No feelings about tomorrow yet. I'll keep everyone posted.

"Every accusation is a confession" has been pointed out to death, but yeah. I wonder how much is excusing themselves by building a worldview where Everybody Does It, and how much is private delight in "outsmarting" and manipulating people they hate. Always gotten much more of the latter vibe, tbh.

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

BREAKING: Federal judge in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case finds that "there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego to discovery" in response to his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive or selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Another fun dispatch from cruelty world. Who wouldn't want their mortal remains used to desensitize IDF soldiers to turning living people into more mortal remains?

I spent way too long making this Gourdhub home page:

They took these US citizens naked and put them in zip ties and threw them in a van.

Sick stuff. Really deeply twisted and sadistic. These guys love to hurt kids, especially if it's not only physical but psychological pain. And that's not just partisan talk and I truly don't think it's hyperbole. They like. To hurt. Kids.

That red brick building is Funston Elementary. They are gassing kids in their classrooms

Too many Mbembe quotes that are too on the nose: "The spirit of the time is not only about survival. It is also about a renewed will to kill as opposed to the will to care...to sever all relationships as opposed to the will to engage in the exacting labor of repairing the ties that have been broken"

It'll be so lame if this place goes full Nazi bar. We're running out of text-focused social media sites with enough reach to attract a community of people who (unlike me) study and write and do actually important things. Hell, half the journalists are still stuck at the last Nazi bar. This sucks.

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

and scene

If I was a CEO I would simply log off and roll around in my money

Find the people in your life who will stop you when you are wrecking your own shit like this and cherish them forever.

you put this bullshit in your group chat to your friends where you're complaining about work. that's fine. we do not need to see it. we do not want to see it.

"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it." Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.

The digital panopticon and massive network of gulags party continues to make progress towards its ultimate goal of cheap eggs.

I use social media as a place to freak out about The Horrors without bumming my family out and make stupid jokes without bumming my family out and see other people's cats. (Those I sometimes share with the family.)

Great Chris Murphy quote from our interview: "I would be a sucker to agree to a budget that literally funds an operation to hunt me and my allies down—to imprison us, harass us, intimidate us. If you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness." Tons more like that all throughout:

"For the second year in a row, the cooler months have ushered in a Republican Nazi porn scandal" is transcendently good stuff. Bravo, ten out of ten, no notes.

My 2025 bingo card is just a bunch of black and twisted runes that are strangely painful to look upon. But yeah it might be on there somewhere

she is an incurious bigot whose only talent is syncophancy, and i can only hope her fall is as meteoric as her rise, with an attendant crater at impact

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

Feels like an evil day, relatively speaking. Good luck everyone.

she lives in your computer and talks to you on the screen

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Another series of words that simply never had to be arranged in that particular order. We could've gone all of eternity without that happening.

Anybody who has Worked at Job knows that a halfway-decent office is enough to turn a normal person into a dipshit before the cock crows thrice.

They are drastically overreaching and deeply vulnerable but if nobody stands and fights they will win by default.

They are knocking down doors and dragging screaming kids out into the night. I don't know what to say aside from this is it. This is the goal. They have always wanted to make an example of Chicago and it's not as if they haven't other places & other ways. All of it. This is fascism, plain & simple.

Nature is healing.

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Your daily reminder that Trump's war on Chicago is bad but there are also plenty of officials in Chicago ready to open the gates and point out the dissidents