Again, there is no legislative fix for the magnitude of the authoritarian crimes being committed daily. Everyone is just pretending at this point: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

the best time for universities, law firms, corporations, and the fucking democrats, to oppose trump in every possible way was one year ago, but the second best time would be right now

ARRAKEEN — Baron Vladimir Harkonnen announced today Rabban Harkonnen has been replaced as head of the Arrakis occupation. The Baron has named Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen as the new overlord, promising that the Fremen will come to love him. Chuck Schumer declared victory and voted to fund the Harkonnens.

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

As a libertarian, I think it’s important that Americans understand that if they just do what the government says, they won’t get shot.

Americans must have the right to bear arms so that they can resist tyranny. But if they exercise that right in a time of tyranny, they should expect to be shot and killed.

It's not just that these professional politics observers somehow failed to spot the obvious rise of American nativist thuggery. It's how much energy they devoted to arguing the real problem was the volume, tone, and vocabulary of those raising the alarm about it.

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

Preventing ICE from murdering civilians could have a chilling effect on future presidents’ ability to terrify the nation with a secret police force.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.

"Abolish ICE" is very literally the moderate position

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Style Note | Going forward, we will be referring to Republicans who broadly support Trump's agenda and cult of personality but oppose stealing another country's sovereign territory as "moderates."

i’m fascinated by this new strategy wjere multiple ai company CEOs have been going on tears tours this year so far complaining about how anti ai sentiment has hurt their businesses

"I'm not critical of the King, who is divinely appointed and infallible. I'm critical of his evil advisors"

Bluesky trolling Twitter

ah yes the Four Pillars www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I live in a community where I can't drive to another town to see a movie. Thank goodness we have a good theater here. And ewe go to the movies most anytime we fly out of town. What a doofus.

It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government. by Elon Musk

I'm starting to question this guy's commitment to free speech

Orwell wept.

I have a headache

This is why Shiva is the best summon

I am, in fact, triggered by someone being murdered by the Gestapo and our government lying about it and celebrating the murder. It’s time for decent people to decide where they stand — with the Gestapo and its supporters, the juvenile shitposting government, or with America.

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.” Okay maybe I’ve been doing multiverses a long time. (Also Claremont X-Men was incredible)

Whether it’s the Trump administration launching a political persecution of Jerome Powell or Jerome Powell revealing that Trump is doing this, both sides are to blame for politicizing the Fed.

The only ax to grind that I have is against lazy thinking, of which this post is great example. You are equating the lionization of Mangione by a small number of Americans — in a manner no different from classic veneration of the outlaw — with propaganda in defense of state-sanctioned murder.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Many ICE officers appear to be white supremacists who were unable to obtain jobs in other branches of law-enforcement. Some liberal critics say that’s a bad thing.

The Edge of 47 Donald the white-winged dove is more Stephen Miller than Stevie Nicks. He claims he won 2020 in a landslide, and now Dreams of Greenland—and I don't mean Peter. He nabbed Maduro on drug charges, but I'll bet his gold dust boy Don Jr. has mixed feelings about that. by Maureen Dowd

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Resharing this banger from January 8, 2021

Violent paramilitary organizations are shooting civilians in the face in Minneapolis and we're just supposed to sit here doing our jobs?

I went up to the Hill to ask Mike Johnson what he thought of Trump usurping Congress's powers to invade and occupy Venezuela. He said this was the first he was hearing of the invasion and thus he couldn't comment on it.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

Reposting this January 6 banger.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

When does Trump invade The Netherlands for the tulips?

When this is the third post you see upon logging on, it’s time to just log back off.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

CBS News Exclusive | How did the Department of War enter Venezuela from the Gulf of America? Our team is standing by at the Trump Kennedy Center for updates.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things