We’ve created a system in which there’s no disincentive stopping a shameless, power mad administration from doing this. At worst, they get struck down in court and they get to ruin a lot of people in the process. But civil, criminal liability for this sort of abuse of power are nonstarters.

They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

Ruth Abah, 28, no longer walks to her local church, St. Paul's, which now lies in ashes. Instead, the mother of two locks her doors and prays with her children, fearful the next attack could come at any moment.

I'm more concerned with the fact that they're using the gallery to spread an unhinged conspiracy theory that's setting the stage for lawlessness. They want a pretext to disregard laws signed by Biden, so they claim they're invalid because autopen.

A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs: "One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."

The White House looking at an "'ANTI-ICE' bullets" news cycle on one hand and a "UN escalator malfunction" news cycle on the other and deciding to go all in on the escalator malfunction news cycle suggests even they detect a flimsiness in the "'ANTI-ICE' bullets" narrative.

If you don’t follow what’s happening in state budgets you should probably start. These headlines are *bleak*. This is going to really bite soon. From the National Association of State Budget Officers’ newsletter.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

"Despite all that our people have suffered, we reject what Hamas carried out on the seventh of October. These actions that targeted Israeli civilians and took them hostage… do not represent the Palestinian people, nor do they represent their just struggle for freedom and independence."

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

If, at any point, you enjoyed Avengers Academy and/or want more like it, this is one of the ways consumers can reach out to publishing companies and distributors. Sometimes it's one of the only ways we have to support queer content.

I think the massacres of the white population in San Domingue a reasonable though immoral reaction to a century's worth of violence by them and upon their behalf and the United States reaction to our revolutionary brothers in Haiti is among our most embarrassing instances of racism over ideology

people do not really understand that once a movement's popularity starts falling towards the 30% mark, it begins shedding even core supporters. this is because you can no longer maintain the information environment inside that core. there are just too many leaks.

It's unusual for Presidents to give medical advise. But this week President Trump told parents to delay giving their kids a hep b shot until they turn 12. Doctors say this is bad and dangerous advice.

I think a lot of people jumped on the MAHA train early because "healthier" sounds good, without really knowing what it means, only to find out pretty quickly that this guy wants children to die

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

Unless the FBI releases more evidence to the public, people are going to doubt anything they and what little of his online profile we have suggests a dude who fried his brain by being terminally online. Nothing in the public's knowledge currently suggests a traditional ideological motive like this.

Someone wrote this week, maybe on here, that this administration is best explained through a framework of domestic abuse. Watching agents of the state lash out like this makes that insight seem spot the f–– on.

i understand the urge to be snarky and cynical about this, believe me. i feel it too. but if there is any hope at all or palestinians, no matter how desperate, it is in people like this changing their minds and saying so.

I’m telling you, political violence is the new school shooting - angry and nihilistic young men doing violence for attention. Our years of lead aren’t ideological, they’re byproducts of the attention economy.

CHOTINER: And what's this big pile here ME: Books I haven't read yet CHOTINER: But you're at the bookstore buying more? ME: The other ones weren't the right ones CHOTINER: And these books you're buying now, they're the right ones? ME: That's complicated CHOTINER: In what way?

CHOTINER: ME: CHOTINER: ME: CHOTINER: ME: CHOTINER: So you don’t really do— ME: I’ve never really done much of anything, no

meanwhile on the handbasket:

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

Family members of a passenger who died in the January collision are suing American Airlines, PSA Airlines, and the federal government. It's the first of what could be dozens of lawsuits.

President of Slovenia: “We didn't stop the Holocaust, we didn't stop the genocide in Rwanda, the genocide in Srebrenica. We must stop the genocide in Gaza. No excuses"

i keep saying this but there's a way in which the Podcaster Regime and their inability to close their mouths may give at least some individual defendants or litigants some real gifts. this is smart lawyering

and they call everyone else snowflakes lol they’re all the weakest people ever

the lessons we are teaching the world right now include truth does not exist, accountability does not exist, corruption is fine, wanton and brazen state murders are fine, laws aren't real, and there is no rule that cannot be broken. unqualified to lead anything

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Can emphasize enough what a ridiculous show of force this is for immigration enforcement.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

In a statement released today, the autistic population explained: “Lol have you ever got a single fact wrong around one of us?” We will keep fighting - and so should you: www.patreon.com/posts/116939...

If you include OEM frames this is, well, all of the bikes. I wouldn’t exclude the possibility they are indeed using debt peonage labor, but I do not think this is why they’re doing it - combo of shaking down Taiwan and culture war stuff.

Babe wake up a new way to spell Qaddafi just dropped

I’d seen the nutty excerpts of Miller’s speech at Kirk’s memorial, but hadn’t seen the whole thing. It’s easily the most unhinged, unapologetically fascist rhetoric I’ve ever seen from someone in US government. It’s more of a discount, Dwight Schrute Goebbels than Goebbels. But still.

For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.

The thing about Labour levelling up and giving money to ‘smarten up town centres” is that you can paint a shop all you like but if people have no money to spend in a shop because their bills are too high and shopkeepers can’t afford the rent then your town centre will remain desolate

Angela McArdle comes out as a white nationalist. McArdle is the former chair of the Libertarian National Committee who was forced to resign after evidence of her embezzlement through a shell company created by her domestic partner was revealed. She also sold out the Libertarian Party to MAGA.

CHOTINER: Let's change the subject for a minute STEPHEN A. SMITH: This isn't about the Crab Rangoon business, is it? CHOTINER: Interesting you'd jump to that STEPHEN A. SMITH: To me, that's preposterous

GOP attorneys general dispute climate science, urge end to greenhouse gas regs Kentucky AG Russell Coleman joins Trump to ‘stop the madness’ @liamniemeyer.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/09/23/g...

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

these guys don’t even notice when school shootings happen, unless they think they can troll the libs with it

like, try to picture vance giving a heartfelt compassionate speech in the wake of a deadly hurricane. it’s impossible. he is utterly without compassion for anyone, which makes him profoundly unfit for office

i would honestly love to see pritzker or walz or some other governor give a speech focused on the idea of civic responsibility and the responsibility of leaders to behave with decorum and professionalism

He felt humiliated in front of the people around him and is lashing out

BBC News - 'I'm heartbroken kids racially abused me on train' www.bbc.com/news/article...