All I can say about the Maine senate race at this point is that I really, really hope that Platner is who he says he is. Because he's winning that primary.

went outside today

If anyone needs me I’ll be at the Liberty Firearms Institute on Ronald Reagan Boulevard

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Look how much my fiancée loves me

Idk about Murkowski but I guarantee that Collins only voted for this with permission

Remember that the New York Times gave this genuinely pathetic man the ability to set its frontpage for weeks.

You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.

A democratic senator assuring the libs of bluesky that actually democrats right now can use their house and senate minorities to abolish ICE by wishing hard enough because he’s scared about his primary genuinely thinks you are a total moron. Many people seem determined to prove him right!

Man, what the fuck are you talking about?

I really don't think very many people are mad at Schumer et al for not abolishing ICE. They understand how the government works. It's that he has given no indication that he would even if he could.

Lmao they really can’t help themselves, can they?

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I have been a big time Hakeem Hater, so I feel obligated to acknowledge: this is good! Thank you Hakeem!

reading wikipedia's "List of Racial Slurs" every morning to gain a deep understanding of how the other side thinks

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

Retirement should not save him from Appropriate Consequences when this is all over.

CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

This is why it's important to understand that the number one goal of American domestic politics for the rest of our lives is to eviscerate the Republican Party and break the will of its supporters. If you want to restore liberal democracy, this is what it will take.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

He's trying to convince himself. Needs to assuage his own guilt at his contribution

Not sure if I should be bothered by people thinking that ICE is responsible for a murder committed by CBP. If ICE ends up being a colloquial term for all Trump-aligned federal thugs that could end up being useful. Idk though, I’d be curious what others think.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

I’m in a dogshit mood right now (as I’m sure many of you are) so i will be doing my best to enjoy this dinner for two with my fiancée

the mood is not subtle

Man it sucks that sometimes when democrats win we still end up with a Republican. When was the last time this happened to the other side?

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

people worry too much about "rigging the midterms" (a phenomenon that would require force they do not have) with "civil crisis over Congress post-victory"

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

These men have been told they can do whatever they want and they’re selected for depravity. You do the fucking math. They’re going to keep killing people.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Man, this summer could be fucking crazy

I simply think it should be harder to block windfarms without making it easier to build data centers, because we need more windfarms and it is not obvious to me that we need more data centers.

The very obvious choice is to do both and, where possible, combine them into a coherent narrative

I will repeat: It is not obvious, based on the data, that campaigning on the economy in Nov would be significantly more effective than campaigning on immigration. Gov. policy is dramatically out of step with the public on immigration/deportations, and executive overreach is a potent motivator

There's a lot else to say here, and there has been, but when immigrants come here for opportunity or liberty, is it because they're stupid?

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There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.

The American people are almost unfathomably stupid.

You could really just stop at “do republicans have any obligation?” And, for the Atlantic, the answer is clearly no.

I need to read this article so bad, please don’t make me pay for the New Yorker

Check out how just how lifted this pickup truck was:

I dunno man, maybe they were grilling you about it becasue it was one of the most important issues in the election.

So he has finally found a Jew that he likes

JD Vance is a new kind of Republican. This sure as shit ain't your dad's Republican party, oh no! This guy wants to start a pointless war in the middle east!

I remember walking throught the office area for the company I was a delivery driver for in fall 2024 and hearing a woman saying "I really think Trump has changed, he seems way calmer and says less crazy things than in 2016." The media went all out to mislead voters into thinking this, and it worked.