The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

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Me 3+ years into my expansionist war of choice against a neighbour 1/10 my size as a nuclear power and permanent UNSC member when things are going well

I hope this is a historic piece of writing. You should read it.

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

just guess

I swear to goodness, every Tuesday keeps giving me too many reasons to repost this. What the heck?

Remember the news from a week ago…. “The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials…”

“The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine.” We can/should apply that approach to working class labor vs capital hoarding schemes.

watched like three seconds of Hegseth and woo call him the Secretary of War cause my boy is bombing hard

Breaking WaPo: Military leaders have raised serious concerns with the Trump admin's new defense strategy — exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership. 
The critiques from multiple top officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

I've been thinking about that Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo. Specifically, how Klein kept saying that Coate's pragmatism in positioning his work in line with those who came before him fighting for rights they knew were unlikely to come to fruition in their lifetimes was depressing /1

doing a big bump and staying up until 4am watching PATTON is not actually dudes rock behavior

For no particular reason*; the story of the palantir's in LoTR is really the story of how anyone can be influenced by propaganda and how even the most well meaning intentions can be twisted by someone willing to do so. *It is pretty fucking relevant right now.

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up 90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

"But federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering. In order to save our services today, we need to send a message to this Administration that enough is enough.”

literally anyone who has done abortion rights work in the last 30+ years could tell you that "destroy science by any means necessary" was the only thing on the bingo card

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

We owe it to this family to keep showing up — like thousands of us did last week, like those of us who engaged in civil disobedience did the week before — for as long as it takes. We will not let violence & cruelty & the lawless abduction of our neighbors go unanswered.

i thought i was pretty well up to speed with how fucking stupid trump is, but i keep getting furious about this all over again. farmers grow crops in large part for export. trump starts global trade war, institutes crippling national sales tax. farmers cant sell crops, get bailed out with sales tax

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

Whatever the Noise was, we all lived through the night, and I can find no evidence of nocturnal shenanigans about the place.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

This feels like a Tim and Eric bit. Him pulling the gun out of the decorative pillow is going to stay with me. I will also be using the phrase "You need to inspect what you expect" until my friends get annoyed.

Just as I was getting ready to put the dogs to bed, there was a Noise. I could not identify the Noise or the source of the Noise, and I am apparently more concerned than the pups. It was a medium-sized, rattley-thumpy-scratchy sort of a Noise, and the hounds seem to think it came from the front.

Sartre writes here about antisemites specifically, but he is referring to the fascist ethos, overarchingly. They key is very much to take them seriously, at their word, when they say ridiculous things, and that's what liberals like Newsom and Jeffries get wrong: they are never just "playing".

Look, folks, James Bond great guy, the best spy, everybody knows it he goes up against this man, Scaramanga. very tough guy, maybe the toughest, they call him the man with the golden gun And it’s not just any gun, by the way, it’s gold solid gold, beautiful, probably worth billions if I had it.

Extremely important Larry Goone update:

I am also amused bc when I saw this video earlier, before the scoring, I said to The Husband 'this looks like some Benny Hill shit'

Meal Team Six is on it

THE MEME IS REAL

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

I feel like billionaires have been radicalized by posting online and hearing what people think of them and the thing is I have been radicalized by their posts and hearing what they think of us

Pictures herein: The dichotomy of man or some such.

sycophants of the failing empire’s rapidly decompensating dictator-aspirant pooled their money & services to provide the old man his own social media platform on which he could play mostly alone, like a shitty brat child mashing buttons to make pretend calls on a death cult themed flintstones phone.

So much of everything these days, besides all the fascism, is just people pining for clearly made-up shit with all the credulity of an 8-year-old. I want a holodeck, I want an AI girlfriend, I want a medbed, I want a Mars colony, like a weird tech-utopian retreat into infantilism

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

The Trump Admin