There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

”Free speech culture” means that when a prominent activist calls you a “retarded pussy” you should not call it out because that’s cancel culture. You should just engage in better debate! Try going on a podcast.

Many other states would not recognized free Black people as state citizens at all. The lack of legal citizenship meant that the US State Department refused to give free Black Americans passports saying they were not US citizens. The birthright citizenship was written to clarify Black citizenship. 3/

I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”

Yes! I feel seen

What Rand Paul is doing is what Jim Jordan did to Stanford Internet Observatory. Under the pretext of “oversight“ he can make sweeping requests —w/the intent to harass & chill. The universities can fight. But most are afraid of broader attacks so they quickly comply. www.wired.com/story/senato...

Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.

Embarrassing day for the Coast Guard and our nation.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

The most important thing is not any party winning. Partisanship can distort one’s thinking. The most important thing is the survival of the American republic, which requires two parties committed to liberal democracy. Can’t solve all the other problems we have unless you solve that as well.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

"There are about a thousand of us." Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.

It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.

I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

If they’re going to roll over like this after an electoral blowout less than a week ago, why bother electing Democrats to Congress next year? What would they actually do?

Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.

Finally ?

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

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Tylenol took another one

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Posting this for no reason.

This is sort of perfect distillation of a certain perspective: The Free Press is deeply worried about an election ushering in someone who would put individual rights at risks, to the point people have to hide their identity, while also profiting massively from a President doing exactly that.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

If Dems win 63+ HoD seats, it would be consistent w/ a lot of strong overperformances we've seen for Dems in downballot races so far in '25 and indicate that Dems should be considered favorites for House control in '26.

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Kavanaugh, stop

Yep

Hate to tell you JD, but the thing about your wife that MAGA hates isn’t actually her religion, and it isn’t something you can charm her into converting.

And thou no more art prince than she is queen.

Do what's best for your country and fellow citizen.👊

Ellis is describing the Halloween parade that federal agents disrupted in Old Irving Park. "Their sense of safety was shattered," Ellis said. "It is going to take a long time to come back, if ever."

Context: This isn't just a (rather large) math error. A 2-1 majority opinion cited the bogus stat of the FPS deployment (in June) to justify Trump's troop activation in late September. Turns out, even Trump's DOJ now admits the stat doesn't wash.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Or just one day articles below the fold.

heartbreaking and effective

This.

Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers!

It is impossible to imagine people allowing this to go on (or even participating in it within the government) if he was ordering the murder without any process of French citizens or Brits or Australians on boats no matter what they were alleged to be doing.

DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

For those asking after the woman who was arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest in Fairhope, Alabama, @gambleganders.bsky.social says she was released after being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. I told her I bet Bluesky could find her a lawyer!

Seems like the president and entire cabinet responding to today's rallies by posting straight up 4chan filth would be a major story tomorrow. Anyone care to place any bets

I've never seen and felt as much love for America as we're seeing across the country today.