I get kind of dubious about what I feel is increasingly hyperbolic hype around Mamdani, go to Twitter to check something, see what they’re saying about him, and come back ready to join an extralegal paramilitary for him. Negative polarization in action. Just the most disgusting shit.

Worth mentioning too: Border Patrol is *insanely* corrupt. Here is one of the many, many, many stories about them www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Like she was bragging on insta about a completely irrelevant question she asked the orange god king and man am I close to breaking my professional courtesy policy

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

can't argue with this tbh

YUP. Yup yup yup. Not just human services in places like Massachusetts, but other industries as well. In DC a HUGE portion of the construction workforce is Salvadorans with TPS, and they've had it for 24 years so it's senior machine operators and managers — people who are HARD to replace.

this has been one of the things that’s genuinely driven me to the point of gibbering madness (and rage)

Fell For It Again Medal of Honor 🫡

I support chaos

For me argentina is the easiest one because there's 40 million people on SNAP and we're giving milei 40 billion. "The president could give every hungry family a thousand dollars right now but he's giving it to argentina instead for no reason at all. He hates america"

The Trump white house being genuinely shocked that there’s more rural poor white people on food stamps than not is peak ”live by the spectacle die by the spectacle” lmfao

This is normal post stroke follow up, sometimes on a 30 - 60 - 90 day schedule. You get an MRI for post stroke because you’re measuring infarcted tissue, which is not evident on CT scan. He’s exhibiting something called recrudescence, or a reemergence of symptoms after the initial stroke.

Very convincing thread arguing the President had a stroke that is being covered up.

Jake Tapper you little bitch, come out here and explain why it's not a big deal that the President is talking about how taking the Montreal Cognitive Test is "very hard".

dude holy fuck this country's cooked

once again, i think electoral college maps shape people's sense of political reality in incredibly destructive ways

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

That's weird because I remember certain legal commenters reassuring us repeatedly that Cannon was not mustache-twirlingly evil

Lawyer Brain as national security vulnerability

Hatch Act violation Don't mind me, just cataloguing

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

That theory is wildly wrong (a VP candidate has to be eligible to become president) but why are you tossing him suggestions for how he can violate the Constitution? Who asked this? Is this what we can expect from the new and improved White House press corps?

Do you hear the people sing?

I own an anti-satellite missile system because that’s what Thomas Jefferson intended Four GLONASS satellites are visible above my house. “what the devil” I say grabbing my powdered wig and RIM-161 launcher.

It's a neat idea, but the flow of food from grocery stores exceeds the flow of donations to food banks by several orders of magnitude, so thats_where_youre_wrong_kiddo.wav

trump's invulnerability primarily functions through the consensus that he is invulnerable

chat

this is where i reaffirm my commitment to shitposting by saying that bakunin is primarily a shitlib on most issues [complimentary]

donald trump isn't planning on leaving but he's not planning on dying, either

Suggesting SNAP be replaced with food banks is a proposal of equivalent seriousness to that anarchist thread a few years back suggesting that global insulin supply chains could be replaced by supporting “rural doctors and healers”

Chat, it’s my first time playing Regime Consolidation. Should I do bread riots, or no?

as in the first admin, i don’t really understand the purpose of inviting these people to your show to lie to you and insult your intelligence

letting SNAP expire right before thanksgiving and right as health care premiums skyrocket, on paper, seems like the kind of thing destined to be the downfall of a regime, setting aside that it’s gonna be a very thin christmas for a lot of people because of tariffs

There are two options here: (1) we will break them such that they spend the rest of their lives swearing up and down that they didn’t say or believe any of this; or (2) they will destroy America

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the american financial elite, all at once, had abandoned capitalism in an attempt to purchase the power of the state.

the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.

We're gonna need a Brown Scare after all this is done. People like this guy should be made into paupers.

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

*whispers* he wasn't elected president "President" is not what he was elected to

Among other things I mean he cannot lawfully be president, under the same law that creates the office

re: trump polling at only -3 on crime, I want to once again remind everyone that we have *virtually zero* visibility on what is happening the personal belongings and property of every immigrant that is black bagged and disappeared. The apartments, homes, and businesses that are found empty.

Lot of good Monsters died in the trenches. Field Rations Monster. Bully Beef Monster. Morphine Monster was never the same.

Very cool to own a genuine NYC subway sign—thank you to Andrew Stern for buying this for me and to Amtrak for helping get it to DC Now to find a way to hang this monster up lol

this is in fact exactly why you stay non-violent and disciplined, so that this isn't just seen as pushing and shoving and instead the unlawful assault by the state that it is

Read the Doc's essay. #FourFreedomsForFreedom #WideAwakes @harveyjkaye.bsky.social @djinnandtonic.bsky.social @proleftpodcast.bsky.social @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social FDR's Four Freedoms and the Vanishing Middle Class open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.