thank you to @savithry.bsky.social and daniel from @becauselanguage.com for joining trent and me in our discussion of possible word of the year candidates for 2025! youtu.be/LHWMXXIVSF0?...

you don’t say!!!! youtu.be/lp8SeaO_gTc?...

@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social, @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and me discuss AI as a political project here, and get into that particular question of terror-production, too

It’s true! @liberalcurrents.com and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I can attest to this!

"They were like, OK, so Donnie, we're going to let you fire basically anyone you want except the Fed. Don't mess with the Fed. And like a 5 year old child being told not to touch the stove, Trump was like, well, obviously I'm going to mess with the Fed." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

i don’t need generative AI to write a song, all i have to do is write a little bit of a song and then harass all my friends who are better at music than me about what i should do

We're releasing another installment in our "Who the Hell?" series on Monday. Join us as we retrace the life and career of Steven Crowder, from the time he did a yogurt tubes commercial to modern scandals that demolished his reputation. Feat @thancrowder.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/078-wh...

On @halftheanswer.bsky.social, @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social were very excited to have @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on to talk about how the judiciary has fared under the second Trump term, and why www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

This week in Liberal Currents: We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...

If you did not read Audrey Lee's dispatch from the Portland ICE facility protests yet, I highly recommend it www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...

very normal news updates

"John Roberts thought he could do both. Like, he could be the institutionalist while day-to-day, he could chip away at people's rights and implement his vision for the law." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Isn't it wild? It is an image I just can get over, members of our society's underclass shackled on a luxury jet. I've talked about it on @halftheanswer.bsky.social and It Could Happen Here, and that Zeteo piece, etc.

Thanks to everyone on here who contributed to this newsletter! theracket.news/p/wanted-an-...

Very stoked that @chrisgeidner.bsky.social came on to talk with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social

Incorrect I am not in the files actually lol none of my homies are in the files

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do’ll make him feel rich.”

Half the Answer #63: Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights? What are judges and lawmakers doing to defend those rights?

More from @awkwardlyaudrey.bsky.social here with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I via @halftheanswer.bsky.social

And of course @gbrockell.bsky.social was on just last week to go into ICE Air and so much other nefariousness well you’ll just have to watch/listen to see for yourself now won’t you?

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social came on an discussed this very topic and her book not so long ago! youtu.be/aHt1JVMWObg?...

Love a good crossover with two friends of @halftheanswer.bsky.social!

beloved guest audrey lee! youtu.be/J8PJBGMsY9U?...

i don’t want to go back to how things were before the armed freaks started publicly and aggressively throwing people in vans and assaulting the public. i want something better than what we had

after tear gassing small children and babies in their strollers, feds are still mocking the protesters who occupy the ICE facility in portland oregon, including grinning at @halftheanswer.bsky.social guest audrey lee and jeering “you’re gonna need that helmet” they’re so happy with themselves

Straight barbarism that this is even a possible circumstance in the US

now let’s get all the kids out of detention. the adults too

We had such a brilliant chat w @gbrockell.bsky.social and look forward to another with this brilliant @motherjones.com work out and available for all to read! In our discussion we did get into ICE flights, billionaire private jets and what it means to be a journalist and a human person too lol

what kind of fun

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Before everyone gets too excited (too late) I believe he still faces the murder charge in state court (which is where murder cases tend to actually happen)

good to know our crazed woke rantings about pinker’s rhetoric facilitating the slide into fascism were totally unfounded

Criminal stuff

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

Talked about all of this and a lot of other ICE Air stuff on @halftheanswer.bsky.social yesterday, check it out. youtu.be/8D4zqydsPsM?...

This is one of the jets Daedalus Aviation bought for DHS. Turned over the “keys” to CBP a few weeks ago. Avelo 737s they bought are getting new paint jobs rn. Then maybe new N-numbers, bc Daedalus already reserved 472US-479US. 47. Yup. If you know how this jet is being crewed, msg me on Signal!🙏

It was, in fact, not their “city” at all

This was a great conversation, and I really appreciate @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social letting me go in-depth on what Trump’s “deportation machine” is doing to the people on ICE flights, and the sorta wrestling match I’ve had with “interference” in journalism recently.

New #HTA w @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social via @liberalcurrents.com featuring the great @gbrockell.bsky.social. ICE Air, these flights across the country or world to the most hellish places on earth, accountability in journalism, and billionaire greed all got covered!

hard to overstate how much i would like for every individual who wears one of these patches on their uniform to experience consequences commensurate with their daily abuse of power

I want to expand on something Steve's piece mentioned: Not only is federal prosecution a nonstarter in this environment, the Supreme Court made even civil recourse unavailable at the fed level, too one of my first published pieces was on this exact subject www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Primary them all, including Old Tom from my childhood

Once again reminding everyone that we not only have to abolish ICE and border patrol an DHS but also these folks gotta be held to account. To hold these people accountable for wrongdoings would be a precedent worth, for once, setting

Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous

they are really going with “brandishing a gun” they are showing video that includes an agent casually holding alex’s gun before he’s shot and they figure they can get away with it by frontloading the thing with text that tells you what you should see before the video can show you the opposite

emotionally, mentally, i am not having a good time. maybe i will be able to put it into the music. come find out if you’re near the wine tasting room at mcmenamins edgefield tonight

"ICE is a criminal organization"