Adam Bates
@abates.bsky.social
If you're a Democrat, mustn't it bother that your entire party is far to the right of Ronald Reagan and Ammon Bundy on immigrant rights?
Doesn't that seem like something that your party should fix ASAP? Being worse on immigration than the arch-conservative himself and a far right militia leader?
Doesn't that seem like something that your party should fix ASAP? Being worse on immigration than the arch-conservative himself and a far right militia leader?
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
If you're a Democrat, mustn't it bother that your entire party is far to the right of Ronald Reagan and Ammon Bundy on immigrant rights?
Doesn't that seem like something that your party should fix ASAP? Being worse on immigration than the arch-conservative himself and a far right militia leader?
Doesn't that seem like something that your party should fix ASAP? Being worse on immigration than the arch-conservative himself and a far right militia leader?
February 3, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Never change Bari. I sure hope she's keeping up her plans to get GenZ "hip with zionism" thanks to the funky fresh beatz of charisma volcano Alan Dershowitz.
February 3, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Never change Bari. I sure hope she's keeping up her plans to get GenZ "hip with zionism" thanks to the funky fresh beatz of charisma volcano Alan Dershowitz.
November 2028 - GOP HQ - moments after it becomes clear that Pete Buttigieg's campaign platform of "monthly screenings of Hamilton in every concentration camp" somehow failed to resonate with voters.
February 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
November 2028 - GOP HQ - moments after it becomes clear that Pete Buttigieg's campaign platform of "monthly screenings of Hamilton in every concentration camp" somehow failed to resonate with voters.
Honestly, if someone even sorta resists the proposition that law enforcement shouldn't be allowed to cover their faces and refuse to ever identify themselves, you can just end the interaction right there.
If secret police isn't a red line for them then there's nowhere for the conversation to go.
If secret police isn't a red line for them then there's nowhere for the conversation to go.
February 1, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Honestly, if someone even sorta resists the proposition that law enforcement shouldn't be allowed to cover their faces and refuse to ever identify themselves, you can just end the interaction right there.
If secret police isn't a red line for them then there's nowhere for the conversation to go.
If secret police isn't a red line for them then there's nowhere for the conversation to go.
January 31, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The transparent money laundering/bribery behind this shitty Melania doc really is a sign of decline.
In the old days, a restaurant that fronted for the mob or some lebanese militia would at least also have the decency to cook you amazing food. There used to be a little thing called honor.
In the old days, a restaurant that fronted for the mob or some lebanese militia would at least also have the decency to cook you amazing food. There used to be a little thing called honor.
January 30, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The transparent money laundering/bribery behind this shitty Melania doc really is a sign of decline.
In the old days, a restaurant that fronted for the mob or some lebanese militia would at least also have the decency to cook you amazing food. There used to be a little thing called honor.
In the old days, a restaurant that fronted for the mob or some lebanese militia would at least also have the decency to cook you amazing food. There used to be a little thing called honor.
The woman who wrote this article should be a nobel laureate or something.
www.vulture.com/article/slop...
www.vulture.com/article/slop...
We Slopped Some Steaks I Think You Should Leave Style
Sloppy steaks: Piece-of-shit food or actually good? Or … both?
www.vulture.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The woman who wrote this article should be a nobel laureate or something.
www.vulture.com/article/slop...
www.vulture.com/article/slop...
8 years after Frederick Douglass gave this speech, Congress passed the first major federal immigration restriction, banning Chinese women from the United States.
People want to talk about whether US immigration policy has become racist. My question: when did it ever stop?
People want to talk about whether US immigration policy has become racist. My question: when did it ever stop?
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
8 years after Frederick Douglass gave this speech, Congress passed the first major federal immigration restriction, banning Chinese women from the United States.
People want to talk about whether US immigration policy has become racist. My question: when did it ever stop?
People want to talk about whether US immigration policy has become racist. My question: when did it ever stop?
Reposted by Adam Bates
He hates federalism for the same reason he hates free speech, civil society, most pop culture, and the Constitution. He fundamentally, deep in his bones in a way he could never coherently articulate, is animated by all-consuming hatred for the idea that anybody doesn't have to do what he commands.
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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January 28, 2026 at 5:04 PM
He hates federalism for the same reason he hates free speech, civil society, most pop culture, and the Constitution. He fundamentally, deep in his bones in a way he could never coherently articulate, is animated by all-consuming hatred for the idea that anybody doesn't have to do what he commands.
Profiles in leadership:
Ilhan Omar, after being assaulted: I will fight these assholes with my bare hands if that's what it takes, we're never backing down.
Tim Walz, from his cozy office: I'm willing to give Trump, Miller, and Tom Homan the benefit of the doubt that they won't be mean anymore.
Ilhan Omar, after being assaulted: I will fight these assholes with my bare hands if that's what it takes, we're never backing down.
Tim Walz, from his cozy office: I'm willing to give Trump, Miller, and Tom Homan the benefit of the doubt that they won't be mean anymore.
January 28, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Profiles in leadership:
Ilhan Omar, after being assaulted: I will fight these assholes with my bare hands if that's what it takes, we're never backing down.
Tim Walz, from his cozy office: I'm willing to give Trump, Miller, and Tom Homan the benefit of the doubt that they won't be mean anymore.
Ilhan Omar, after being assaulted: I will fight these assholes with my bare hands if that's what it takes, we're never backing down.
Tim Walz, from his cozy office: I'm willing to give Trump, Miller, and Tom Homan the benefit of the doubt that they won't be mean anymore.
"There's no place for politics in art and also putting Dear Leader's name on the building wasn't political anyway" is just a perfect encapsulation of how these people see the world.
January 28, 2026 at 2:05 AM
"There's no place for politics in art and also putting Dear Leader's name on the building wasn't political anyway" is just a perfect encapsulation of how these people see the world.
Reposted by Adam Bates
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
Imagine insisting this about ICE jackboots but denying it about immigrants.
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Imagine insisting this about ICE jackboots but denying it about immigrants.
The desire to keep re-litigating your massive L in general is understandable, if childish.
When combined with the fact you took this specific L because you ran a candidate who gloried in genocide and explicitly promised to be tougher against immigrants than Trump, it becomes absolutely deranged.
When combined with the fact you took this specific L because you ran a candidate who gloried in genocide and explicitly promised to be tougher against immigrants than Trump, it becomes absolutely deranged.
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The desire to keep re-litigating your massive L in general is understandable, if childish.
When combined with the fact you took this specific L because you ran a candidate who gloried in genocide and explicitly promised to be tougher against immigrants than Trump, it becomes absolutely deranged.
When combined with the fact you took this specific L because you ran a candidate who gloried in genocide and explicitly promised to be tougher against immigrants than Trump, it becomes absolutely deranged.
lollll. Dipping into your rerun archives because there's nothing going on in America that Bari Weiss thinks is worth covering.
January 26, 2026 at 2:23 PM
lollll. Dipping into your rerun archives because there's nothing going on in America that Bari Weiss thinks is worth covering.
January 25, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Oh good, the guy who ordered the process-free executions of multiple US citizens (and innumerable foreign citizens) never charged with a crime thinks this stuff is bad. Glad we get to hear from you buddy.
January 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Oh good, the guy who ordered the process-free executions of multiple US citizens (and innumerable foreign citizens) never charged with a crime thinks this stuff is bad. Glad we get to hear from you buddy.
As God is my witness, I am asking the Pope to commission a new Crusade against the word "appears"
January 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
As God is my witness, I am asking the Pope to commission a new Crusade against the word "appears"
Your analysis finds that the video APPEARS to show it @cnn.com?
Well keep fucking analyzing then. Analyze it until you can state the plain objective fact that it didn't just APPEAR to happen, but actually, objectively DID happen. Jesus Christ.
Well keep fucking analyzing then. Analyze it until you can state the plain objective fact that it didn't just APPEAR to happen, but actually, objectively DID happen. Jesus Christ.
January 25, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Your analysis finds that the video APPEARS to show it @cnn.com?
Well keep fucking analyzing then. Analyze it until you can state the plain objective fact that it didn't just APPEAR to happen, but actually, objectively DID happen. Jesus Christ.
Well keep fucking analyzing then. Analyze it until you can state the plain objective fact that it didn't just APPEAR to happen, but actually, objectively DID happen. Jesus Christ.
BlueMAGA just gonna keep re-living the genocidal L forever.
"Don't you wish you'd voted for genocide" will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, make more sense than "don't you wish you hadn't run on genocide?"
Nobody in history has tried to be smugger about such a colossal moral and political failure.
"Don't you wish you'd voted for genocide" will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, make more sense than "don't you wish you hadn't run on genocide?"
Nobody in history has tried to be smugger about such a colossal moral and political failure.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
BlueMAGA just gonna keep re-living the genocidal L forever.
"Don't you wish you'd voted for genocide" will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, make more sense than "don't you wish you hadn't run on genocide?"
Nobody in history has tried to be smugger about such a colossal moral and political failure.
"Don't you wish you'd voted for genocide" will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, make more sense than "don't you wish you hadn't run on genocide?"
Nobody in history has tried to be smugger about such a colossal moral and political failure.