there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.

everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

It may not be looking at you now, but the machine WILL turn its focus on you or those you care about, and at that point it may be too late.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly

Nothing good ever happens quickly, yet bad things happen quickly all the time. It's hard not to be demoralized in the face of overwhelming evil.

You have to stand firm.

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

It may not be looking at you now, but the machine WILL turn its focus on you or those you care about, and at that point it may be too late.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

They could just pull a Jamal Khashoggi on Mamdani today and at this point and the right will be talking like the Saudis

Some of you guys are judging Olivia Nuzzi so harshly. How was she supposed to resist when RFK Jr called her and made those dial up modem noises

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