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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
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At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"
January 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"
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He really is doing all of it.
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
He really is doing all of it.
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This is a week old but still holds up.
One thing to add: DOJ investigated Babbitt's killing at some length. Bondi ordered prosecutors NOT to investigate Good's. (She's now claiming that she fired the AUSAs who resigned in response, which may be a tactical lie.)
One thing to add: DOJ investigated Babbitt's killing at some length. Bondi ordered prosecutors NOT to investigate Good's. (She's now claiming that she fired the AUSAs who resigned in response, which may be a tactical lie.)
"Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."
The Distance Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism
It’s not a hypocrisy. It’s a coherent worldview.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 AM
This is a week old but still holds up.
One thing to add: DOJ investigated Babbitt's killing at some length. Bondi ordered prosecutors NOT to investigate Good's. (She's now claiming that she fired the AUSAs who resigned in response, which may be a tactical lie.)
One thing to add: DOJ investigated Babbitt's killing at some length. Bondi ordered prosecutors NOT to investigate Good's. (She's now claiming that she fired the AUSAs who resigned in response, which may be a tactical lie.)
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Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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"for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions — in his case, owning the libs...Where there are words at all, they are but a way to express a meme, a vibe, an aesthetic.
Killing in the name of… nothing
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
buff.ly
December 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions — in his case, owning the libs...Where there are words at all, they are but a way to express a meme, a vibe, an aesthetic.
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When the date is going well.
December 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When the date is going well.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
I'm not sure that I particularly appreciate the Avatar movies, but he's right.
Avatar is, in key ways, more closely related to experimental cinema than regular, narrative, Hollywood cinema, and the best way to get into experimental cinema is dispensing with the notion of narrative satisfaction and just letting the images and sounds do things to you
December 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I'm not sure that I particularly appreciate the Avatar movies, but he's right.
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Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.
🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.
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I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I mean, if you make a series of movies that neither has significant cultural impact nor leaves any residue on the memory track, and yet still reliably convinces audiences to return to the tune of $2 billion per installment, is it possible that "cultural impact" is overvalued/irrelevant as a metric
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One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this.
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
December 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this.
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).
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Someone out there is going to take a timed break from running a content farm, read this, and get a faraway look for a second.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Someone out there is going to take a timed break from running a content farm, read this, and get a faraway look for a second.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conten...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conten...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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"Breaking precedent, networks interrupt prime time for Trump political diatribe." popular.info/p/breaking-p...
I wouldn't mind the networks prime timing his talking points if they explained what they're doing. Just say, "'ordinarily we wouldn't, but we have changed."
Or better: he has changed us.
I wouldn't mind the networks prime timing his talking points if they explained what they're doing. Just say, "'ordinarily we wouldn't, but we have changed."
Or better: he has changed us.
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"Breaking precedent, networks interrupt prime time for Trump political diatribe." popular.info/p/breaking-p...
I wouldn't mind the networks prime timing his talking points if they explained what they're doing. Just say, "'ordinarily we wouldn't, but we have changed."
Or better: he has changed us.
I wouldn't mind the networks prime timing his talking points if they explained what they're doing. Just say, "'ordinarily we wouldn't, but we have changed."
Or better: he has changed us.
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It's very cool that the Supreme Court invented a political system that gives these lunatics unlimited influence.
Miriam Adelson encourages Trump to serve an illegal third term during a Hanukkah celebration at the White House. The crowd chants "four more years!"
December 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's very cool that the Supreme Court invented a political system that gives these lunatics unlimited influence.
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Seemingly making common cause with the murderer, as well.
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Seemingly making common cause with the murderer, as well.
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Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Reminder that Adolph Hitler, the Ayatollah Khamenei and Vlad Putin were all Time's People of the Year, so you can decide for yourself on which side of the split this grouping fits
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Zack has done the work, he knows. We are already building a liberal pipeline, and have been for years. Help us build it into something big enough to move the politics of this country gofund.me/a2497ae62
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Zack has done the work, he knows. We are already building a liberal pipeline, and have been for years. Help us build it into something big enough to move the politics of this country gofund.me/a2497ae62
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You're the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men, I'm the guy providing emotional support for the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men via a gentle hand on the shoulder, we are not the same (I'm your rock)
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
You're the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men, I'm the guy providing emotional support for the guy running the vomit machine on acclaimed television series Mad Men via a gentle hand on the shoulder, we are not the same (I'm your rock)
I know this seems trivial but just the... Inescapably half-assed nature of everything these days is driving me to despair.
A decade ago, my feeling was
"All of us, the whole species is going to need to band together and focus if we're going to make it through"
Suffice to say, we are not doing that.
A decade ago, my feeling was
"All of us, the whole species is going to need to band together and focus if we're going to make it through"
Suffice to say, we are not doing that.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I know this seems trivial but just the... Inescapably half-assed nature of everything these days is driving me to despair.
A decade ago, my feeling was
"All of us, the whole species is going to need to band together and focus if we're going to make it through"
Suffice to say, we are not doing that.
A decade ago, my feeling was
"All of us, the whole species is going to need to band together and focus if we're going to make it through"
Suffice to say, we are not doing that.
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“Progslop” is the assertion southern white people would vote for socialists if they heard their message about universal healthcare.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Progslop” is the assertion southern white people would vote for socialists if they heard their message about universal healthcare.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
“Modslop” is the assertion Dems could win southern white people if they spent their whole campaigns reacting to Republican talking points.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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This prick ripped off regular Americans, he stole millions from middle class/working class folks. And Trump pardons him. Don’t ever again tell me Trump gives a flying fuck about middle class folks. He never has.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This prick ripped off regular Americans, he stole millions from middle class/working class folks. And Trump pardons him. Don’t ever again tell me Trump gives a flying fuck about middle class folks. He never has.