Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
As the fight for democracy goes inward and autocracies gloat, the number of those of us who still demand democracy promotion abroad continues to dwindle… To one. To the last neoconservative.
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Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
I kept waiting for at least a reluctant, cursory throw-in line like, “and of course the descendants of slaves are Americans too,” but nope.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” Gov. JB Pritzker
"We have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear: the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anyone living here."
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
The Ben Franklin saying was about giving up *essential* liberty for a *little temporary* safety, and it wasn't about individual freedom at all. It was about the power of the legislature over an imperious executive controlled by a billionaire.
Bill Belichick thinks 48-14 is unacceptable. Lucky for him the teams didn’t score one more touchdown each because 55-21 would be a healthy adult relationship.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
It's like they forget that video was invented a long time ago
"Be loud for America."
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
There's one region of the world with total fertility rates significantly above replacement, and you can see why Musk wanted to murder all their children.
Vance argued that Americans who trace their ancestry to pre-Civil War have a greater claim to citizenship (slaves’ descendants excluded, natch) and others should be officially second class. He explains his beliefs a lot. But acknowledging it means admitting they’re extreme and no Dem is equivalent.
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
Trump's falling out with Modi is embarrassingly petty "Mr. Modi’s refusal to engage on the Nobel Peace Prize has played an outsize role in the souring relationship between the two leaders."
It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
The president is busy, of course. He is frequently late and it can’t be avoided. But I would expect for this they’d try to keep it to five or ten minutes. They’re a bunch of clowns and amateurs.
Unsurprising, but still total clown shit
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
Amid word of more tariffs - this time on pharmaceuticals - let's remember that one of the biggest "lessons" from COVID ("the dangers of relying on foreign countries in a crisis") is wrong. Dead wrong. standingathwartyellingstop.substack.com/p/medical-pr...
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
The US far left hates the Democratic Party, especially centrist figures such as Joe Biden. The US far right is in control of the Republican Party and US govt, enacting far right policies right now. The party most pundits chastise for indulging extremism is the Democrats. What a massive symmetry.
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
I don't think many undecided voters make up their minds by browsing Bluesky. Sorry, I know that's a controversial thing to say, but I don't think millions of voters are hanging on our posts, especially not the sort of voters who don't pay attention to politics except a bit around election time.
Only the best people.
"Anton has been the perfect man for the assignment. He will be sorely missed." 2/2 www.thebulwark.com/p/michael-an...
What. A. Burn. "To carry out the impossible task of backfitting Trump’s jumbled foreign policy into a coherent national-security-strategy document requires a special kind of mind: one that is both fiercely ideological and outstandingly mediocre." 1/2
This is a fair point. But a lot people - like, say, here - latched on to that. And this is the problem with message discipline: Once the narrative is out there, it can have a lot of sticking power, especially if people keep defending it.
Look, it's a holiday tradition, I understand that :)
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
My frustration with discussions about immigration has always been that so few politicians stand up and just say “actually immigration is good, and giving safe secure routes for asylum seekers is good” and now things just seem to be devolving even further by the day.
Already bad when people in your country try to get you rounded up and kicked out. A foreigner doing it, and stoking the sentiment, including with bigoted lies at scale, because his wealth and media control enables it, is insane. It’s already caused considerable harm, and appears to be getting worse.
If he wrote this entire oped (this “if” is real, the oped is behind a paywall and I haven’t read it) without any mention if the CCP’s allies in the Kremlin making our divisions worse than he really is a moron.
Perhaps Belichick needed Brady a lot more than Brady needed Belichick.
A sad day for the entertainment world. Graham Grrene was not just an indigenous actor, he was an actors actor. He was dramatic, comedic & above all he was believable in each role. RiP - Graham Greene www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
A guy who willingly takes Russia’s money lies. Quelle surprise
A guy who willingly takes Russia’s money lies. Quelle surprise
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
I am not implying it. If you read what he allegedly posted this morning, there's no way he wrote it. It's not the first time. It's been obvious on and off for years. It just gets more scrutiny now.
That’s the thing about Silver. I don’t go to Las Vegas and tell him what to lay on black. But he comes to my place of business and pretends to tell me.
There are two types of liberals. One group recognizes the danger we're in. The other wants to argue that Barry Goldwater was mentally ill.
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: 💰 $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight 📺 A deal for Sesame Street — new episodes and the full archive free to watch. That’s how you pick a side.
Bone-petite!
I’m not saying it’s the film to remember him by. I am saying that even in something like that, he could get the point across.
“You know the next time you people come and drive us off our land I'm gonna find a nice piece of swamp that's so God-awful, maybe then you'll leave us the hell alone.” - as Joseph in Maverick
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
WTF. Like dystopian sci fi come to life.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Trying to understand the physics of how Putin does it with disloyal aides
If I was a foreign invader that wanted to conquer us, I’d put in place a cruel & incompetent government just like this to rip the country apart, so I don’t have to. They’re literally destroying everything great about America, which has been a Russian goal for a long time. Coincidence or orders?
As I said some time ago Washington is a small place, and in certain circles it was not difficult to hear things about Biden’s condition. And this is from more professional and nominally united people with an interest in keeping it down. The ones up there now are a box of ferrets.
I stole the comment of the day. "I’m from San Diego. My mom was back home visiting my grandpa and some lady screamed “Speak English” to a gentleman speaking Spanish. My mom (a stubborn old white lady) goes “Ma’am. Say San Diego in English. I’ll wait. I’m retired and have the time” 😂"
Kevin he couldn't complete a sentence before he got elected, it's just a string of run-ons trailing off into non sequiturs
It’s happening open.substack.com/pub/standing...
We'd go all the way back to the US tariff policy of... 2024. LOL. share.google/Wl2y9fzDRdkA...
There is a certain baseball fan who thinks the new statistics can solve the game. They are a gift, to a point. They can certainly bring you close to it. They can also distance you. You stare at the tree bark, forget the forest. Such is politics. Starmer is the latest and worst recent practitioner.
Yes. Though a little less so now that the US had the brilliant idea to pick fights with both at once, and ma y of their neighbors too, pushing them closer together (but not much, given the broader dynamic).
Your Dad was no prince.
Drawing down our presence in Europe to focus on the Indo-Pacific would reflect a recurring American error: our repeatedly misplaced confidence that we can predict the next war and optimize for it in advance. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/withdrawin...
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Our first Secretary of the Treasury was born in St. Croix.
This is something we could do in VA but nooooo, Governor Fleece thinks he can be president. We need @abigailspanberger.com and we need her now.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Bluesky: Please comment on the plan to issue checks in Gaza Me: [gives views] Bluesky: No, not that, comment on the thing I think is going to happen, not the thing I asked about Not today, kids, I have to go shopping for tech
Paying people to move after destroying their homes? "War crimes," but usually "genocide" doesn't issue checks
Ethnic cleansing is bad no matter who's doing it or to whom it's being done. Any Americans that disagree with this are absolutely inhumane but I guess that goes right along with being part of multiple generations of people who have continually sought to strip certain groups of their humanity.
I think the US government putting out plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza is really bad. I recognize that some Americans like it, while some others think it isn't a relevant change and makes no difference, but I disagree. I think it's bad, worse than what came before.
Peter Theil's influence is going to need to be excised from every corner of US government, and burned away, root and stem. I would argue he's as much a danger to democracy as anyone directly attached to the regime.
The sketchiness is the point. Anything that creates a disincentive to come here - including, “we’ll send you back to the people who will kill you” - is worth it to this crew. They are beyond redemption.
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Insanity Utter insanity
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky url: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
I've already said: War crimes, clearly. But if every instance of large and indiscriminate civilian casualties is "genocide," the word will have less meaning and world leaders will be more reluctant to use it than they already are.
Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
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Germ theory of disease had a good run since the 19th century, but now it's history in the GOP. Forget going to the doctor next time you get sick. RFK Jr will have a kook whip up some spells or incantations for you.
Tough to articulate in words how much I despise these people, and wish every possible negative consequence upon them 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Junior again showing us the extent of his delusional mind
If you're interested in the well being of men, you should be interested in the well being of prisoners, and their ability to move into honorable lives after they get out
This woman is out of her mind
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.