👇🎯 Chief Keyser Söze‘s greatest trick has been convincing the world that actual John Roberts, lifelong political operative, doesn’t exist
👇🎯 Chief Keyser Söze‘s greatest trick has been convincing the world that actual John Roberts, lifelong political operative, doesn’t exist
R. As we do put our trust in thee.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
vibe check on the american polity
“A man is dead!” “The train is fine.”
In America gambling companies fund public transit instead of state governments
In early 2020 I began a research project on the history of the far right/fascism in Oregon & the US more broadly. The primary & secondary source reading I've done for that project prepared me for this moment in that it provided an ever more finely-grained picture of the freight train barreling at us
No one did more to make the Epstein scandal a central political issue than Donald Trump. But as soon as his minions opened them and confirmed — as AG Bondi did — that Trump’s name is in them, he did a 180 to insist it’s all irrelevant.
The next 3.5 years will be a race to see which feature of Trumpism will triumph--incompetence or malevolence.
Genuinely impressed to which this government is committed to alienating every constituency in America while also remaining laser focused on increasing the cost of living
"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation.”
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
There aren’t enough Nurembergs in the world for all the Trials that will be needed when this regime is out of power again
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
would it be a good thing if the next Democratic admin prosecuted Farage for lying under oath? no would it be extremely funny? yes
As a connoisseur of Gadsden Flag references, today's Trump email offers a fascinating and revelatory one. This message, from "I AM DONALD J. TRUMP" asks people to support his use of the military to occupy American cities--because, you know, "Don't Tread on Me!" "Our troops will keep you safe!"
He even runs his own “academic” imprint that published stuff like Erick Ybarra’s 800pp+ autodidactic shlock on the papacy as if it were a scholarly work. The whole ecosystem is grift all the way down.
"Online Catholicism" where the parish priest can't not be trusted on the teachings of the Catholic Church.
…unsingable, terrible faux-folk music that is still regnant in most parishes, and got nothing of the grandiose “New Springtime” promises in return.
Not that there wasn’t plenty of room for good reform. There obviously was. For instance, the 1965 missal mostly in the vernacular? Terrific. But we went way overboard, sunk years into creating a completely new liturgical edifice, destroyed a bunch of churches and art, created a new regime of…
The big vaunted reforms took place, and decades later, Catholics still can’t sing, and no more than 11% or so still regularly attend mass. People are still leaving, vocations are in the toilet. We chucked a many-centuries-old artistic and cultural inheritance of pretty much nothing in return.
Just found out St John’s Abbey / Liturgical Press is shutting down “Worship,” the flagship journal of the American liturgical movement, after 100 years in October 2026. Probably for the better. Not much more to say on liturgics. The RCC has analyzed it all to death with little to show for it.
One of the weirdest things about this presidency is how everything is both pure performance and also deadly serious. They do performative bits until they become reality
But jokes aside yeah the Neo-Nazis are bad. Although it’s some small consolation that they are so emboldened as to so easily reveal themselves
In fact, both 100% man and 100% God
Now we know that “they should just get in line and do it the legal way” had a quiet part following, “… so that we can more easily grab them out of the line and put them in concentration camps”
I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
Remember JD Vance refusing to correct himself when called out for calling legal Haitian workers in Springfield, OH (of faux-pet-eating fame) "illegals"
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
It was absolutely never ever about "doing it the right way" www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
"DEI" with a hard "r"
One thing I remember from dying Twitter was the endless senseless replies you'd see on any tweet that did big numbers Just a million paid-for bluechecks posting 🤣 boosted to the top of the replies
Every GOP accusation is a confession "Marxist takeover of the economy" = sovereign wealth fund, takeover of private shares, new global trade regime "FEMA camps" = Alligator Alcatraz et al "OccupyDC" = NG & Federal LEO occupying DC "academic censorship" = crackdowns on Harvard, Columbia et al
Pritzker should also be prepared to block roads and cut off water and electricity from buildings occupied by invading troops.
Aside, the people who will suffer the most in the long run are those tax-free kids who will grow up in a shithole left behind by Orban's kleptocracy, as he has been systematically destroying public education (both K-12 and higher ed), health care, and infrastructure while enriching his family & pals
Yeah but on the other hand, Hungarians aren't Black
tbh i'm deeply amused how we went from accusations of welfare queen stuff in the 70s/80s to this
Wow, House Republicans are going to a lot of trouble not to force the release of the real Epstein files. The real files, the ones that we know Donald Trump features in, since FBI agents working at the direction of Bondi and Patel spent a lot of time redacting his name.
The Washington Post -- Völkischer Beobachter 2: Electric Boogaloo Edition
Office of Readings today goes unbelievably hard
texas is set to begin military occupation of the largest city in illinois, at the expressly illegal order of the president
"region A sends troops to region B to control their populace by intimidation and force, against region B's will" I'm not a political knower but events like this are usually given names like "invasion" are they not
i need Lore
if "texas is sending its military to illinois, to occupy chicago" had happened in 1861 you would be like, oh, yeah, the beginning of the civil war. of course
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Oh they listened to Yoda. They did, there was no try
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
Paxton must have "forgotten" Matt. 6:5-6, KJV "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward...
"If you do not see Christ in the face of the beggar outside the church doors, you will look for him in vain in the chalice." (St. John Chrysostom)
Thankfully, pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses. Hopefully he has learned to control the input
i love how this would be extremely orientalist if not coming out of the mouth of Xi Jinping
I read this while imagining you [SEETHING]
Should've listened to your old pal Nwabudike, "The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant"
"They say you can't talk about rednecks unless you are one, and... I are one" (Jeff Foxworthy)
This is the only political compass I recognize.
"Three rounds of interrogation lasted 10 hours, before Gu was told he was to be deported. No specific reason was given, he said, and the removal paperwork he provided to AP indicated inadequate documentation." dailynous.com/2025/09/02/p...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
A Democratic and a Republican lawmaker team up to propose a bill to ban masked law enforcement in Oregon. The Republican, Cyrus Javadi, is a total outlier in his party and is facing a recall effort. Regardless, a glimmer of GOP sanity. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...
Chief of Staff: okay you handle truth social for the day, use the template we gave you White House Intern: shouldn’t we make the last ones memorable? Chief of Staff: no, follow the template. White House Intern:
Happy feast day of St. Mamas: born in a prison cell, peaceful dweller in the wild, friend of all creatures, evader of state legibility, cultivator of the untamed commons, generous giver even to his persecutors, martyr for Christ
If this were it, that'd be a good thing. "War Department" had a respectable pedigree of 158 years (1789-1947) and is named after something that is at least theoretically delimited and needs to be justified (a state of war). "Department of Defense" is Orwellian, permanent, and conceptually limitless.
Trump announces he will severely devalue the Presidential Medal of Freedom
"In memoriam"
“Frog,” cried Toad, “can you do tricks like this?” “No,” peeped Frog, who looked very, very small.
If this were it, that'd be a good thing. "War Department" had a respectable pedigree of 158 years (1789-1947) and is named after something that is at least theoretically delimited and needs to be justified (a state of war). "Department of Defense" is Orwellian, permanent, and conceptually limitless.
The thing ya gotta understand is that the right to own a personal arsenal of weapons of war comes from God and can not be abridged, but the right to free speech and assembly only belongs to people who agree with the “Silent Majority.”
The “theological foundation” of America. Just the sort of thing we want to see espoused by the DOJ of a putatively secular, religiously pluralistic democracy.
The extent to which conservative and “trad” Catholics have bought into a narrative of an “epidemic” of “trans shooters” who want to “target faithful Catholics” is both insane and scary. It really doesn’t take much raw material to weave a worldview based on terror, anxiety and hatred, does it?
Maybe governance was just the stoves we touched along the way
Be the stove you want to see touched in the world
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
The George Floyd protests radicalized a lot of white people AGAINST structural racism. In response, the right tapped into frustration over Covid restrictions (imposed by Red AND Blue states almost equally) and white resentments to organize an old fashioned, racialized backlash against the gubmint.
A new word enters our vocabulory: “sovereignty washing.” Even though Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) tease European companies with "local cloud", they collectively control up to 80 percent of the European market. The rest is a game of monopoly and marketing.
Increasingly I look back on the time when everyone was on Old Twitter like the undivided Church of the first few centuries - now social media feels as though it’s fragmented into denominations: the Xians, the Blueskytes, the Threadsians, the Substackites, the Instagramarians &c
What are the tradwives going to do
Richard Heilman’s US Grace Force — Furry Edition coded
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
This is one of the very few decisions of this Administration that would be a welcome change. As the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan pointed out, Department of War is simple and honest and its scope delimited by its name. Department of Defense is Orwellian, permanent, and unlimited in theoretical scope.
I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were not actually good generals. They were just facing off against much, much worse generals.
I firmly believe this country would be a different place if the Union hadn't spent the first three years of the war under broadly incompetent military leadership. The myth of the lost cause largely centers on "heroic" Southern generals like Lee and Jackson who beat up on idiots like McClellan.
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
And how much will we shop?
that's a nice peace prize committee youse got there. be a shame if something happened to it.
Threatening the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize
BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee in DC, blocks Trump expansion of expedited removal deportation to interior of US. Judge says risk of deporting foreigners not eligible is too great. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
This thread seems relevant here. It would be great if more mainstream outlets emphasized how wasteful, cruel, and inefficient the Trump admin is being with our public funds. bsky.app/profile/seth...
According to this announcement, the Oregon national guard will go on a year deployment to deal with the nonexistent emergency at the border. A friend tells me that one guardsman is a Medford cardiologist. There’s a one year wait to see a cardiologist there. www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...
they have also been implementing pretty much every crazy shit they ever accused "Marxist Kenyan Muslim Barack HUSSEIN Obama" of plotting: - govt. takeover of private industry - destroying global free trade - superseding "states' rights" - "FEMA camps" - cult of personality - "death panels"
I’m sure these people are thrilled that they’ve been called away from their families and jobs to deal with DC’s crushingly important mulch emergency. So much government efficiency.
“Our job is lethality and readiness and warfighting.” – Pete Hegseth, U.S. secretary of defense 🥴