I was in the military, I carried concealed for years, and I taught for a few. But you don't need people like me to tell you how insanely stupid this old idea is
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I was in the military, I carried concealed for years, and I taught for a few. But you don't need people like me to tell you how insanely stupid this old idea is
Pritzker should mobilize the Illinois National Guard to oppose them. Extreme? Maybe. But I don’t see why he should just let another state effectively invade his.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
Pritzker should also be prepared to block roads and cut off water and electricity from buildings occupied by invading troops.
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for disputes between states (meaning they can actually file the lawsuit there, rather than have it go up on appeal). This would be a good time for Illinois to utilize it.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
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
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."
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
when the bill comes due youre going to hear a lot of people saying “no way to predict this” and theyll all be lying to you
every single economic indicator right now is a blaring siren warning us of whats coming and we’re just steamboat willie whistling our way right past it
Not crazy about this framing. Yes, point out that Trump's justification for NG troops is bullshit, that red states have higher crime rates, and that it's all dangerous posturing. But deploying the military to Memphis would also be destructive and anti-democratic. And crime is dropping everywhere.
Most of Burchett's actions/statements are fairly easy to understand once you remember he's a sanctimonious moron.
We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
journalists are being threatened and jailed. media outlets are paying settlements to THE PRESIDENT. but gosh golly gee, is democracy under threat? who can really say!
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
Actually, he thinks that he is the state, and that everything should be controlled by the state, as long as he's the state.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin
Raddatz: "But Mussolini makes the trains run on time, doesn't he?"
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
“you should work more and have less time off, peasant” is now gop canon
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Salter running sideways for 10 seconds to get out of bounds when they had 2 timeouts rocked
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.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
I'm not the only one to make this point, but there will need to be the equivalent of Nuremberg Trials when this is all over (however long that takes). If there are no consequences for fascists, we'll keep having fascism.
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
I just love capitalism.* * The government paying private companies to perform a government function and then on top of that giving them a financial incentive to perform it maliciously and harm people.
A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.
These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here. Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
This makes me question the president’s health more than the size of his ankles
The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors
You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia
"Most of all, I hope you enjoy the hashbrown casserole and country-fried tires or whatever that’ll be coming in smaller portions and cost way more because you gormless babies just love shooting yourself in the foot time and time again."
The point at which someone is talking, within a Christian frame about the "sin of empathy" and Jesus needing your "hatred" of others, something has just clearly gone very wrong in an obvious way. And the lack of self-reflection in that is hard for me to comprehend.
Veterans are oversold as a bloc. Some are extremely proud of what they did, others saw it as a job like any other, some would rather forget it. But the vast majority took the oath seriously, and not doing so offends them. I would hammer that Babbitt is getting a military funeral. Hammer it.
Antivax and anti-public health were in the ballot in 2024. They’re not springing this on the public by surprise, they campaigned on it—along with anti-science, and at the highest level anti-truth—then a plurality elected them. Some explicitly voted for it. Others didn’t care. But this was a choice.
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
The wave of touchy-feely "meet the RFK-loving moms who think staring at the sun can cure autism" pieces was very weird
It's important to know what we're dealing with. Though some in the media still try to horse-race, both sides this, we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product. 6/
Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.
So much of their power flows from the way people quietly bow out of their way, forcing them to expend essentially no political capital to shred vital and popular institutions. And then, having done so, they look even stronger, and it’s even easier next time.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
The right believes transgenderism must be “eradicated from public life.” That’s not what most Americans believe. This is why, as a former right-wing culture war warrior, I push my fellow Democrats to FIGHT the right on this culture war issue. Don’t stay quiet. FIGHT. Most Americans stand with you.👇
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
As Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
He's so close to getting it...
*bigger
Agreed, but re: the now-dead "new" logo - make the font big! Way too much negative space.
WATCH: “Are you seriously still buying this bullsh*t? — my taxes should go UP, they’re historically low… and we should support the poor & middle class in 🇺🇸, not give massive giveaways to people like me.” @ramitsethi.bsky.social 🔥 shreds the “Millionaires Will Flee” lie
right, for a lot of Americans, what they mean by "high crime" is "I saw a Black person minding their own business somewhere"
Trying to do a dictatorship and accidentally screwing around and creating the Dad Corps is an amazing feat
Rep. @jrclemmons.bsky.social asking @govbilllee some fair questions…
This is preferable to terrorizing black neighborhoods. But it also just confirms what we all knew: the whole operation is about projecting the image of safety for tourists, politicians, and white residents, not reducing crime. (Which terrorizing black neighborhoods also would not accomplish.)
lol imagine being so incompetent you get caught spying on freaking denmark
the other thing is that this is so easy to predict and the only reason so many of our pundits have a hard time with it is because they have fully bought the idea that Trump is some pure representation of what the Volk wants.
Donald Trump and RFK Jr. want to let your kids drown. How is this messaging difficult?
its crazy how much trump hates these people and how little respect he has for them
A lot of folks on the left like to blame brand minimalism on private equity or venture capitalists for some reason, as if those people give a shit. Logo minimialization is borne out of visual necessity for a world where every financial transaction begins online.
It doesn’t say much for the intellectual welfare of a body politic that one is asked to take a position on the Cracker Barrel logo.
This is such an embarrassing way to end a democracy.
privileged people can believe "crime is up" even though the streets are safer than they've ever been because they once went to a Starbucks and the barista had blue hair and a piercing and frowned slightly for a microsecond when they called her "young man"
the MAGA regime ultimately thinks of "crime" as "people we don't like existing in public" and a lot of people blithely agree with that idea even if they won't put voice to it themselves a black man walking down the street minding his own business pings as equivalent threat to an actual mugger
idk, I’ve traveled alone around the world including in “scary” places since I was a kid, and I really can find nothing but raw, cruel contempt in my heart for little baby 6’2 white man MAGAs who piddle like cockapoos at the mere idea of using public transportation
There’s no conversation I’m willing to have with people spouting lies around the COVID vaccine Not only am I an epidemiologist who SPECIALIZES in infectious diseases, but my 31 y/o brother thought COVID was bullshit too until it put him in a coma for a week before killing him.
Set your mind back to July 2024. Joe Biden had just had a disastrous debate. The entire country agreed on one thing: He was deeply, deeply unpopular. Biden's approval rating at the time? 36% among all adults, 31% among independents. Trump's approval today? 37% and 29%, respectively.
Yeah, man, the McDonald's Corporation changed its building design because of communism. You nailed it.
So much of the grievance politics of the far right is basically "I remember things being nicer when I was a child and now they're different" and then projecting that anxiety onto your enemies.
Trump is deeply unpopular and he's only going to get more so as the impact of the tariffs and immigration crackdowns is more widely felt. Someone should tell the media and congressional Democrats.
theonion.com/former-japan...
Gutting cancer research can't be bad if cancer is good for you.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Correct. The default Dem position has to be, "I will fire everyone Trump appointed, and everyone hired by anyone Trump appointed, regardless of what any statute or court says." Anything less is a ratification of Trump's actions that leaves the government broken and filled with saboteurs.
The custodian and admin secretary are the two most important people at any school. They run the building and turn it from a big empty box into a school. If you think they're not important you don't know shit about schools.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Reeling Walz in was spectacular political malpractice.
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
Oh good. So we're talking nationwide CRASH, Scorpion or GTTF type units, only with soldiers specially picked by a DefSec who thinks he's on a mission from God and defends war criminals, and no one involved has any law enforcement training whatsoever. Sounds like a foolproof plan.
My son is seven. He has no issue whatsoever with someone having two dads; in fact, he gets offended at the thought that someone might not be accepting of that. This👇, however...I don't know how I would explain this. This would break his heart. As it should.