“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
This was me with Hamilton and realizing there'd be no spoken dialogue lol
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Would you agree or disagree that Israel is conducting an ethnic cleansing in Gaza?
Israel commits war crimes daily. There's no excusing this. Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Destroying one of our great service exports that brings a ton of money and talent into this country all because of xenophobia. Makes zero sense.
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
And the US court of appeals agreed.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
Much of Trump's econ damage is slower-burning, longer-term—politicizing Fed, discarding rule of law, shaking down firms, degrading data, destroying talent pipeline, alienating trade partners etc These will have costs in the short-term, sure. But biggest costs will be evident in coming years, decades
I'm often asked why dire predictions about how Trump would destroy economy haven't (yet) come to pass. Part of the answer is that he's paused/delayed/reversed some things (e.g., TACO on tariffs). But part of the answer is about actions like this, on student visas...
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
"TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS OFTEN FLIP-FLOP BETWEEN GENDERS" No. They don't. Next you're gonna tell me Charlie Brown had hoes.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Because a cow killed my Uncle Ben in cold blood.
Should be able to handle 30-50 feral pigs
Guns (an inanimate object) are not people (living sentient beings) so the analogy simply doesn't work. It's apples and oranges. Analogies still need to make sense. lol
I understand what a false equivalence is.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
"and that's only because" What is?
Cool, stage a protest and drown out her lies.
When I was a liberal, I wanted to ban AR-15 style rifles. Now, as a leftist, I realize unilateral disarmament is not going to keep me alive or bring about the change I want. Cops are cowards. See, Uvalde. Make them believe their lives are on the line, their cowardice bleeds through.
A lot of folks seem to be more upset by interviewing a kid who just experienced a mass shooting than by the mass shooting itself. These people are enemies to public safety, frankly.
The UK has its problems. The US has its own. I hope your gov't isn't using masked goons to violently disappear innocent people off the streets as is happening here. I don't believe that to be the case.
I'm guilty as shit of tsundoku, which might be more what you're looking to describe. "the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them."
I...did not say home defense.
Okay why are you coming at me and my discogs account
"for content" If you refer to professional journalists covering currents events as they unfold "content," log off; the internet has clearly rotted your brain in a dangerous way. Hopefully it's not permanent. Touch grass and find out.
The loss of subject matter expertise impacting DOJ — particularly in the counterintelligence sphere — cannot be understated. It will take years to rebuild, and in the meantime, will exact a very real cost in terms of our national security.
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
Yes, combined arms units and specialized units coordinating are both important.
The interview they won't remember in a month. The shooting they'll remember forever. Fuck outta here.
Well...everyone should have a primary and a secondary. Your pistol only exists to get you to your rifle. Your rifle is what keeps you breathing.
You're a bot and I'm done here. Begone.
Susan Monarez, who just weeks ago became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has abruptly left her job after reportedly objecting to RFK's changes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
"the media being vultures" Sorry not every leading story is about new pandas at the zoo, but unfortunately this is a violent country with many mass shootings, some of them occurring at schools. That's reality, chief. Don't get mad at the firefighters, get mad at the arsonists.
You should carry this energy on the gun manufacturers whose profits are built on the backs of dead innocents. It's telling that you do not and instead save your displeasure for news organizations reporting on dead children.
A lot of people prefer to speak for children rather than actually listening to them, because by speaking for children they can instead insert and launder their own personal beliefs while smugly virtue-signaling. It's not new. I'd rather hear what the kid has to say.
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
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.
they’re calling the most recent shooter in minnesota trans to ignore the fact that there has been an organized group of far-right suicidal school shooters and this person is very likely going to be linked to them as well
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Why? Because he was present and could give a first-hand account of what transpired. Duh. If you don't want kids to be traumatized by mass shootings, focus on that instead of the people reporting on it. Reporting on gun violence is not worse than gun violence. Weird take.
Holy christ. Just looked at your profile. It is *also* worth examining why you never post about anything and are just a transphobic reply guy clogging up everyone else's feeds. You're fucking obsessed with your bigotry. Log off, touch grass, mind your own business. You'll be happier.
Anyway, it's worth examining why you give more weight to friends and family who are tangentially related to gender identity research than you do to the folks who spend their entire lives specializing in it. Guessing it's because you look for any "info" which supports your predetermined conclusions.
The DSM–5 articulates explicitly that “gender non-conformity is not in itself a mental disorder.” The presence of gender variance is not the pathology but dysphoria is from the distress caused by the body and mind not aligning and/or societal marginalization of gender-variant people. Facts.
You don't need to believe me because it's a fact not reliant on my word. You'll believe your nurse cousin Darryl, but you won't listen to the experts who wrote the literal book (DSM 5) because you're not interested in facts, you're interested in your feelings. www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrist...
Man, good thing the FBI is focused on national threats like terrorism rather than security theater bullshit like arresting day laborers outside of home depot.
"It is a mental illness." Being transgender is not a mental illness, no matter how many times you repeat it or desperately want it to be. Sorry pal, facts don't care about your feelings, and just because you're upset doesn't mean you're right.
Do I look like the woman in that photo? No? Okay then. Being transgender is not a mental illness. Gender *dysphoria*, however, is. People who equate LGBTQ+ identity as being merely sexual or a fetish are not serious, informed people. They're usually just ignorant bigots with loud mouths.
The difference between leftists and liberals.
You've got it backwards, Dan blocked me after calling him out for being disingenuous and full of shit.
"This has become all too normalized." Right, mass shootings have become normalized. So we need to confront people with the reality of it rather than hiding it. That's how you affect change.
Yeah, people who are full of shit tend to get upset when they're called out for it. People see you for who you are, Dan. You're not clever.
I'm not "missing the point," I'm saying I think you're full of shit.
A lot of people prefer to speak for children rather than actually listening to them, because by speaking for children they can launder their own personal beliefs while smugly virtue-signaling and attacking others for disagreeing with them. It's not new. I'd rather hear what the kid has to say.
"No one is hiding from it." Y'all seem mighty worked up when confronted with child survivors of mass shootings and having to hear them describe their trauma in their own words. Sure sounds like you just don't want to think about it. Pretty sus how you're more focused on cameras than bullets.
You dropped this: /s
Did you just try to equate trans people to firearms? lmaooo that's some severe brain-rot
I find dead children in poor taste.
Did his parents experience the mass shooting? No? Okay then. "He should be shielded right now. He's only 10." You should focus this energy on shielding kids from *bullets*, not microphones and cameras.
The winning. Please make it stop.
Frankly, the parents of kids killed in mass shootings would be heroes if they let newspapers publish photographs of the carnage and gore. We need Mamie Till. Because people today are just swiping away notifications and moving on, "oh just another shooting, big deal."
"This poor child should NOT be being interviewed!!" Meaning he should not have needed to be interviewed at all because this shooting shouldn't have happened? Sure. But it did happen. And people need to face the reality of this country. Kids dying in church. Don't look away. Don't like it? Fix it.
Correction: four shootings. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
There were three shootings in Minneapolis alone in the last day. The narrative is "there are too many mass shootings." That's the narrative. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
Soldiers are not political pawns. This President has no respect—only contempt—for Americans who sign up to serve something larger than themselves.
Okay that may be the mean, but I'm curious about the median. haha
Fire everyone involved. Probable need for criminal investigations. This is insane. "Over 300m Americans" is *everyone.*
Imagine being a NG troop who joined to pay for college and out of a general desire to serve, and two years in you're ripped away from your home and family to be told to pick up litter around DC at the fever-dream whims of a dying, egotistical POTUS who wears more makeup than the Joker. Embarrassing.
Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting “shame” at her is the most Susan Collins things ever
"You sound hysterical when you say they want to eradicate trans people from public life, we're just talking about women's sports." – countless naive but useful fools
Because they don't like change and change of any kind is woke. A few years ago it would've been CRT to blame. The people upset about a chain restaurant logo redesign aren't actually upset, they were told to be upset and are being performative to demonstrate their fealty.
Haha that's good to hear, he led FORSCOM after my time so I didn't know that. And I was in INSCOM, so who knows if those nerds kept it up.
"IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING YOUR PT BELT YOU ARE NOT IN UNIFORM."
Yes, that's what happens when you're a soldier. You follow orders whether you like them or not, and "go pick up that trash" is a legal order. Christ, how old are you?
Consequences like turning big rocks into small rocks at Ft. Leavenworth followed by an OTH discharge? lmao yeah no big deal
Oh honey. Soldiers can't just quit.
They’re not making the slightest pretense of doing anything but weaponizing a federal agency against Trump’s enemies, and the New York Times’ response is “Well played, sire!”
if you wind back the clock a year and say “trump will be president, he’ll tear up entire agencies without any legislative authority, ignore court orders, build a concentration camp, and send troops into multiple US cities” you wouldn’t ask “well how many troops?” before deciding what this describes
Hope the next Dem POTUS takes this approach when they throw Trump's ass in prison. If he's still alive after this term, that is. Better get all his lackeys and masked goons, too. Reconstruction 2.0 is coming.
So Israel can assassinate Ismail Haniyeh in Iran without any collateral damage, but it needed multiple strikes on a hospital to take out a single camera in Gaza? Bullshit. You shouldn't launder their bullshit.
Everyone knows the UK is terrified of Mongolia through the same logic.
"Biden's hack...Powell" Might want to check your facts there, chief. trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...
The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.
As a veteran who was also issued an army combat shirt and knows what that means, I was proud of this man's actions here. I'm gonna be pissed if this turns into a milkshake duck situation, though.
The old joke is that any good prosecutor could get a jury to indict a ham sandwich. Do you know how badly you have to be overcharging something for a grand jury to reject charges three times in a row? What an embarrassment.
"I know your hand hurts, but 1) I fucking told you the stove was hot and 2) nobody made you touch it, that was all you. You understand the limitations of my sympathy."
They're dumb cunts who couldn't read the writing on the wall and I have no sympathy for them. Many of them will experience the consequences of their actions when their rural VA shuts down.
We need veterans like this, ones who never forgot their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign *and* domestic.
This patriot is wearing an Army Combat Shirt which is only issued when you go downrange because it's flame resistant in case you fucking catch on fire while carrying out your duties in the name of your country.
