Fun to think about how is the future of how both law and politics are going to be conducted from now on. Give it ten years and nobody will even remember any differently!
Fun to think about how is the future of how both law and politics are going to be conducted from now on. Give it ten years and nobody will even remember any differently!
They are all having the same midlife crisis together but they’ve also alienated themselves from each other and anyone who cared about them, so they’re entirely surrounded with self-interested yes men, and they taught their computers to fawn.
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein
Trump: "We're seeing that there are no ships in the ocean anymore ... no there are no boats. I wonder why? Meaning, no drugs are coming across. Probably stopping some fishermen too. To be honest, if I were a fisherman, I wouldn't want to go fishing either. 'Maybe they think I have drugs downstairs'"
Amazing how even the tamest teaching of slavery to satisfy the lost causers is still a “corrosive ideology”
This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.
the Other is “setting fire” to a symbolic institution built by “the american family” — this isn’t even a dog whistle. he might as well just say “reichstag” at this point.
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
the goal of the current leadership is to bring the whole paper down to Thiessen's level, a man so utterly devoid of anything to say that he isn't even an effective right-wing troll
he is frothing at the mouth
Incredible that the Bell Riots, DS9's grim vision of 2024 broadcast in 1995, remains way way way more optimistic than what is actually happening in San Francisco
so i went looking and this is actually one of his long-running crank bits, he called for the same thing in 2018, but also appears to have mentioned going back to semi-annual reports on twitter before he was elected. like a lot of things he says I think this is more "brain stuck in 80s" than anything
Kirk’s Posthumous and Paradoxically Fitting Employment Reign of Terror talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/kirks...
One thing I appreciate about American politics is that, while the socialists don't seem to understand capitalism, the capitalists don't either, so it keeps it even.
Reuters: We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
"Bosses value a compliant and easily abused workforce more than money" is the woefully underdiscussed knuckle tattoo on Adam Smith's invisible hand.
she should buy the hat and put it on whenever talking to RW media
it’s just fantastic that we have, as president, the most unpleasant person in the nursing home tv room
Discworld QOTD, from The Truth "Character assassination. What a wonderful idea. Ordinary assassination only works once, but this one works every day."
Ngl it is kinda wild watching the increasingly desperate “oh sorry about that, can we still be friends” posturing from US businesses who had previously wholeheartedly supported the jingoistic isolationism party
If ICE is mocking legal South Korean detainees with slant-eyed gestures, you'd think (1) Congress should do something and (2) what is this org going to look like in a year?
We'll have to teach everyone to look for effaced ICE tattoos on the inside left upper arm.
Ukrainian supply road protected by anti-drone nets
the gemeinschaft of the bezos fiefdom wapo and the sulzberger family business new york times verus the gessellschaft of the nikkei-owned financial times
imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means
A bit on the nose wearing a “what would Orwell think” shirt as you appear via Telescreen to whip up the Two Minutes Hate
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’
Breaking: The @wsj.com is reporting that the comment was not made by Brian Kilmeade but by an unidentified transgender person
Vigilantes are driving talent out of our force. I’d propose that anyone wanting to force someone out of their voluntary commitment of service to defend our country be required to replace them.
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
Ngl, the rhetorical silence from elected dem China hawks over this entire fiasco has me putting them on fraud watch
We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
"Lesotho Sends Trade Delegation to US to Plead for Lower Tariffs" www.bloomberg.com/news/article... The country ranks 167th in gdp per capita (PPP); has 40% of its population living in poverty; and has 24-28% unemployment. Shameful stuff.
Today in unhelpful AI suggestions
So there more national guard deployed now than at the height of the surge in Afghanistan and second only to the surge in Iraq.
"LOTRForum will always be an echo chamber as long as it remains hostile and unwelcoming to people who don't like or read Tolkien"
“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
Doing a bit of prep work for my interview at The Atlantic
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
in this utah diner, fathers have to decide the dilemma of turning their sons in or killing them themselves. And it's all democrats' fault.
🔥🛢️Just now, Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery with the capacity of 7,5mln tons of oil per year was attacked by drones in Ufa, Russia. Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery is located more 1350km from the frontline.
trumpism has its roots in the idea that bush only failed, that obama only happened, because the right failed to submit entirely to its id. it's no coincidence that his administration is full of Fox hosts: his administration is Fox. that's the entire ideology.
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
u guys seemed pretty sure just a little while ago tbh
honestly the class solidarity between billionaires at this point is one of our biggest problems. they just have nothing in common with anyone that isn't a billionaire, and that's the baseline politic for them, "am a billionaire"
i may be like losing oxygen to my brain here but i think my deepest fear is that if the medium really is the message, then maybe the message is that as a culture we’ve chosen engagement and a brand of viral conflict over any hope of resolution
Let me get this straight: Pulte‘s family committed mortgage fraud but Cook didn’t? And his family only got caught because Pulte falsely accused Cook? The writers have outdone themselves this season.
Why are *Democrats* considering asking for rural hospital funding? That's a problem Republicans created for their own base. Democrats should oppose rural funding as leverage to get things for their own voters, the same way Republicans attack urban areas because rural voters demand it.
I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…
Universities are likely the last major private setting in the US that fosters and encourages substantive debate. But Bari Weiss is still fighting the war she started as an undergrad (getting professors she disagrees with fired) under the banner of free speech. It's beyond disingenuous.
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
NEW: Sec. Marco Rubio casts himself as a top general in Trump's new war in Latin America. He has steered the administration toward military strikes on drug traffickers, without due process. One killed 11 people. And he pushes mass deportations. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...
An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.
NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
every single fuentes follower thinks this is a wink wink nod nod message, even if fuentes doesn’t
These are your words of the week enigma gamine assassination rhetoric coup lemma www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
Fun stuff here
if I had the dedication to anything that journalists have to ragging on Joe Biden I'd be a billionaire by 35
trump played tetris for 20-30 minutes and he's over the trauma now
It was always a RW mandatory speech movement
It‘s kind of darkly funny how Online has made fandoms issue statements like failed states in the UN General Assembly. ”We in the Helldivers community denounce the reckless violence of extremists. We remain committed to reestablishing control of our internationally recognized borders.”
it wasn't three arrows, it was the helldivers stratagem. just pure brainrot to cause pain
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
soon there will be only 3 forms of media you can consume: bari weiss, joe rogan, and murdoch
Prison sentences for coup plot: Bolsonaro: 27 years, 3 months Admiral Garnier: 24 years General Heleno: 21 years General Paulo Sérgio: 19 years General Braga Netto: 26 years g1.globo.com/politica/not...
Charlie and Ashli, MAGA’s early Martyr Saints.
i'm a fucking american and i'm not going to be ordered by the fucking government to love a man who hated me, and whom i hated in turn.
And there it is! #SB79, Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill to legalize multifamily housing near major public transit stops across California, just passed the state assembly! We are one vote away from the most significant shift in land-use policy California has ever seen!
a confused dan bongino repeatedly shouting “enhance!” at a 98 dell pc
goat rodeo
yet another case where comparing political reporting to sports reporting is unfair to sports reporting because sports reporters actually have beliefs
lol can you imagine what would happen if one side of Biden’s face started dramatically drooping in a 9/11 ceremony
whoever is president after '28 is going to have a *fun* term
Electeds have to stop ceding rhetorical ground here. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. The man was a bigot who died the way he wanted others to. It's a simple story and he deserves no sympathy
We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!
The new cold war has been here for a while and it is also even more explicitly ideological than the last one because the power blocs forming are transnational so trying to approach the new from the lens of the old will set you up for spectacular failure
...unreal
a threat to tyranny anywhere is a threat to tyranny everywhere
being online right now feels like being harry and marv just getting walloped by paint cans to the face ... except it is posts
New Cohen brothers movie just dropped.
15 minutes stale but FWIW our burpy boi was found guilty. *BOLSONARO FOUND GUILTY OF COUP ATTEMPT BY MAJORITY OF TOP COURT
Don't sleep on the chance that the Ellisons could, in a year or two, own CBS, CNN, HBO, *and* TikTok. That'd be *literally* unprecedented media concentration in U.S. history — and all that's needed is enough Trump ass-kissing to ensure he doesn't get mad and sic Brendan Carr on him.
Tbh I think the dem China hawks should find a new hobby too because no one in Asia is going to be remotely interested in working with us at the rate this is going
One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs. In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer