Department of Extradjudicial Violence?
Department of Extradjudicial Violence?
"PROBABLY?"
Trump to Vets, "Fuck you for your service." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Reduced anxiety was certainly never part of my experience with LSD. But maybe these clinical trials didn't include a group of your dumbass friends repeatedly whispering, OH CRAP THE COPS! and then cackling after your eyes turn into saucers.
Callow young men emerge, blinking, into the consequences of their own actions, recoil.
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
"One side, citing countless subject matter experts, says these policies will kill people. But the other says Sun's out guns out. Life is like a box of chocolates. We'll leave it to the reader to decide"
Right! When someone gives a response that's not an answer, you don't have to repeat their non-sequiter talking points We are now a decade into the Trumpian era of American politics. And news orgs still have largely not figured this out
One of these statements is a direct allegation.The other is a nonsequiter of clichés: "One side, citing countless subject matter experts, says these policies will kill people. But the other says Sun's out guns out. Life is like a box of chocolates. We'll leave it to the reader to decide"
Democratic lawmakers and more than a thousand current and former HHS staff say Kennedy's actions are endangering America's health. Kennedy says he came to clean house and he's delivering.
He's been a mascot his whole life, while everybody told him he was a leader. Like George W Bush with the dossage cranked up to levels that would be fatal in 99% of people
Radical centrists & RW pundits just roaming college campuses a grily grumbling to themselves about how nobody's banging anymore
To recap: Wokeism destroying America because it's brainwashed young women into refusing to sleep with Zoomer age biggots. Also, those guys can't do it anyway because they're ruined by porn
Deeply concerned that my dog, whom I have to train not to eat its own shit, might develop a learning difference from the lifesaving vaccines.
Incredibly depressing we've slouched so deep into idiocracy that we not only elected the "burn the institutions down" guy twice, but a load-bearing portion of the electorate can't trace the obvious conclusion from the fact those institutions failed exactly when they were run by the burn-'em-down guy
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
More than a million Americans died, dude. Imagine harder.
I think, for them, the cruelty was and is the signal that tells them they're winning.
Thing that worries me is how Trump world is going to process his health declining at such an accelerated pace since he hooked up with JD It'd be really destabilizing to the movement if conspiracy theories linking the VP to Trump's failing health start percolating, then WOW! He croaks. Terrible.
How many of those Trump voters who say they wouldn't cut off contact with a family member because of political views have cut off contact with a family member for being LGBT? I bet you it's higher than zero. This question is too ambiguous, and too subject to perceived social desirability bias.
We begin with the premise that voting for Trump and voting for Harris are essentially equivalent choices, like preferring coffee or tea. That's a real barrier to understanding what's going on here.
This should be even easier under an utterly feckless president, surrounded by ignorant loyalty-hires. But Dems just want to show they can get along with these rogues, instead of fighting them
The GOP figured out decades ago, playing rainmaker with doomie predictions and baseless accusations against the opposition is all upside. Nobody remembers your 99 misses. But when the 1 thing you kind of said would happen comes, you jump on the desk and see! I warned you about this!
A trip to Disney sheds some light on why Americans feel poorer, even amid low unemployment and wage growth Each transaction carries an upsell for a premium experience that explicitly detracts from the standard fare ride www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
It's bad to tell them they don't have to vote for those resources to get them. That their lost work days, hours lost in the ER, and preventable deaths will be subsidized by the suffering of people their leaders claim are ruining the country. I feel bad for them. They should demand change.
A bunch of guys wearing high visibility vests over full camouflage is a sight gag that would make Mel Brooks jealous 🤣
Dems start every morning telling Americans they're here to stand up to the class bully. And by noon they're like "We're gonna offer the bully HALF your lunch money, and if he doesn't accept, he's going to look SO unreasonable."
JFC
In more tactical use of status… In the full video, he points out DURING HIS ARREST that the good treatment (no violence, etc) he is getting during his arrest is likely because he is a white man.
Me, writing code to defund cancer research and throw seniors off Social Security: Hahaha! Dismantle the administrative state!! Me, after getting beat up by two children on Embassy Row: AVENGE ME ADMINISTRATIVE STATE!
Me, writing code to defund cancer research and throw seniors off Social Security: Hahaha! Dismantle the administrative state!! Me, after getting beat up by two children on Embassy Row: AVENGE ME ADMINISTRATIVE STATE!
She really went with "Let them eat Fogo de Chao" eh?
This is good. But I think the 'wink wink, Isn't this supposed to be the States' Rights party,' let the listener draw the conclusion is what's needed now. People need to hear, as often and loudly as possible, these people are lying and they're running a hostile occupation of their political enemies
Yeah, trying to correct the narrative with "Akshully crime is down" blows past the more important fact that this obviously has *nothing to do with stopping crime* and is, itself, criminal. They're not wrong about crime. They're making a mockery of the law and disgracing the military in the process.
Yeah. It's suspicious they feel the need to lie about this, but also can't just give him the IV somewhere less visible. But they also just lie instinctively about everything. So it really doesn't tell you anything
Mamdani is literally promising to bring Brussels Sprouts to NYers who can't access them. And the resounding response has been Yes!!! Cuomo promises Big Macs for dinner every night of your short life. And pundits r like "Salt of the earth Cuomo really gets working people, and tbeir love of McD's.
Well, yeah. But what they're doing is *National* Socialism. So... different.
This reminds me of the time Tucker Carlson asked for "just one" example where diversity resulted in a more effective militarily. And the obvious answer was LITERALLY EVERY SUCCESSFUL US WAR CAMPAIGN.
For context, he's like 50 miles from the Capitol, in a town where most upper class folk go to the city maybe twice a year to catch a Falcons game. The angst they feel walking 3 blocks thru a majority black neighborhood from parking to stadium is material for a lifetime of Southern Gomorrah stories
Complaining at length in Peachree City about homeless people taking over "your streets" in Atlanta is the the most off-the-rack, white-boy-from-the-stix thing you can do in Georgia, short of getting arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge at a tractor pull
JD Vance is a villain from a Charles Dickens novel who rose to prominence posing as a hero from a Charles Dickens novel.
The federal agents and troops are not a distraction. They are the whole point—quite literally the spear in Trump’s increasingly fascist assault on American democracy. newrepublic.com/article/1992...
Actually the paint is subject to a 25% tariff. The work will be done by federal prisoners making $.30 per day, and supervised by private prison contractors making $175k a year. We'll pay for it with money we used to used for cancer research and healthcare for the inigent.
That settles it. I'm getting the crew back together for one last job. We'll hit the four biggest banks in Washington, dressed as masked douches with Police vests.
There's a shockingly pervasive syndrome in US media, in which journalists have largely become convinced they're imposter Americans. From this view, any failure to indulge the most absurd RW narratives in good faith serves as proof one is out of touch with the noble clods of whote rural America
Nobody: Could we just solve world hunger and have normal internet instead? Altman: ... Nobody: ... Altman: ... No
Seems like the kind of thing a state or local Dem in any of these states could make a lot of hay with.
It's incredibly "I'm rubber you're glue" to bang on about this, but the clear 'Trump derangement' is the mass of ostensibly serious leftists, libertarians, and free speech absolutists bending themselves into contortions to pooh pooh any anger over things they otherwise claim to be repugnant
Officer Snark's buddies gently reminding that they tried to warn him "Bondi is sarcasm-iliterate"
Happy Monday. Texas has placed the opposition party under house arrest at the Capitol
Many are horrified by images of residential city blocks flattened by IDF bombing. But our in-depth investigation shows many of those buildings had pre-existing code violations.
Joint EU statement on the recent assessment that the US President has donkey brains
An important rule of #balancedcoverage under Trump is any headline that accurately describes his fascist tendencies must be so clinical and polysyllabkc as to ensure no MAGA voters will read it and no normies will share it.
Out of state agitators
Yikes!
Right?! Everything about that flag is a big fat L whatever you think it stands for. They wrecked the South's economy for 100 years, drew a military occupation, 100s of 1000s dead, & hastened the end of the evil institution their project was based on protecting. 03 Tigers of political movements.
You cannot instill "Law and Order" by exempting law enforcement from rule of law. I know the hypocrisy is so blatant by now, that this seems obvious. But it bares repeating again and again.
The Founding Fathers "almost certainly" did not intend for non citizens to be counted in the census, AND also they spelled out the exact fraction of a person that an enslaved person should be counted as in that same census, is an odd feat of mental gymnastics, even for Heritage.
It’s wild to think that if sandwich guy has just run an international pedophile ring or attacked the Capitol, Trump would have coddled him instead of sending 20 cops to arrest him.
Yes, you could also have a Conf battle flag on display with a big red circle around it with a line slashed through (like Ghostbusters but for biggots), and it would also be an acceptable use case.
I love this story so much, because it pits "Minnesota nice" against the embarrassing smallness of Lost Cause BS
It's incredibly striking when you see a Confederate Flag hanging outside a house in like Upstate New York. You're just like, there's not even a flimsy pretense for what this is about.
Do we have footage of them arresting the sandwich?
This is what I'm talking about: it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Inflicting status injuries on authoritarians actually works (not immediately) in dislodging them from power: see rest of the thread quoted below, as well as @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social's work. www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny...
I am 100% sure a resolution to do this, exactly, will be filed by GOP reps the day they get back from vacation. Presuming you mean the Norwegian finance minister.
If I might humbly submit my own suggestion to resolve this impasse: Nobel piece of shit prize
Maybe he regrets it. Maybe he thinks it was worth it. But I guarantee you, he still thinks it's funny.
TFW you approach a $95k pickup to ask for some spare change, and the US Senator driver just gifts you the vehicle without a word. Just muffled sobs as he sprints away.
"everything I’ve seen so far doesn’t suggest we’re on the brink of a new Enlightenment, but rather a reversal of it."
Hamilton Nolan lays out how our feckless ad-hoc response to climate change serves to empower a would-be strong man like Trump. "It will allow the President to treat disaster relief as a personal favor." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cheap-tric...
Slightly diminish a band: AC
Thing about ultra-processed foods is they're pretty much ready to eat. I'm sure a pringle is a lot worse for you than a baked potato by weight. But if you're a bit peckish, the extra effort of cooking the potato probably makes all the difference in going to bed a bit hungry, vs eating too much.
For all the crap about 'useless lib majors' it's actually much harder to job search with a sector specific degree when jobs in that field are scarce. Managers aren't invested in thinking how your skills might cross over, and they assume you'll bolt when something in your field opens up.
one of the greatest humiliations of rule by these fascists is that, despite having total and complete control over the entire system of american government, the only thing they know how to do is ask for the manager because they're too stupid to understand that they *are the manager*
What if they made three more Star Wars prequels, all centered around Jar Jar Binx. You can pay me by wire transfer or bitcoin Disney.
This is the place where I start to make a joke about shouting down complaints over the 15' statue of Adolf Hitler in my yard by yelling, "So I guess the WOKES won't let us even learn learn history!" Then, I remember Harlan Crow already did basically this, and people were fine with it.
To be fair, he did say "feels like," which is a lot different from "is like." Kind of like how listening to the owner of the natural foods store in my neighborhood tell me how crystals can heal my anemia "feels like" talking to a doctor.
I guarantee you Tom Friedman is at least 2000 words into a column explaining how Zohran Mamdani's failure to call a press conference denouncing the Sweeney discourse has already made him a lame duck mayor.
Well, I guess it's a good day for anyone who took the under on how many months it would be before the feds started hunting down members of the opposition party.
Haven't seen it. But by the description, yes pretty much. Looks rad. Will check it out some time. Thank you.
About the same stuff. In fact, every car is better now, which is why F and C haven't recovered their prestige
Today, there's a whole political movement built around that same "stolen future" narrative. But the idea you could have an adult car company in 2025 whose sedans crap out at 10 yrs is unthinkable. Fords and Chevies are much better than in the now idealized past, when ppl were still complaining
Maybe, but in '81 Haggard sings "I wish Fords and Chevies still lasted 10 years" like we'd lost some piece of American greatness. I gather this implies imports had begun to eclipse domestic cars, at least in public perception. Not the main point though
Andy's was good. The kind of pizza you feel a little bad about yourself after eating, but in a good way.
Right up there with "I don't think he's REALLY a racist. He just says/does racist things to get what he wants." Bud, that's just a slightly more specific type of racist!
It's pretty funny that we're near 50 years on, Fords and Chevies are still crap. But even they run for 20+ years now, and our retvrn bros are pining for the Reagan years when everything was supposedly great.
My girlfriend asks what's wrong? Did I have a bad dream? Go back to sleep. But why is she speaking Romanian?! And why is she a jumbo slice?!
Movie pitch: The world's greatest athletes come to LA, ostensibly to compete in sport. But instead they work together and use their talents to defeat American fascism.
Nervously trying to finish my jumbo slice, until I finally realize the group of ruffians sat at the table next to me are actually speaking Moldovan, and I can calm down and breathe easy.
Well... nonetheless, some very important people are going to be able to afford bigger boats. It's a tradeoff for the greater good: Like when I rip the copper out of my AC unit to sell for meth, and my family must spend a sweaty summer wondering why I suck so bad. Who's to say who's wrong there?
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
Gonna see the game. I think there's a similar dynamic for other sports But if you've EVER tried to explain baseball to a non-fan adult, you know that people who don't grow up watching the game don't become fans as adults
It's remarkable how difficult MLB has made it to passively interact with their product in any meaningful way. Blackouts for sub services are nuts. But, just to watch local games it'll cost you $20/month more on your cable bill all year. If you're a kid whose parents don't care $240/yr, you're not
This is vile. Every day these people drape themselves and their country in shame. Every participant in this racist dirty war should be chased forever by the label whenever their name is mentioned in polite society, like the proverbial village goat fucker.
"AND YOU CAN TELL ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE THAT MY LAST WORDS WERE... I'M ON DRUGS"
An easy thing to do from home is to send a note of appreciation when an organization or institution refuses to comply.
There's a very particular type of dictator vibe Trump is going for. And it's not compatible with a thriving economy or outsized global influence. People think he's just mindlessly mashing buttons, and that's true sometimes. But he's also right-sizing the country for his own limited abilities.
Everything this administration does carries a 'Saddam burning the oil fields' feel to it. But without the invading foreign army,or any sort of credible external threat.