After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit
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After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
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
This is one of the most unamerican things I’ve heard of
Ok guys what the hell is going on down there, usually when you go full America everyone thinks better of it afterwards and you've just had both a shooting and a sad white man rally, what new fuckery is this
This is pure Willie Hortonism. The message is this: as long as there is just one bad weekend, or one bad event, crime cannot be “down” and we cannot be “safe.” We are only “safe” based on impossible standards, and we can never get “safer” as long as some risk exists.
Sad to hear of Graham Greene's passing... Such a wonderful actor and a very nice man I got to meet him on a few occasions as we both lived here in Stratford and even got to sing for him once at his "Walk Of Fame" ceremony. Huge loss RS
I mean this from the same people who think the empire were the good guys.
for the love of fucking christ get your pets vaccinated, rabies may be one of the shittiest ways of dying you can possibly imagine
While the majority of the mainstream media continues to normalize it all.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
so are the troops going to commute from the naval base every day because like
Chicagoans will react to the national guard the way they react to people who put ketchup on hotdogs - merciless mockery.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
this is basically how everyone on GOP twitter is treating it, except it's a good thing to them
This editorial should be seen as manufacturing consent for Trump's military occupation of Chicago. The paper will insist that's not the goal, and I don't necessarily think they support a military occupation (though I don't think they'd oppose it), but that is the editorial's actual effect.
Putin told Trump that mail-in voting is bad, and that became a bug in Trump’s head, and a couple weeks later Trump relocates a military installation because of that mail-in ballot bug in his head. NOT GREAT.
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
> @denverpost.com EDITORIAL BOARD: “The message the president is sending is clear — get on board with team Trump or he will try to hurt your state. . We hope this decision .. will help sway voters .. when Trump tries to retain office in just a few short years.” www.denverpost.com/2025/09/02/t...
Not trying to doom here but I'd imagine a good portion of the TX National Guard would kinda like armed conflict with their Illinois counterparts.
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
Really appreciate this 'Fuck you, I'm following the law, not following your unstated vision of what you want the law to be already' in light of the Trump v. Boyle basically telling judges to do exactly that ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
“The materials, MOST OF WHICH ARE ALREADY PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, were produced as a result of a congressional subpoena.” Release the Epstein files.* *In full with redactions as necessary to protect the victims. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.
A good thread for Chicagoans to read, and a reminder that studying history can be heartening
Dear people of Texas, If your national guard comes to Chicago as an armed occupying force for Trump, the people of Illinois will never forget or forgive. It will be a breach in the kinship we should share as Americans. Please think twice. Sincerely, Mark
this is going to sound stupid but it's entirely because we live in the era of postmodern fascism and because they wanted to post a video about them killing people for the base
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.
it's a lie they know is a lie and that they print to help Trump
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.
Trump said the video is AI. But a White House spokesperson told Time magazine it was real.
The funnest part is there’s a non negligible chance that he did this because he was mad we were making jokes about him looking like he was dying.
Trump tough. Trump kill terrorists.
Every single Savvy Political Insider™ who pretends that Trump's illegal power grabs are just another version of partisan maneuvering and not a true threat to democratic institutions and the country as a whole:
Gross. Just gross forever.
Make sure you don't have autoplay video on, they released the destruction of the boat they claimed was smuggling drugs out. Basically a snuff video.
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
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Everyone with a Hitler Particle concentration under 85% is either a Democrat or a Democrat in denial at this point, honestly
Now you’re just being one of those “enjoy the camps” hysterical scolds that they hate more than doing their jobs.
She might try to get her fired before she’s radicalized but she’s not going to throw a literal brick at her which I think is kind of an important distinction that’s being missed.
i know this is unbearable for some people but the simple fact is that the history of modern revolution is a history of bougie lawyers who probably enjoyed brunch becoming radicalized and then fucking shit up.
Because I'm most familiar with, I'm going to give the names of everyone sentenced to death by the British Government for the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, and their occupations (de Valera and Markievicz had their sentences commuted for being a US citizen and being a woman, respectively). 1/x
*with the exception maybe a few opinion columns
I'm sure CNN, Fox, WaPo and NYT will get right on that as soon as they're done not ever doing any of that ever.
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
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.
because this his how the media covers it when democrats point out facts
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Like in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the story being sold is terrorism and security, but the machinery being built points to something deeper: keeping Mexico in its place. Washington is not afraid of fentanyl. By Gabriel Buelna and Enrique M. Buelna The full story: lataco.com/trump-invasi...
“Is it morally wrong to refuse to hand your wallet to someone pretending to be the wallet inspector because they might become a real wallet inspector if you hand it over,” the greatest intellectually debate in BlueSky H - *slaps self with newspaper* NO! BAD GIRL! NO STIRRING THE POT!
I'm cool with it, get rid of the heating system for the next few years, you don't need it in Florida.
Again I say what we all know, this dude is never leaving the WH voluntarily again.
Ignoring that the saying "Two Jews = Three Opinions" exists for a reason, I once again feel the need to point out there's more antisemitic zionist Christians voting in the US than there are Jews alive in the entire world.
What is popularly elected fascism but a toxic roommate situation writ large
giving it a shot.
cc @iamtherog.com
yeah but I want to make fun of the people here behind their backs ON HERE. I miss the social teams GC from twitter where a bunch of people who would never engage off of twitter just made fun of Jack Appleby all day every day.
we would be *so* much better off if we could just make fun of people behind their backs vs having to quoteskeet.
we really do be needing group chats
One may say that I'm in a bubble, and that might be right. A person who picks the screen name "Plantation Scientist," though, or who for lulz posts pictures of bacon at a Muslim public figure is someone I don't need to share space with. Life's too short for such nonsense. I like my bubble.
and a media determined not to educate them. Dems can message all they want to but if it's not covered that way because most reporters think that the 8chan rejects on twitter are "mainstream" it never goes anywhere outside of political messages.
It's more than a *messaging* failure that a significant percentage of the country didn't know that tariffs are a tax on the consumer [almost always]. It's a complete lack of political education AND of the public's curiosity.
just say WASP Blue Bloods.
most places.
*moderates with socially conservative religious beliefs.
yes but tbh it's weird to single out Jews here in that statement when you could have just said religiously conservative people.
which is funny mostly because he could.
weird it's almost like everyone who was calling us hysterical for years sucks.
Twitter and Grok are built and updated with this animating belief, this is the baseline
Seems bad that the gulf between the reality you can go outside and see and experience yourself, and the one the political press describes, is widening very rapidly
the problem is I think we've found out we're a minority, and most people would rather be constantly surrounded by bigots than cringe.
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at the point where I honestly might just mute the word "bluesky"
Who disrupts the disruptors???
this is tom control to major ground
Generally the biggest issue with humans in general usually stems from the idea that we think we're rational and we aren't.
I'm screenshotting @resnikoff.bsky.social here so you can see the 100% spot-on reply. No amount of numbers will convince people they are safe if they otherwise think they are the victim of a crime by virtue of seeing someone homeless in the same subway car.
the "announcement" is just going to be him saying the N word isn't it.
jesus man, tell me you have no idea who Claremont is or JD Vance's record as a postliberal
they genuinely do not understand the world of the American far right or the postliberal movement in America the pundit equivalent of General MccLellan
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
if you present them with evidence that women with college degrees have MORE kids and are more likely to get married (which is true) you'll be stunned to know that their views don't change
The ideal American child is lovingly kept alive during nine months of pregnancy only to be killed for the correct, conservative reasons immediately after being born.
it's just the last breakdown and partial verse over and over.
I have the song Rent from RENT stuck in my head.
His head is full of Silicon
What’s funny is this article was preceded by six months of “ok, white nationalism doesn’t make any sense, but there must be something in there that’s good for the economy.”
It's wild that today's 2pm press conference can be anything from "Trump is dead" to "we've invading Venezuela" and like both seem reasonable.
Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
Well now I’m assuming this is what the 2pm announcement is.
All I know is I’m not watching it live. Fuck his ratings.
Idk it’s equally likely he’s going to announce that vaccines are now illegal or that Chuck Schumer has been executed for treason or that he has a new commemorative coin going on sale or that Rudy Giuliani is going to get the medal of freedom or that we’re giving Alaska to Russia. I hate it here.
I’m going to bed. Guess in ~14hrs we’ll find out which elected democrats are going to be the first ones executed for treason or whatever.
I stayed offline most of the weekend and stuff actually got weirder?
He’s just gonna say “The Aristocrats!”
Popping in from my weekend of exile to say thanks for making sure they didn’t win!
Ok now I’m gonna try to disconnect until Tuesday wish me luck.