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so the thing is, there is an actual law, the 1949 amendment to the national security act of 1947, that says he can't do this congress can pass a law changing it, and the senate could ratify, and the president can sign. but this is not executive order stuff
Buried 35 paragraphs in: "Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of 2024, while total violent crime dropped by over 22%..."
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
Kramer: "Jerry, I'm tellin' ya, this whole 'health' thing is a scam. The hospitals, the clinics, the needles, all of it--vvvvvp--just shut it down. Then sit back and let those diseases cook, baby. And when they're done--[clap]--we're all bulletproof!" J: "I don't think you know what 'health' means."
yes but the difference is if any democrat tried something like that, the press would not let it go. but with republicans when they say theres no story, the mainstream press goes "got it, boss."
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."
This idiot really just said monkeypox only infects homosexuals
Harvard is no longer committing to funding student affinity groups after closing the office space for the office of LGBTQ life and the Women's Center. This university is run by craven cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Yeah the wind famously stops at sunset in Iowa, west Texas, and eastern Washington. But people who have achieved object permanence can grasp this.
??? That’s not what I was saying. At all.They (voters) have agency and are fully accountable for their political choices, including the choice to lie about their motivations. It’s centrists’ and media’s fault for being gullible and believing them and setting the false narratives.
Did Ben say this in a Perd Hapley voice?
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Everything from "economic anxiety" to "egg prices high" was just strategically deployed bullshit that centrists--who are allergic to the notion that conservatives have agency--gobbled up hand over fist. Owning The Libz has always been the prime objective. Doesn't matter if the rest is incoherent.
I just think it's worth reiterating that this content free, vibes-based, know-nothing grievance based approach to election analysis was the thing Nate opposed in creating 538! Like, he has literally become the thing he started his career to oppose. It's amazing.
the thing about public school is that it is the only type of school that teaches kids how to live in the real world. but we're ruining that.
put your kid on the fucking bus this shit is so stupid
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Moderna vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 2/2
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
“They’re not doing it to improve public safety,” he continued. “It’s designed to humiliate political opponents.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
While Chudley McGee realizes he cinched his cosplay tactical strap too tight around his femoral artery before pounding that second Baconator
8 cops making over $100k each to arrest one man. But your food, water & air are killing you. Your daughter is carrying her rapist’s baby to term & will probably die when it becomes complicated & your veteran son in jail for being unhoused. But at least that Brown guy sitting on a bench is gone.🙄
Have the people who put pads on their ear at the convention tattooed a big bruise on the back of their hand yet?
Or an above-the-fray conservative pundit who throws a grenade into The Discourse and immediately blocks replies
Yeah remember when Michelle yanked the tetanus shot off the shelves and told kids across the nation to go play on sheet metal? That was crazy!
Someone please kill me right now.
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
And anyone who tries to say “I didn’t know what I was voting for!” the 3rd time he appeared on the ballot *after already holding the office* should be ignored. They knew. He’s their middle finger to shove in the face of the people they hate and it feels good. That’s all any of this has been about.
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
Smug asshole
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.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
These Effing People
These two cases are really about the same thing: The Trump Administration wants to find as many ways as possible to just grab and deport people without any checks, due process, or judges of any kind.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
dystopian AF
Spite is a helluva drug
Just unbelievable that these people voted to destroy their own community by 30 points.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Nice white church-goin' folks back home: "BOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOO! F them kids!"
The mediocre face of evil
This dude could not qualify for a regular police officer job, because I guarantee he wouldn't pass the psych exam. This is his opportunity to play cop. And someone is going to get killed because he's a lunatic.
"Fun really is the name of the game for Trump & co. It’s fun for them to see a majority-Democratic city like DC live in fear of violence/deportation, to flood the trains/buses with armed law enforcement just because they can, to unleash troops who understand that they will not be held accountable."
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
Prayer is not enough. And they know that. When it comes to recruiting people to use guns they say "Lord Here I am Send Me". When it's time to protect young people from guns, it's "prayers up." #james2:14 #karolineleavitt #jdvance
White evangelicals *love* violence and want nothing more than the freedom to intimidate, threaten, and commit violence against their neighbors they view as lesser-thans with legal and theological impunity. Even the gospel itself has become a means to this end.
What's Tapper up to? Is he on vacation? This seems to be something he would be very concerned about.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
It's really that simple. It's only complicated because people want it to be.
Allow me to invite you to consider what the Only Topic of The Sunday Shows would have been if this were Joe Biden
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Many "ugh I hate politics" types may tilt conservative but not be pro-M*ga because they don't want to get in bed with the theocrats, but they've also been conviced that excessive wokeness from the left is *just as big of a threat* as fascism and that keeps them from being effectively anti-M*ga.
What's dangerous about these accumulated choices to cover the end of constitutional rule of law as a debate between reasonable sides is that it reflects a deep truth about constitutionalism: that the rules of the game are established purely by convention & the alignment of mutual expectation.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
One of the country's most successful export products destroyed by Trump.
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Ladies and gentlemen: the President of the United States
Helluva debut for Dante Moore and the new O-line, as good as we could ask for today. Step up in opponent next week, can’t wait. Just keep feeding Sadiq. #GoDucks
“Wellness has come to represent a wonderland free from constraints of scientific scrutiny. The industry flows with pseudoscience & to say it’s lucrative would be an understatement…The term has morphed into dollar signs, drawing us into a never-ending cycle of treating problems we didn’t know we had”
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
Official reason for letting Trump's tariffs remain in place despite finding them unconstitutional is give him a chance to appeal. Worth noting that courts can issue a stay, blocking action they deem unconstitutional unless a higher court allows it, as one did with Biden's student loan forgiveness.
Court ruling that Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional but he can keep doing them for a while anyway illustrates why the judiciary hasn't upheld rule of law, even though some parts really are been trying to. "Let him keep doing it, even if unconstitutional" is basically the message from SCOTUS.
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made “Biden Old” the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating “Trump Old” as a nonstory. Because he’s loud and lies a lot.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Tongue-bathing them jackboots
While also giving them a 7-week freebie to ignore the ruling and carry on as they were. More of that sweet, sweet due process that literally no one else gets.
Why should anybody try to know anything then. Just follow your gut and the worm in your brain to whatever feels true and forget those smartypants egghead elites telling you you’re wrong.
This survey is infuriating to me, because literally every single person I know who voted for Harris (myself included) who has "cut off a family member over politics" has done so very simply to avoid being admonished that they are going to hell at family gatherings because they are LGBTQ+. That's it
Being seen and respected as “good people” no matter what they believe, do, or say is 99% of the game. And you’re right—their true colors come out the moment this is questioned.
“Political views” one of the great weasel phrases of our age.
Being a Republican means demolishing the planet and still expecting to get invited to dinner. They don’t believe in cutting people off socially over politics—they believe in *murdering* people over politics. Keeping normal relationships with whoever’s left is how they tell themselves they’re ok.
It just seems so often that existing as a queer person is seen as inherently political, but hating queer people is apolitical.
Why “political views” or “political opinions” are useless descriptors anymore. Everything is politics. “Worldview” is what we should be talking about.
Also, as others have pointed out, many don't actually consider themselves to be ending a relationship "over politics" when they disown someone for being gay or having a black partner or whatever. They see it as being a good parent, or good Christian. It's only politics when it happens to them.
Contrasted with the amount of due process anyone without their papers in perfect order are getting before they are summarily disappeared to destination unknown
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
Burning it all down to appease the medical flat-earthers. Just so catastrophically selft defeating.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Court rules bank heist illegal, but allows robbers to keep cash for now.
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
"Congress 'alone has access to the pockets of the people.'" — Judges quoting James Madison in a concurring opinion to the ruling finding the challenged Trump tariffs illegal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Political views” is the phrase you actually used, not “political opinions.” My apologies. They’re interchangeable in this context imo.
Listen to exvangelical folks and others whose families are lost to radicalization. You’ll find it goes so much deeper than “political opinions” or who they happened to vote for last.
And we’re especially chafed when anyone says—or even unintentionally implies—that holding to a decency line is morally and civically repugnant and “just as bad” as the nonstop firehose of hate and bigotry. Estrangement is a last resort taken for our own well-being, not a knee-jerk punishment.
I believe you’re making a good faith effort to be fair here. But I think the phrase “political opinions”—which may sound innocuous—is driving a lot of the reaction. It’s a euphemistic phrase we’ve seen used to downplay the total, uncompromising worldview that’s radicalized so many of our families.
They just have DiFfErEnT oPiNiOns, gosh
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
Let’s be clear. They ARE illegal. The only question is the ability to uphold the law.
Not for nothing but the tariffs are load bearing for a lot of what the admin wants to do and how they financed the tax and reconciliation bill www.cbo.gov/publication/....
The part that needs to be said repeatedly is “there’s no national emergency.” The president can’t just scream about something and make it true.
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someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
