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Just casting about for new theatrical opportunities.

I understand why people believe Trump’s invasion of Washington DC is The Event but I think it’s more helpful to understand it as dialing up the heat on the boiling frog. Trump did this in LA. He’ll do it in D.C. with more boldness. And then he’ll do it again. Fascist takeover is never one event.

“People see the United States as a dangerous predator on world markets, one that you want to have less and less to do with in the years ahead because Americans can’t be trusted.”

too many people with influence giving lukewarm responses to a continuing genocide. need more mandy patinkin-type admonitions

Could hit 110F (43-44C) on Monday from near Toulouse to near Bordeaux France.
🇫🇷
All-time record time is 46C (~115F)
This can’t be ideal for 🍷 or any crops for that matter.

Welp

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating:

*foreign spies stealing gov’t and trade secrets
*foreign and domestic terrorist threats
*crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others)

Do you feel safer?

An anti-zohran A.I. bot run by this Canadian dude attacks Zohran thousands of times a day.

ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

D.C. mayor defends capital's crime rates after Trump threatens to take over police Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low but White House crime in DC is at an all-time high.

www.npr.org/2025/08/10/g...

a woman swims underwater with a big fin on her legs. A slew of lifeguards in yellow uniforms are in the pool with her in case something bad happens. a scoreboard says ZSOFIA TOROCSIK: 228 M, 3:05.

ok I have a new least favorite World Games event: Freediving, where you see how far you can swim underwater without coming up for air. This woman just set a world record, 300 meters, taking nearly 4 minutes and I spent the whole time yelling GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT OF THE WATER YOU ARE DYING

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

The US is the most Eastern European country in Latin America

Epstein Prosecutor Joined White House Bible Study A month later, fellow Bible study participant Pam Bondi announced no more files would come out

Um…

I thought Nancy Pelosi was in charge of deploying the National Guard in DC. 🤷

it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving

So now FBI agents are not only being reassigned to immigration enforcement, they’re also being reassigned to do the job of beat cops?

Not only does this mean it’s an increasingly good time to get away with federal crimes, but attrition at the FBI is going to go up again. Lot of early retirements.

Child protective services investigated her 4 times because she let her kids play outside "I was told that children could never be left alone, inside or outside the home—EVEN IN THEIR OWN BEDROOMS—until they were 13 years old."

These stories are totally insane. CPS investigated a small-town Virginia mom *four* times for..letting her kids play outside unsupervised. That used to be called a "normal childhood." Absurd that we now require helicopter parenting by law. reason.com/2025/08/09/c...

We've gone from the alt-right being the fringe of American politics to DHS going full fascist - recruiting people to ICE with messages about "Defend your culture!" and "Save America." Deeply alarming for anyone who has picked up a history book.

The U.S. military should not be a game show hosts fucking play thing

Judge Karen Henderson is standing up for our divided system of government She might be the only appellate Republican appointee in D.C. willing to do so regularly these days, but the D.C. Circuit judge has kept it up — for whatever branch needs it.

NEW: Judge Karen Henderson is standing up for our divided system of government.

She might be the only appellate Republican appointee in D.C. willing to do so regularly these days, but the D.C. Circuit judge has kept it up — for whatever branch needs it.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Huff Post White House correspondent 👇🏽

Sir Trump's 's doing this crap in DC because big balls got beat up by a 15-year-old. Do I have that right?

Deploying the military and militarized federal police into the streets of American cities is unjustified and a profound threat to our civil liberties. It is another very dangerous, major step into authoritarianism. And make no mistake authoritarianism is not where we’re headed, it’s where we are.

So the president is now planning to deploy military forces in DC to handle ordinary civilian crimes?

Putin is working Trump badly

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

🚨 Sources close to the DC mayor and police say, Trump will deploy 1,000 National Guard troops into D.C. tomorrow/Monday.

• For context, Los Angeles is 502.7 square miles, and he deployed 4,000 troops there.

• Washington, D.C. is only 68.3 square miles.

This is what cities under siege look like.

The only time in my adult life, all of which has been spent living in or around DC, in which military troops were on our streets was after 9/11.

And that was a literal terrorist attack.

Sending troops to throw the homeless into temporary camps is a bandaid. Solves nothing.

have you ever encountered a piece of content you thought was directed squarely at you?