J. Hamilton

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Quatar has no extradition treaty with the US, right? So, if he builds a golf resort there, and then has to leave the US for any reason....home away from home?

Yes! We need to stop trying to "reframe" the rightwing agenda, and start claiming the space with language of our own. Come up with a new name, fergawdsake!

Democrats need to start talking about corruption a lot more. They don't even need to go into details. But people need to hear "the most corrupt President ever" all the dang time. Make it an inescapable narrative. Make politicians answer questions about it. Skip the useless "hypocrisy", talk grift.

Why isn't this a bigger story?

A speech about military standards and "warrior ethos" is a chance to tell the brass: "It's OK to do War Crimes - we got your back! So don't be afraid to go out there and get violent, that's what the Department of War is all about!"

A speech about "Warrior Ethos" is a chance for him to say "It's OK to do War Crimes - we got your back! So don't be afraid to go out there and get violent, that's what the Department of War is all about!"

Motherfucking wind farms…

Joy is found in the depths (if you're the whale, not the squid):

...and there's the part that leaves the door open for more bribery and grift:

I did learn to enjoy Raitt. But Phil Collins was a lot of the "No Jacket Required" era, which I enjoy more now, in a nostalgic way, than I did at the time. My stepdad's record collection at home was way better than the tapes in his car.

Lord help me it was Bonnie Rait and Phil Collins on the way to school...

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

If I was in LA I would go to this:

"All of our polling and focus groups say that people want authenticity and strength, so we should start by caving on our core values to pander to frightened centrist donors."

Why is it so hard for some to see that "getting along" is a project that requires both parties to want that? If one side's solution is elimination (deport, imprison, silence, or kill), "getting along" is not an option. The goal is to wrest power away from supremacists, not "get along" with them.

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

The extent to which CK's death is being used to remove and harass people who do not agree with Trump's worldview is astonishing. There will be a great silence upon the land.

Once again, violence against women doesn't count as actual violence. Just some boys teasing girls on the playground of the internet, doncha know? Just a little disagreement between a man and his wife, amirite? Nothing to see here, totally normal, quite being dramatic, just a joke, move along.

Also the abortion clinic bombings... I was in elementary school and I remember those on the news.

The best (& also, the most entertaining, scary, wild, darkly funny, sharply argued & boldly written) book on this subject is Black Pill by Elle Reeves. She nails the chaotic right-wing edgelord landscape in a way no other writer has, the psychology and sexuality of it, not just the ideology

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.”
-Justice Kavanaugh

.... nope. How many of these downloads are bots, anyway? Is this just AI listening to AI in a doom loop?

prediction of times to come:

I totally agree with the goal! I'm just struggling with the mechanism/tactic that would accomplish it. As union organizers know, a strike without a well-defined "win" scenario is hard to make successful. And removing Trump would require a revolution, not just a strike.

Current mood:

A big US problem is that there is no constitutional mechanism for forcing a vote out of cycle. In a parliamentary system, a govt can be dissolved, and a new vote can be called. In the US, it would require a literal overthrow of the govt. What would be the demands of a strike if we can't call a vote?

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Working hard to turn The People's House into his Temu Versailles....

Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.

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