Matt Odd

Damn, they sure are.

And now I miss the Pirate TCG where you built ships from the cards...

Oh this is not great

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

They claim the right to stop anyone and demand their papers based solely on the discretion of masked, cos-playing thugs who've decided you "look scared" or are "gripping the steering wheel tightly."

Miller is telling us, "Brown people today, the rest of you tomorrow." Listen to his words.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

🤷 can't be helped.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Ten years and five months apart

I'm fond of my General Sherman's 23rd Corps flag from @abetterway2a.bsky.social

Suffer No Copperhead makes good stickers of that!

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

The laughter sounds like the clicking and popping of a bag of popcorn in the microwave around the two minute mark

"Safe for knees" did...did an orthopedic surgeon write this?

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

Overlooked: how devastating this will be for trust of the internet and tech in general.

I am an Apple fan of over 40 years who will not give them another dime. Considering Raspberry Pi + dumb phone moving forward for minimal exposure.

Not worried about being left out of whatever this is becoming.

And I don’t say that to disparage the young people with their clear eyes and full hearts and heads full of Marx. They’re great allies who do a lot for the cause and I’m pretty ideologically aligned with them.

But the moment one of them spits venom at the Lindas of the movement, it’s fisticuffs.

And, man, some of that is baked into the system. The young kids from DSA are great, but (contrary to right wing claims about being paid by Soros), that shit doesn’t pay the bills. Those folks have jobs to go to. So it’s me with my VA checks and retired white women standing on the walls.

The big reason I won’t countenance Liberal Wine Mom slander is that I actually show up to do the work. I go to protests, yeah, but I also do stuff like go to events that provide services for undocumented folks and keep watch for ICE.

And you know who’s ALWAYS there to help?

Old white ladies.

It's sad hearing Chicago apartment residents say "soldiers" or "the military" assaulted their building, or Portlanders complain of "military Blackhawk helicopter" noise when both are DHS not the Army -- but you can't blame the public for being confused when the govt chooses to make it confusing

Someone should write an obituary for the Hatch Act.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The terminal lance in me is cackiling that these high and mighty gods of war had to sit through a shitty overwrought libo brief by the worst platoon commander this side of the Euphrates.

This is what you deserve, as an institution, for the complacency, careerism & intellectual failings of the GWOT

Fiscal year spanning DTS vouchers for ALL the FOGOs

Seems like a sure-fire way to make yourself suuuuuper popular

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025