Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

this is what i mean when i say it is video game logic. as if you can choose change the slider to “centrist” and everything follows accordingly

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.

Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program. 

That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!

And New Mexico did the same last week:

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I know it is wasting my breath addressing this, but no organization or group of people on the entire planet is even remotely competent enough to pull off a grand conspiracy of this type and scale.

The CIA struggles to kill just one terrorist in the third world deniably under Title 50 authorities.

A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

The real issue is that they subscribe to a theory of electoral politics in which pissing off your base is a cost-free way to earn votes from the "middle" and, nonetheless, keep losing to outright fascists. 2/

I think "AI" is too broad- discriminative vs generative, and even GenAI has LLM vs other variants. LLMs are falling well short of the hype

DJT already copied XJPs takeover of the economic data ministries...

The Democratic commentators, "strategists," and data bros who've been counseling appeasement of Trump's fascism need to take responsibility for how unbelievably fucking wrong they were.

For history tells us that appeasement signals weakness, encourages escalation, and accelerates freedom's end.

A lot of people listen to the centrist strategists and “analysts” who wrongly argued Democrats shouldn’t talk about immigration because it would help Trump or some shit. You do have to wonder how that shaped Dem behavior in Congress, & how things could’ve been different w/ different info streams

man defiantly holding US flag while wearing protective gear, surrounded by tear gas & flares. the image is the same as above but wider to show more of the crowd plus a street sign.

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

once again i propose that the culture on x is simply just...there's a gas leak in my home but i refuse to leave/will just wait it out

I heard Chris Rufo is a Russian plant who flew with Jeffrey Epstein

Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia Contact Congress today!

Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia!

Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century

Some law prof on law prof violence here

And (2) this is precisely Chris Cillizza’s genre of political writing. (“Oh, the performance!”)

Cillizza somehow has a mass audience, even though I have never once encountered a person who reads him.

Think of Nuzzi as a younger, self-consciously blonder Cillizza.

Amazing how fast and comfortably US business elites transitioned to a Russia-Hungary-Turkey-style lawless kleptocratic oligarchy

Warning signs appear on Mexican beach declaring area restricted by U.S. as Mexico rejects Trump offer to strike cartels The signs read in English and Spanish, "Warning: Restricted Area," and had been declared restricted by "the commander."

The US accidentally invaded Mexico on Monday, storming a beach and planting DoD “restricted area” signs claiming the land for “the commander,” triggering a standoff w/ armed Mexican security forces, all because Trump’s government can’t even identify a border on a map

www.cbsnews.com/news/warning...

Join Kat Abughazaleh following her arraignment in Federal Plaza, Downtown Chicago IL this Wednesday November 12, 2:30 pm CT

Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest.

See you tomorrow.

such immeasurably feckless fucks

pls donate? NO health care!! ONLY donate

no money for politicians

When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.

This is chilling.

"Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."

so what you're saying is the centrist brunchlord substack punditry's claims that Dems have to shift further right to win is complete bullshit

When this ends, we enter a period of the total, corrupt weaponization of state power for vigilante purposes, which then can lead to total repression through anticipatory regression into private spheres because any public articulation of decency is corruptly and publicly crushed.