David Dark

This is why mob bosses insist on using made men.

Their complicity gives the boss a power over them; they can be betrayed and destroyed if that helps the mob boss.

Fear has no future.

Does anything shout "fascism" louder than this?

“Deep State”, thy name is Steven Miller.

Our government’s official policy is “hurt and exploit workers to enrich their bosses.”

Fear has no future.

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

"That’s is the thing about corruption. It is the price of admission and the reward for loyalty. But it also a double-edged sword when you fall out of favor." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

We can’t heal what we won’t acknowledge.

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

As @daviddark.bsky.social would say, there are many ways to hate God.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. Even for lying.

the more that comes out with this the more it seems like ICE got stuck in traffic (normal thing) and panicked and opened fire.

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

Deflection as data point.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Deflection as data point.

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

Breaking the Silence in Calabria | Alexander Stille When I traveled to Calabria in the early 1990s, its mafia, known as the ’Ndrangheta, had a far more pervasive and suffocating hold on the region than the

"Prosecutors were convinced that no one could force herself to drink a liter of hydrochloric acid." @astille.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

Snowden in the Labyrinth | Jonathan Lethem Edward Snowden might seem forever defined by a single act—his decision to leak highly classified information copied from the NSA—and a single moment in time. Having gazed through the windows of the pa...

"I believe the Constitution—particularly the Bill of Rights— became, for Snowden, a kind of lonely companion, or perhaps something like a rescue animal that only he cares for sufficiently." www.nybooks.com/articles/201...

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

The meme-ification of political violence It's less ideology than the internet — what the media and Trump don't understand about the current wave of shootings.

"It was pretty much consensus by all of the friends in both cases that it was absurd, not just to say that these shooters were left wing, but to say that they’re right wing or any wing." @kenklippenstein.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

I am & thank you!

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Citizen power, y’all. This is the way.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Gosh!

Wow.

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.