There's an astonishing pattern of seemingly normal dudes just getting publicly criticized for some bad position once, and deciding to become an absolute right-wing shitheel so no one ever expects morality from them ever again.
Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
The 78-year-old Janet Mills has a very inspiring campaign message: "I'm too old to care."
Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes.
As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them.
Effectively a mark of rank.
I want to point out that this is your reaction to anyone not immediately and gushingly agreeing with you that the dicks on Blueskt are mostly tankies.
I assume you don't talk to people in real life like this. If you want to cultivate respectful discourse on Bluesky, consider setting the tone yrslf
I'm old enough to remember when tankie on the internet meant a communist who unironically thought Stalin and the Soviet Union did nothing wrong, and broadly supported authoritarian state policy to achieve socialist goals. I haven't really seen many of them here, so I presume you mean something else
I'm glad you feel that way.
Simply that not every dick on the Internet is a 'tankie'. Dicks come in a rainbow of varieties.
-Alan Dershowitz, a memoir
I think we should expect Harris to visit Minneapolis before we expect her to convince others to visit Minneapolis.
Brady retired, and they just sucked for several years, how can you still hate the Patriots?
There are definitely people who want the Democratic party to pick a program that Liz Cheney would feel comfortable getting on board with. I think the influence of those people is widely exaggerated, but they definitely exist.
There are also people who rage about any criticism of the Democratic party. As if it's not possible to vote for a party and still demand it be better than it is.
I just had a first run-in with a lot of very angry Dem zealots for daring to say whoever Democrats run in 2028 shouldnt have been involved in obfuscating Biden's cognitive issues during the campaign, and that it was a fact that Biden circa 2024 was not the same as Biden circa 2020.
Republicans in New Hampshire are currently advancing two bills which would allow landlords to evict anyone 'not lawfully present' in the United States, and make it a felony for undocumented immigrants to not affirmatively disclose to their landlords if they are undocumented.
I know it's much more comforting to view the world in absolutist black and white, but it's possible for someone to vote for Harris and simultaneously feel the Democratic party failed to give her or any other candidate the best chance to prevent our current fascist hellscape.
Hot take: it's possible to simultaneously believe 2 people shouldn't be president, just as it's possible to feel one of those two people who shouldn't be president would cause more harm to the country.
Did you seriously just 'fake news' that voters felt misled about Biden's capacity to continue the job?
Forgive me, but I would want my party to learn from its past mistakes.
It's not his stutter that concerned voters. We need to be honest about what the issue was; he repeatedly struggled to recall words, mixed up names and dates, all the regular signs of age-relates cognitive decline. And 6 months after the election it came out he was suffering advanced stage IV cancer.
Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Maybe “centrist” means “halfway between child and adult”
Sometimes this reminder is helpful on Bluesky:
It’s good to oppose Trumpism. Trumpism is evil. But there are plenty of people who oppose Trumpism who are also petty, shitty, annoying people. Block them or ignore them and go back to opposing Trump.
Historically, political candidates have excluded youth voters. We need to make sure young people are part of the political conversation.
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