Brian

I’m howling.

Is anyone in the White House press corp going to ask about this?

CNN, NYT, AP, and other media orgs literally have interviewed families of people killed in Caribbean boat strikes, including some who say they were just fishermen.

Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.

Unbelievable, ICE unloaded Pepper spray directly in the face of protesters yesterday in St. Paul MN -

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

They also, bizarrely, assumed that his intent in going into government was to actually make it more efficient. So that's two very, very bad premises that it didn't even occur to them might be incorrect. So it resulted in a bizarre conversation all around.

They both took it as a given that Elon is one of the smartest, most innovative people on earth who could uniquely see through any problem. They did not, even once, consider that he's a monumentally lucky rich guy, who has no fucking clue about some fairly basic concepts.

Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...

"Goodies"

Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.

Horrifying.

FUCK‼️
This should concern every single person in the US.

The GOP won’t extend subsidies in Dec—because they want to completely gut the ACA and its protections.

Every single person with a pre-existing condition runs the risk of being uninsurable without it.

The GOP is a death cult.

Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Last year, Joe and I brought together Democrats and conservative Republicans to write the strongest border bill in decades. The Border Patrol endorsed it. But Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign. So he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal. Well, I refuse to play politics with our security. Here is my pledge to you: As President, I will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed. And I will sign it into law. I know we can live up to our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants- And reform our broken immigration system. We can create an earned pathway to citizenship- And secure our border. America, we must also be steadfast in advancing our security and our values abroad.

Harris: So, in this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week (applause) any day of the week, including, for example, on the issue of immigration. So, I was the attorney general of a border state. In that job, I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers. I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.

So, I was the attorney general of a border state. In that job, I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers. I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won. Donald Trump (applause) Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk (applause) or as my friend Quavo would say, he does not walk it like he talks it. (Applause.) Where's Quavo? (Laughs.) So, look, our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it. It was all set to pass. But at the last minute, Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down.

Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?

Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:

The Democrats called out racist shitbags and serial sex offenders.

If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ.

The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

Problems with "if both sides are mad…"

① There's no metric to distinguish between success and failure.
② Goodhart's Law
③ A complex system has more than two sides.
④ False balance
⑤ It's a transparent rationalization that no one buys.

It's important to note, as I have multiple times, that it's possible to be Jewish - as I am - and still condemn Israel for genocidal acts. In fact, the history of Judaism makes it clear Jews are obligated to speak out. Never again *means* never again. #zachor

"I am Spartacus" except everyone is admitting to felony sexual assault of a minor

Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.

DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs

"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"

Trump lost his trade war in every possible sense. It hurt the economy; it made us look ludicrous and lawless; and it gave Beijing a chance to reach for world power. And there is nothing Trump can do about any of this except back down and blame others. (1/2)

anyway ludicrous to think the right question is “how did DHS lose its way??” and not “why did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”

I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times.
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Trump:

I want to murder my enemies with zero consequences.

New York Times:

Bold move, sir.

Zero understanding of how risk pooling and insurance works.

THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.

CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.

I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.

Disagree: we've been in a propaganda war with Russia since 1903 or earlier! That's when the Tsarist bureaucracy began pushing "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as part of a nation-building propaganda process (going back to the Partition of Poland in the late 18th century).

This shit is OLD.

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.