🚨BREAKING: A national security official says Donald Trump is in a catch-22 where Iranians are threatening to release videos of him sexually assaulting children if he bombs them, and Israel is threatening the same if he doesn't!

My god! Lock that fucker up!
Leak the videos. The End.

“They are not Japanese in culture. They are foreigners to Japan. Though American citizens, they are not accepted by Americans, largely because they look differently and can be easily recognized. The Japanese American Citizens League should be encouraged, while an eye is kept open, to see that Tokyo does not get its finger in this pie – which it has in a few cases attempted to do. The loyal Nisei hardly know where to turn. Some gesture of protection or wholehearted acceptance of this group would go a long way to swinging them away from any last romantic hankering for old Japan. They are not oriental or mysterious, they are very American and are of a proud, self-respecting race suffering from a little inferiority complex and a lack of contact with the white boys they went to school with. They are eager for this contact and to work alongside them.” (Historians still debate whether Roosevelt read a brief memo summarizing the Munson Report or the entire thing.)

At President Roosevelt’s order, Curtis Munson gathered intelligence on Japanese-American loyalty to the United States. He submitted his report in November 1941.

In this excerpt, Munson describes the Nisei, 2nd-generation Japanese Americans who lived most or all of their lives in the U.S.:

WE aren't becoming this. The vast majority of Americans do not like this. This is being done TO US by a bunch of deranged lunatics who have the power to do it. We are, however, becoming numb to it.

Hilarious misplacement of the participial phrase. Another one I learned a long time ago: The explorer told us how he had seen cannibals roast and eat a man at the bus station.

Pretty rich coming from an administration that’s censoring and banning valuable information online about our history of slavery, the data behind global climate change, the efficacy of vaccines, and the very real lived experiences and needs of our family and friends in the LGTBQIA+ community.

RFK Jr says he now supports Trump on this.

MAHA was always a con.

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Back to Log In CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY You are required to answer some challenge questions you chose in order to proceed. Incorrect answer to the question: Where were you when you first heard about 9/11?

This is an amazing security question but it’s made doubly amazing by the fact that none of my answers work and I have no idea what answer I originally gave

I know it’s a cliche but books have never let me down. During every really shit time in my life, they’ve always been an escape and a way to not be myself or in my circumstances for a little while.

If I wasn’t a reader I genuinely don’t know what I’d do.

Cheap Paperbacks of the Day

Red Sky at Morning, by Richard Bradford, Pocket Books, 1971, 95 cents.

The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, Avon Books, 1967, 60 cents.

#Booksky #Cheappaperbackoftheday #massmarketbooks #Richardbradford #shirleyjackson #Thelottery

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Todd Lyons Bragged of Investigations into Just 37 Use of Force Incidents Out of Hundreds - emptywheel Todd Lyons thinks that investigating 37 incidents of excessive use of force by ICE officers is accountability. But it's really a confession.

Todd Lyons Bragged of Investigations into Just 37 Use of Force Incidents Out of Hundreds

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“Peter Thiel” is an anagram of “The Reptile” and “Hitler Pete”.

Palantir happily helped Trump's deportation push—and screwed itself Palantir, the big dumb Big Tech company named after the crystal ball in “Lord of the Rings,” just dropped a Securities and Exchange Commission filing—which would be hilarious if we lived in a ...

This is hilarious and horrifying at the same time. Irony and schadenfreude in another dimension. Also shows the complete lack of a moral compass on the part of the people think they can define and rule our world.

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Should your esteemed constabulary be inclined to cross the pond, we are in possession of a most splendid catalogue of miscreants (which we would be delighted to preserve in like confidentiality) for your good offices to apprehend.

I think i'm a book snob.

I have a lit degree, read the classics and settled on a modern american lit focus. Most of the books I read and loved for my degree were old, tightly written and well told.

Every time I try to read current fiction, my brain spends the entire experience rewriting the book.

We need to talk about the right’s new voter suppression target: Women The SAVE Act would make it harder for married women in particular to vote, and that is just one part of the MAGA right's misogynist project.

The cultural figures of the GOP want nothing less than for it to be the party of disenfranchisement, misogyny, and spousal rape www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

Verge headline: Mark Zuckerberg is taking the stand as social media goes on trial by Lauren Feiner Photo illustration depicts Mark Zuckberberg set against a field of Meta logos

The way that Meta and YouTube designed their products — allegedly luring users into a nonstop loop of taps and scrolling — is at the heart of this month’s bellwether social media trial, which sets the stage for thousands of similar lawsuits.

Read more from @laurenfeiner.bsky.social: buff.ly/ndKT7WQ

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Reading a very well received mass market paperback that has left "heroine" in for "heroin" and I'm sorry but that's unacceptable. I've seen people in the indie space reprint entire runs for something like that and they don't have the benefit of editors and proof-readers.

The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

Trump's accomplishments in his second term are a brutal intersection of arrogance, incompetence, broken promises and cold economic reality.

YouTube video by Reuters ICE is cracking down on US citizen protesters with charges, tracking

Be alert, protect your identity, phone, email, ensure you have an attorney, and inform family and friends before you leave your home for work or protesting. ICEGestapo are kidnapping Americans and using racial profiling, with no warrants, to violate Constitutional rights.

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands

‘We can’t follow the constitution!’ Is not the winning argument you think it is. Reminder to regularly be calling your reps for this, to vote no on SAVE and vote no on HJR 140!

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More specifically:

1. The First Amendment is for Christians and expressing bigotry on private online platforms only.
2. The Second Amendment is for white conservatives only.
3. The Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments are inconvenient and optional.

the Wall Street Journal article "The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores" from 2/10/2026 with "splurging on ... rotisserie chickens" highlighted

two days ago, the WSJ described young people as "splurging on" rotisserie chicken, the $6 item that, by weight, is the cheapest meat at the grocery store. the ruling class tells each other with increasing desperation that we deserve what they're doing to us

"less a work of history than a crystalization of how historical subjects are repackaged for contemporary consumption. It offers sharply drawn characters, moral drama & a clear narrative arc but does so by eliminating complexity and isolating events from their institutional and intellectual contexts"

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Probably lol

It sounds a lot like the Atlantic slave trade. Those people are less than human to them.