this kind of thing can be deemed a crime
it could even be a federal capital crime
lots of people are actually saying that we could get creative in how brutally we carry out the sentences once convicted - experimenting with torture even, like AL does!
i have no real position here, just saying
"it's not useful for anything." okay, ignore every actual practical use of it and tell me, as a linguist, why you are not interested in a giant statistical ball made out of every word from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the May 31, 2025 edition of the New York Times.
oh i see peter is starting a Dialogue again (i agree with the take fwiw, i guess come get me too)
exhibit A in kav, alito, thomas sedition trial.
hey what's the penalty for sedition again?
YALL ARE REALLY COMFORTABLE SENDING THIS MAN TO THE SENATE!?!?
41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours.
Betrayed and murdered by the United States government.
42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.
The thing about Zohran doing this is that he may not get immediate credit from Jewish organizations, but telling these psychos to fuck off and thus polarizing his own broad left-wing coalition against them is in and of itself beneficial.
These people are creepy, childish and just weird as shit and we should say it all the time.
Part of me thinks, OK, given the sophistication of gerrymandering, there have been carefully applied simulations that estimate vote share gain for Republicans from the SAVE Act.
But they might just assume any voter suppression is good and are hostage to some really radical worldviews.
I have not see any really substantive analysis that support's Lee's claim: the SAVE Act will target women, who lean Democratic, but especially married women who have changed their names, who lean Republican.
But it is telling that this is clearly the motive.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...
this is a key structural problem in how elite opinion journalism covers our politics. these folks don’t actually interact with the maga hoi polloi; and more importantly, *they do not want to do that* because if they did they’d have to admit - to themselves - that actual rank/fike MAGA are fashy.
hey i am very open to suggestions on this point
i keep toying with the idea that becoming a billionaire should be an imprisonable offense. like put the onus on them to ensure, on pain of jailing, that their assets in total do not exceed 1b.
this won't affect many people at all.
Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!
'Murica
I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
oh fucckkkkk this
Jake Lang, sending texts to literal children like
this reads like brendan is having a stroke
oh hey, it's the station on 3rd
thx i hate it
tattoo it on my face
There is no point in appeasing people who do not want to coexist with modern civilization.
almost looks like trump did this with his dumbass war
in her defense, that was just the vodka talking
"Stratton is the only one in the field who seems comfortable saying ICE needs to be abolished. She’s the only one comfortable saying she would not vote for Schumer to head the Senate Democratic caucus," writes @nberlat.bsky.social. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/juliana-st...
a reminder that a primary cause of the brutally tight housing market in the biden boom labor market years of 21-23 was roomates and people living with parents moving in their own places due to rapidly rising low-end wages.
Standing athwart history, yelling "tax the middle class!"
