Eric English

So uh, how the hell exactly do they plan to get the Strait of Hormuz open for business again?

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

All expression and no persuasion makes Jack a dull boy.

“Abysmal” seems an especially apt descriptor of this moment.

This really feels like a fundamental shift. But does it just feel that way? Or is it really a shift? And how would we even know the difference?

No one even wants to bother responding to bullshit anymore because it’s obviously bullshit and responding to it just looks like either stating the obvious or engaging in breathless hyperbole. It can only backfire.

Like, am I getting more cynical? Or is the world getting more nihilistic? Is it an epistemic problem or an ontological one?

Is it just me or does almost everything just seem like a giant load of fucking bullshit?

Everything that MAGA is saying right now about "retribution" for Kirk is basically a scam. It's all about creating justification for the full-scale targeting of *innocents* on the liberal-left. It's not payback or retribution in any real sense.

newrepublic.com/article/2004...

I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

The PRECISE moment the Governor of Utah saw the suspect:

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

What Is 21st-Century Truth? | Essay Propaganda Has Trapped Us in Plato’s Cave—the Shadows Aren't Real but the Sun Is Blinding

And really by "teaching" Plato I mean I'm troubling Plato. Why did we trust him that the escaped prisoner actually saw the real truth and wasn't just a conspiracy clown pretending he knew the truth? Mistakes were made.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/21st-century...

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

This is more or less like the Lincoln Douglas debates?

Gravity always wins.

Way to snag that low-hanging fruit Chuckie.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Bring Our Local 100 Brother Home Please take a few minutes to send a pre-written letter to your representative and senator: Tell them to demand SMART apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's return to the United States! Background ...

The labor movement stands in solidarity with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and SMART Union for due process and the rule of law.

Write your member of Congress and demand they bring our union brother home NOW!

Moving. A friend complained about resistance focusing around this 1 person, instead of the hundreds who deserve the same solidarity. But people think in stories. Rosa Parks is a story. So is Kilmar, and Daniel Berulis, the hero from the NLRB. Honor heroes. Be one, if you get the chance, and can.

David Brooks quoting the Communist Manifesto and calling for a general strike

Bill Kristol wants to abolish ICE

Mayor Pete out here talking about "being creative about other means"

AOC barnstorming the nation

Kilmar is alive

THEY DON'T BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US

NEW: Here's a thread of some stuff you didn't know about Bernie's Fight Oligarchy tour...but you should. 16 stops in, here's what I'll share:

66.8 percent of the signups we have received are NEW to the Bernie list. 🧵 /1

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Upon his high horse arrives
The Moderate, in his disguise
As Pragmatist, the splitter of
All differences.

And in his Wisdom he decries
The hubris of your alibi
And sings his signature reply,
“Well, ack-shoo-ally…”

Billionaires Score Best-Ever Day as Stocks Soar on Tariff Pause The world’s wealthiest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth on Wednesday — the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — as stock markets soared after ...

See how this works? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen