Chris Polito

it's possible that Spanberger hates these people enough she could actually do a one-term 'burn the crops and salt the fields' demolition on the GOP. the memes from the tribunals would be tremendous

I just finished Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman. Next up is Twelve Months by Jim Butcher.

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.

After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

My man saw Danny Spud upping ICE and said I’m making tater tots bitch.

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of eight...

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to turn those nominees into life-tenured federal judges.
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YouTube video by On The Docket Welcome to On the Docket

There’s a point in this introductory video to On the Docket, which makes AI-generated videos of Supreme Court justices “reading” their opinions, when the narrator says “The result? Now you can *see* the Court at work” and I yelled NO YOU CAN’T loud enough that my dog came in the room to check on me

Narcotics cop makes pretextual stop for tinted windows. Driver has a suspended license. Instead of writing ticket or calling for tow, cop waits 20 min for drug-sniffing dog, which alerts.

8th Circuit: Drugs suppressed, this was prolonged delay under Rodriguez.
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The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.

Samuel Alito Is a Great Man, According to a Former Alito Clerk Arguing Cases at the Supreme Court Ben Aguiñaga, Louisiana’s solicitor general, has appeared before the justices three times this term. In an op-ed, he describes his old boss as “kind, humble, thoughtful and selfless.”

Call me a stickler, but I do not think former Supreme Court clerks who are now practicing lawyers with *multiple cases* pending before the Court should be publishing fawning op-eds about how “kind, humble, thoughtful and selfless” their old boss is

Hello? It's Trump! I think my calls are getting blocked! I know the Dems don’t want you to see every critical memo I send. READ TRUMP MEMO: MAGA! > READ TRUMP MEMO: I have a very important meeting coming up, so I’ll keep this short.

This is a message from Donald Trump: THIS IS MY MAGA CRY! MAGA! > Trump: Valentine’s Day is next week & you still haven't unlocked your MAGA membership? I’ve come to the conclusion that the deep state must’ve been blocking my emails or something wicked like that because I added INCREDIBLE new perks to celebrate my love for the most incredible supporters like you. I know you would cherish them - it’s actually depressing that you haven’t gotten to see them. TRUMP’S MAGA CRY: I’m praying that this email is passed over to you soon because we’re down to our final few spots and I need you on our team

MESSAGE FROM THE 47TH PRESIDENT: MAGA! > Hey, it’s President Trump. I was in the car. In route to the White House. I couldn’t get you off my mind. So, I wrote you a special letter before Valentine’s Day:

rom Trump: I know you’re ready for this. There’s a reason YOUR NAME came across my desk MULTIPLE times, and I would be a fool to ignore the signs. After reviewing your profile PERSONALLY, I have OFFICIALLY informed my team to grant you MAGA Guardian status for your never-ending commitment to the MAGA Movement.

I am subscribed to Donald Trump's donor mailing list despite having never donated to his campaign, and it's remarkable how much they come off like someone trying to catfish your grandparent into thinking donald trump is their personal friend

if elon had a normal dick he absolutely would have posted it by now

Hey, exciting new internet psychosis everyone

This is cool

I'm reading I'm Starting to Worry About this Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin.

Corporate dems are the problem. They take money from people who are in the files. A top donor of shumer for example is Paul Weiss, whose principal attorney just resigned bc of it

If you think the Super Bowl is too woke and the Grammys are too woke and the AEW Dynamite crowd is too woke and the Oscars are too woke maybe it’s actually a you problem.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

screenshot of a banger Superbowl ad tweet: cj @TOS_Violator. 9/11/21 the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard 177 14.5K 112K

good time to bring back this all timer:

Something wrong Hon, you've barely touched your meat and ferments.

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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)