Mike Chen

I wouldn't insult Dangle and Reno's finest with this comparison

I truly hate that this idea actually makes sense, and I'm not kidding one bit.

One of the "it's funny because it's true" things about Silent Hill 2 is how none of the characters go "OMFG HOW DID WE WIND UP IN HELL TOWN SURROUNDED BY MONSTERS AND WTF IS UP WITH THIS BIZARRO GROSS HOSPITAL oh well guess we just keep going"

Time to relax from this horrible world by entering the less-horrible world of Silent Hill 2

I was just at a protest outside of their headquarters this week, that person is just figuring out they're on the bad team???

I summed them up to my wife as "Okkervil River meets Pavement." I like Okkervil River! I like Pavement! I don't quite get the "this band will save rock n roll" (other than the british press seems to need that once a decade) but the backlash the other way is unnecessary.

they're in Maine now, doing all the bullshit

still in LA, doing the bullshit

THIS

The doomer take is "he's a sacrificial lamb, it achieves nothing" and while he IS a sacrifical lamb, administrations don't do that unless they're backtracking. It is up to us to keep pushing and NOT accept the sacrificial lamb as good enpugh.

Any time doomers (and/or bots) push the message that nothing matters, nothing works, point to this article. Public outcry achieved this.

Call your reps and tell them to go beyond "Abolish", the needle has to move to "Prosecute" people like Bovino

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

“But Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war. ICE…enjoys an $85 billion budget, a sum ‘larger than the annual military budget of every country in the world except the US and China,’ reports Caitlin Dickerson… Thirty-two people died in ICE’s custody in 2025”

This is his cycle. "I choose the best people" / "I don't know who they are or how they got there but I'm removing them"

Call your red-district reps. They're cracking.

So they do know how to postpone games. Imagine that.

It reminded me of this interview with Natalie where she said one of her favorite things to do during filming Revenge of the Sith was to just sit and talk with George about deep history discussions. That seems like a very George thing and a very Padme thing.

In another timeline, President Harris is prepping FEMA support for the winter storm while I enjoy the week leading up to Star Wars: Low Red Moon, but nooooooooo we're stuck here badgering House/Senate reps, buying whistles and groceries for a city under siege, and mourning the senselessly lost

Do you live in a red district? Then the time is NOW to call and yell about abolishing ICE. The fracture with TFG is growing.

"But why they wont abolish"

1) we need to get Abolish into mainstream discussion for the fall (it's getting there) 2) this can nudge them center 3) DO IT OUT OF SPITE

Killing, lying about it, and blocking a real investigation
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I just saw a recent video of Natalie Portman saying (paraphrasing) she has never been so proud of Americans while being so ashamed of her government.

I know it's silly to think this because actors are not their characters, etc but wow, that is something Padme would say.

I continue to see an IG pattern of a private account with few followers posting comments like "he shouldn't have attacked the agents". Then all these people reply with facts but THAT ENGAGEMENT elevates the first post -- which is a troll bot built to frame narratives.

Block + move on, DON'T engage

Dems need to be much louder about this type of messaging. GOP lumping the easy bills in with the DHS one is them playing hardball. They're choosing a shutdown.

My ultracapitalist, very Asian dad once told me that no one could ever care for anyone else outside of immediate family and people would never vote for "community" without financial incentive.

It made me furious at the time, but now that he is in his 80s, it feels like a very sad POV.

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.

strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November

I find the transition between Republic and Empire really fascinating, so it was really fun to create a previously unseen element of the ISB as the intelligence operation shifts from security to surveillance. But the underworld stuff was fun too, it's just that a lot of that was already mapped.

Last call before I turn off social media and cleanse my brain with the friendlier world of Silent Hill 2

This thread got me curious, so I just started going through my IG stories. I don't know if it's the algo, but I am shocked at how many people are making their own statements or reposting statements from popular creators. The notion of "I don't want to be political but WTF" is everywhere.

And this dad influencer with 244k followers on IG www.instagram.com/reel/DT3lb7b...

A schnauzer/lab mix wearing PJs with rubber duckies

Jake wishes everyone but them a restful night.