Matt Baldwin

Still somewhat amazed at how eager Hegseth was to put that fact on display live on TV in front of the entire US military top brass.

Yup. See also: New Orleans :: Louisiana.

I certainly don’t think she was lying when she said as much, but I also recognize that didn’t stop her from also twice dipping into crass gutter racism over “illegals” while doing so.

High Rise, The Devil’s Advocate, the first Ghostbusters…

Even under Trumpism, this is still a party of people with knives at the ready to slit one another’s throats if they think it’ll get them closer to power.

I very much think that he’s the acting president, and that Musk’s push out was at least partially due to him consolidating power within the West Wing.

Just to point out: she and Boebert are notably aligned on like 98% of issues, and often act in tandem on them. It’s also been reliably reported that they don’t like each other and despise being lumped together as a coalition. Ideological alignment doesn’t equal fraternity.

It's also pretty important to be able to acknowledge that no matter how talented they are, your favs will occasionally produce and release bad work. It doesn't diminish you or your love for the art to admit that.

Same, to two different destinations three days apart.

Same!

It also ignores that there’s a very large and visible conservative presence throughout the state; took the train up from California a few years ago and started seeing signs for gun shops and MAGA flags as soon as we crossed the border. Portland doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

I deal with the technical side of software development nine hours a day for my day job and I absolutely do not want to do that during my leisure time, at all.

Older Americans and retirees are pretty consistently one of the most reliable voter and community-organizing blocs, this may not go the way they planned.

My first exposure with the eugenicist movement was learning about the involuntary/coerced sterilizations on institutionalized “imbeciles”, physically handicapped people (including due to workplace injuries) and eastern European immigrants in the late 19th century.

I think it’s reached the point where we can fairly say there’s been bad-faith behavior on both sides of the issue and a lot of people need to go touch grass for a few days.

I don’t see any functional difference between this and RFK Jr’s belief that vaccines are bad b/c they prevent diseases from naturally weeding out the weak & unfit. They may intellectually rationalize it differently, but the outcome is still the same: mass death of those deemed “unworthy.”

A pro-eugenics skeet from Alejandra Caraballo saying, “I think population decline in the short term is good. We're overpopulated 4 times over on this planet. The problems are that it exposes the fundamental flaws of our growth at all cost economy and posted us to radical shifts or collapse. But there's no reason we couldn't have a steady state economy.”

No specific group that I’m aware of, but she has been signal-boosting the “4x overpopulation” canard and advocating “short-term population reduction,” which are both fundamental eugenics principles.

Oh she’s also been dabbling in casual eugenics lately, your feud is valid.

Actual LOL at “god’s smolest bean”.

Probably because I’m cursed with understanding that reference.

And a spouse who also sits squarely in that niche of celebrity.

IIRC that’s about what I had for the original Age of Apocalypse run.

I feel like Kieth Urban allegedly ending the marriage because he can’t satisfy Nicole Kidman’s sex drive brings this closer to being an actual possibility.

The thing about every Stephen Miller rant is that you can easily read them in the exact same tone of voice as a whiny, tantrum-throwing toddler actively crapping his pants out of sheer frustration.

And *should*!

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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Yup.

The party of “states’ rights,” y’all.

Hell, Mexico might have a dog in that fight, too.

Did not expect to wake up to see Texas gloating about invading other states.

Same for CA. Suddenly the local neighborhood park and community center on my street is a federal facility, it seems.