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/11 Trump is what he is: an increasingly demented jumble of personality disorders prone to barking out whatever angry stupid thing pops into his head. And he’s the “leader of the free world.”

But many politicians who took an oath to uphold the Constitution will echo his lawless dreck.

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Nailed it.

The truth about Lt. Columbo He explained the evidence and drew confessions from his targets before they were read their rights. Prosecutors hate this.

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For those who celebrate…

Leaflets showing portraits of Sacco and Vinzetti. Under both are the following caption in Italian: "Vittima della rerealione capitalistica"

Best summary ever: “230 protects your domain registrar from being sued by the heritage foundation because you called them racist.”

I shouldn’t be so fucking riled up over the fact that some people STILL think eliminating Section 230 will do ANYTHING USEFUL.

Science!

It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture.

A back and forth between Isaac Chotiner and Captain Janeway made to look like a screenshot from The New Yorker.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Poll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is in The movement is gaining popularity among Democrats, a left-leaning group found.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin.

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Donald Trump just announced at Charlie Kirk’s football stadium funeral that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has cured autism.

(This is all one big collective acid trip, right?)

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

just a little bit

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

Sticker reads: “Thicc dads who vape for Christ”

I’ve found my people.

You know it’s bad when Trump is posting about Epstein to distract from the jobs report.

YouTube video by Will Common The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Single Version)

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I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?

i don't know what to say that someone smarter won't say better. but i was a trans kid when there wasn't care for trans kids & i can tell a short story since that's allegedly my deal.

i survived. but you know the survivorship diagram? i'm that fringe dot. i survived by accident.🧵

cw: self-harm ⬇️

The GOP governors of South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee have all sent their states' National Guard troops to assist Trump's occupation of DC.

All four of those states have cities with crime rates higher than DC.

This was never about "fighting crime."

YouTube video by Certaincorners Hilsinger & Beatty - China My China (Eno)

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Edison's Lights by Harry Album · 1976 · 8 Songs

Listening:

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On this day in 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" helped the US escalate its war in Vietnam. The US Navy reported—erroneously—that its ships had been attacked unprovoked. At the time, John Gange warned of the US sinking deeper into the mire with "no end in sight." www.thenation.com/article/arch...

I guess I don't understand economics

I so want to debate this essay, point by point. But let me just point to an easy error. In arguing the worn theory that Black wealth disparity’s due to unmarried mothers, why would the control group be married Black people, not white people of similar circumstance? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Mehmet Oz: "We've made it easy to be sick in America and this president and this secretary of health, Bobby Kennedy, they're not gonna tolerate it anymore."

In my view, the window to *forestall* autocratization of the US political system is basically closed. We're now in the consolidation phase of a new authoritarian constitutional settlement. The question is how far it'll get (will it achieve its apparent goal of fascism?) & at what pace.

Here's why: