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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

My dad is a dyed in the wool, hard right, Faith and flag conservative.

He texted me today and said this was a bridge too far and that the use of these federal troops is a massive strain on our constitutional system.

I think we’re plumbing the depths of what most of these folks find acceptable.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

It’s national suicide to believe we can with until the midterms to stop this. Or that the midterms will exist in a free and fair way.

People seem to not understand the reality is if fascist troops are in the streets it’s not a free and fair election and the troops are already in the streets.

That this is not only considered implausible, but that nobody in the top echelons of Congress (in either party!) will even consider being gauche enough to say the i-word, is the surest sign that the entire federal legislative branch has declared bankruptcy as a going concern.

This whole “don’t take the bait” narrative being spun up by the resist account networks is pure counter insurgency. If fascists are trying to do violence against you and your community by all means protect yourself in any way you can. Do not comply in advance and “do nothing” in the face of fascism.

Yes, that’s true. But the furs? Sweat city

The story has always been the Republican Party’s compliance with Trump (all the way down to Ronna Romney McDaniel excising her middle name) from the moment he won a plurality of the primary vote in 2016. It’s so obvious that it’s just assumed that Republicans will do his bidding

It’s hot, and I’m fat. I would dress like this if I could afford it and I wouldn’t sweat through it.

Texas is invading blue states

This is the line.

If Trump violates this order, if he attempts to violate it, if he suggests violence against a judge (whom he appointed) for demanding that he stay out of this, we claim a clear consequence. And it has to be one that we create with the tools available to us.

A government that extrajudicially kills foreigners abroad will also (try to) extrajudicially kill its own citizens at home.

Fortunately once SCOTUS says courts can't stop Trump from sending Texans to kill Oregonians the Democratic leadership will have some strong points about kitchen table issues

They look really, really good. This Pats team plays like the early Brady Pats.

If this is what they want, I think they're going to find this is the ultimate "touch the stove" moment. Nothing to radicalize the people who don't pay attention like creating a civil war out of thin air.

We should be exactly what they fear us to be.

The aversion to causing panic in situations where panic and anger would be advantageous to them is wild to me. If the roles were reversed, Republicans would be doing 24/7 coverage and running both the talk show and podcast circuit every day.

Can we please at least try to pretend this is a crisis?

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

Damn, tough call. Do I believe the guy from probably the most universally respected profession in the world, or these guys who are violating every law and norm they can and gaslighting us about it every step of the way?

Brian Schatz is an assclown.

History will name Trump, but the best thing we could do to save the Republic is to remove Stephen Miller from the equation.

Taylor Swift has been the same since 2010, she’s the human embodiment of ordering chicken tenders, why is anyone surprised her album doesn’t land in a time of huge social change

If I say what should happen to Stephen Miller, I’m sure that jackboots will be at my door at his command, but the reality is that we’re all thinking it.

At some point we need to talk about how Sark has taken two 5-Star QB recruits in Ewers and Manning and they both looked awful.

There is, to my knowledge, not another analogue for this happening in a nation with a similarly armed populace, either. And we have not yet reached that boiling point. Maybe we won’t. But an armed, organized public rebellion in the U.S. would be hard to ignore and harder to quell.

For my own sanity, I have to believe this.

For better or for worse, I have to believe American military personnel fundamentally see a difference between killing foreign citizens and killing Americans on American soil.

Rich people are intentionally ruining the United States for the rest of us.

I'm sorry after like a decade of these guys using 'soy' as an insult it turns out their soy was LOAD BEARING???