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The Tarrant County GOP chairman saying "we need to remove 100 million people from the country" in order to lower housing prices.

Lebensraum for the late American Century

I diagnosed an EVALI this week for I think my personal first time ever

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Oz remembers he’s a doctor for a hot minute and gets the guy to the ground. People forget that he was an insanely technically talented surgeon at one point, just always had an attraction to “woo”

Jeffries: "This from a group of people who somehow found $40b to bail out their right-wing dictator friend in Argentina. Republicans put Argentina first. And they can't find a dime to extend ACA tax credits? That's part of the reason why Republicans were rejected all across the country, pummeled."

Oh hell no. I do not think toddlers need to see this over civil violations. Much less immigration issues.

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

He was always a bit obnoxious prior to COVID, but it was at least in a way that made him a somewhat productive contrarian appraiser of evidence. But it does appear Twitter melted his brain

It’s so annoying how good at this he is when he wants to be a voice. But at least he’s very open about not throwing trans people under the bus

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

After No Kings, It’s Time to Escalate We need bigger—and more disruptive—nonviolent campaigns that can go viral and peel away Trump’s pillars of support

Resistance isn't futile

Here's a thread (and article) on five reasons for hope — and two concrete steps we can all take to stop Trump

www.laborpolitics.com/p/after-no-k...

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’ Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

Yikes

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

Really is Christmas for Criminals out there because all the federal agents and federal prosecutors aren't doing anything about real crime, they're spending their time either kidnapping people or prosecuting stuff like this:

She got hit by a car in one of these protests. Wonder if that’s where the charge is coming from

lol @coolzonemedia.bsky.social

Burying two stories in one headline! Impressive work.

So it’s either the MoCA or Neuropsychiatric testing. Regardless the regularity of these is getting concerning

He’s probably not, tbh is what happens mostly with measles. Mostly….

The woman at the end is 👨🏻‍🍳💋

Take the he car keys from Grandpa.
Aaron undersells how fucking ludicrous it is that he is actually saying this

Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

It’s also not that he isn’t redeemable, but that’s a big “should have covered it up years ago” thing to have to explain to us now…

the “politics can be a game of cultural affinity or it can be a game of winning” actually goes for everyone

Just going to say this the easiest way to avoid learning your candidate has a Totenkopf tattoo is to build real movements that aren't centered around electoral microcelebrities

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This is creating the permission structure for soccer moms and grandmas to openly say, we Americans have views that matter and will not be silent. It isnt nothing and can be channeled

"... the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion ..."

A treaty begun by Washington, signed by Adams and ratified by a Senate filled with many of the same people who drafted the Constitution.