David Lynch

MAGA, yall good with mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons with no humans in the OODA loop?

Anthropic: hey we love that you want to use our model, just don’t use it to spy on US citizens at random, and don’t let machines kill people without human intervention

Pete Hegseth: fuck you

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack

I'm sure you're wondering how many paragraphs it took the NYT to note that the US-Iran crisis the world is facing was *deliberately created by Trump* when he exited the US-Iran nuclear deal in 2018 purely to spite a Black man he hated (Obama).

Answer: 22.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered.

~ Veterans for Peace

Never gets old.

Undocumented immigrants don’t vote
Trump was not “exonerated” re: Epstein
The board of peace is a huge grift
The Melania movie was a bribe
You pay the tariffs
The boat bombings are murder
The ceasefire is not a ceasefire
Ice is not targeting criminals

And on and on

Look I think we are at world historical levels of you never have to take Tyler Austin Harper, Sam Moyn, Sam Haselby, Dan Bessner, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, et all seriously again.

Trump v. United States is an illegitimate decision.

Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored “law and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

In the country from which we demanded liberty, declaring a republic by the people and beholden to no rule by divine right, they can arrest a prince. In this so-called republic, now 250 years old and imploding, the president has been declared immune from prosecution.

The American Revolution failed.

the thing about our system is that it's just republicans defending trump at all costs—literally!—and the rest flows from there, had clinton been president when the epstein files released he would have been impeached and removed before breakfast

Remember when Trump told John Roberts "thank you, thank you, won't forget it" like a mob boss?

We completely obliterated Iran’s nuclear program. It’s gone. Fake news will never admit this.

So anyway, we have to send hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment to the Middle East and have a major war to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons.

What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar

Daily

We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab The nihilism of the regime is its most terrifying attribute.

@davidrlurie.com explores Trump's "nihilistic ambitions" and the legacy of "utter and complete destruction" he is building—an echo of Putin's "heedless destruction of his own country in pursuit of a pointless war that has gutted Russia’s prospects for the future."😔 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

I am reminded of the near-constant incandescent howls of rage from conservatives when Michelle Obama helmed efforts to get healthier food in schools.

We have the most corrupt and least competent FBI at the same time that we have the most corrupt and least competent DOJ, with the only saving grace in either instance being that both agencies are also woefully understaffed

If American journalism isn't capable of calling what we just watched unprecedented, unprofessional, intemperate, profoundly unsettling, contrary to the Oath of Office an Attorney General takes, and a colossal sign of disrespect for the constitutional separation of powers, what are we even doing here

If the US did what the French are doing right now, the effects on Twitter and Facebook would be enormous.

It really says something about our national descent that the President of the United States and the most damaged, onanistic submoron in the country are now, somehow, the same exact person.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

James Comer spent every day for 2 years and millions of US taxpayer dollars trying to link Joe Biden to Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014, but has zero interest in UAE putting $500 million into Trump’s crypto company then getting advanced AI chips from the US.

The Trump regime is creating a surveillance state and using it to crush our liberty. Get active now, while you can.

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.

The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

Denmark, our NATO ally that Trump has threatened with war to take part of its country, has provided $12 billion in aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded—3% of its GDP.

The equivalent for the U.S. would be nearly $1 trillion, five times as much as we’ve actually anted up.

Will the number of people going to see the Melania movie exceed the number of Fox viewers who are aware of Trump’s pardons?

MAGA:

“DONT TREAD ON ME!!!”
-to-
“LOOK SEE HE WALKED TOWARD SOMEONE COMPLY OR DIE”

In record time

Remarkable stat.