Peter "the Juice" Griffin

Star Wars’ ‘Andor’ Season 2 Depicts the Banality of American Fascism The franchise’s Disney era has been defined by toothless politics, but “Andor” Season 2 is a vivid metaphor for America’s descent into authoritarianism.

The latest episodes of #Andor show how authoritarianism becomes ordinary — how people get crushed by systems pretending to keep order. We break it down in our article on the show as a metaphor for American fascism: www.wired.com/story/star-w...

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it.

More of this!!!!

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

Series of Bluesky posts: Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social Some of the big ideas I've been associated with in my career: 1. Supply and demand applies to housing 2. People like politicians who take popular positions 3. Police help prevent crime 4. The Orange Man is bad 5. China's large population matters a lot for power politics Matthew Yglesias (reply to above post) @mattyglesias.bsky.social I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true. The Gripe Gazette @gripegazette.bsky.social Forgot to switch to a sock puppet account? Large text on top from Felix Biederman’s Instagram account reading “sometimes you have to be your own biggest fan”

lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account

BREAKING: Unions representing government workers are suing the Trump admin over the president’s illegal executive order that attempts to strip more than one million federal employees of their union rights.

AFGE, AFSCME, SEIU and other unions are all joining forces for this suit.

In Gaza, almost every IDF platoon keeps a human shield, a sub-army of Palestinian slaves | Opinion ***

"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Elon Musk Amazed At How Much Cheaper Bribing Voters Is In Midwest MADISON, WI—Amid his political action committee’s campaign to influence a closely contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Elon Musk told reporters Friday that he was amazed by how much cheaper bri...

Elon Musk Amazed At How Much Cheaper Bribing Voters Is In Midwest

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process.

That means the United States is simply unsafe

Gabbard says Signal comes ‘pre-installed’ on government devices The app has been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says Signal comes ‘pre-installed’ on government devices. The app has been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past.

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
 
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

The more they lie, obfuscate and deny the glaringly obvious facts, the more I suspect they’re trying to protect the signal chats we haven’t seen yet.

I want to believe that we’re living in a world where this video will eventually be used to try Noem for her crimes. I don’t know if we’re living in that world.

These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed.

Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.

Please support real human artists

just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.

The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

"Any security professional - military, government, other than otherwise - would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information."

- Pete Hegseth on Hillary Clinton in 2016

I’ve seen video of IDF bombing Nasser Hospital, where a friend of mine is on a humanitarian mission to treat patients.

My friend survived the bombing but a teen patient he treated and who was set to go home today was murdered.

Are you warmongers not tired and sick of this yet? This horror

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

YouTube video by Human Rights Campaign Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) Speaks at the 2025 HRC Los Angeles Dinner

Trying hard not to fangirl (in my personal capacity)

"The response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only: a punch in the face." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year