Rob Jones

The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis.

Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.

Remember when Trump said he wouldn't touch Social Security? "As many as 1.5 million could lose eligibility over the next decade, including the widows and children of workers."

They clearly weren’t serious the first time, even though they were right.

If true, this really continues the ongoing soft coup. He's saying that if the Senate passes a CR that differs from the House bill & requires reconciliation, he's going to refuse to negotiate with the Republican controlled Senate.

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 US Office of Naval Research Head Replaced by Rachel Riley, Former DOGE Employee

Riley was the driving force behind an attempt to lay off nearly 8,000 Federal employees. She pushed for the near-dissolution of the NIH Center for Scientific Review, which reviews grant applications

A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail. The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.

It's insane that this even needs to be said.

“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.

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I miss Breakfast with the Arts so much.

Trump to America: Drop Dead.

It really does

StephenMiller calling description of our story "abject lies."

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.

“Abject lies,” he wrote.

Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.

Because...we do our homework.

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Hm seems like a good time to re-share this article from 2004:

www.jstor.org/stable/3592974

The only obscenity here is the cop.

Woman dressed as Statue of Liberty wearing an American flag cape is arrested by Broadview police with assistance from Illinois State Police.

Police just detained two protesters.

One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Hmmm, why aren't RFK Jr's parents having children? The mind boggles.

Hmmm, why aren't RKK Jr.'s parents having children? The mind boggles.

YouTube video by Steven Schoolhouse Rock - America Rock - No More Kings

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No Kings, from sea to shining sea.

weratedogs v 1/5 BORDER PATROC ICE AGENTS KILL DOG DURING UNLAWFUL SEARCH, REFUSE TO RENDER AID, AND LEAVE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES

weratedogs This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. Unsurprisingly, they did not care enough to help the family as they tried to save him. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-834-8400 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov

When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

destroyed digital media so he can force you to attend an in-person lecture and listen to his half-baked 2004-era AV Club essays

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Could you just write that the government is lying? Why is that so difficult to write?

Babies in Placenta is the name of my goth dreampop band.

I might be the only American who uses Primm-er.

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

And get fleeced by China. All at once!

News from the Authoritarians Club: the US Treasury has finalised a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina and directly bought Argentine pesos to help stabilise the country’s economy.

The president of the United States thinks there are no stores in Portland, OR.
The president of the United States is mentally unhinged – and dangerous.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.