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Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested

Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

‘your love of the halflings’ leaf has blinded you’ hey saruman how about you mind your own fucking business and not work my fucking program for me

Hillbilly Gestapo, man

Not could. Have.

Fred Hampton.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple?

WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Hell yeah

I work right next to the Basilica and it’s just been constant tour buses carting antichoice weirdoes on the street outside

So fucking good

Here is how I kept my sanity for 20 min today

"will europeans hate us even though we're smol beans who didn't vote for him" feels like a really narcissistic discourse even by our unbelievably highly narcissistic standards

Ah yeah, the drama setting

Powerful Bidet Blasts Hole Clean Through Man

Powerful Bidet Blasts Hole Clean Through Man

Not much what’s up with you

FBI searches home of this Washington Post reporter- -Hannah Natanson. She also recently reported on Maduro and Venezuela.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

little head's up for some of you on here:

the same consultants now telling Democrats that embracing "defund ICE" is a dangerous political loser are the same ones who told them not to indict Trump for insurrection because it would be 'divisive', which worked out great as we can all see

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

Shit, something’s gotta

Colorful sky at dawn in Washington DC today 🌅
@capitalweather.bsky.social

raffi: regime change in America

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

A headline to sum up our times:

dem strategy makes no sense. voters don't like how chaotic trump is. media and dumb swing voters just convinced themselves he would be more normal in round 2. when dems downplay trump latest insanity, it cedes ground and creates the impression that what he is doing is within the realm of reason.

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.