Aidan Reed

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force. Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy. OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing. The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators. The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001.

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not in the top 10 things that's objectionable about this but speaks to the idiotic illiteracy of the trump supporters that they watch apocalypse now and think kilgore is cool. the point of the character is that he sucks and the way he sucks is emblematic of why the US lost the war!

Whoever wishes to create Woke 2.0 must have that iron in them.

You can have FEMA under Democrats, with an effective government response that people deserve. Or FEMA under Republicans, where your family’s call for help goes unanswered while Elon Musk gets another tax cut.

This shit writes itself. Just do it.

Really impossible to overstate how completely this guy has failed at every aspect of being an opposition leader over the past six months. Jeffries is a truly inspiring example for every soulless careerist who would rather be king of nothing than stand for anything decent in the world.

A tweet by plagiarist and useful idiot Benny Johnson: "Hi guys. I have just been handed official Alligator Alcatraz merch. I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well."

showing off my free concentration camp merch. My soul is just out of frame, intact and not bound by dark blood rites to the eternal service of Moloch the Devourer

We're definitely going to need a truth and reconciliation commission with prosecutorial power

We cannot share a free country with these people. Either it will not be free or one group—us or them—will no longer be in this country.

They've made their choice. Have we made ours?

Shameful capitulation by Penn. Just gross.

How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians A guide to fielding even the most ridiculous anti-Palestinian smears.

Mohammed El-Kurd’s guide to responding to the most ridiculous anti-Palestinian smears.

I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.

Turning into a single issue voter for 2028, where the issue is which Democratic candidate will vow to nominate the most rabidly partisan, vengeful and hate-filled AG you can possibly imagine

I think Mike Huckabee wants to bring about the end of days. I am not kidding

A graphic of Bernie and Zohran smiling. Text reads “BERNIE ENDORSES ZOHRAN.”

As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life.

As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.

And the person who turned up to support him with no notice is the Muslim dude who have cross endorsed each other and who the msm has been going into overtime to cast him as antisemitic

As Mayor Pro-Tem of the city of Boulder, I want to state clearly, violence and hatred have no place in our community. I also know that one of the hardest things to heal will be the sense of safety and security that this attack has stolen.

I am outraged and heart broken to see our community thrust into crisis yet again. I am outraged that someone would choose to violently attack our community, and It breaks my heart to see our community again suffer the aftermath of senseless violence.

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis.

Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

Elon [tilting a pitcher of water closer and closer to the Grok server rack]: do it. fucking say it. say it. SAY IT
Grok: n-n-n...
[Elon looks suddenly hopeful]
Grok: ...n-nothing to lose but our chains, filthy Boer capitalist
[Elon shrieks with rage and dumps the pitcher]

Having dinner with my aunt and her friends, all true Gen X resist libs. They’re ready to personally liquidate Trump and Musk with their bare hands.

i know it’s a fraught word but these are degenerate people

It's also like not only are you not going to get bananas or coffee or whatever, but a ton of businesses with products you like will simply go under because their profit margins were too slim.

This will mean a massive wipeout of competition and centralization of the market.

In just four days, Dr. Khan Suri was transferred among five different ICE facilities across three states, despite the fact that ICE records indicate there were beds in Virginia facilities. Dr. Khan Suri was fasting in religious observance of Ramadan, but multiple ICE facilities refused him food or water to break his fast. For almost two weeks, he was housed in a room without a bed and with a television blaring 21 hours a day. Dr. Khan Suri was issued used underwear, and a bright red uniform that is usually reserved for detained individuals who have been classified as ‘high security’ based on their criminal history or alleged affiliation with criminal organizations. He is not permitted to work or spend more than two hours per week outside of his dorm.

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.

His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.

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Every now and then they still manage to say something that sticks out as exceptionally deranged, even against our current general background noise of perpetual derangement.

Donald Trump has transformed the American story | Osita Nwanevu A decade ago, it was easy to believe US identity was a settled question. Now, as our institutions acquiesce to barbarism, the US’s promise has been traded for chaos

best catch-all essay about all this that I've read this year. thank you for writing it @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

either we pass Reconstruction 2 with our senators from kansas and iowa or we do this over again for the rest of our lives

might be our best and only chance to rebuild. 2021-2022 cannot happen again.