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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.

I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.

We spend a staggering amount of energy trying to understand why cruel awful evil men are this way. And Miller IS profoundly evil.

Miller advocated for torture...when he was in HS. It wouldn't surprise me if he hit all 3 criteria: late bed-wetting, hurting small animals, lighting shit on fire.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars. ‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.” Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”

Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

All he knows how do to is "but I'm just a little birthday boy" in a racist pissbaby way

vance really does stand out for his absolute contempt for anything that looks like forbearance and generosity. his immediate instinct is always to demagogue and issue calumnies against his fellow americans.

“Shoot a bunch of people using a bolt-action with incoherent messages on the shell casings, you’ll be famous” is not a great place to be, but yet, that seems to be quickly becoming a meme in this goddamned country

Can't help but notice between this and the ny mag article on noem and lewandowski that the key players in this admin are spending a lot of time screaming at each other and it's getting leaked to the press more frequently

Important to note that Congress has never passed any law giving the President authority to designate anything as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

As a result, this would appear to have no direct legal effect beyond acting as a statement of policy for the Executive Branch.

it is amazing how many of these guys love to make tough boastful statements then at the slightest sign of pushback back away like little bitches

Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization." All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations -- especially those involving terrorist actions -- conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa provided material support, including necessary investigatory and prosecutorial actions against those who fund such operations.

OK, we got the Antifa "order," and it's weak. It cites no specific laws. I imagine, this was the drafting process:

Boss: Quick, Trump said something, what can we do?

Lawyer: Basically nothing, other than enforce laws?

Boss: Hmm. Well, make it sound like something, OK?

Lawyer: I'll ... try?

more than anything, what i think it mostly indicates is that the admin is getting very sloppy, too many stupid fights on too many fronts, too many viziers scheming, no real leadership from anyone

ah. bluesky.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

If you don't stop calling us fascists, we're going to have to use the full power of the state to investigate and punish all our political opponents.

there are going to be a non zero number of academics who have been droning on about their annoyance with progressive students and administrators and colleagues who are not going to like where those complaints are taking them

Gov Greg Abbott vowing to suspend the teacher certifications of educators who posted things about Charlie Kirk that conservatives don't like

Governor Greg Abbott today signed House Bill 20 into law, which protects Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms. The Governor was joined for the bill signing by Senators Bryan Hughes and Representative Briscoe Cain, the bill's authors, as well as Senators Charles Perry, Dawn Buckingham, and Angela Paxton. The Governor named social media censorship legislation as an agenda item for the second special legislative session in August. "We will always defend the freedom of speech in Texas, which is why I am proud to sign House Bill 20 into law to protect first amendment rights in the Lone Star State," said Governor Abbott. "Social media websites have become our modern-day public square. They are a place for healthy public debate where information should be able to flow freely - but there is a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas. That is wrong, and we will not allow it in Texas. I thank Senator Bryan Hughes, Representative Briscoe Cain, and the Texas Legislature for ensuring that House Bill 20 reached my desk during the second special session."

Time is a flat circle, nothing ever happens, etc

I think the idea of primarying everyone is misplaced because the idea should be to put the fear of god in people by demonstrating in a targeted way that *anyone* can be primaried. But there’s a few where it’s like, if even *this guy* can’t be successfully ousted, they don’t need to change.

what the fuuuuuuuuuck

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

These guys are claiming Kirk as a nazi.

I'm curious, from the right's perspective, is this unacceptable criticism, of the type that's getting liberals fired from their jobs, or is this honoring his legacy?

Anyone named Brian Kilmeade should be involuntarily euthanized immediately

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so Justice Kavanaugh seems to have cited a DOJ number unsupported by any source without saying where he got it to reach a constitutional conclusion based in part on that number being accurate.

To be fair, this is an anomaly. The conservative justices usually at least cite to wildly unreliable sources when basing their decisions on wildly inaccurate facts and statistics.

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

mostly it's because they came from a class that had never before been called on to do anything for the public good, and they were really irate about mom (the Democrats) making them do so