Leeches in the Swamp

the actual Republican parents who support the politicians pushing for this think the effort and money they spent parenting are wasted if their kids turn out different from them.

You eliminate that possibility by eliminating the public existence of other kinds of people.

The Turning Point USA halftime show makes it clear: our multicultural society is keeping us from watching a guy dressed kinda like Ben Franklin play the violin not particularly well

We Are Witnessing the Imperial Presidency on Steroids Donald Trump has accumulated an amount of power in the executive branch that would appall America's founding fathers.

For those interested in the subject:
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I keep seeing people trying to draw delineations between ICE (bad) and Real Officers of the Law (good) and y'all, there may be some distinctions but every argument ICE is using to justify their murder and destruction came from Real Officers of the Law.

one of scott adams best posts

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.

Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

I don't think Walz is likely to deploy NG on ICE officers. That's a fair criticism. But from a practical standpoint it has also injected that idea into the public discourse as something acceptable and necessary for Serious Democrats to consider. This is probably useful.

Budget-ass brand Gestapo can't even do sit-ups

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way

if only our modern would-be Pharaohs would embrace tradition and start drinking arsenic and mercury

excited to watch people lose their entire damn minds over this

Has anyone else noticed that the days Karoline Leavitt doesn't wear her cross are the same days she has in-person meetings with Stephen Miller?

Writer wit and raconteur Frank Muir in a 1970s episode of Call My Bluff with the subtitle "It's kind of nameless dread" (spoken by opposing team captain Patrick Campbell, Baron Glenavy.

"But captain, it's only Tuesday"

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

It is 2025 and it is absolutely bullshit that name forms still treat a hyphen like a special character.

Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️

anti-vaping temperance movement poster that warns of "The Fruity Spectre”

What local phenomenon emblematizes US politics more perfectly than “White Long Islander’s opinions about New York City?”

128 Democrats join House Republicans to block AOC, Al Green bid to impeach Trump Lacking support from party leaders, Rep. Al Green and progressives’ bid to launch punitive inquiry over ‘Midnight Hammer’ bombardment fails

What the fuck are we doing here @housedemocrats.bsky.social. You fucking cowards. Shame on you

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AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

There is certainly something to be said about how these feds appear *extra* disorganized and that thing is: they are weaker than they want to appear. DHS/HSI is sending out recently deputized cops with limited street experience. You can come to your own conclusions about whether that's good or bad.

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

My friend who lives in the midwest knows who Paperboy Prince is and i think that is beautiful

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Has any human actually tracked down the source of this prima facie bullshit statistic