I said what I said.

Proposing a new system by which all us socially anxious folks can have half of our imposter syndrome and self-criticism surgically removed and donated to those who so obviously need it.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

TL;DR, the current CR doesn't have any risks to gender-affirming care. But the upcoming spending fight will and it's important to differentiate between the two, especially when it's information for a vulnerable population. Our job should be to seek truth and report it and minimize harm.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Let me go ahead and send my thoughts and prayers to all that plan to take their medical advice from someone who I am old enough to remember also told people to inject themselves with bleach.

Why is ignorance being elevated while intelligence is being denigrated?

California becomes first state to ban face coverings for most law enforcement Local and federal agents, including immigration officials, may not wear non-medical masks while conducting official business

Face coverings are now banned for most law enforcement in California.

Credit to the activists and organizers in California who spoke up, organized, and added pressure!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation.

But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying.

We ALL need to step up for the first amendment.

By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.

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the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest:

Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes

ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Oh man I can’t believe we haven’t heard anything from icon Dave Chappelle on the unforgivable, worth everything to stand up against it, crime of cancelling comedy just because you don’t agree with it.

Maybe he’s napping.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

How is this supposed to work for me when the proposition being put forward is that Black people lack the intellectual capacity for public life and not enough of us are in prison?

The Charlie Kirk hagiography shows our society's empty worship of form. He held debates, so he was a free speech hero. Never mind that these were rigged events where he'd tempt unwary college kids to spar with him and then humiliate them with cheap rhetorical tricks and put the footage online.

Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

Nine times out of ten it's a terminally online white man with nonsensical but right-leaning grievance politics but maybe THIS time it'll be one of those Oberlin sociology majors we're always warning about

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLL13683

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.

Wild to me that the thing that finally resulted in the anti-vaxxers winning was a deadly pandemic that demonstrated the true magic of vaccines in front of everyone’s eyes