Justin Charles

“bro if we just become a little more fash we can totally compete in the rust belt! i see absolutely no long term downsides to this.”

Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.

Fuck your feelings!! Also it’s illegal to make fun of my cronies

"Wow. That's beautiful. ... Everything's computer"

this strikes me less as an honest diagnosis and more as self-exonerating excuse for not doing maximum delay and obstruction in the senate right now.

truly incredible to (1) not be doing everything you can to delay and obstruct, (2) receive historically high call volume demanding you max out delay and obstruction, and (3) complain that the callers are focusing on the “wrong” people

One of the better headlines i've read in recent history.

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

a point i made a number of times in the lead up to roe v wade being overturned is that conservatives had spent 50 years building up this institutional power and so there was no way they decline to use it once they had it. i think a useful perspective for everything happening right now

lol at the Democrats just doing nothing

i love botero

I BET DEI DID THIS

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image

also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

Luigi Mangione is escorted by several police officers and Mayor Eric Adams in New York.

seems a bit dramatic

At the scene of the Amazon strike:

The NYPD has now erected barricades to allow Amazon contractors to enter and leave the distribution center, helping Amazon break the picket line.

Incredible to live in a country with people who don't want a guy to coach college football because he fucked up some dogs AND want a rapist who tried to overthrow the government to be commander in chief. Good stuff.

The Democratic leadership habitually ducking and swatting away chances to give the party any kind of future

This New Jersey congressman faked his Spotify Wrapped results to look like more of a Springsteen fan U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey admitted that he manipulated his Spotify Wrapped results to be Bruce Springsteen-forward. Was it an attempt at pandering for the governor candidate?

For everyone just tuning in: The most Jersey political scandal of all time has dropped — www.inquirer.com/news/nation-...

the way we're socialized to see violence exclusively as interpersonal—& not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same with panics about "crime"/shoplifting vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us

the left needs to stop making fun of the united health CEOs assassination, you might alienate the crucial health insurance billionaire voting demographic

I think it was on twitter (though maybe here?) where I once noted that despite being a life long dem who had never voted for any other party, have given money to a variety of candidates, volunteered, been on staff, etc, I was wishing for dem leadership to actually die of natural causes lol

This is not exactly a vote of confidence in the national telecom infrastructure by the government

Useless

A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

Please please please let there be rivalries between imperial intelligence and operations sections

“You didn’t have targeting authorization for that mission!”

“I don’t need your authorization when I’m the only section with tasking authority!”

against the dark forest The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

"For people with the ability and willingness to work on network problems, the real choice isn't between staying on the wasteland surfaces of the internet and going underground, but between making safer and better places for human sociability and not doing that."

great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.