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Far Country, which was one of the early Battletech novels. I got eight pages in and hit my third "that's not how that fucking *works*" (at least one of which was physics-related, rather than lore-related). Nope.

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
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Several people in the comments are wondering if this is actually a rugpull or instead a convoluted way of bribing Adams.

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

What kind of upside-down thought processes do you have to be using to think this is a good idea?

Don't feed the monkeys Ai slop.

This is the account of the French Foreign Ministry

Holy 60th Anniversary! The classic Batman live-action television show premiered on this day (Jan. 12) in 1966 with "Hi Diddle Riddle!" Starring legends Adam West and Burt Ward, the beloved series debuted with the iconic Dynamic Duo matching wits with The Riddler! #Batman66 #Batman

A watercolor painting meant to evoke the look of a Japanese woodblock print. A samurai wearing a blue and gray kimono and hakama is leaping in the air holding a banjo by the neck like a sword over his head. He’s about to bring it smashing down on a second samurai on the ground in kimono and hakama patterned in yellow, orange and red who holds a banjo in a low position at his waist. The background is a small hill with a tree on it with water and mountains in the distance.

‘Dueling Banjos’
A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before

What he means is that he is now abandoning every single policy position he’s had his entire life because he has to agree with Trump on everything. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.

(vid via Ford Fischer on X)

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Feel like the Sheriff intervening "to ensure accountability" is a First Amendment violation...

The War on Protien. The Police Action on eating dead roadside bears. The Kinetic Action on growing gourds in your own feces as a method of weaning off antidepressants.

These are just some of the 8-12 wars that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has helped President Trump stop.

I'd really encourage people who dismissed Jan. 6 as not that bad, or not a harbinger of things to come, to shut their mouths for a bit and do some reflection. Why were they so eager to move on and ignore what this event was all about?

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Reports are that the Iranian government is interfering with GPS signals via ground-based jamming. Starlink receivers use the GPS system to find satellites, and this seems to be the first example of such an effort:

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

this is unsustainably bananas and not impeaching and convicting these crooks grows ever more irresponsible and unpatriotic by the hour

Almost surely won't happen, but it should. History will remember that they have done nothing as Trump destroys NATO and Fed independence

Nikki Glaser calls out CBS News at the Golden Globes while it’s being broadcast on CBS.

“And the award for Most Editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America’s newest place to see B.S. News.”

Yet another scandal that would have ended any other administration.

Trump's salvation is that he's doing a hundred different things that would be huge scandals and impeachable offenses on their own, but pursued together they become a blob of vague criminality that's hard to tack down.

Tillis sucks but this is significant. No Fed nominee can move through Senate Banking without him and Miran’s term ends at the end of this month.

some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."

—William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

Fucking pussies wouldn't last 10 minutes as a middle school teacher.

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

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Sentiment check: r/wallstreetbets is absolutely libbing out, indistinguishable from Bsky.