Tom Cairney

Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.

The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck.

Can’t stop thinking about it.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Late in his life, Michael Collins, the Apollo astronaut, said he didn’t think of going to the Moon every day. “Maybe once a month.”

Bill Mazeroski, on ‘60: “Every day I think of that home run. Wouldn’t you?”

You understand both, of course.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

Been waiting for someone to issue an Elon-free ETF, but that is apparently a bridge too far slate.com/technology/2...

As a general matter I abhor violence but the way things are these days I honestly think I would pay a subscription fee for a steady feed of videos of diverse young people beating the shit out old white MAGA guys.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

I mean look. This is basically what they want. A handful of people around having all of their needs met by robots, a slightly larger number of people around to do whatever the robots can't, and for everyone else [redacted]

Wait, *another* one?

Or if Orbán wins the election, rigged or otherwise (Tisza has no access to mass media or even election posters), and the EU declares it illegitimate (which it is) and tries funding Ukraine over Orbán's veto.

They're incapable of building nuclear weapons, for one

It's infuriating that every journalist, since Trump's 2024 campaign, has been incorrectly discussing Trump's tariffs as though they're economic policy. They're not. They're a primitive coping mechanism, employed by a psychopathic toddler to soothe his pain when he feels fragile and wounded.

Watching the Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee interview and holy shit the fact that Tucker Carlson is a voice of reason on Israel because western media refuses to confront this weirdo fuck of an ethnostate is a straight up disaster

People are saying "they lost Dolan???" But they didn't lose Dolan. He's not objecting to ICE kidnapping people, he's objecting to ICE kidnapping people on their way to pay him his holy protection racket money (collection plate)

Oh?

people.com/jeffrey-epst...

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Were I going to invest in an up-and-coming company, it would be a guillotine manufacturer.

we’re basically speed running the Iraq war but
-Iran is 2x the population
-Iran is 4x the geographical area
-zero allies on board
-UK potentially actively refusing to let us use their bases
-they’re not even bothering to try to manufacture consent this time

stancil agreeing to be profiled as part of a piece covering the situation in minneapolis, but then it only being about him, really gives away that our established media/political class *only* care about content and how it plays on twitter/etc.

they don't care about policy, they care about posts

Remember when the pee tape sounded outlandish, before we all found out it was really a thousand times worse

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

There is a kind of smug, dull-minded "We're just here for the show" complicity in that room. During the press conference, Trump announced, not for the first time, "I don't talk to CNN, it's fake news." Why didn't the reporter immediately leave? Why does CNN still invite his stooges on its shows?

I mean

Wasn’t that Garfield, or were both assassins like that?

In this case, if Trump tries to just ignore SCOTUS on tariffs, that'd basically mean his customs officers keep demanding container ships at U.S. ports pay taxes they don't owe. And the crew can just say, "no," and if Trump tries to fine or arrest them, a judge will just say "you're free to go."