Jeff Barrus

My kids attend USC, so I'm very pleased to see this.

I cant describe how angry this story makes me.

How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

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1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

The biggest lie they ever told us is that the revenge of the nerds would be a good thing

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Entering the Anne Frank stage of the administration I see

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we're actually not that afraid."

That actually sounds too good to be anything Ubisoft could come up with.

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

I sold my mom's rural house a number of years ago. The woman who bought it didn't believe me when I told her that UPS delivers to Washington, DC. She was a UPS driver, and she'd heard it was so dangerous that the company didn't go into the city.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Hard-hitting stuff at the Bezos post

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

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Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

thoughts and prayers to all the ICE agents who can’t get paid now

I don't think Jeffries heard the same thing we did when Trump said he hates his opponents.

I love how the softest rich guys imaginable spend so much time trying to tar their opponents as people who drink charonnay. Like they don't have their own super-cooled wine cellars.

There's a story making its way through the Hollywood trades about how a new "AI Star" is being "circled" by talent agencies. I can't describe how angry I am—the useless middlemen get to keep their jobs, while humans are replaced by robots. They refer to "her" as if "she" is a real person.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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tom lehrer famously declared political satire obsolete when kissinger won the nobel peace prize. what a sweet summer child..

Thinking about joining the National Guard. Sure, the pay ain't great and I'm not thrilled about losing one weekend a month, but the travel, man. I mean, those guys go to all the coolest cities in America.

Quinnipiac in recent poll asked: Do you think that the way people talk about politics these days is contributing to violence in the United States, or don't you think so? 82% of voters agreed with this including majority of Dems, Independents, and GOP. I said basically this and got fired.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie What makes Trump so different from other presidents?

@jamellebouie.net: "You see a lot of the big city mayor in Trump. You can even call Trump a kind of big city mayor who escaped containment, who got loose and terrorized the countryside."

Usually I get bad secondhand embarrassment for people in these situations.

But with Zuckerberg, I’m rooting for the WiFi demons 💯

Friends, are these the kind of guys we want running the world? 😂