@adblair
Rootless (American) cosmopolitan. Anti-doomer, anti-authoritarian, anti-bigotry. Don't just abolish ICE, nuke DHS from orbit and start over. “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” -T. Paine
The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.
Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!
The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
This has to be among the biggest exercises in national self-harm in recorded history. Demolishing our own engines of innovation and economic growth to make America white again. Smdh
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
“Guys whose only tactic is ‘punch harder’” versus “Problem made worse by punching,” the story of America in 2026
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic
It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing
DHS Nominee Vows To Protect ICE Agents By Personally Fighting Each and Every Protestor
The US govt mixing video of real violence in a war it started with a video game scene feels like crossing a(nother) line.
I’m not sure what to say. I don’t think war is a game. And even when I think military action is necessary, there are real human beings on the other end, not pixels that respawn.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Markwayne Mullin Lured From Senate Seat With Promises of Rides In Bitchin’ Jet Plane And Unlimited Chances To Punch Brown People
I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
By morons for morons
It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.
For people who blather so much about Western Civilization and how they’re supposedly saving it, it’s like they’ve never heard of the canonical Ancient Greek concept of “hubris.”
“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
- Schwab ⛽️
In terms of its impact on energy, travel and the global economy, the US-Israeli attack on Iran is like a mini-covid pandemic, but human-made and by choice.
And the answer is simple: it’s because his beard and muscles and aesthetically blue collar oyster job make dweebs in Dem politics feel tough. Irresistible to men desperately insecure about their own masculinity because they subconsciously embrace MAGA’s core gender politics
There’s a million of these dudes and they kind of drift randomly between the far right and populist left, picking up bits from both, something he certainly shows some evidence of having done himself. But he’s being positioned as the Democratic savior… why?
Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a construction worker's outfit. The other shows her in a police officer outfit.
Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a nurse's outfit. The other shows her in an electrical worker's outfit.
Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a military outfit while riding aboat. The other shows her in a firefighter's outfit using a firehose.
Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a Westernwear outfit. The other shows her in a police officer's outfit.
good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.
As foretold in the book of “I Told You So” Chapter 47, in response to the war in Iran costing $1B per day and 6 US lives, so far, Sen. Ted Cruz and Tim Scott have introduced a GOP tax scam giving a $200 billion tax break for their ultra rich pals.
Who pays? We pay.
among other things, it's very very funny to imagine Trump having granular knowledge and strong opinions about various obscure Iranian regime figures possibly in the running.
This guy unleashed tens of thousands of federal agents to terrorize parents picking their kids up from school.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?