There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
Hint: anyone who claims that Section 230 was meant only for "passive carriers" or "merely hosting" is either (1) lying to you or (2) deeply ignorant.
@superwuster.bsky.social do better, man.
@wyden.senate.gov has explained repeatedly why this is wrong. As have the courts.
And thus begins weeks of discourse about whether Trump knows something just because he's been told it by an expert. The same thing happened with the 2020 election, his lawyers insisted he didn't know he lost even though he was told by everyone in the know.
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
a basket full of sleeping baby skunks
caramel coat crow
a couple good runners up:
I'm working on a book outline that argues democracies rely on the constraint of power through functional verification, deliberation and accountability and how thats been hollowed out and captured in the US, and he just tweets it out.
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
The Trump-Orban comparison has always suffered from a bunch of different cognitive biases.
Trump is both a “playbook autocrat” (like Orban) and a “mad king” (not like Orban)
I wrote this duality here. In my view, the mad king persona will always prevail.
www.thebulwark.com/p/crazy-or-c...
post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet
Charlie Kirk was a fucking grifter piece of shit who figured out that the best hustle in this country is telling soft-ass white people that they are the only real Americans. Fuck this guy. Fuck his message. Fuck the people who believe this garbage.
Another thing I would note is that only a handful of senators are the ones pushing this, the vast majority of the caucus is not into this.
It does not matter. In the Congress, it only takes a few members being annoying to dramatically change the agenda.
Activists on the Dem side need to stop treating the party with kid gloves and start pressuring these lazy aristocrats to do their jobs.
If they truly are "our allies" then they will be willing to find ways to move good ideas forward and force debate.
Politics really isn't that complicated. You want something you need to keep being annoying until you get it.
I am hoping they fail here, I am not convinced they will. But this is pretty much the only path they have to succeed and they are taking it.
What they are doing it for is horrifying but also I begrudgingly respect that when they want something they force votes and pressure their leaders till they get it.
Seems like some lessons here.
Conspicuously absent: Amy Gleason, the purported administrator of DOGE at the time of Fox’s employment.
WHO WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE????????
#WITAOD
For those who think that the US armed forces would never carry out illegal orders from the Trump administration, note that they are still carrying out boat strikes--which experts agree are illegal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
"Republicans don't have the ideas, the people, the temperament or the moral authority to govern America as it exists in real life" is an indisputable fact that's held true my entire adult life. I am 51 years old.
He'll try to declare victory and move on. But you need a better imagination than I to conceive of how that could possibly happen.
Thinking a lot about how Iran's ruling regime is basically what MAGA wants for America, but with actual religious devotion. That makes them especially tough for the Trump regime to plot against. Trump just wants to pretend to win. The Ayatollahs just want to not lose. Recipe for a forever war.
The dystopic algorithmic future is just Tuttle/Buttle errors that Terry Gilliam anticipated in “Brazil”, over and over and over with no accountability.
A Pentagon recruiter openly offers corruption: “unmatched access to top-level government officials and privileged information flow — whatever you need, you can get.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
Political messaging on Easy mode:
1) we will hold them accountable for all of the corruption, war crimes, civil rights violations, and sex crimes;
2) we will break the stranglehold that the billionaire class and large corporations have on our economy and politics.
Win in a landslide.
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
NEW: The DOGE deposition videos a judge ordered removed from YouTube on Friday after they had gone massively viral have since been backed up across the internet, including as a torrent and to the Internet Archive
New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...
These alt-right kids might play dumb in front of authorities but they know what they are doing. They’ve probably been Nazi-posting on 4chan since they were 14.
Yeah this is why I wouldn’t be so quick to buy the idea they don’t read any books as it’s much more likely they understand the books they’re reading are supposed to secret and “gnostic” as recently described.
