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Maybe you could invite Stephen Miller on your podcast to talk about it

I've been thinking about this C.S. Lewis quote for the last few days as we head into some dark times.

TODDLER: fuck you! ME: what? T: fuck you!!! ME: [unable to believe my ears] what did you say T: FUCK YOU!!!!!!! WIFE: [from the other room] kiddo, are you saying “vacuum”? T: yeh

"I don't think the French left should use coercive means against their right-wing opposition," says Jacobin

Anyone able to confirm this? I have a hard time believing LAPD and LASD wouldn’t work hand-in-glove with the feds

Speaking from Portland’s 2020 experience, this is going to get very ugly, very fast. Angelenos have a lot more skin in the game than Portlanders did—and this Trump administration is a lot more depraved than the last one. That’s a potentially explosive combination.

If they did any of that, they wouldn’t be Democrats

Good.

Soundtrack for this weekend

For anyone showing up to the protests around LA this weekend, please bring supplies. Paper towels, milk, water, snacks, and any extra masks. Wear protective gear like helmets, goggles, full face protection, and heat resistant gloves. The tear gas canisters are hot and will burn

It's a weird thing, but the world in which Mitt Romney won in 2012 might be a better world

One of my more reactionary takes is that “leave your ethnic conflicts in the old country” is a norm that America should socially enforce

might have been a bad idea for D cities to send astronomical funds and weaponry to a violent armed gang that hates them.

Hitting strategic bombers: dirty Killing kids with missiles: clean

lol this might be the funniest outcome

Don’t worry my fellow Californians. Our guy @gavinnewsom.bsky.social will be discussing why it’s important to turn the Golden State into a police state with Kellyanne Conway in his next podcast. Gavs got this.

Clear “throughline,” as the ADL put it, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to Mahmoud Khalil to, uh, the Financial Times.

I seem to be of the minority opinion that it's bad for our historical understanding when people use "blood libel" to mean "well-documented exposé reporting on actions committed by the Israeli military."

honestly i don't understand why sanctioning israel into poverty is not on the table

LAPD firing impact munitions at Los Angelenos while DHS arrests their neighbors.

Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.

Mass deportation and immigration enforcement in the interior requires a police state, and the more of that you want, the more obviously it will look and act like a police state. Roll paramilitary goons into people's neighborhoods and it isn't some abstract issue of "the border" anymore.

Hey remember when Politico or Axios reported that Dems were going to pass the CR and a bunch of Very Smart People told us we were marks

Jonathan Greenblatt striving to keep up with Stephen Miller as the most racist, fascism-friendly Jew in the US.

When Hakeem Jeffries eleven years ago said "Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever" I knew deep in my heart that this is where we'd end up lol the ADL making the exact same arguments as pro-segregationists

complaining about Black Lives Matter in a speech to the Republican Attorneys General Association should be the end of whatever remaining liberal cred the ADL had

ADL, please keep comparing Palestine to BLM. Please. I beg you. Please. Keep doing it. Keep reinforcing the entire ideological and cultural structure that young people have grown up. Please keep associating Israel with the police state. Please.

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

The ADL is just another right-wing NGO, like AEI or ADF or Heritage or Claremont. We should start treating it accordingly.

They'll settle for $50M and your tax money will go to pay Enrique Tarrio and his family.

Stuart Thompson’s snide responses to legitimate criticism of his story that permits a distributor of child sexual abuse material to rehabilitate his image *really* tell you how seriously you should take him.

The Supreme Court says Big Balls can have access to everyone's Social Security records (and remember that they have been using that unlawful access to falsely declare living people to be dead so they can't hold a job or a bank account). 1/3

“For 15 years, my job has been to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. I am proud of that. Also, apropos of nothing, I’m quitting my job.”

okay yeah this should move your prior on the strength of the case

Look, if we’re gonna start coming up with new signals, how about one for “here’s the part of the other side’s brief I’m dunking on“

They are going to steal money from the blue states and give it to the Proud Boys

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants Trump administration stay in DOGE/Social Security case (restoring DOGE’s access to SSA data) over public dissents from three Democratic appointees.