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There's an traditional heckle for shit marching that basically goes "Right! Right! Right right right!", but I never thought I'd see it genuinely in action...

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

Say what you will about the Boomers. They are SHOWING UP to this #NoKings protest in Los Feliz. #IndivisibleHollywood

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

A lot of dipshit intellectuals, from across the ideological spectrum, are going to meme themselves into being unironic monarchists in response to civic republicanism becoming a popular normie position.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

They think you're stupid.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Extremely complex and over intellectualised way of saying "say what's actually happening with context and don't sanitise it"

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Not every Republican wants to kill you, but none of them will ever do anything about the ones who do.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

So, I watched bits of the parade and I guess my takeaway was, "confused looking 79 year-old unsatisfied by birthday party?" Like, he looked unhappy. Which, I mean, good.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

I didn't get a picture of it, but a woman at the Los Feliz #NoKings protest had what may be my favorite sign of all time. It was just a piece of cardboard that read "Donald Fart."

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

We spent $45 million on a poorly attended sad-sack wanna-be dictator parade that rolled tanks through the streets of DC when he could have just gotten some fucking therapy.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I was in front of the federal building when this happened and while I admittedly wasn’t at the front of the line closest to the cops, I didn’t hear a dispersal order. We just saw people starting to run towards us followed by cops on horses and cops shooting munitions of some kind.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

gizmodo.com/jeffrey-epst...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I wrote a thing! In part responding to Emma Ashford's "Four Explanatory Models" (also at FP) for Trump's foreign policy, I propose a fifth model: that the administration is best understood as heavily ideological along personalist, authoritarian far-right lines. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉 As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

ICYMI: I talk about a man who managed to embody almost all of the complexities of 20th century Chinese politics, despite spending more than half of the century under house arrest.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"What traditions?" "Oh, you know the ones."

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

The American people will rise up with one voice in the next election, and declaim proudly and true: "We demand a militarized universal deportation program that involves no violence and has no economic impact! And we want it NOW!"

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

"A critical element of that is that elected officials cannot back down. They must continue to act like Americans. If the President wants to rule by tackling senators or arresting governors, make him do it. Elected officials owe us that. We should accept it individually ourselves as well."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is what you do when you think they'll be worth more in the future btw

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Mike Johnson does not think that elected officials should be treated with a certain amount of respect. Noted.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If Vox does not give them this contract I am unleashing hell on this company

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

You, a peasant, go to the beach and make sand castles. Me, a man with humanitas, makes a sand Roman playing-card fort, with fossa et agger.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

They are extremely clear about the fact that they consider themselves to be at war with you. They do not equivocate about it. It's their stated policy.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Mentality of whipped dogs.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

submitted 2 days ago • 210 comments

After all that, an even easier example: If no farm workers feel safe going to work and picking the food, NOBODY GETS THE FOOD.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It is wild to be dealing with policymakers who are so accustomed to never dealing with a consequence that they are genuinely unable to draw a line between their actions and a future result.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-cal... Oh, just two fellas hanging out, talking about fishing and Article 25.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this guy interviewed on cable news and yeah, leopards etc., but he could barely bring himself to admit that MAYBE he had the TEENSIEST amount of buyer's remorse

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

The 1920 Hyperinflation Crisis and the 1929 Great Crash are not the same event, and the latter is very important in terms of how Weimar democracy collapsed. The 1932 elections returned NSDAP and KPD as the largest parties, which made coalition government impossible.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"If my plagiarism blender puts enough of other people's thoughts next to each other, it might turn into a real boy."

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

We are, at no point, given any textual evidence that Darth Vader is good at, cares about, or puts any effort into his actual job.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I'm about to be on vacation, so hopefully won't be posting much for the next few days, so let me note: Trump's military parade sucks, these jackasses are shredding the civil-military relationship laid down by George Washington himself and maintained ever since, it is a national shame. Thank you.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Some kind of helicopter currently circling #Koreatown in Los Angeles.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

They see fascism and race science as intellectual/theoretical ideas to be debated and opposed, and they take "wokeness" as a direct personal attack against themselves. It really is that simple.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Oh, good. This is something we needed.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The fundamental unifying belief of all modern American conservatives is that liberals are not really their fellow citizens.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

I’m not even joking when I say that X is radicalizing our entire generation of journalists.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

I think the best depiction of space combat I've read is Scott Westerfeld's SUCCESSION; you have stuff like ships accelerating for weeks to get into position for a few minutes of combat, mass use of drones as the main weapons platforms, canisters of flechettes launched kinetically, etc.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"nullification of the election results" = "winning imbued trump with sovereign authority and so all opposition to him is illegitimate and illegal"

submitted 4 days ago • 175 comments

Some important context that I think people are missing is that for the editorial class/commentariat, the biggest impact of 2020 was a determination to never again let the NYT staffer revolt over the Tom Cotton OpEd happen again.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments