Has your representative said this yet? If not, contact them and demand it.

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

Four headlines in which Marjorite Taylor Greene, Tucker Carolson, Piers Morgan, and Alex Jones condemn Trump for his genocidal threats to Iran.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

The Trump people really seem to struggle with the idea of a global market.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "I don't have any evidence that I have seen that suggests that the weapon was brandished."

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Starting to wonder if Kristi Noem has ever had a problem that she couldn't shoot in a pit before

Local man who says “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart” also makes national recommendations on appropriate Tylenol usage and child vaccination schedule.

Musk is just straight up white nationalist now.
(And helpfully decoding that Western Civilization=Whites)

overall the feeling you get from planet earth in 2025 is like watching a tv show six seasons after it got bad. nothing's funny and everyone's got weird plastic surgery faces

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

I have very explicitly avoided that rabbit hole for at least a year for that exact reason.

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

I want to take this opportunity to connect some dots. This is not a mistake. This is on purpose. The right wing ethos hates government oversight. They try to take over government precisely so they can make it less effectual. We see this everywhere that has Republicans in charge.

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

I think: knowing how to code with AI assistance: absolutely an essential skill for developers to have.

enshittifying everything by putting AI into everything consumer-facing? no, thanks.

My first impression of Remix 3 is that it’s a bunch of new APIs to do what we already do. It doesn’t seem to unlock new capabilities.

HTML fragments are cool, but you can already do that by returning RSC from server functions in React. Astro supports it too.

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

I feel like by the end of this we're going to have to come up with new legal claims to describe what they have been doing

That’s an EXTREMELY common pattern.

"If there's anybody that can solve this unforced error that President Trump single-handedly caused, it's President Trump."

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we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

The scariest scenario for me is an incapacitated Trump with Miller fully running things.

Because Miller ABSOLUTELY has the stomach for it, Miller is salivating at the idea of full totalitarianism.

And he's too cocky even to think of it as a gamble, he thinks they win for sure.

When Stephen Miller talks about prosecuting domestic terrorists who malign Charlie Kirk, keep in mind that Miller has described the Democrats as a "domestic extremist organization"

He wants to terrorize and silence half of this country