Opinion | Here’s How to Defeat Trumpism

Surprise, Surprise: The NYT Editorial Board's recommendation for how to defeat Trumpism is essentially to inch further to the Right.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

It's as if part of the plan is to have people pumping out kids *and* poor enough to worry about their next paycheck so they'll be good little worker bees to keep their jobs. Poor, scared baby factories.

Which sucks, there's nothing wrong with having kids, it's great, it shouldn't be so oppressive.

So... I'm sorry, you've confused me; are we married to Iran now?

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

To paraphrase Christ: "But whoso shall [murder hundreds of children with tomahawk missiles], it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

"A two-year-old son who hasn't seen his father in seven years" 😅

Can anyone else, any other sources, corroborate this? I haven't been able to find any other video or reporting on this (other than things just sharing this post).

Hey. Absolutely not ever, thank you.

Watching a movie from 2014 about the US government being infiltrated by Nazis, and what's wild is that the main thing Marvel got wrong was that they made the Nazis reasonably smart and competent.

I helped edit this book in undergrad, and there's a story in there about Soviet troops landing at an airport in East Germany that had just got Coca Cola. The Soviet troops tasted it for the first time and said it was like having an orgasm.

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Joint Technology Solutions, the company contracting to process the personal effects of dead soldiers (sure sounds like there's more than just six), is the "Don't look at our finances"iest-sounding company I've ever heard of.

I mean, he didn't just fail; he didn't even try to do that.

This might actually be the most dystopian shit I've ever seen in my life.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode It's the crossover no one knew they needed: ABC's "The Rookie" will air an episode "prominently" featuring the cast of Dropout's "Game Changer."

“Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?

You guys wanna make some bacon?”
-Bud Cubby

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Any chance that Tom "Yes I Will Take That Big Bag Of Cash" Homan was involved in this?

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a Guy Finnacum,

They're actually equal weight, which proves that a billion dollars is made of wood.

What I'm hearing is that if you want to cool the data center efficiently, what you need is a thicker atmosphere, like Venus. 🤔

Just thinking about Trump wanting Republicans to federalize elections in blue states...

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, that I might use peer pressure to get them to guilt their parents into giving me tons of money while I tell them that all their friends whose parents don't give me money are going to hell. Blessed are the manipulable for they shall give me lots of money."

As a historian of civil wars and revolution, particularly in Russia and Spain, I don't think we can reasonably call this a civil war until, at the very least, people start organizing and shooting back. Until then, it's just - as the kids say - sparkling state violence.

If only Comrade Stalin knew about the horrors of collectivization, the grain seizures, the famines, the killing, he would surely put an end to it.

He doesn't run antifa, but he does actually do a lot of really effective recruiting for them.

And for the record, even if Alex Pretti had an extensive and serious criminal background, it still wouldn't be okay to throw him to the ground, beat him, and shoot him ten times.

We need a Nuremberg 2.

God damn you guys are disappointing.

Like yes, sure, he should resign - and he should be arrested and imprisoned, as should Noem and Vance and Hegseth and Trump and everyone else involved with this machine. ICE should be dismantled and abolished and everyone involved with it should be investigated.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

This might hold at least a little water if Schumer hadn't already betrayed us on this exact same issue like two months ago.