When billionaires pay someone to smear you, it's a sign you're doing something right.

I think about this every time I make myself a cup of tea.

dude the IDF is literally comical levels of evil like what even is going on here (i highly doubt any discipline will happen lol)

Trans people are the first domino because our existence hinges on bodily autonomy.

Groups that want to walk back everything from abortion access to women's suffrage to the social, legal, and political equality of women to men are all openly transphobic and it's not an accident it's a longform plan.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

As coded by the prophets

ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy

ICE agents came to a military base and grabbed the newlywed wife of a soldier who's about to deploy.

The wife came to the U.S. as a toddler.

She has no criminal record.

None of this is how it used to work.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

Getting ready for brunch with 5x5 deadlifts and two minutes of planks and HRPs between each set.

This is a real post by the President of the United States (on Easter, no less). It's unhinged, vulgar, and lends credence to the suggestion that he has frontotemporal dementia.

It also signal how the US is going to lose this war by falling into an escalation trap. 1/n

This is the season for Scared Sheepdog Dads in DC and they’re all so sad.

- gut
- 5.11s or Kühls
- shitty coffee/gun/military tshirt
- 10 yards ahead of their family like they’re point man
- illegal firearm in AWB or fanny pack
- skulky look like they’re going to get mugged on the Memorial Bridge

Drones: They're replacing the "queen of battle."

In theory, after a war, war crimes can be prosecuted. In practice, it usually depends on the winner capturing war criminals.

Hear me out - Wednesday is the 160th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. To celebrate, we HIRAIN in a bunch of rocket artillery units with Union lineage to scrub the mountain's face silky smooth.

The missing one probably started trying to not be captured by Iranians as soon as (s)he hit the ground.

That part of Iran is basically one mountain after another. The missing crewman and the rescued one probably lost sight of each other, and have no idea where the other landed.

Paratroopers get dispersed, unless they steer their descent to land in the same area. I can't imagine the same forces don't disperse aircrews, unless they fight against it.

When they eject, each one is in a chair with a parachute, tossed out of a plane probably flying 500 miles an hour or faster. The event that made one of them hit the eject switch might have knocked the other unconscious.

Fuck.

That’s what I was worried about.

Makes sense, though - the Warthog pilot would naturally be open to more risk if trying to keep a downed crew member from being captured

It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.

This is one of the most important stories of the week that you probably missed. The trump admin is basically taking something that belongs to all of us & giving it to political hacks & corporate donors. It’s an outrage & we should push back hard.

Trump might well have thought he could force the justices to rule his way by sitting there and giving them a Kubric Stare.

Are we deadass

Seems like his plan is to put American troops in an intentionally vulnerable position (Kharg Island), let it go to shit/get them killed;

Then attempt to get as many people possible to view Americans opposed to further escalation (nukes, refusal to honor election results etc) as equally 'the enemy'.

💥 Ukraine destroyed a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter with an FPV drone over Donetsk region.
$13 million.

Theatrical fake blood is a possibility.

Ear cartilage damage doesn't regrow the way his ear has appeared since then.

black and white studio photo of Hannie Schaft. She is a white woman with light hair.

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested.

She was executed by the Nazis, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after their first shots missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WorldWar2 #History #WomensHistory🗃️

That sounds more "libertarian" than anarchist to me. (Figuring that out is why I stopped identitfying as a libertarian.)

Saw someone say “we’re quickly learning that checks and balances in our government are all basically dependent on good faith and precedent and tradition” and I want to take a second to scream that some of us have been shouting this for going on TEN FUCKING YEARS now since dickhead’s first term.

When federal immigration agents in riot gear broke down the door, José Estrada Jerez was sitting on the floor next to his uncle, their hands raised in surrender. Estrada Jerez, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen born in Honduras, said he had lived in the home on Dorset Street for only about two weeks when he was caught in the middle of a large and violent confrontation over immigration enforcement. Federal agents surrounded the home, looking for a Mexican man named Deyvi Daniel Corona Sanchez who they believed had run inside after a car chase.

But when they eventually forced their way in after obtaining a search warrant, they found four people, none of whom was Corona Sanchez. In a firsthand account of the raid, Estrada Jerez told Seven Days that an agent picked him up by his arms, threw him on his stomach and handcuffed him. An agent then lifted him back up and searched his pockets, pulling out his U.S. passport card and his cellphone, he said. “I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen!’” Estrada Jerez recounted in an interview on Monday night. “He told me, ‘I don’t care.’”

The occupants of the home never knew who ICE was looking for, nor that they had obtained a warrant, Estrada Jerez said. “Nobody in the house saw the warrant,” he said. “They just busted in the door, guns pointing everywhere.” The agents pulled the two sisters from a bedroom out to the living room, Estrada Jerez said. All four were held there while agents searched the house. They demanded to know where Corona Sanchez was hiding, Estrada Jerez said.

When they determined the man they sought wasn’t there, the agents arrested the two Ecuadorian sisters and Estrada Jerez’s uncle. They uncuffed Estrada Jerez and left him behind. He watched through the window as the others were taken through a screaming crowd to a waiting SUV. Estrada Jerez has not gotten his phone or ID back from the ICE agents. He said he has bruises on his arms from agents grabbing him.

“I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen!’ He told me, ‘I don’t care.’”

Everyone should read this account of an ICE raid on a home in Vermont. This is what secret police do.

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