I just grabbed my dog a little tighter. 💜

Can Vance's part in this story be summed up by any old viral tweets? Everything Price Sufferer (but especiall... X @agraybee • Follow Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses." 2:48 PM • Jun 17, 2022 50.2K Reply @ Copy link Read 290 replies I'm sorry, but the only way this tweet could be more JD Vance is if no one had liked it.

A reminder that Jesus condemned the Pharisees for being hypocrites who made a public show of their prayers.

EXCLUSIVE THE OUTLOOK 'Envy of the World' - U.S. Economy Expected to Keep Powering Higher Economists lift their growth forecasts in latest Wall Street Journal survey By Sam Goldfarb (Follow and Anthony DeBarros (Follow) April 14, 2024 at 5:30 am ET

WSJ Homicides Are Plummeting in American Cities Killings in cities including New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are falling from their respective pandemic-era increases By Dan Frosch Follow and Cameron McWhirter Follow April 14, 2024 at 5:30 am ET

Headlines from two year ago in the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal. Good thing we voted for the law and order candidate who could clean up the crime-ridden, economic disaster America used to be.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus?

That was this week.

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Midweek Update #5; This Is No TACO: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure Trump Agrees To Iran's Victory Conditions

Just sent out this free midweek update. This was no ordinary Trump TACO, this was Trump accepting Iran's victory conditions as the basis of negotiations. It looks likely that Iran will emerge stronger from this war than before; a total US strategic failure. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

Also worth noting that Vance only cares about the kind of hyper-elite schools where he was educated. For, say, directional midwestern state schools, banning international students is a massively negative-sum proposition that means fewer opportunities for everyone

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Hegseth just fired the Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a hot war and it's barely even in the headlines. And over petty bullshit. Under GoldwaterNichols CoS isn't an operations position. It's more readiness, procurement, running the institution. Still the normalization of the total abnormal.

The Trump Dictatorship Is Cracking Up In the president’s warped world, his increasingly deranged demands are never the problem—only his underlings’ failures to meet them.

Trump's firing of Pam Bondi and the war crimes of Pete Hegseth both illustrate the perils of personalist rule. Flattery, tribute, and the willingness to break laws for Trump are all that matter. We are seeing the disastrous consequences everywhere.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Hey so I am writing about how many CBP and ICE agents have been convicted of sexual crimes in the past 10 years, if you have any tips, my email is in my bio. #journorequest

As usual, I reserve my heartiest FUCK YOU to the Republican leaders who could stop this, who know perfectly well they should stop it, and who instead roll over in abject fear of this evil but weak man.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.

Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

Did you ask them to not pay $1B to a company to destroy a wind farm? That seems like a bad idea given the circumstances.

Anyone who buckles to allow voter suppression will own that betrayal.

A permanent stain on their career.

Trump shutting down the entire mechanics of govt during a war in order to do 2 of the least popular things available, both of which are doomed to failure, would be funny if it wasn't immiserating thousands and thousands of people.

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.

If you are in line at the airport, try to get an idea of who is immediately around you. If you’re waiting hours, chat with them.

If you or someone around you gets attacked by regime thugs, you have someone to ask for support or document for each other.

folks,

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

After days of conflicting messaging from the White House on how much longer it will continue to wage war on Iran, Trump alleged that US strikes had "totally demolished" most of Kharg Island, and told the network that its military may hit site "a few more times just for fun"

I know it’s apparently only salient to most American media outlets to talk about oil, but for the few remaining people left with a soul, thousands of people live on this tiny island in only 8 sq miles. This reads like a serial killer prison interview.

Happy birthday! A trip to MoMA sounds like a perfect way to celebrate, even if it’s a day late.