Exactly the same pattern that saw RFK Jr. push out CDC leadership: he cannot tolerate dissent and will use public resources to punish critics. This is what happens when the President normalizes this sort of abuse of power.

It’s reminiscent of how wonks view US transit investment, where the “answer” to exorbitant infrastructure costs for heavy rail is always Cheaping Out by building infrastructure poor countries build out of necessity (BRT, light rail) instead of building up the necessary industrial capacity.

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

underlying problem with a lot of pop culture and society generally is that people stopped believing that duty is a real thing

It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd

Sandwich man leaving court

Weber State in a hole early.

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

trailers should not be 3 minutes long, and trailers should not sequentially lay out the plot of the movie imo. very bad trend, do not like.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces.

It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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