Ian Foley
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I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
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100%. watching or reading something does not count as approval of its viewpoint or creators.
basically every action film is right wing. some cop or agent meting out justice, with perfect moral clarity.
trying to police your media consumption for politics is a recipe for making yourself miserable.
basically every action film is right wing. some cop or agent meting out justice, with perfect moral clarity.
trying to police your media consumption for politics is a recipe for making yourself miserable.
It is okay to like a movie even if you don't like the politics it is intentionally or intentionally espousing, or the politics of people who are making them.
It's okay to hate a movie for this reason too! But you don't HAVE to hate it because of your politics.
Ghostbusters is conservative af 🤷♂️
It's okay to hate a movie for this reason too! But you don't HAVE to hate it because of your politics.
Ghostbusters is conservative af 🤷♂️
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
100%. watching or reading something does not count as approval of its viewpoint or creators.
basically every action film is right wing. some cop or agent meting out justice, with perfect moral clarity.
trying to police your media consumption for politics is a recipe for making yourself miserable.
basically every action film is right wing. some cop or agent meting out justice, with perfect moral clarity.
trying to police your media consumption for politics is a recipe for making yourself miserable.
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Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
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The boat murder story is a perfect encapsulation of the 2025 ethos: it was immediately shitty, and every day we find out a new thing that makes it worse
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The boat murder story is a perfect encapsulation of the 2025 ethos: it was immediately shitty, and every day we find out a new thing that makes it worse
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this is monstrously racist of course but on another note im starting to wonder why every press conference now warrants this many fucking people? starting to look like the world’s worst wu tang cover band up there
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
this is monstrously racist of course but on another note im starting to wonder why every press conference now warrants this many fucking people? starting to look like the world’s worst wu tang cover band up there
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zero iq gap between someone you run into on here with constitutional law professor in the bio and someone at the grocery store wearing a “who farted?” t-shirt
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
zero iq gap between someone you run into on here with constitutional law professor in the bio and someone at the grocery store wearing a “who farted?” t-shirt
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these people have no moral center at all, their ethics are entirely situational, and that is the only accurate way to describe them. They’re not zealots or true believers, they’re opportunists protecting their turf
Epstein: ken, would take a stab at the article for the law journal. ? thx
Ken Starr: "In the spirit of the bedrock American belief in second chances, that unhappy chapter in Jeffrey's otherwise-magnificent life should be allowed to close once and for all."
Ken Starr: "In the spirit of the bedrock American belief in second chances, that unhappy chapter in Jeffrey's otherwise-magnificent life should be allowed to close once and for all."
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Also think there should be a line in there somewhere which clearly confirms that JE understands and recognizes that he did something wrong
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Seems very good. Is there reason or opportunity here to evoke JE's Clinton connection? He had been publicly connected to the former President and became a proxy for the considerable anger at high levels of the Federal government that still surrounded Clinton. Likewise now, one reason to revive the story is that it is a way to tar a Trump administration official, who, in the normal course of his duties, happened to deal with the case.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:28 AM J <jeevacation@,gmail.com> wrote: thoughts.
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Here goes:
"Sweetheart deal! " So goes the critique of the resolution of a long-ago case involving our former client -- and now-friend -- Jeffrey Epstein. The critique is profoundly misplaced, supported neither by the law or the facts, nor by the structure of our constitutional republic. To the contrary, Jeffrey was subjected to an unprecedented federal intrusion into a quintessentially local criminal matter in south Florida. His offense to the social order --involving sex for hire -- was entirely a matter entrusted to laws of the several States, not the federal government. His conduct - a classic state offense --was being treated exactly that way by able, honest prosecutors in Palm Beach County, but the overweening federal government intruded where it did not belong. And now, over ten years after the fact, the current assault on federal decision-makers at the time, including now-Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (then the United States Attorney in south Flo…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tsveacqzpqosfuahoqgsfu4a/bafkreifar5zmwmxqu4mpkceln5rninlk2kficvndbnp6muhraqfnqtgtm4@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
these people have no moral center at all, their ethics are entirely situational, and that is the only accurate way to describe them. They’re not zealots or true believers, they’re opportunists protecting their turf
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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Quick reminder, Batman beats the shit out of authority figures who go after the helpless
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Quick reminder, Batman beats the shit out of authority figures who go after the helpless
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Still very weird that the president of the united states thinks you need ID at a grocery store.
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Still very weird that the president of the united states thinks you need ID at a grocery store.
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"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.
Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.
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My main critique of One Battle After Another is that Col. Steven J. Lockjaw was too subtle of a character.
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My main critique of One Battle After Another is that Col. Steven J. Lockjaw was too subtle of a character.
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no kings except for him
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
no kings except for him
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wouldn’t the bigger story be that there’s a young republicans group that doesn’t talk like this
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
wouldn’t the bigger story be that there’s a young republicans group that doesn’t talk like this
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There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
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one thing this year has taught me is that there are no shadowy organizations that kill anyone who disturbs their grip on world power, even if you arbitrarily destroy the economy. mostly people just call your boss and say you posted wrong
October 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
one thing this year has taught me is that there are no shadowy organizations that kill anyone who disturbs their grip on world power, even if you arbitrarily destroy the economy. mostly people just call your boss and say you posted wrong
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"you kill people and break things for a living" is 100% bad guy talk. Not even trying to hide it.
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"you kill people and break things for a living" is 100% bad guy talk. Not even trying to hide it.
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Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."
Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."
September 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."
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"Don't speak to me that way" is a perfectly acceptable response, as is "Don't speak to her that way." Reporters, you don't have to simply bear witness, day after day, year after year.
Trump to a female reporter who tries to ask him about his plans for Memphis: "Quiet. You're really obnoxious ... I'm not gonna talk to you until I call on you."
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Don't speak to me that way" is a perfectly acceptable response, as is "Don't speak to her that way." Reporters, you don't have to simply bear witness, day after day, year after year.
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“If we’re going to live together as a family in this house, we have to let dad beat the shit out of us now and again”
"I had friends say to me, look, we can oppose political violence without whitewashing this guy. I spent some time thinking about that over the weekend...and my reaction honestly is that it is too little to just say we oppose political violence."
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“If we’re going to live together as a family in this house, we have to let dad beat the shit out of us now and again”
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It was funny to watch that press conference with everyone congratulating themselves and talking about what badass investigators they are and then you find out the kid’s family turned him in.
September 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It was funny to watch that press conference with everyone congratulating themselves and talking about what badass investigators they are and then you find out the kid’s family turned him in.
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Kash Patel leaping through a completely uninvolved 79-year-old Mormon woman's plate-glass window to the tune of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" like William Peterson in Manhunter, causing cardiac arrest
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Kash Patel leaping through a completely uninvolved 79-year-old Mormon woman's plate-glass window to the tune of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" like William Peterson in Manhunter, causing cardiac arrest
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One more thing: Being a "Debate me!" guy is not the same as genuinely believing in diversity of opinion; it comes from a belief that you can crush dissent by winning every argument, often with sophistry. Kirk started a McCarthyite website that targeted professors on the left. He was no pluralist...>
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
One more thing: Being a "Debate me!" guy is not the same as genuinely believing in diversity of opinion; it comes from a belief that you can crush dissent by winning every argument, often with sophistry. Kirk started a McCarthyite website that targeted professors on the left. He was no pluralist...>