my wife suggests maybe everyone should get a Trump tattoo to ward off deportation, rendition, enslavement.

it’s #pathetic that this administration mistakenly sent to foreign prison a US resident with legal status but can’t get the authoritarian leaders of a tiny little country to give him back.

i suppose we gotta respect the craft.

it’s called flooding the zone with shit. the thing about this movement is it’s very candid about how it operates. Chris Rufo patiently explains exactly how he means to misrepresent terms in order to attach politically useful emotion to them. yet it still “works”.

what would be the appropriate due process under our laws for sending someone into enslavement for an indefinite, perhaps life, term, without possibility of appeal or parole?

nobody was indefinitely detained and enslaved under conditions tantamount to torture when a bunch of bumbling operatives broke into an office in the Watergate building.

there’s nothing more lawless than a law-and-order party.

our lives are in the hands of these people. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

fascism is like a prion it folds everything it touches into an instance of itself.

when discrimination becomes indistinguishable from hypocrisy, all is lost.

lina khan did the work, but biden never shouted it out. it was, like, uncouth for him to take pride in the very best work of his administration. so trump gets to claim all the credit.

there's a level of virtuosity in being corrupt in the way you prosecute your corruptions. and the very corruption of your corruption (in PA at least) was why you can't be prosecuted! it became fraud, not vote buying, and who's going to prosecute elon musk for fraud? it's like a pigeon for jaywalking

#GovernmentEfficiency

one of the many ironies of the moment is it's the people who style themselves defenders of western civilization that are the greatest threats to the achievements of western civilization.

Yes! That's pretty much precisely the point of the essay I linked just above. The only form of financial regulation that will ever be credible must be structural rather than supervisory. Regulators can never be so well tied to the mast they don't jump in to calm the seas. bsky.app/profile/inte...

if Elon Musk has more money than every human who ever existed combined, and the rest of us are eating bark, by the numbers America would have never been wealthier!

if you call it lawfare without making a persuasive, affirmative case for why others whose similar behavior came to public and prosecutorial light wouldn't be pursued, then you are just in favor of elite impunity.

"America Has Never Been Wealthier. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Feel That Way—A surge in U.S. wealth has been driven by stock and home values. But the gains are concentrated at the top, leaving others in a sour economic mood." @talsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b... cc @steveroth.bsky.social

seems kind of gratuitous to have gone through so much trouble to kill affirmative action in the university when you're just going to kill off the university.