Here's a photo of publisher extraordinaire Dennis McMillan striding in sartorial splendor (he's on the left) towards Big Brutus, one of southeastern Kansas's major attractions:
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This gets a lot more legible if you stop thinking of prisons as a failed effort to reduce harm and start thinking of them as a supply chain for involuntary labor
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoIt was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
Artificial Intelligence Will Never Be Weirder than Humanity: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?
Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and the...
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Oh my. Who could have predicted that Trump would use some sycophantic lackey to do his bidding and then rip away any benefit as soon as it could cost Trump some personal graft.
The homeowner I interviewed in this piece has now sued the feds for entering his private property without a warrant www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOg...
Federal Agents Raided His Home—Live on Ring
YouTube video by Institute for Justice
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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 8mo ago“It was violent. There’s blood all over the house. It’s insane,” the homeowner, who is a U.S. citizen, told me. “It’s complete lawlessness. How does the government have impunity to jump into my home without a warrant?” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...
Some days, we ALL feel like John Drew Barrymore in "War of the Zombies" (Roma Contra Roma), 1964:
Imagine if it had been around during the Holocaust.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w agoKalshi has created a market for users to bet on the number of migrants detained by ICE each day.
Reading this thread you understand why Zuck was so pumped for a Trump predator protector administration.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2w agoQuick thread on this...
Wrote this during the Pacific Northwest's wretched, smoked summer of 2017:
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The ex-wife of ICE agent David Brouillette: “He’s like, ‘I need you to lie about my character because what it comes down to is my character, I don’t want you talking about any of the abuse in our relationship.’ I told him I was not gonna lie for him. I believe this man was murdered.”
He's almost as psychopathic as our President.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w agoMaine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...
When these United States are governed by depraved morons who new categories of bad things occur:
Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 3w agoIncredible Wall Street Journal reporting on how this war succeeded in making the Iranian people rise up…to support hardliners within the regime. Secular women showing up to rallies to change “We are the soldiers of Seyyed Mojtaba,” things of that nature. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Putin the Fool (another example): Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...
Opinion | ‘A Million Men With Kalashnikovs Are Dangerous’ (Gift Article)
A Q&A with Kori Schake on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Naïve to think he was ever going to end ICE traffic stops. He LIKES that his secret police force can do whatever they want with no repercussions. The cruelty is the point.
Shooting a guy in the head in a moving vehicle with a three year old strapped in a baby seat and the excuse was to protect the community from a fleeing vehicle is what a death squad would do.
Because Things Are Not Weird Enough... (replies are worth visiting, also)
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3w agoRussian opposition figure Igor Eidman claimed that Senator Lindsey Graham may have been poisoned in a Kremlin intelligence operation. Graham had announced progress on new Russia sanctions roughly two days before his death, but US officials have not reported any evidence of foul play.
"lindsay graham's dying wish was for every american to buy a trump phone!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump on Lindsey Graham's death: "This is a big blow to the SAVE America Act, let me tell you"
Trump just vowed to launch essentially our entire nuclear arsenal at Iran, yet he’s the one that says the world isn’t safe with a “lunatic with nuclear weapons.” Sadly, he might be right.
