The strength of libertarianism is you never run out of other people’s money

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

We are witnessing in real time how racist lawmakers have entrenched all modern race law. This is a great summation of how it happens across many sectors. Racism under the guise of something else that we all know will be used explicitly racistly.

I literally paid $12 to subscribe to Vanity Fair just for the Coates piece. Then the next day the Nunzzi news broke, and I cancelled. Got me a nice tote out of it, but had to unsubscribe to about fifteen different emails.

I've been saying this for years, whoever figures out a way to make it so you can just tap to buy an article without making a potentially lifetime credit card commitment is going to get rich and save journalism

I dunno. Even though I can't explain the disconnect, the regular police have been slaughtering pet dogs for many years and people don't seem to care at all

The *low* estimate is 10,000 dogs killed by police each year. 27 per day!

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

Over at Reason we have a "puppycide" tag for cop-shoots-dog stories going back to 2012. Easiest way to get a normie 4th Amendment-pilled against the cops is to show them this stuff reason.com/tag/puppycide/

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

I wish there was a reaction other than "like," because he's exactly right about this but it's horrible.

Republicans don't have "programs" - they have grifts, they have giveaways, they have boondoggles. They have never ONCE proposed anything intended to help the populace of this country in any way shape or form, & have actively sought to prohibit the implementation of all such programs.

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

You can understand this shutdown with 3 numbers.

15M — the number of people Republicans want to kick off health care

20M — the number of people Republicans want to 2x health premiums for

0 — the number of times Republicans have called the House back to reopen the government

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Yes yes, the GOP was five bigotries in a trench coat long before Trump. But the revelation he gave them is that as long as you're shameless about it, bigotry might not be disqualifying. When he won, people saw that maybe they too could get away with—even profit from—letting their bigot flag fly

Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.

Nothing about this is surprising. And I doubt it’s isolated to TX

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You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.