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Pete Hegseth's former sister-in-law alleges in affidavit he was abusive to second wife The affidavit describes Hegseth’s treatment of his second wife, Samantha, and alleges repeat drunkenness and a domestic situation where Samantha Hegseth had a safe word to indicate if she was in dange...

oh, yeah! It’s all documented and it’s really bad www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

A VIBE

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

a blue-haired they/them working at Starbucks is literally so much more working class than Whitey McMuscles whose dad owns 9 gas stations

If you go over & observe X for a while, you notice this as a distinct theme: tons & tons of center-left dudes sweatily trying to signal that they, unlike the other lefties, aren't sissies. It's genuinely embarrassing to watch.

A huge chunk of our punditry really does seem to be having some kind of weird, almost existential crisis over the very concept of gender itself. Male pundits-the Ezra Kleins and Jonathan Chaits of the world, have been seized by intense anxiety about their own masculinity.

and it’s so deeply about their need to control their own children, and to tell others who they are and how they can live.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

When RFK Jr said in public that "its all on the mothers" to make the decisions re vaccines, that made a chill run up my spine. Abdicating all responsibility for careful sensitive public health comms and research and blaming mothers all over again.

“MIGA”!

Part of me would absolutely love to see Trump's "Business Man Mister Deals" persona go the same way as Hoover's "Great Engineer"

It’s honestly wild that American media has “are liberals trapped in a bluesky bubble???” debates every two weeks while a 22 year old groyper White House staffer known as BasedBoss1488 remixes scenes from 300 in a propaganda video for a toxically unpopular lame duck president’s war of choice

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately. These waters are plenty charted, and they are full of icebergs. 15/15

Whatever one thinks of the previous order in the Gulf, surely this is not the way to break it, with no capacity to rebuild it. In the most cynical sense, the US cannot get what it needs out of the aftermath without diplomacy. That's before you get to the human toll. And the loss of soft power. 12/

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

The history of fitness is really fascinating and it's why I have no patience for the idolization of the physicality of people in the past. As a general rule, people were not in great shape for most of the past 4,000 years; there were plenty of exceptions, but by and large? You're better off now.

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

these people are in a goddamn cult

never thought I’d miss, like, a Rumsfeld who at least knew their opponents could REACT

Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent.

With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.

A lot of institutions and companies need to be printing out this post and pinning it up in their executive suites for future reference.

Makes a note that “drives the staffer you’re having an affair with to self immolate” as a red line

You want to make art? We'll steal it. You want to make food? We'll poison it. You want to manufacture widgets? We'll structure the laws so that a PE firm can buy you out, saddle you with some other company's debts, strip everything you've ever built for parts, and fire all your employees.

This should be terrifying to anyone who makes their living actually doing something, as opposed to moving imaginary piles of money around a computer screen.

To appreciate trans existence you have to face the horrifying reality that trans adults were not cis kids.

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

ah yes the Pronoun War