I worked as a content moderator for facebook for like 3.5 years. I saw an endless stream of people dressed up like The Joker or whatever.
The thing that really sticks out with a lot of those people, beyond being men usually (but not always), is that what they gravitate to is a sense of power.
Body cam footage shows Kenneth Jackson, the Trump-installed new USIP President; Laken Rapier, Jackson’s Chief-of-Staff; DOGE workers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox; and DOGE lawyer Justin Aimonetti were present at the raid. MPD let them in through a side door, despite USIP staff's objections.
It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.
Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.
West Wing is more insidious media than Breaking Bad... i feel like national political reporters in DC lose perspective about how nightmarish the system is across the political cycle
what's your take on the West Wing then
thanks glem
this is pretty interesting and you see it all the time with 4chan and the department of homeland security these days
some us citizen got pinched into Broadview ice facility
merely 13 different countries have experienced some amount of violence in a week
some mysterious Tether guy is the money behind the Reform uk party
horrible crypto hostage taking crisis industry snowballed in Asia .. h.t @cascoinfoundation.org
wow this is disturbing
Lindsey Graham finally did it
What's with these guys' use of the word "kinetic?" Where did that come from? Did someone focus-group test it and tell politicians to all start using it or what?
these books were difficult af, for some reason I had the machine code one. very difficult to understand but it taught me registers exist
a thumping. shellacking
also where the hell is the logistics for any of this ground mobilization? the Iraq war had a huge ramp up before it started. Hegseth was just like buhh let's start a bombing
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i think Iran benefits from having recently been attacked it showed the US + Israel tactics pretty thoroughly and have we really seen any new tactics from these parties compared to the last one? Israel badly started to run out of interceptors at the end of that period, that was why they called it
unherd is usually not very relevant but the analyst in Iran thinks roughly ten days into it, after the US and Israel have wasted most of their interceptors, is when the real missile bombardment moves forward. approximately Monday/Tuesday?
unherd.com/2026/03/iran...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys,
and things got out of hand”
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"Iran is shifting to horizontal escalation:
– Maritime disruption
– Energy pressure
– Proxy strikes
– Terror beyond the theater
These do not require battlefield dominance. They require endurance."
-Robert Pape
escalationtrap.substack.com/p/the-escala...
“I really think of Lake Street as kind of like the heartbeat of the city,” filmmaker Yasmin Yassin says. “Depending on where you go, it has different significance, based on the landmarks that are there.”
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where's Clifford may?? it's like ja rule, i need ja's take on this news
amazing.. the foundation for Defense of democracies is a secretive likudnik think tank in DC. the likud party has always promoted splintering the countries in the region. now they are very upset that everyone expects the aggressors to break up Iran.. you guys got what you wanted, feel so sorry for u
it's fascinating how FDD guys have gotten everything they wanted but it tastes like ash in the mouth
jfc.. another Friday drop
Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.
