Ben Plume

Sure seems like ICE had three deaths in 24 hours, knew how bad it would look, and are trying to draw it out so people won’t notice.

I mean, Cuban ambassador not wrong in general at least.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” The words of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as he declared this to be exactly what the Framers intended. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

“The majority also sets the rules, and the first rule it should change is how the final vote is cast. The Senate can adopt a secret ballot on conviction by simple majority under its own rulemaking power, with each senator’s vote recorded in the Senate’s journal and sealed for a term of years.”

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

Fucking Hell… why are we like this?

Probably did, but I am so thankful for their reporting the past few years and that self-awareness is worth a lot.

"Get a bunch of old WIRED editors together these days and it doesn’t take more than one drink before we start asking each other whether we enabled the worst parts of the tech world’s rise to power. " www.wired.com/story/how-el...

Literally 3 hours ago I was reading posts saying Bolsanaro was a 110% lock because look at all the voter suppression he had going for him, and how this was a preview of 2028 here in America. Real heads remember the dark times of 180 minutes ago.

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Fascists lose in Brazil, Serbia, and Hungary. Rising protests in Albania, France, and other European countries against billionaires and corruption. Very encouraging...

Criminal slumlord Jared Kushner’s phone being hacked revealed more proof of what I’ve been saying for years, he’s incredibly corrupt, compromised and insidiously evil. He’s everything fascist republicans falsely accused Hunter Biden of being times a trillion. He needs to be jailed for treason.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Right now, as we speak, Donald Trump is festooning DC with the Golden Horses that stand outside of P.F. Chang’s. These horses were originally BRONZE.

can you even

Fuck this. There is room to vote for some people who have made missteps on trans issues because our entire Democracy is at stake and many of them are MUCH better on those issues than the alternative. But this guy? He knows what discrimination feels like so he knows exactly how monstrous this is.

it's wild how often you're watching dateline or whatever and the victim's coworkers say they knew something was wrong when they didn't show up on time for work, which is sooo unlike them. nobody's murdering us chronically late bitches bc they can't fucking find us

@greatesttrek.com, @benjaminahr.mobi, @cutfortime.bsky.social, @wyndepriddy.bsky.social Seems like a great new drop for Factory Seconds? 🙃

They're making noises about mass pardons now because none of them want to bank on Trump making it to Jan 2029.

Elon Musk has now issued his fourth explanation for his actions in throttling StarLink and StarShield. Note that each of his explanations is inconsistent with its predecessor. And this one focuses on Ukraine supposedly violating its terms of service. If it did, that's an easily ascertainable fact.

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.

Musk spent hundreds of millions in 2024 to elect Trump and a Republican Congress, he committed crimes—such as an illegal million dollar prize for voter fraud registration—then got billions worth of contracts from the very government he helped put in power. And that doesn’t count stock increases.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

The funds have already been approved by Congress. Our service members and their family members suffering from toxic exposure IN THEIR HOMES shouldn’t have to wait on incompetent leadership or the results of an election to receive a remedy.

The Republican Party is giving us cancer. The New York Times doesn't say it that directly, but its investigation proves it.

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

For those writing on the dissonance between science and federal policy, note that several recent studies show promise for mRNA vaccines in cancer, yet RFK Jr and Bhattacharya redirected $500M away from this area. How do we get the best treatments if NIH kills the research? Spoiler alert: we don't.

You may be considered a terrorist if you’ve complained about AI Trump and the Justice Department have “declared war on… opponents of AI,” with opponents of AI being classified under NSPM-7 as “further[ing] the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think...

As many have posted, this view is morally monstrous. But it also is incredibly stupid because it misunderstands several things: what polls show, how we can interpret them, what politics is for, and how political change works. In other words, this standpoint is astonishingly stupid.

The clip that I quoted in the OP is the essence of basically all DC Democratic thinking: Never, ever do anything unless you can cite a poll saying that it would be popular. It doesn't matter how evil or how illegal, you should say or do nothing.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

American Moment “takes in 15-30 paid fellows each semester…and teaches them to tuck in their shirts, shower daily, and network relentlessly.” By Ben Smith, 10/21/26 … 1/ www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

“There is no third potential outcome.” This is a must-read. Share widely.

The allegations laid out against Jared Kushner in the latest excerpt from Matthew Cole’s upcoming book are staggering. According to Cole, Dutch intelligence officials reportedly gained access to Kushner’s phone and discovered that...

A data leak from Germany’s far-right German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has revealed the extent of efforts by the party to court Donald Trump and other leading figures in the Maga movement, stretching back more than a decade. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."

I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it. Light. Him. Up.

Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/B01ZZV7