Ben Blythe
Jewish SciFi/Fantasy/Horror author. Developmental editor. University instructor. Chicago Manual of Style enthusiast.
- This applies to the entire conservative movement. Hell, it applies to the Russian government under Vladimir Putin.
- We broke containment, y'all.
- So goes wrestling, so goes America.
- Pro-wrestling is better than what you like.
- Anyone else feel like judges are starting to compete over how hard they can disrespect the Trump regime?
- Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
- I want five bands you can't fucking stand. 5. Imagine Dragons 4. Coldplay 3. Pink Floyd 2. One Direction 1. Rage Against the Machine My RATM hate is eternal. I remember those fucks helping normalize bothsidesing back in 2000. Never mind reactivating just to profit off screwing with Harris in 2024.
- I think, for me, this does more to explain how 4chan stayed alive than anything else. And it underscores how much of a colossal failure it was that the government didn't nuke that hellsite from orbit when it had the chance.
- There's a tendency in the IC and law enforcement communities to leave monster hubs like 4chan up because, in some respects, they make the job easier. The societal risk of doing so is great enough that everyone involved in making that decision should lose their careers. At a minimum.
- Incidentally, the next administration needs to burn Twitter to the ground, 'cos whatever horrible shit is brewing there is gonna make 4chan look like a walk in the park.
- I have drafted this post six times and still can't come up with anything fit for a public space, so:
- BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- I say again: During his first term, these little gatherings were a dominance display. In his second, they're how his viziers control him.
- And it's looking like this is the case, but, like. I think what gets me is that Jeffries accepted the Republican framing of these things as deportations. They are not. They are illegal kidnappings and exile of American citizens by a corrupt, criminal government.
- I expect by the time Congressional Democrats finally start using that framing en masse, it'll be three years too late to do any good and we'll all still be getting told "No, see, it's brilliant that they acted like a bunch of spineless jellyfish the entire time." And. Just. No.
- Know where good work's been done? State-level. Municipal-level. Congressional Democrats barely even pretend to try to fight. State- and municipal Democrats have been putting in work since last year. They deserve all of the praise--literally all of it. Congressional Democrats? Primaries for all.
- Watching Schumer and Jeffries bitch out for the thousandth time like
- I think the best case scenario is that their comments were edited into ragebait by a hostile media. But even allowing for that, they're taking one of the easiest lay-ups I've ever seen and half-assing it into a net loss.
