Todd is the man who was fired for refusing to hand over Eisenhower’s sword to Trump. He’s GREAT at making history fun and relevant on social media. Worth making his dream come true. 🙂

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

Agreed, and this is why protesting FedSoc speakers was right and proper. There are no new argument and no good faith arguments. Fuck these people.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

Just the President of the United States again saying insanely, unapologetically, shamelessly racist shit, and the extremely powerful people around him nodding in agreement. How far back in time would you have to go to find another U.S. president saying something this bigoted in public?

Can somebody please make a "what were you like in the 90s" for Jonathan the tortoise? Thank you.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

I’m at ICE HQ

In my opinion it is bad that seemingly every 55-year-old sexually frustrated man discovered you can get steroids in the mail from the internet at roughly the same exact time and I also think maybe people aren't talking about the societal impacts of that enough.

This is not a story I'd heard before. Damn.

Peter Thiel—who played a key role in JD Vance's conversion to Catholicism—just cannot stop talking about the Antichrist. He just took his Antichrist circus to Rome, where an advisor to the Pope exposed the true meaning of Thiel’s bizarre religious delusions. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels...

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Is it giving anyone - anyone at all - pause to hear the people who have been lauded as Thought Leaders for 25 years say things like “lol I don’t think”

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Work today

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

an exhaustive, infuriating look at the labor being churned through to make AI companies rich and their models sound human. in countless ways, AI has always been propped up by human labor, lives that tech’s boy-kings are setting ablaze with glee

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

America has a long history of pointless and wasteful military adventurism. And in our quest to normalize Trump we’ve stuck his Iran war in that box: “another war, just like the rest.” It’s not like the rest. It’s an act of insanity, rogue state behavior. Don’t know how this ends until we admit it.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

I don’t think anything sums up right-wing comedy quite like the fact that it is a reasonably widely-held belief that edgy comedy doesn’t actually have to be funny.

If there's ever a moment when the leaders of a nation need to be clear, definitive and consistent with a message, it is in response to this question: "Why are we going to war." This is misrule by the worst cadre of incompetent, beshitted cartoon characters ever gathered together in modern history.

would be cool if this was the average demeanor of a democratic senator while talking to gop flunkies instead of a gop senator on his way out the door

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I downloaded and played the demo, and so far I love everything about it. For decades I've been looking for something like EVO, the little known SNES evolution game. This game scratches that itch and puts the concept in a retro-modern package. I look forward to buying the full game. Well done, crabs.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Anyone in Lewiston Maine around today? I'm looking to meet queer folks who have been volunteering to support immigrant communities in particular! Currently posted up at Blue Jay Coffee - come say hi! (I'm definitely working but I won't use anyone's info who doesn't want to be in a story.)

I know some people are embarrassed about promoting the release of a new book, but don't think of it as simply the product of your own mind and effort. Think about all the people at your publisher, who have invested their time and talent into producing your book. Celebrate what is a team effort.

Basically Ring advertised the technology Batman used to find the Joker that Lucius Fox refused to be a part of except for that one time.

of course conservatives are like this about everything. "you should go to prison for doing the thing I am currently doing, right as we speak"

kind of amazing to think that there are people who wake up in the morning, get mad at a fox news post and then send this stuff

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Guys I was waiting for him to post footage - I KNOW HE HAS IT - but it seems like he may not. But last week I took Brad Lander on an ICE watch ridealong and he PERSONALLY CHASED OUT AN ICE CAR ON FOOT I am not making this up. He walked right up to a lurking unmarked car and they tore out of town

You sold us out the same way 80s centrists did refuting '60's excesses', the same way 90s 'liberals' did during the 'PC wars,' and the same way y'all did after 9/11. Every authoritarian movement needs its useful-idiot 'sensible moderate' handmaidens and you gleefully signed up. Again. /fin