The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

As Tim Snyder points out, Hegseth convening hundreds of generals & admirals in person is a pointless dominance display that’s also an obvious secuity blunder. And it got me thinking about how often performative toughness is awful for security. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Trump’s UN speech was even incoherent in the original Russian

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

A better ruling would be to ban the unnecessary collection of personal data for profit. There are better business models for democracy than those based on #surveillance. #AIEthics www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Swalwell:

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.

Many of your grandparents were the original Antifa. They fought against the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy and in the forests of Ardennes. They literally helped save the world from the scourge of fascism. Today, under this regime, they would be declared terrorists. Let it sink in.

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.

“We are not working on building an AI agent. We are working to protect Signal from the invasion of AI agents that threaten privacy and that are being implemented in irresponsible ways”

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

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If that's the play, maybe burn the whole GOP for how they reacted to the assassinated Minnesota Democrats

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

FCC = Federal Cancel Culture.

As I've been saying. As a Fed contractor, the entire DoGE project was a giant scam perpetrated by clueless morons to leverage our personal data.

NEW study from the nonpartisan Center for American Progress, by 2027, Trump’s tariffs and policies under his Big, Beautiful Bill will have decreased the incomes of all *but* the top 1% of American households—which will be $5,000 richer. trib.al/FrPxGCo

And the so-called "party of small government" sits idly by... Hello?

No one is saying this except Trump.

We need a name for this new government revenue-sharing model. I propose that we call it: taxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Trump has been president for less than 5 years – about 2% of the history of this country. He's responsible for 22% of the national debt. The budget issue is a Republican long con that has worked spectacularly with people who don't believe in facts.

Is JD Vance going to show up so they can yell at Putin for indiscriminate bombing of civilian population centers, or is that kid of treatment reserved for allies who don’t thank Trump sufficiently?

If you’re in Seattle for Tech Week, make sure to check out our panel: “Engineering Agility in the Age of #ResponsibleAI & #Privacy. lu.ma/xktsfccv

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the National Weather Service, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk. What’s more, they say it underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.

Florida’s new immigration detention center is a concentration camp www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is unfortunately reminiscent of early camps in Nazi Germany, which were also widely lauded by politicians (they were by no means a secret), treated as tourist curiosities, and featured in glossy magazine spreads. It’s unfathomable to me how so many people can take such joy in human suffering.

An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Seems like just yesterday MAGA was worried that Biden would start WW3

Reminder that disinformation from all sides will, historically, be rampant in a moment like this. Be careful what you repost.

The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

crashing the economy and starting a war in the Middle East Donald Trump has finally become a conventional Republican after all

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

NARRATOR: The War Powers Resolution does not let Trump do this

You saw this one, right Every time, there’s a tweet

I truly do not think that if Trump has campaign on “if I win, we will bomb Iran” that he would have won.

AI helpers sharing private data? Not surprising. WhatsApp's AI "mistakenly" leaked a user's number. This isn't a glitch; it's a stark reminder: speed to market often overlooks critical privacy safeguards. #AI #Privacy #TechResponsibility www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm hiring a "Senior Privacy Engineer" on my team who will take the lead on driving privacy into the product and software development lifecycle at Lumin Digital. jobs.lever.co/LuminDigital... #shiftleft #privacyengineering

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

just normatively (and even legally) if a man not wearing identification and not bearing a warrant tries to jam you in the back of an unmarked van, you are fully justified in ventilating his skull. the way this program is being conducted is insanely dangerous to ICE agents.