youtu.be/IKweiDeXhGg?... (thanks, @parody-fake.bsky.social )

Steve Bannon put this up today to encourage his fascist fanatics to call these broadcasters & tell them "atta boy" for continuing to keep @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social off TV in their networks. Perhaps we should call and let them know who the majority is in this country. #AntiFascist

Breaking: Trump's US envoy to Syria (also one of his few personal friends) apparently wholly unaware of what "Islam" means. This is stunning and in any normal world would be career ending for any diplomat in the Middle East.

Obituary: Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

Well looks like they met for this — Ed Martin sent a letter to the FBI agent who testified during Alex Jones trial about seeing the Sandy Hook children dead. Martin asked if the agent had a financial incentive. The rest is hard to parse. Martin wrote asking to keep the letter private.

Of all the justifications that people had been trying to make to justify the Brendan Carr / Jimmy Kimmel nonsense, the absolutely most misleading and stupid was the claim that the Supreme Court blessed that kind of jawboning in Murthy v. Missouri. They did the literal opposite.

There are plenty of misrepresentations going around regarding Google's pathetically sucking up letter to Jim Jordan, which deliberately misrepresents reality in a manner designed to make Jordan look good, but the one part that really gets me is this one:

WTF? We need to create alternatives to youtube. "YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect," www.yahoo.com/news/article...

8. A lot of the demand for WLFI is artificial. The company took control of an obscure publicly traded firm, Alt5 Sigma, and then raised $750 million from hedge funds and other investors to buy WLFI. In other words, the company is buying and selling its own currency.

Designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” is legally meaningless. But ominous. Designating narcos as “terrorists organizations” didn’t authorize use of force, but nonetheless paved the way for lethal strikes in the Caribbean on “terrorists.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Go read about CNP www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Kamala Harris: Right now, we are dealing with, as I called him at my speech on the ellipse, a tyrant

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

A SAR at Treasury identifies the following persons as the key figures in Jeffrey Epstein's operation: (1) Darren K. Indyke; (2) Richard D. Kahn; (3) Harry Beller; (4) Erika Kellerhals; (5) Jes Staley; (6) Leon and Debra Black; (7) Les, Abigail and Bella Wexner; (8) Alan Dershowitz; 1/2

Kash informs potential witnesses that they shouldn't cooperate because he'll treat conspiracies as viable to appease the MAGA base. On another note, he's trying to win back credibility from the MAGA conspiracy crowd because they view him as compromised but that will never work.

There is a constitutional remedy for this sort of corrupt behavior, and it doesn't have a statute of limitations, Judge Bove.

Who is Lindsey Halligan? - Former Florida insurance lawyer turned Trump defense attorney - Filed the special master lawsuit that delayed Trump’s classified docs case - Convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge of reviewing Smithsonian bc she didn’t like some of the exhibits

@thelolo.bsky.social A more perfect union. I always loved how much you repeated that phrase stressed its importance. I'm glad so many are really starting, not only to see, but vocalize what this is all about and what's necessary.

I worry that all this corruption might be accepted by much of the American public who will falsely conflate corruption that's very specific to Trump and the Republican Party as something all people in power do. The "they're all crooks" attitude. We can not allow this. This isn't normal.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Maybe this is a terrible idea but what if we make it a law that if anyone testifying before Congress brings in canned responses on note cards that these note cards must be turned in as part of their testimony whether they use them or not. Terrible idea? I'm tired of hearings being PR bs.

Just spoke to someone off the record, diplomats and leaders are clear that Trump entered a new phase where he doesn’t just hints that he is pro Russia, now he physically aids Russia.

Trump succeeded in normalizing Russian help for his elections in 2020 and 2024 so thoroughly that now the US has stopped even trying to confront foreign influence. Just another thing he's surrendered. I added some English-language dubbing to the 2024 Russian/Ukrainian disinfo footage Marcy found.

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

come play ridiculous trivia after you watch our buddies at the @thefive8.bsky.social !!!! www.youtube.com/live/GYxGqwL...

I said it after the election. We need to develop our own hubs and conduits for media. And we need to abandon those that fail to uphold obligations necessary to maintain a free society.

I keep hearing people say the first amendment was first because it's important and people might like to know that the first amendment wasn't even the first proposed amendment. It was the third. The first two weren't ratified. The order has nothing to do with precedence. 1A just happened to be first

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He did that

Trump is going to fire the US Attorney for EDVA because he won't charge a fraud case against Tish James when there is no evidence of fraud. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

This is essential for understanding how we move forward. My students are reading the chapter on "amygdala hijacking" for class tomorrow. medium.com/futuring-pea...

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

Wow- Cassidy says that "I understand that Sen Mullin implied there was a recording of the meeting between Dr Monarez and Sec Kennedy. I will note that if materials have been provided to Mullin, they are official committee records...if it does not exist, I ask Mullin to retract his line of questions"

Cassidy is fed up with Markwayne Mullin's antics

How to Lead Conversations within a Highly Polarized Political Context. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

I guess Trump finally got the Fed to drop interest rates and all he had to do is work to tank the economy for the past 9 months.

The Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, is frantically sorting through notecards on his table in order to find the canned answers he needs to give during this House Judiciary Committee hearing. What a joke.

Raskin to Patel: "In a few short months, how did you go from being a crusader for accountability and transparency with the Epstein files to being part of the conspiracy and coverup? The answer is simple. You said it yourself -- because of who is on that list."

Kash 2.0 is just about to start, which is bound to be 30% more batshit than yesterday's SJC hearing. www.c-span.org/event/house-...

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

John Solomon’s Informing America set out to create an echo chamber to shape public opinion. It’s working.

Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”

@thelolo.bsky.social @trcfwtt.bsky.social Lolo you know that pastor in my congressional district who was going to speak at the the Red State town hall and looking to go on jubilee? He confirmed it that he's definitely going on jubilee (surrounded I assume) to debate conservative values.

One problem is that we use the word “debate” to refer to both any sort of reasoned argument between opposed viewpoints and a very specific kind of stylized verbal performance art that is somewhere between useless for & actively hostile to truth or persuasion.

It's impossible to entertain good faith dialogue with those who have no intention of acting or arguing in good faith.

/6 To me this is a little like the virtue of bravery. Bravery seems morally neutral in itself; its virtue depends on its ends. Very few people say "look, I don't agree with the 9/11 hijackers, but they were really brave and that's admirable."

/2 See, a significant part of the "Free Speech Culture" movement is about saying "this person is standing up for the right to say things they agree with, therefore they are a free speech hero," even if they manifestly aren't in favor of free speech for other people they disagree with.