I'll give him this. Nobody can believe what's going on. That is undeniable. Also, he's a fucking moron.

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Former USAID Communications Advisor, Ali Syverson joins the @forkingoff.com podcast to discuss the arts and the day democracy died.

Check out our new episode with former USAID communications advisor Ali Syverson! When the destruction began, Ali turned to the arts to rest, root, and regrow. She is now using visual art as a medium to preserve the history of USAID for future generations. Get inspired. Be like Ali.

I'm confused. The National Security Strategy said Trump negotiated peace between Thailand and Cambodia. What does this say about his seven other 'mission accomplished' claims? I feel like the White House may have lied to the American public. Surely, not... 🫠 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Zines are making a comeback! Shut up and take my money!

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Repeat after me. Garbage in. Garbage out. Thanks for tuning in!

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

In this week's episode, we heard straight from Sarah Ellison Hernandez, former immigration judge at the Dallas Immigration Court, about how the administration is undermining and defying courts and twisting the law and policy in favor of political agendas.

Finally sitting down to dissect this weird manifesto that dropped recently. It's called the "National Security Strategy." I think I'm going to do a probably ill-advised thing and post my thoughts as I go. 🧵

I think this solidifies soccer as the least American professional sport, and we should all agree to never think about it again. Will I miss the World Cup bar scene? Yes. Will it help the parts of the world where the sport matters? No. But FIFA Peace Prize? Fuck that. Bye.

SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"The excuse used by the secretary suggested an instinct to reach for language that sounds authoritative while leaving the public, the press, and perhaps even the military forces involved more confused than informed." New from @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4ptOmNe

I've often found myself wondering what happened to the LA Times lately. There was a time when I would have expected them to be leading the current fight for truth. This story explains it clearly as not only what happened to the paper, but what happened to LA. www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...

New episode! This week on the @forkingoff.com podcast we talked with former EPA employee, Andrew Kreider, to learn how the administration illegally froze federal grants and violated union contracts, while attempting to force employees to lie to Congress and the public. @alt-epa-workers.bsky.social

They've all lost the plot. This wasn't a war crime because there is no legal basis to call it armed conflict. It was murder. In an international legal context under the ICC's Rome Statute it would be Crimes Against Humanity, defined as systematic attacks directed against a civilian population.

@profanity.accountant How am I doing?

Maybe the admin should reverse its decision to de-prioritize counter terrorism in favor of deportations

This might be the most disappointing thing the FBI has done all year, and that's saying a lot.

“an immediate and massive uptick in the number of death threats"

Patents have issued every Tuesday like clockwork since the 1800s. Will the current USPTO crisis break that streak? 📉 We built a tool to monitor if the USPTO is staying on schedule. Check the code on our website & hear the story with Molly Kocialski. forkingoff.com/molly-kocial...

There's reference to a group member who "regularly advocates for violence against law enforcement." Traditionally, this may validate monitoring that specific person. Unfortunately, we can no longer blindly trust these types of claims from law enforcement, so I have to agree. This is very concerning.

In Donald Trump's America, ensuring our military follow the law gets you death threats. Watch the latest episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCOo8vD2MY

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

yup. www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

The next time a major U.S. phone or internet company gets hacked and customer data stolen — and it will, since it's happened a LOT in recent years — at least we know who we can blame for it.

“Scolding a U.S. reporter for asking questions about MBS ordering a fellow journalist to be bone-sawed to death signals to dictators everywhere that they can murder journalists with impunity,” @seth-stern.bsky.social said. Read the full statement:

Why did nobody tell me about this very serious documentary about 2020? www.netflix.com/us/title/813...

I didn't know it, but I needed to see this. Now you do, too.

I am not what you would call a "person of influence," but I would very much appreciate it if you would stop pretending everything is going to be fine and pick a fucking side.

I'm not sure I know how to process this. Did they actually know the lyrics? Is this some form of strange new irony where we're rick-rolling bigots with Pink Pony Club? What is happening?!

The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism.

I specifically logged on to share this story, and as usual, @victorerikray.bsky.social already has it summed up perfectly (If you can't read the whole article, try archive, but all you really need is this headline)

Trump says it's sedition to not break the law when he says to.

Commentator and journalist @salhachimi.bsky.social recounted his arrest and illegal 18-day detention by ICE at an FPF event this week. "If the American public finds out the realities of what's happening, ICE will be dismantled in an instant," he said. Watch more:

Reporter: What did the president mean when he called the reporter piggy? Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration

Leavitt: Why aren't you talking about what these members of congress are doing to encourage violence…. They're literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members not to follow lawful orders Reporter: Actually they said illegal orders.

Check out this week's episode where we talk about the future of violence prevention in the wake of losses at the CDC. I also include commentary on the widely ignored CDC shooting and why it should be viewed as state-validated far-right extremism. #AltCDC #StopViolence #Extremism #ResistHate

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone researching violent extremism could point me to a substantive assessment of the CDC shooting that occurred in August. It's still shocking how many people simply ignored 500 rounds of gunfire and the death of a police officer on federal property.

I keep looking at that Anthropic report on "AI-orchestrated cyber espionage" and reminding myself if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.