They dismembered a journalist. I think Chapelle thinks free speech means people have to laugh at unfunny jokes.

So you don’t understand crypto. Buckle up. On this week’s “More To The Story,” journalist @molly.wiki examines the rise and fall of FTX and the ever-growing reach of cryptocurrency in American politics. The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

DOJ is such a fucking embarrassment. Apart from how substantively terrible the things they've done have been, purely from a professional point of view, it's an avert-your-eyes, cringe-inducing, vicarious embarrassment nightmare.

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

Wow. This really says it all.

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said.

They're terrorizing people to create fascist propaganda content to circulate on social media.

This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents." www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

This is insane.

For years we warned about this: The “Enabling Act of 1933”, which allowed Hitler to seize control of all branches of the German government, served as the template for “Project 2025” — and Trump’s DNA is all over it.

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

THIS WAS MEANT AS A TEST! NOW THE QUESTION BECOMES WHAT IS GOING TO BE A RESPONSE!?! @kelofchgo.bsky.social shared this, but I believe it needed commentary. #Pinks #BlueCrew #50501Movement #Indivisible #NoKings #Independents #Forwards #Democrats #Republicans #Americans DO NOT REMAIN SILENT!!!

The White House is asking nine top universities to sign a pledge that would set several requirements for them if they intend to keep their federal funding, The New York Times reported Thursday.

OPINION Politics about 3 hours ago Some of the government’s earliest decisions are coming back to bite it Joel MacManus This is a really great article, I plucked out some highlights but I really recommended reading it all #NZPol

“Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."

Ex-Trump faith advisor pleads guilty to sexually abusing 12-year-old www.rawstory.com/robert-morri...

“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress. Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Yes, this is the payment of a bribe with a thin legal veil. Yes, the executives authorizing the payment may be prosecuted for public corruption crimes. Which is why Trump has dismantled the whole part of the DOJ that deals with public corruption.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.” USD1 had just launched. me, for @forbes.com 🪙🍼🤷 1/

Trump’s deportation army is growing by the day, and a shocking number of its foot soldiers don’t even work for ICE. The vast majority, in fact, come from other law enforcement agencies.

Q: Do you think these tariffs are worth it? Laid off John Deere employee: It's really killing us. We were told that they were going to do everything we could for the American workers, and we're seeing quite the opposite

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

Using the framework of war against non-state actors and an abstraction (terror itself as the enemy) for the Global War on Terror gave the Bush Administration devastating free rein to violate human rights and trash everything. Here comes more of same.

Oh, that’s a good one.

Where are the House Republicans? NOT in D.C., that’s for sure. Speaker Johnson won’t even seat Rep. Grijalva because of the Epstein files.

Judge Simon's right - he wasn't required to recuse, though he had the discretion to. The problem arises when principled judges recuse even if there's an appearance of bias but unprincipled judges like Alito and Thomas don't.

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.

Why Aren't Democrats Raising the Alarm Over Trump’s NSPM-7 "Terrorism Indicators?" @kenklippenstein.bsky.social has obtained a national security memo that the Trump Admin plans to use to attack Americans as potential terrorists for anti-MAGA thought crimes. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That’s how he had money.” Who was Epstein blackmailing? Well, look who shut down the government to hide the files. Maybe they know. https://bit.ly/475oQal

A judge has recused from hearing the Portland troops case because his wife is a Democratic Congresswoman -- even though it is not "required under either federal law or the [judicial] Code of Conduct." The new judge was appointed by Trump. We have a legal system with two different sets of rules.

Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣

What's NZ's energy crisis? A. Fossil fuel businesses aren't making big enough profits B. The average consumer can't afford energy prices C. Terawatts of potential wind and solar power are being wasted D. Our current energy profile reduces our survival prospects Luxon believes the answer is A #nzpol

This is horrific. #FreePalestine

A sample of 52,000 posts made on X within the first 24 hours of Cracker Barrel’s announcement that it would be modernizing its logo to an admittedly very plain and generic design found that 44.5% of all mentions of Cracker Barrel were flagged as likely or higher bot activity.

A good thing for New Zealanders to consider every time a local politician starts to make noises about moving toward privatized healthcare, or a "competitive insurance market"

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

Two points of clarity from story about Luxon's "bipartisan" letter about Energy sector and its leak to NZH: - no-one can trust NZ PM Luxon 🥚 😒; and - NZHerald is a RW loudspeaker, not a legit news agency. #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

The problem is not that we don't have the money for things like school lunches or universal healthcare. The problem is we don't have the humanity to prioritize those over things like murdering people in Gaza.

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

What the ever loving fuck

"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

“Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws." 2/3

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.