“The biggest lesson from Hungary is: voting in large numbers is the way back to a functioning democracy.”— Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

This is what happens when you effectively have no ethical rules at the top of government — virtually limitless opportunities for insider profiteering.

I'm running for Congress to take the fight directly to Trump—but I can't do it if I'm not on the ballot. 🗳️ We need 1,250 signatures from NY-12 Democrats in just a few weeks. It’s going to be close. Help us hit our goal and protect our democracy. Sign up now: bit.ly/GeorgeConway...

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

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The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.

Always a good time to follow Bellingcat.

Whoever you are, I imagine you are as furious & heartbroken as I am. We are living in time of baffling horror, a dark night of this nation’s soul. Whatever you do to push back this long night, I wish you Godspeed. Wherever you are, I hope you manage to hang in there, let the emotion out, & stay safe

Dostoevsky: "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing,"

What will the children think if Bugs Bunny no longer strictly conforms to heterosexual masculinity

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

A guy that can’t count, the wife of some golf buddy of his, and some red pilled teenager that was quote tweeted by Vance and Miller on X

The super wealthy are also spending their money on bunkers, private islands and yachts. They talk about building new countries and cities. They seem less interested in admiration for their civic virtue and more interested in separation from the rest of us.

Casino Royale and From Russia With Love are both actually good movies: the rest are Bond movies, for good and bad

From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.

This is the former president of Estonia, a place that knows a thing or two about resisting authoritarians and facing down bad guys who are trying to crush democracy.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

I hope she sues him into oblivion. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

So, what are people doing with their stock portfolio? Anyone cashing out and what are you doing with it?

If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, money, country, and future, tell your elected officials that you wanted something else. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

So he's gonna use your tax money to bail himself and the other SV crypto assholes out when this shit goes south

Once again, Trump is so completely detatched from any normal standards of decency that he says completely damning things without even appearing to realize it. In this case, that it’s unfair he can’t prosecute Biden’s family as revenge for his own legal woes. www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

Read… this is fantastic!