I got halfway through posting the podcast link and realized that I should really credit the investigative reporter who is presenting this info in the episode: @areebafatima.bsky.social . Sorry!

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has a very eye-opening podcast episode on the group creating these videos, who have a history going back before Trump's war. Here's the link: overcast.fm/+ABHI4Xv8OKE

I guess Tim Cook’s real passion is presenting gold plaques to fascists

@bencollins.bsky.social told CNN.com that the new InfoWars “will be as “a digital platform and comedy network” that feature independent comedians who “don’t have a mountain to climb in the comedy world. We want to give them that mountain.” Could get awesome fast, given @theonion.com community/brand.

The indefatigable @bencollins.bsky.social told @nytimes.com they’ll help raise $ for Sandy Hook families with merchandise sales. @timheidecker.bsky.social would serve as “creative director” of the new site & plans to parody @RealAlexJones™ — like @stephencolbert.bsky.social once did Bill O’Reilly.

2026: @TheOnion.com proposes licensing Infowars & its IP. Fictional CEO is claiming it’s theirs: theonion.com/at-long-last... but infowars.com hasn’t changed — yet.

Orbán’s electoral defeat is not simply some abstract thing happening in a far away country overseas Orbán’s government played a big role in convening the international far-right. Groups funded by Orbán’s gov’t even sponsored Canadian Conservative MPs to attend ultra social conservative conferences:

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So, we've created a 100 Gitmo's -- not for criminals but for immigrants who are "American" in every way but the paperwork.

So, they didn’t break the mold?

Lobby AGAINST policies and laws which ban ANY books.

Demand that all books in print be made available. Run and vote against the New McCarthyites: Moms 4 Liberty and their ilk. Most importantly: READ AND AMPLIFY “dangerous” literature and non-fiction. New this year: “The Intimate Animal” by Kinsey’s Justin Garcia. Ask your librarian to buy a copy!

@sethcotlar.bsky.social Son? Isn’t he the one that Hunter Biden wrote a recommendation for? He’s about 23?

He agrees w/ her overall project: Demonizing anyone who opposes Israel. See his segment on Hasan. In his mind’s eye, he’s just keeping her honest. He could dismantle her rhetoric, instead, he allows it as she fluffs Trump at every possible opportunity while defaming students like Mohammed Khalil.

Gish-Galloping

Shorn of its context.

Whoop, there it is.

If you think Tapper did a good job not backing down, imagine Mehdi Hasan interviewing Stefanik.

He agrees with her overall project. He’s acting more the PR handler, than a journalist. I should write a column: “What Happened Here?” (Too close to Chris Hayes’ podcast title?)

Someone please assign Claudine Gay to review this trifle.

And she’ll be promoting her book about being the 21st c’s answer to Joe McCarthy

He largely agrees with her. Just wants to — quote, unquote — keep her honest.

Also, The Uncanny Valley moved from Efficiency to Enshittification

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Karl: "The president said today that he would knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. He's not just talking about those that are supporting the military infrastructure…That wouldn't be a war crime?" Mike Waltz: "That would be an escalatory ladder."

So…doesn’t deny it

I wish more educators and fewer lawyers would run for public office, in part b/c the best ones are naturals at explaining the whys of things. We could use more people in public life who cultivate understanding and bring people along together instead of "voters are too dumb to appreciate language"

STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those words in his mouth TAPPER: 'Your entire civilization will die'? STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime TAPPER: You're changing his words!

Here's what Schumer actually says in that video that's going around. Again, it's bad enough as is without inventing quotes. web.archive.org/web/20190319...

*sigh* 1. That's not a direct quote. If you're going to put something in quotation marks and then go, "Wow. He just came right out and said it," it should be a direct quote. 2. This speech is from 2018. Don't present it as new/recent. 3. The actual content of the speech is bad enough.

Ugh. There are TWO Devil’s Spawn?

This is a perfect example of how CNN allows far right ill-liberal liars on air. In some cases, pays them, (e.g. Scott Jennings) to blatantly propagandize and falsify information. Even though Tapper made a rare effort to push back on the disgraceful Stefanik, he lost, by promoting her book of lies.

@atrupar.com You didn’t include the banger: “We’re here to sell books, Jake.”

This edition of Sunday morning newsletter writing comes from a 10U volleyball tournament at the Maryland Juniors Sports Center.

Edwin Eisendrath on how Trump is turning the U.S. into his ATM.

I'd note that this man spent years shouting on LinkedIn that the climate crisis was a hoax.

Folks, we need to start writing open letters to John Roberts. Exposing his decades-long mendacity.

Unless you’re a Democratic POTUS

Ted Cruz JD Vance CRAVEN

I feel confident that he has, @radiofreetom.bsky.social

SCOTUS judges know the price of everything and the value of nothing. bsky.app/profile/leah...

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Distract by making the story about the leak, rather than the earth-shattering expose. Let’s track who falls for that shit.

At least some of those now insisting that there's no news in the leaked memos about how #SCOTUS decided the Clean Power Plan cases have previously responded to criticisms of unexplained shadow docket rulings by insisting that the Court engages in robust and rigorous dialogue behind the scenes. Hmm.

Kash is suffering from the same allergy Don, Jr. has—a hankering for even more cocaine.

And, As a native-born New Yorker, I reject that term, “transplant.” It’s a slur. If Vickie Paladino uses it, you can be sure. @samd.bsky.social

Zohran GETS IT. They divide you by race, ZIP code, accent, religion—anything to keep the REAL majority from noticing who gets robbed every payday. The working class built this country, feeds it, drives it, teaches it, heals it. UNITE THEM and the grifters start sweating. #MakeAmericaFairAgain

Spain's Pedro Sanchez and Brazil's ​Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will spearhead gatherings of the global left in Barcelona ‌on Friday and Saturday, in a bid to defend multilateralism and mobilise left-wing movements against the far right. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.

Echoes of SSRI’s in the Nineties