Such a characteristic dynamic, righties saying the protests were "funded by Soros" and lefties responding with fact checks & empirical observations. Ships passing in the night. What the righties want to say is: the left is fundamentally illegitimate. That, to them, is the core truth.

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

Americans have long sung about being “The land of the free”. This is demonstrably and clearly no longer true. Time for patriotic Americans to complete the anthem and live up to the promise of the last line. Be brave, America. It’s now or never. www.nokings.org

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

A movement that will echo through the ages.

Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]" www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

We hop at dawn!

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muppetized works of art: thread

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence. Fact checking is not going to do shit. Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit. We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

If you don’t already, you should assume that any video you see from now on could be fake.

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence. They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws. Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence. So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans. Enough.

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

So, as a bit of a diversion, I made an interactive that shows how different demographic groups voted in recent elections — and lets you test the accuracy of your estimates of how they did. It's more fun than it might sound! www.pbump.net/o/digging-de...

“Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing & rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase EACH OTHER doesn’t make any sense.” Happy birthday Rumi 9/30/1207

out of curiosity who made this

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

NEW: Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA's response to natural disasters. But she fast-tracked $11 million+ to fix a Florida tourist attraction — after one of her big donors reached out. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

In one deal, an Emirati royal Sheikh invested $2 billion in a cryptocurrency company owned by the Trump and Witkoff families. In the other, the White House two weeks later agreed to sell the UAE hundreds of thousands of the world’s most valuable AI chips, despite national security concerns.

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=emiB...

In case you don’t know what the Reichstag Fire was or why it’s relevant now, it was an incident soon after Hitler became chancellor that he used as a pretext to destroy civil rights and seize total power. Some folks think Trump is using the Charlie Kirk murder the way Hitler used the Reichstag Fire.

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

For the record, comissioned sales is the devil's work and a shit job. Your next meal depends on bullshitting people into buying something. Now mix in a situation where integrity is the only dividing line between doing extremely dishonest shit to get that sale. There are *libraries* on the subject.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

It is useful to that movement -- and an inevitable outcome of its political psychology -- to deny any responsibility for its own actions, to frame its opponents as the cause of its degeneracy, but its opponents are under no obligation to accept that absurd premise.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

"Democrats can denounce Trump’s abuses for the Rubicon-crossing threat they pose—while also asserting that his multiplying failures are exactly why those abuses are growing more menacing and unconstrained."

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”

Before the hearing begins, a reminder…

Aka most of the web now.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy

Maybe we should consider whether A.I. is really a net benefit to our society and planet (rather than just to a few insanely wealthy oligarchs) *before* we plunge ahead into the new dystopia? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The military has no place occupying DC or any other American city.

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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.