oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

Same guy literally three days later, somehow

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Old lady: Oh, won't someone please help me? Kiryu: What do you need? Old lady: My cat's stuck on top of a tree... Kiryu: That's no problem. I'll help. Old lady: Thank you... It's right over there \*points over at the World Tree, Yggdrasil* Kiryu: ah. well, a promise is a promise,

There is no journalistic task more imperative than getting eyes inside this process. The kind of thing historians wait for archives of dictatorships to open, when figuring out how the REAL nightmare begin. newrepublic.com/post/202199/...

“When you start asking if it’s worth standing up for trans people, you’ve already lost the moral argument,” Democrat Dylan Blaha told me in an interview about why he’s challenging an Illinois congresswoman from the left. www.advocate.com/politics/dyl...

Elias is an institutionalist who tended to downplay the threat Trump posed during his first term, so this is striking:

If you, as a politician, cannot get any mileage out of “Trump is tearing down the White House and illegally building a 300 million dollar ballroom while your family starves”, you need to just quit politics forever

There’s a lot of condescension in the idea that “normies” are basically dumb animals who only care about money and eating and don’t hold any other meaningful opinions or beliefs.

@sharonk.bsky.social ’s everything is gender theory remains undefeated

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

*heil monitors

ah but i was told the administration would be good on antitrust

I think it’s good and important to spread the word about companies that are doing bad things and offer people alternatives to those companies that aren’t evil. I also think shouting “cancel that!” “Stop using that!” “Why are you still on that!” isn’t a great way to help ease people’s transitions.

Here is list of White House ballroom donors. Please do what you will with it. We will be coming back to share more about the companies, as it relates to public health specifically. Source: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

damn good thing it wasn’t a confederate statue

I think Democrats should run on a promise to demolish Trump's Epstein Memorial Ballroom should they win in 2028, tbh

Trans people are now functionally banned from the University of Virginia, the seventh university to do so.

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

OK, so we get the state intervening in the market, but not in a socialist way, in a right-wing nationalist way that’s corrupt and corporatist. A social nationalism, if you will. We can workshop the name later.

The fourth paragraph is politically obtuse, framing this as a battle between Trump’s heartfelt desire to put an “imprint” on the White House versus “the sensibilities of many in Washington.” NO! This is an attack upon the citizenry at large and upon the basic principles of republican governance.

Democracy dies in darkness; The Washington Post dies in roughly two and a half years.

Will Lewis has destroyed the Post both reputationally and financially within *two years* of taking over. Now, let's not forget to give due credit to Bezos here but man, what a loser.

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Do a bad thing, then quintuple down on it and try to shock the audience into numbly accepting that you can do whatever it is you're doing. Straight out of a dozen awful playbooks.

*screams*

“.. they are just grabbing people, putting them in cuffs,” said Kaden Cummings, 23, who witnessed the arrests. “Nobody’s identifying themselves .. There’s no due process .. It’s just straight to the back of a van if you’re African on Canal.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/n...

Fenrir? Honestly at this point you have to appreciate the commitment to the bit.

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Looking for tips on planning a comedy festival, I bet!

“Regrettable tattoo”, like the dude has a tattoo of his Hogwarts house or something instead of the specific symbol of one of the most notorious Nazi units of the entire war.

Let's see how that government ban on White House demolition photos is going. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Is Russ Vought going to throw Trump down a reactor shaft

North Carolina already one of most gerrymandered states. Now GOP passing new gerrymander giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Dem Don Davis. This is preview of what post-Voting Rights Act America will look like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Surprised to learn that I had an anti-American tilt.

graham platner can tun this around if he lets me do his cover up

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

It's hard to fathom for most people just how much effort and money is being poured into anti-trans shit, but it's billionaires, the entire apparatus of religious right think tanks like ADF, Heritage etc, entire media empires like Rupert Murdoch's, whole political parties and world governments...

you’re telling me that another thirtysomething republican has nazi beliefs. wow

The NYT: President Trump appeared to cover protesters with an unidentifiable brown liquid Trump:

The “viral photos and videos of animals acting cute or interesting with people or each other” industry has been destroyed by AI. The last few examples I’ve seen of this have been AI. I have a feeling slop will further derail a pop culture understanding of animal biology and behavior

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam

Hard to ignore the fact that Houston Mayor Whitmire—registered as a Democrat, but a critic of party leaders like Chicago & LA mayors, as well as NYC candidate Mamdani—has repeatedly killed funding for transit projects, shutting down planned bus rapid transit lines in several parts of the city.

Removal came after Texas Gov Abbott directed state DOT to withhold funds from localities if they did not remove "political ideologies" from roads. Houston Mayor John Whitmire—who has torn up bus & bike lanes across the city—said Gov's order was "counterproductive" but that the city needed funds.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

What have the news media been thinking as they’ve normalized and empowered MAGA fascism over the last decade? I took an intrepid journey inside the media’s brain to find out. Read my free Stop the Presses newsletter.

“Mr Speaker, a follow up: when the president depicted himself dumping liquid shit on American citizens and an American flag, what point was he making?”