Not US citizens per Trump: — Marco Antonio Rubio, Cuban parents — Kashyap Pramod Patel, Indian parents, immigrated via Uganda and Canada — Mehmet Cengiz Öz, Turkish parents—he also served in the Turkish Army — Usha Bala Vance, Indian parents — Nimarata Randhawa Haley (née Randhawa), Indian parents

I award “broken-clocks-right-twice-a-day” publications and people like this no points for their occasionally bare-minimum takes. reason.com/2025/12/26/j...

it's hack cringe to keep pointing this out, AND, it's nonetheless true that 32 deaths like this under a Biden or Kamala administration would have been nonstop news and forced major changes if not impeachment

1 thing Trump has laid bare & also a dynamic in play w/recent Bari Weiss 60 min fiasco is the utterly ridiculous levels shamelessness that abound right now in elite circles that were largely hidden to broader public in beforetimes: no more hiding behind quite parts out loud, forced to just say it

Trump’s screen time charts must be off the charts bonkers. Like, literally just one solid bar by day and week averages at 23hrs and 59 mins lol. He gets paid to post

Serious news for very serious people.

thought for a quick sec “oh amazing he’s going to finally get it” Then clicked on link and read transcript, and no, of course not, it’s David Brooks, you dummy. Fool me once…

Once you see this, you can’t unsee it. It’s pathological.

Where does bulging one’s eyes out as a response to fascism sit on the scale of effectiveness compared to, say, a Chuck Schumer strongly worded letter or Hakeem Jeffries presser? We need to develop a taxonomy for Democratic Party fecklessness levels in general so we can quantify & measure this shite

White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.

1 low-key, undercovered aspect of the Bari Weiss/60 min fiasco is the now very clear-cut level of incompetence she is working with, a fact that was obscured by fawning, sanewashed, normalized press coverage by MSM. The gap btwn how theyve portrayed Weiss over years & what’s going on now is enormous.

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

From a Buddhist perspective, one thing that's low-key fascinated me about the Trump era is its embodiment of our cyclical existence thru the lens of Titan & Hungry Ghost realms, eg. "unsatisfactory" life by way of jealousy & "insatiable" greed that perpetually condemn him to the wheel of suffering.

Karma's a bitch.

I keep saying this: there is not a market solution to the dilemma of housing costs often being 50%+ of a working class person's pay. Developers will build housing in ways that maximize profit. They will stop building if doing so results in rents going down. The solution is more public housing

Extraction, extraction, extraction. Because $500M in profit wasn’t enough. $501M is better. $600M even better etc. It’s never enough. All on the backs of workers. We overfocus on scarcity taxpayer myths but never actual economic burdens of consumers & labor at hands of corps & wealthy individuals

Sigh. Just one of so many things both Clintons have been utterly and completely wrong about, over decades at this point. Our systems and country simply codes for these kinds of power seeking leaders to fail upwards into the most influential and important jobs that implicate all our lives.

Just one more reason to leave the hellhole site.

Headlines matter

Just think about the fact that The community notes section of the Nazi hellhole website provides more accurate and contextual coverage of the Epstein cover-up than @nytimes.com

Do something about it then

I am a sentimental person because of this movie when I was 10.

This is damage control. Use it, but don't be fooled.

This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.

More stenography from the Washington post

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Ok Popular Science just made me cry a bit.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I mean, so was the dept of war and they did it anyway. Point is to change the signage and stationery references, business cards. Laws in the face of this assault don’t matter if they aren’t enforced and if democrats are doing their part. The sign outside will say Trump Kennedy very shortly.

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

The entire conservative movement has always fundamentally been a psychological pathology—a reaction to largely made up things and threats imagined. Once you see it, their policy descriptions, history & discourse make way more sense. Buckley just had the good sense to gussy it all up in written form

Chomsky, dead to me. Check David Blaine, dead to me. Check David Brooks, dead….wait, that’s done been the case

Inside every President, there are 2 wolves

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

Amazing

I’m embarrassed to admit I used to listen sometimes to the 538 podcast and I will never forgive myself damn you, me

The entirety of conservative dogma was always a mirage. There was never any there…there. It’s always been about preserving white, male hierarchies around some made-up binary battle over scarce resources that were meant for one group.

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

This is the energy we need.

Just reupping this. @nytimes.com thanks again for abso fuxking lutely nothing, except I guess for more sanewashed fascism. Jfc

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Yes. Exactly.

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

Alphas are him, only the most serious people allowed. This used to be embarrassingJfc 🤦🏽‍♂️

Literally brought this up the other day unbeknownst to me Trump would give that insane speech—but just underlining it bc it’s important: Jimmy Carter delivered the Malaise Speech & it all but ended his political career. Just take that in after what we witnessed last night. Failed state shit.