IN A EFFORT TA COMBAT INNERNET MISERY AND CHRONIC ONLINENESS, THUNK HAVE DIS TA SAY TODAY. BIRDS ARE HOPPING AROUND, YELLING AT NOTHING AND HAVE TINY DEVILSAUR FEETS FOR SOME REASON. THUNK BET YOUS NO CANS STAY GRUMPY WHILE WATCHING BIRDS BE RIDICULUS FOR TWO WHOLE MINNITS! GO LOOK AT BIRDS.

Idk about you, but it seems to me like we’re well into whatever phase comes *after* farce in the whole history-repeating-itself cycle.

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

I've said similar before, but if step 1 of the plan to avoid the end of the world is "Democrats win every election everywhere until the end of time" then it's a bad plan.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social -you correctly noted that there are only 2 people with the power to reconvene Congress and to start proceedings that might remove a certain genocidal maniac from power. One of them will be speaking at 7:30 very close to where you’ll be speaking at 6. Any thoughts?

"Hooray!" shouted Yertle. "I'm the king of the trees! I'm king of the birds! And I'm king of the bees! I'm king of the butterflies! King of the air! Ah, me! What a throne! What a wonderful chair! I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!"

Looking forward to upcoming social media posts from the Trump White House and Day Care, including "Pete Hegseth plays with G.I. Joes" and "Stephen Miller lights ants on fire with a magnifying glass"

Oh right. (Another basic truth about our world that I hadn’t thought about much, but that makes total sense in a way that leaves me a bit embarrassed that I’d never thought about it in exactly that way before.)

We haven’t seen this kind of confident religiosity on the left in a long time. This is a guy so fluent in the substance, themes, upshots of his tradition that he can’t help put draw on it to frame the message of the campaign itself. It’s something close to a perfect alchemy of faith and politics.

Well, except no, they really can’t. Real housing requires infrastructure that warehouses don’t have. To put a whole lot of people into a city block and keep them healthy, you need lots of plumbing, lots of HVAC, lots of windows, etc. They’re just not worried about the “keeping them healthy” part.

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

Garcia is holding up a chart that shows how the Trump administration made "ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States" and says this funding has been used "to terrorize, disfigure, and in some cases kill" US citizens.

Veritas.

Waiting for the "aNtiFA rAddYcalLz R uSinG kiDz aS hYoomaN sHeeldZ" comment coming in a Homeland Security press release in 3... 2... 1...

Chicago represents!

Jesus, this is a brutal minute.

Two fables to share with you this morning: Fable number one, or why doesn't anyone know who Ernst Röhm was anymore? (a 🧵)

Duuuude, that's me on the drums! Well, one of the drums, anyway. A silver lining in [everything everywhere] is that you can come with an instrument, bump into a random group of people, and get woven in to a moment of utter joy in the midst of it all. Most people still don't suck. Good reminder.

I’m going to respectfully disagree. Unless your personal health is at risk because of past trauma, we ALL need to watch, and be traumatized, by it. This is what America is becoming, and unless we’re happy about it, we need to internalize exactly what happened so that we can’t pretend otherwise.

WTAF America.

I was living in China during the Arab Spring of 2011. The wave of anti government uprisings started with the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, so “jasmine” was banned from the Chinese internet for a while, leaving many tea producers very confused about why one of their products was being censored.

Day-umm WaPo. Why don't you just start using the lyrics from Free Bird and My Way for your headlines? It'd save you some time.

Does anyone besides me remember the Reagan Era movie Red Dawn? Where a bunch of All-American high school students in Colorado took on the evil invading Soviet army and against all odds, triumphed through sheer pluck and tenacity? Why bring this up now..? No reason, really.

Oh man. It would be terrible if people started following Bovino around and playing Baby Shark. It would be terrible because he would hate it, and it would probably become his theme song, and it would make his Nazi in a long coat cosplay all the more ridiculous. So no one should do that.

“These senior citizens on the bus with me are tiny people with tiny budgets and tiny left uppercuts. Under every understanding of law that has existed about personal property for 500 years, to keep your wallet you have to be able to defend your wallet.”

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

In Chicago last fall, some fresh new outrageous ICE bullshit occurred every three days or so. Now it looks like they're upping the cycle to 18 hours, minimum.

New long-term Trump strategy plan just dropped:

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

COLLINS: Minnesota officials say the FBI isn't sharing evidence with them. Do you believe the FBI should do that? TRUMP: Well normally I would, but they're crooked officials. Minneapolis and Minnesota are being destroyed. I feel that I won Minnesota all three times. I won Minnesota three times.

Abolish and prosecute ICE.

Nonstop lying. Abolish ICE

Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Well, as a side note, the leftie alt wellness people who went antivax then backed RFK then swallowed the whole “he kept us out of the forever wars” argument can certainly go f*ck themselves…

What to say about this thread re an actor I don’t know anything about? 1. Damn, that’s a HUGE commitment to a bit about 2. a really easy target but 3. So many of these are laugh out loud hysterical, and 4. You need to have the Simpsons’ Monorail Song playing in the BG as you read this. Srsly.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

OMG, the release of the Epstein files finally proves what we've suspected all along - OUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING RUN BY A SECRET CABAL OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN SUPREMATIST PAINTERS!!

“We fall into this rhythm of silence.” A poem by Dorianne Laux.

Raise your hand if, like me, you KNEW that these green pants contained nameless horrors beyond imagining, and the whole “see, those pants were scared too!” ending that Dr. Seuss tacked on didn’t fool you for a SECOND.

A video can’t truly convey the punch in the gut feeling of seeing a heavily armed masked paramilitary police force in your own neighborhood, but this one comes close. Please watch and share.

ummmmm....

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.