How’s it going on the right, you ask? Well a Trump supporter was arrested a few days back for threatening to kill Trump and a bunch of other people because Candace Owens has been saying that Trump conspired with the Jews to assassinate Charlie Kirk.

He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide... "thank you for letting me ride with you to the end" "may your next save file be somewhere warm" "see you on the other side" #NihilismAndTechnology

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The human misery and massive death toll that came from ending USAID was entirely predictable. Elon Musk relied on conspiracy nuts rather than employees and development specialists. Rubio, who previously defended the agency knew what would happen. They chose this. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Bluesky rn

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Young men too 😮😮

PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE DONALD TRUMP AND THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR AN OUTLET TO EXPRESS THAT GIVE IT TO THEM

they're calling it the worst take of all time

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

This traitor was not only a Confederate general who fought for the destruction of the U.S., he may have been involved in the development of the murderous KKK after the Civil War which terrorized Blacks seeking elective office & voting. What a disgrace to put his statue up again.

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross. The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular! The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18." p.s. Older people are really showing up.

The second most important thing to remember about the pandemic is that the federal government built a temporary fully funded and expansive welfare state via unleashing a tidal wave of money into society to limit economic misery, and it worked pretty well.

IMHO, the single most important thing to remember about the pandemic was the spirit of collective sacrifice & national unity that pervaded the US in the first weeks, when the 'lockdowns,' which were almost totally a matter of voluntary compliance, went into effect to protect the most vulnerable

This is part of the war over How We Remember the Pandemic Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since

2026 kann ein Wendepunkt werden. In #Sachsen-Anhalt und #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern steht die AfD kurz davor, stärkste Kraft zu werden. In den aktuellen Umfragen liegt sie bei fast 40 %. Ein 🧵

All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

How the hell did the Republican Party go from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump?   For @zeit.de, I tried to answer that question in an essay telling the story of a long-term radicalization that ultimately paved the way for Trump’s rise – and now threatens the survival of the Republic:

Extremismus und Geschwurbel gehören heute zum Kern der US-Republikaner. In fünf Etappen hat sich die Partei radikalisiert. Und nein, es begann nicht erst 2016 mit Trump.

You can see how differently the media covers Republicans perfectly in just this post alone No panicked follow up on his health, no pushback on the batshit 3rd term non-sense.

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.

Sunday Reading: A Constant Torrent of Authoritarian Arrogance, Corruption, and Complicity American politics is an exasperating, frenzied, and acutely dangerous mess. Let’s sort through the events of the past week to separate what matters from what does not.   Some thoughts from my new piece:

The Tea Party never reached the magnitude of No Kings. Yet it was covered as if it represented “real America,” just like MAGA today. Those are not empirical assessments, but articles of faith – ideological claims about the world that are widely shared in the American mainstream discourse.

There’s only been one lawsuit filed against the devastating destruction of the White House. One. And it’s by Virginia couple, Charles and Judith Voorhees. Not Congress, not historical (or any) institutions, but a citizen couple. We continue to be the resistance. newrepublic.com/post/202201/...

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

this is exactly what's happening

Was vom Con übrig blieb. Der Artikel im New Yorker analysiert neue Bücher aus der neoliberalen Beratungsliteratur für Frauen, die das destruktive Erbe von "Lean in" verwalten. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

Women are being erased at the Pentagon. Women are being erased from history. And now a woman has been erased from the desecrated White House.

JESUS CHRIST DUDE

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

I re-launched Democracy Americana exactly one month ago, as I started my new life as a full-time writer.   Time for a quick rebrand.   No worries, nothing else changes. New look, same focus: The ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America.

This little item by Luke Broadwater on the abrupt, wholly unannounced destruction of a major component of the White House complex is a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationship the press has with this mendacious administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Das #Frauenhaus in Staßfurt ist dauerhaft voll – wie fast alle in Sachsen-Anhalt. Etwa 50 Frauen mussten 2025 bereits abgewiesen werden. 🚨 Laut Istanbul-Konvention braucht Deutschland aktuell über 12.000 Frauenhausplätze mehr!

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Good job, America! Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

#nokings Kansas City.