“Fascism-flavored content” might be my new favorite description of this admin’s strategy

The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.

the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1

insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites. Well UH

I do want to note three things that have happened in the wake of what ACIP is becoming to hopefully put some panicked nerves at ease. 1.) The American Association of Pediatrics is publishing their own schedule that matches the one before this goat rodeo.

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on: Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.

losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."

that's because it has more people with security clearances in charge

Like man, genuinely, Trump is using a temple dedicated to the man who fought to bring an end to chattel slavery as though it were a platform at a slave market, weighing men like slabs of meat before having them beat the shit out of each other in his yard for his amusement.

This is vitally important. As I've written, the left has a serious pipeline problem (www.vox.com/on-the-right...) and Liberal Currents is exactly the kind of place that could help solve it. Give them the money they need!

so Cuellar's switching parties, right

CALL: the Hudson County Democratic Organization gets absolutely routed in Jersey City, losing the mayoral runoff and all nine city council seats

NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one

it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD. All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold. Definitely zoom in and read for yourself. Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

In legislative races this year, both special and regular, Dems have flipped 24 seats from the GOP across the country. Republicans, well... docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

i’m too stoned for this level of ventriloquy

You don’t understand how much I love this feature

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?

the 4chan Jan. 6 greentext but it's MTG's entire career

Mamdani getting Trump to back down & even *compliment* him costs Mamdani absolutely nothing (& indeed actually shows his skills) & probably also saves a lot of vulnerable ppl in this city a trememndous amount of pain if it means Trump is less inclined to act shitty towards us bc of this meeting

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

my tdor ask.

Cook? *Cook* is starting to believe?

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

James Donald Vance Jr., 67, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison in connection with threats made against the vice president and President Trump on social media.

Lol. They're coming up to me with tears in their eyes. You're the lamest duck sir, they're saying. We've never seen a duck so lame.

oh my GOD look at his face

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

lol

So there's a lot of hooplah about this whole "welcoming into the tent" business that's been occasioned by Marjorie the Gathering's Damascene conversion. Point blank, if you're not being very specific about what you *mean* by any of this stuff, it's an absurd and pointless debate.

Lest you think Greene has changed her ways, here she is refusing to denounce Nick Fuentes, suggesting Bash have him on her show, and lying about having known him before she appeared at his conference.

dear trans siblings: you can improve your mental health 10x by just not being on twitter! No, flexing your transition progress on transphobes isnt a dub, nor is ratio'ing them or debating them. You are just exposing yourself to horrid stuff for no reason. You deserve better :v

Indiana Senate Pro Tem Rod Bray says chamber will not reconvene in December because there aren't enough votes for congressional redistricting. Donald Trump and his allies have tried HARD to pressure Bray and other senators to fall in line.

transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.

Bonus: Bah gawd, that’s Jess Singal’s music! web.archive.org/web/20210220...

99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”

Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

this is the trump guy urtext

Say it louder. Senate delenda est.

fuck

fucking Durbin man