You know, there was this brief lull in December when the news was a normal amount of horrifying and you could walk away from your phone for a few hours without some administration asshole doing something dangerously unhinged

going to bed soon so one thing i will say is bills like kosa and so on will continue to come out of the woodwork and have significant traction until there's another proposed solution to the problem of online safety for children in the form of a potential bill that isn't "well it's not a problem"

i agree, if you'd been born 200 years ago, you'd be dead from dysentery and i'd never have seen your racist tweets

The Trump administration seems to have developed an entirely new model of colonialism. They're testing it right now--on Venezuela, on Cuba, on the world If they pull it off, we will enter a horrific and unprecedented geopolitical era

I'm just gonna say it: a lot of smart technology seems dumb as hell

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It's because the ideological weirdos actually stand for something whereas moderates just want money and power As a long-time Massiehead its nice to see him finally getting the respect he deserves - not for his positions, which are mostly dogshit, but for standing on business every single day

I'd rather not thanks

Massive respect for Jake Tapper here, who handled this interview 100% correctly I could never, because every time I hear Stephen Miller's voice I am overcome with an almost uncontrollable desire to commit acts of horrific violence

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Charlie Kirk was a husband and a father. We heard it over and over again Only certain types of people get to be husbands and fathers. Some people are simply civilians. Faceless, nameless and without consequence. Civilians die. It's what they do

Don't worry: this time for sure

It does not matter whether or not Venezuela is an authoritarian hellscape. Sovereignty is sovereignty Afghanistan was run by the goddamn Taliban, worse in every way than Venezuela at it's worst, and forcing regime change was wrong there too

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Let's check in on Steve Bannon's War Room to see how that branch of the conservatives are doing Yesterday, pre-strike: we cannot focus on toppling regimes overseas when we have so much violence to do at home

I've seen this movie before. "Trump repeatedly promised that the occupation of Venezuela would pay for itself via oil revenue. That was exactly what the Bush administration said about Iraq." www.forever-wars.com/a-criminal-e...

as the initial shock and outrage settles in to a sort of humming rage you can start to appreciate how shambolic this thing is. fentanyl declared a wmd, indictment for cocaine and guns, command center monitoring twitter, trump saying we're occupying somehow remotely(?) and paying for it with oil

they didn't stage a photoshoot afterwards, these pictures weren't them looking at tweets after the strikes were carried out to see if people were talking about them... this photo clearly shows they were posing for photos & looking at posts DURING the illegal military operation.

based on the most recent tweet visible on screen, this photo was taken in the hour that passed between these two posts... during which time the strikes were taking place. the most important thing in the room was tweets. they wanted to make sure people were posting about it.

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

Dont worry about your healthcare denial, citizen, you must join in these celebrations as we are once more greeted as liberators in foreign lands

The number one rule of dealing with Trump is: never, ever, ever show him the soft belly. Be like Mamdani. Don't be like Machado

Still yelling about this over at wbai.org/listen-live/ until at least 3:00 PM

looks like someone is about to win the “fell for it again” award

The official position of the United States government is "yes, blood for oil," at a moment when the United States produces more oil than any other country.

This is what he promised Americans, who are now having a worsening economy, higher prices on everything - including health care - and the only people profiting are people who bribe Trump.

Jesus fucking Christ.

all these fucks are like bro you don't understand how precise this operation was bro no one's ever done this bro it was epic, expecting us to be like oh well in that case

Trump: Maduro and his wife have been indicted in SDNY (Southern District of New York)

On the radio to talk about our new and very illegal war shortly:

Hi hello I just woke up: FUCK

Or, more succinctly, be careful picking a hill to die on because people do in fact die on those hills when it comes to getting anything done.

lol I just came across this post by Zoharn’s wife Rama Duwaji’s stylist and the boots were…. on loan open.substack.com/pub/brainmat...

I own two Kate Spade handbags to use at Republican conventions and events. They're in great condition because I exclusively use them there Fashion is communication. Designer says: hey. We are of the same class. We can talk She's going to talk to a lot of very wealthy people. It's a wise move

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

Twitter is a skinner box for making yourself insane that also features pedophilia robots

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

It makes sense, logically, that YouTube would antisemitic conspiracy theories on me after I binge-watched Candace Owens' podcast, but I really dislike this development. Seems bad

HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR

America is coming undone and we are here Our rights are crumbling and we are here We made it through 2025 with our spirits more or less intact, defiant in the face of armed goons and developments intended to drive us to despair, and we can make it through 2026 as well

Hey, does anyone have that meme that compares the Democratic party to a random boomer in Indiana who's talking about guillotines or revolution or something? I can't remember exactly but I need it for something

i do find it a fascinating assumption rightwingers are making that they should be able to walk into any daycare center and observe random peoples children whenever they want

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

“We’ve re-invented the oracle, except THIS time, you can buy ad space in her esoteric prophecies.” what are we doing here guys

I post this every single time but God DAMN does it feel good to be back in New York City

Love is when your parents give your entire family themed Harry Potter T-shirts for Christmas but they know you're not about that life so they get you a shirt for your favorite airline instead (sincere)

I could never live in the country but I sure do love visiting sometimes

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!! Your reminder that you do not have to talk about politics with anyone today, you can simply enjoy a cozy time with family/friends/yourself

"put him in jail!" the kindly elderly woman sitting next to me in the audience shouted as Vance said it Everything sucks so much