look I've been trying very hard to not dunk on Jay but this is an image of centralization. I guess I see how it's meant to show decentralization but it does not do that effectively.

Bro they did it, the least cringey democrat meme I’ve ever seen

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

Want to murder people for routine crimes? Just add "terrorist!" Jaywalking? Pedstri-terrorism! Speeding? Auto-terrorism! Shoplifting? Winona-terrorism!

Fascinatingly, private companies cannot provide Medicare better than Medicare can provide Medicare

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

What?? Are they invading blue cities the “smart way??” DONT’T NORMALIZE THIS.

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

"Welcome, neighbors, come on in. There’s plenty of room for everyone, aside from God. He has no place inside this well-ventilated, open-concept embodiment of runaway capitalism."

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Nancy Mace is very upset by this rhetoric, no doubt

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

We just sent $20 BILLION to Argentina to help bail out its economy. How did they return the favor? By making *its* soybean exports more attractive to China—at the expense of American farmers. Trump cares more about bailing out a failed foreign president than helping our farmers. Let that sink in.

“This is extortion, plain and simple. It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Just no legitimacy to CBS News anymore. Absolutely wrecked.

@shaheen.senate.gov is not a serious politician, and I am glad this is the end of her tenure in Congress. New Hampshire deserves better than this. New Hampshire *Democrats* deserve better than this.

Just a periodic reminder that some of the most politically outspoken athletes/entertainers right now are big ass wrassling dudes, particularly in AEW where their boss lets them have free expression instead of doing events next to Donald Trump and moving Wrestlemania to Saudi Arabia

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Lol

NEW: Federal workers had their out-of-office replies changed to an unhinged and probably illegal partisan screed; when they changed them to neutral language, the replies were changed yet again. @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social have the details:

finally, the youtube recommendation algorithm is good unlocked that 100% @anyaustin.bsky.social mode I guess

You can’t make deals with cheaters. That’s the story.

An argument that seems unlikely to work is: It's the Democrats' fault that Trump is going to end programs that you like from what he calls "Democrat Agencies" It's just too complicated, and too silly.

Well, we could control it, but we simply won't.

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” - Trump, October 31, 2024

Albanian PM Edi Rama mocked Trump to Macron: “You should congratulate Ilham Aliyev and me. Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan” Earlier Trump claimed he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan. It was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“It looks like hell,” Jones said. “ICE really just a gang.”

ICE now conducting “Kavanaugh stops” on entire buildings at once:

It's a lot of "I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing since January" but like... yeah. We know. That's sort of the whole point.

I have very measured and rational conversations with other chronically online political friends about the discourse. Two hours later, I'm in the convenience store where a guy dressed like Larry the Cable Guy is buying a bottle of MD 20/20 and reciting the IRA's "we only have to be lucky once" bit.

When these dehumanizing stupid radicals call us names, it makes us less safe :(

This is extortion. Faculty, students, staff, alumni across the country need to get to their Presidents & Trustees today. Just say no. This blackmail only works if most everyone folds. Capitulation now means the end of American higher education for a generation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

The next time Mike Johnson lies that he hasn’t seen the latest Trump screwup that the rest of the nation is discussing, the TV anchor should just quietly say “that’s ok, not everyone follows politics.”

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

Yeah, man, be sure to announce you’re cutting “Democrat agencies” so when voters face the consequences they know who brought them the things they liked and who’s to blame for their loss, great plan

It’s remarkable. You can assign current names to her 90 year old pseudonyms.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Within hours of the murder of Charlie Kirk—and in the absence of a suspect—high-profile figures on the right, from vice president JD Vance to deputy White House chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, already had a different culprit in mind: nonprofit organizations.

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines. Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

Fascism is a thing that exists, and some people fit that description.

"I’ll claw my way to the back of my closet, past my Sensible Winter Snow Pants, my Sensible Spring Linen, and my Sensible Summer Hawaiian Shirt—for it is not yet their time. No, I am there to dress for the most elusive weather of all—uninterrupted high forties."

The "left wing bias" of wikipedia is my fav psycho right wing bullshit. It's run by libertarians, right wingers just hate it because the editors require that information on the site be true

This doesn't have to be our system, but it's what it is right now, and I don't know how long before it breaks us economically.

One of my biggest arguments about autonomy or secession - a thing I do not *like* advocating for - is that the alternative is a government that hurts my region so it can funnel our money to other regions.

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

this is an especially good thing to hammer because it wedges the WH away from congressional Republicans