Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

👇🎯 Oh, you enjoy public services & national parks & infrastructure & the US military’s nuclear umbrella? Yet you paid no federal taxes last year, because your money is all in the Cayman Islands? 🤔

The scary but obvious explanation for this is that the powers that be who control our news media disagree with Jeremiah Wright and they agree with Curtis Yarvin

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

🚨 Breaking: NYC no more affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.

Should be a bombshell but basically totally MIA from the NYT. An interesting decision by them!

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

That’s almost a third of the population. Our government is run by Nazis. We have to root them out branch by branch and prosecute them. Accept nothing less from Democratic electeds.

It’s quaint now to think how many upstanding citizens active with their local Chamber of Commerce scolded me for being horribly uncivil in suggesting that Lori Chavez Deremer was an extremist and not a heroic moderate bucking her party. 17 Dems voted to confirm her!

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.

This doesn’t have to be solely a media responsibility either. Dems interested in accountability and preventing the spread of this civic cancer *could* take an interest in the staffers of today who might be the leaders of tomorrow. Stephen Miller was once one of these staffers! They could...

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

Under appreciated aspect of this conspiracy is that these dipshits are surprised that daycares aren't open during the weeks of Christmas and New Years. Just the dumbest people alive.

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

The NY Times just goes through the same Rolodex of voters who help them build the narrative they want to create. Rigged journalism.

One of the main goals from Republicans failed 2017 “repeal and replace” effort has been achieved. For all the talk from Dem leaders about a focus on healthcare, did you even know that happened? Greg Walden was one of the plan’s key authors in the House. Listen:

Yes! And the related McClellan problem is that the Union couldn't win until he was removed, because that's who he was. Schumer and others in leadership won't change either—they have to be replaced with Grants. Otherwise we will be fighting with McClellans in charge and waste any majority we get.

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

For those who don’t remember, Max Cleland was a triple amputee Vietnam veteran who lost his limbs to a grenade. Rick Wilson smeared him in 2002 as enabling al Qaeda and started rumors that his war injury wasn’t really real. Anyway. That’s a good Republican!

"Denazification is a myth on every level of German society."

Bozell's son is the pro-Apartheid nominee to be ambassador to South Africa & his grandson defaced the Capitol on January 6th in case anyone wants to think that what's happening in the Republican Party now is novel or a recent development

@marisakabas.bsky.social managing to concisely lay out what's going on, without screaming and cursing like when I do it

If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

It makes perfect sense that the idea of the Crusades appeals today to the exact kind of loud, adolescent-brained, self-aggrandizing, just-rich-enough-to-cause-problems idiot that the actual Crusades were designed to siphon out of the body politic like the snake venom they were, and are.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

there have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop

We saw this with GMO foods where the early academic critique was concern over socioeconomic and ecological impacts of reckless use. Popular discourse instead focused on mostly absurd claims that eating GMO would kill or harm consumers. That was the result of one side having professional PR teams.

And it was Jewish refugee from the NAZIs Lise Meitner who figured out how to split the atom. Miller's racism would be bad enough, but it is amplified by his being an ignoramus who has a very limited & inaccurate grasp of actual history. The US's & anyone else's.

This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.

In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

What's the proportion of articles written about insane left winger undergrads at Oberlin (enrollment 3,000) vs the right wing Christian administration at say, Grand Canyon University (enrollment 60,000) bsky.app/profile/plaw...

We should take seriously that these people are horribly damaged! That’s why I think every blue state/jurisdiction needs to pass rules that prohibit them from ever working in law enforcement again. I’m dead serious. Easiest consequence we can give them. How many will fail?

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

Trump says the Epstein Files are a Democrat hoax, but only Democrats were guilty of crimes with Epstein. He says the DOJ should stop releasing files and everyone should stop talking about it, but also the DOJ should charge Democrats with crimes. This is how you talk when you’re guilty as hell.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo

My favorite in this genre is the Ottobahn. A city employee with a German accent excitedly asked me, have you heard of the Ottobahn? [pronounced autobahn] Yes! No, OTTO. Oh… You’ll notice these are all renders… because the stupid thing doesn’t exist outside of fantasy. ottobahn.de/en/home/

One bus builder is telling agencies in WA that the cost of a new bus is going up 15%. No new custom work. Just the same bus going up over $100k just because. That’s an FTE salary worth of cash. Poof!

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Once again the idyllic America of days gone by is represented by…a slick Hollywood production, a simulacrum of reality that these people cannot distinguish from actual reality. No different than seeing Main Street USA at Disneyworld and asking sincerely “why towns don’t look like this anymore.”