they are so desperate to get their numbers up and its gonna end badly for everyone

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

U.S Army officer Col. Steve Gabavics has gone public on his participation in the Biden Administration's "investigation" into the Israeli assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, alleging that the USG softened its conclusions about the murder of the Palestinian American journalist to please Israel.

Shireen Abue Akieh was a U.S. citizen murdered by the IDF during the Biden years because she was a journalist documenting Israeli crimes. I think not enough Americans understand that if you or your family is killed or wrongly arrested by Israel, your own government will help Israel, not you.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

🇮🇹 An Italian court has allowed the extradition of a Ukrainian suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines. militarnyi.com/en/news/ital...

i need more gun youtubers who are in a race with themselves to see if they'll die from negligently discharging a glock directly into their own genitals while trying to fix (read: "make worse") their car or drunkenly slamming their car into a toll booth going 140 while leaving family court

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

"Ronald Reagan was a mercantilist" is one of the most "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." I can think of.

in a hundred years i think Blade will be as well known and iconic as vampire as dracula. because Blade is like if dracula was cool and carried a katana

If you’re a democrat and your response to snap getting cut is laughter or saying things like “they voted for Trump so they deserve it” etc congratulations you’re a fascist and a threat at the same level as maga.

The overriding theme of the last week in Israeli political discourse has been whether or not Israel is now completely at the whims of the United States when it comes to the future of Gaza

Genuinely shocked with amount of people who don’t think regime change in Venezuela would go terribly. I have no argument about Maduro being a POS dictator and most of the neighboring states aren’t fans but the idea that the Venezuelan military won’t put up a fight is fucking ridiculous.

It's been 32 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

ENTEN: “.. Trump's at new lows when it comes to economic net approval. .. Q-Pac (-19 pt) & CNBC (-13 pt) find him at the lowest level of either of his presidencies. “.. Also, he's lower than any president at this point in a presidency or 2nd term on record.” @cnn.com @cnbc.com

I've been working with Demos to turn the Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA) Framework into a report that lays out how it can be used to diagnose the state of democracy and build solutions around building the capacity for those functions in institutional and public spaces.

You guys, the person exercising the powers of the presidency is constitutionally disqualified from holding the office and he’s having the White House bulldozed. This is true and it’s happening, right? I’m not dreaming this?

everything the Trump II admin puts out as agitprop:

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Meanwhile Los Angeles news has been running non stop stories blaming the entire Palisades fire on an arsonist. Hint: We’ve always had arsonists, power lines, camp fires etc but they didn’t used to burn down whole cities. This is a level of free Climate denial oil companies must f’n love.

chat it doesn't look good

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Oh, did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Law School too?" More seriously, I've known some lawyers who should've been rational who went off the rails under Trump. Trumpism is a rejection of expertise, rationality, careful thinking, and basic grownup self control. They can't always turn it off

i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"

The most upsetting part of No Country for Old Men to me is when Tommy Lee Jones monologues and his eyes are looking somewhere else and quickly move back and forth. Looks exactly like how my grandad used to look when telling a story and searching for a memory he couldn’t find. What a film.

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

One of the most sickening but important things about writing my copaganda book was digging more deeply into how elite universities are so deeply connected to manufacturing consent among educated liberals for many of the ugliest and most depraved things about our world.

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens. Yes, we are the baddies.

one of my absolute favorite things is when musicians lose their shit at Republicans for appropriating their songs and I am particularly delighted to see Kenny Loggins joining the list

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

i don't noemally care to dunk on grummz but i find it too funny to not point out this is what all the superstonk apes said as well right before promptly losing all their money on gamestop shares lmao

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective. New piece:

They aren't really targeting professors in Texas, are they? Me:

Honestly, all I want out of Star Wars post prequels is a warring states period where creatives and gamers have permission to make their own weird little microfactions. The sequels suck for gaming because they explicitly rule out cool stuff happening anywhere else.

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

The Connecticut "No Kings" protests yesterday were incredible. Peaceful, joyful, and laser-focused on forming a more perfect union for all our friends and neighbors. Here's a rundown of peaceful protests from all corners of the state. Connecticut: still no kings since 1776. ❌👑/

The only important things that happened in the 2024 campaign were that Biden quit & Crooks missed.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

I think part of the problem is how it codes Qanon

DC churches rang their bells in support of protestors today. We must keep those bells of freedom ringing. No Kings

this image is a perfect summation of what using Twitter in 2025 is like

I’ll say this again. This is stupid. Don’t sit in crowds. Don’t sit in front of police thinking they gaf about you. Use your brain before it gets trampled or shot by police.

There are tens of millions of Americans who want to attend a protest but just don’t know how or don’t want to go alone. If you’re planning on attending a protest tomorrow, think about friends or family who might like someone to show them the way.

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too. spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

Ernie Hudson is obviously doing pretty well but you watch Ghostbusters and like Congo and this guy had the juice to be a mega star

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses. “Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].” www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Incarcerated wildfire-fighters in California will now get the federal minimum wage, $7.25 up from $1/hour -- bill just signed by Newsom www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced we are definitely not having any luck with “norms” what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”