No cherry-picking. No party filter. Just receipts. And a lot of powerful men are terrified right now. KASIE HUNT: “Do you have pictures of people engaged in sexual acts as part of this?” REP. SUBRAMANYAM: “Yes, there are people engaged in sexual acts.” @repsuhas.bsky.social

I’m sure 5-6 influential people can find a way to make it so that not buying ads during a CBS town hall show is a violation of Weiss’s first amendment rights

Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/

How David Stevenson, a guy with a hybrid car and a solar rooftop, helped take down a burgeoning US energy sector.

Folks, the Dem establishment must be culled. They aren't your fighters. They don't care about you. They will not champion reform. Here's Exhibit 429 prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...

NEW: this morning the Trump admin moved to terminate legal status for ~20,000 people: - Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries - Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.

"The world’s military is estimated to produce around 5.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions. This is more than the total emissions of Japan and double that of the worldwide civil aviation sector." www.tni.org/en/publicati...

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡 @atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

Indiana gerrymandering absolutely clobbered

It used to be an impeachable offense. Now it’s a daily occurrence.

once again this is not a real thing Elon Musk is going to actually accomplish, this is a lazy fiction designed to inject the looming Space X IPO with memestock fantasy magic

And this administration will give them it too. They're going to get paid for trying to overthrow the government. Fucking unreal.

Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have. We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.

Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Mediocrity of MAGA If you elect unqualified, corrupt, reckless people, don't be surprised if you win the world's worst prizes. For America, it's a terrible economy, endless scandals, and a white nationalist regime. with @muellershewrote.com open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

74.6% of offenders in cases involving the production of child pornography were White men. www.ussc.gov/sites/defaul...

Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar." fancy that

Went for a brief ramble as the sun set, watching the kite surfers catch their final waves.

The Best and the Brightest.

Alex and Derek King Killed their Father. They beat him to death with a baseball bat in 2001. Ricky Chavis, a family friend, may have helped but was acquitted. Alex King died of a drug overdose in 2024. #magaisevil www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Wg...

Jesse Mack Butler, 18, White Boy Gets Away with Rape. nypost.com/2025/10/22/u... #magaisevil

There's this conceit that Democrats are hopelessly split on housing policy but Elizabeth Warren led a housing supply bill that got buy-in across the party until House Republicans stopped it. It's a problem for these efforts to write progressives out of the party if they're not actually the problem.

In their last poll, Yale Polling drew national attention for documenting the rightward shift among young voters in 2024. Just seven months later, young Americans are now leading the charge against the Trump administration.

The phenomenon of fake PhD student influencers trying to convince young people they should use AI to do work is reeeeeally fucked up. Don’t know if it’s just an emerging grift category for directly seeded by LLM vendors but it’s really insidious and gross.

Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.

The reason I liked the movie Civil War, and thought some missed the point, was that it depicted the miserably chaotic societal breakdown of a civil conflict, in contrast to fantasists’ imagination of what a civil war would look like. Just about anyone who thinks they’d like a real one is wrong.

A fun fact is that the guillotine was originally invented as a, you might say, "woke" reaction to gruesome execution methods by the masculine leadership of the Valois and Bourbon kings of France

"If we have three years of Trump, I wonder whether Putin in particular—but maybe also Xi—thinks this is the time to make the move before the Americans have recovered their understanding of what needs to be done." lnk.thebulwark.com/3KeAwiL

The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Speaking purely in economic terms: at times in Trump 2.0, it’s like these guys want to speed run a pitchforks situation when it comes to AI in particular

Thomas B. Edsall breaks down the right: Postliberals (Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen), The Claremonsters (Michael Anton, Thomas Klingenstein, The Hard Right Underbelly (Curtis Yarvin, Nick Funetes). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city." Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.

Heritage Foundation and their ilk aiming to legalize sex discrimination in employment.

Island in the Attersee https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28508

"And if not, definitely, 2027. And we expect 2028 to be a killer year. 2029, perhaps a little dip. 2030—gangbusters, and just you wait until 2031. You can take that to the bank."

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.

A partial list of Dems to primary 👇

15 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to effectively block the Small Business Administration from issuing new regulations: Cuellar Davis Gillen Golden Gonzalez, V. Gottheimer Gray Landsman Lee (NV) McDonald Rivet Min Perez Ryan Stevens Whitesides

🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access. Here's what to know 👇

Anyway, it's wild that they're spending $2 billion on it www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

What could possibly go wrong. Unfathomably stupid idea

A year later, Trump has disclosed a list of 46 donors who helped pay up to $14 million for his transition to power. Much of the list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to key positions.

Breaking News: President Trump threw the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline rather than electric cars, gutting one of the country’s most significant efforts to address climate change.

This is horrible. Hopefully, Trump and his party will start to pay a political cost for doubling down on fossil fuels, which makes little sense even on purely economic grounds. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/c...

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

More on Emil Bove's transformation from star prosecutor of the Honduran ex-president to apologist for Trump's pardoning of him, by @jonesieman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...