In a healthy democracy, there would bipartisan Articles of Impeachment on the floor of the House by tonight But we are neither a healthy democracy nor, I would argue—given the end of our separation of powers and our rule of law—a democracy at all anymore

Corina Machado y Trump Jr. En fin 🩸🇻🇪

Hello reactionary centrists 👋

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Manufacturing consent

Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."

the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on

This instant response to this obvious war crime yesterday from the country’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, convicted by Israel in 2007 of supporting terrorism, is horrific, grotesque, revealing: “The fighters acted exactly as is expected from them — terrorists need to die!”

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

you know what? good advice.

Congrats to Dick Cheney on being reincarnated.

This shit is delightful

Video shows Palestinian children in Gaza using inoperative power lines as a swing. Israel has cut off electricity to the enclave since the beginning of its genocidal war.

Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

Former vice president Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. His legacy will far outlive him as the man responsible for wars that have killed and displaced millions abroad; and who worked diligently to lay the groundwork for fascist authoritarianism in the U.S.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is the way

"Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened" www.propublica.org/article/immi...

The bees have discovered Brutalism

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

Most generously considered, what is happening with your Ezra Kleins and even your David Frenches of the world is to attempt to broker a compromise between racists and anti-racists, bigots and anti-bigots that might leave things stable for those who prioritize stability over racism or anti-racism.

For our October issue I wrote about the Roberts Court for its 20th anniversary, how it helped lead us to the current crisis, and what should be done about it:

A master class from the Washington Post in how to normalize the bonkers. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

hey so this is insane

We are trapped in such a stupid moment

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

"Ezra Klein laundering Charlie Kirk’s reputation is just one example of standard media practice for a decade or more, so widespread that it partially laundered an anti-democracy movement, helping bring it into the mainstream and keeping enough people complacent that it took over"

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space. www.wsj.com/business/med...

At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado. This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.

"I have seen people stand frozen in the middle of what used to be a busy intersection, staring at nothing" "Conversations about loss have grown shorter.We talk about bombings like we talk about the weather: today here, yesterday there. The details are lost in the sheer volume of absence"

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

If anything, you can't fault them for not being completely transparent and honest about what their project is

Victor Frankestein has some comments on his work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

With this administration, that only means they’d be even more proud about this lawless murder

"anthropo"cene my ass "We found that the wealthiest 10% contributed 6.5 times more to global warming than the average, with the top 1% and 0.1% contributing 20 and 76 times more, respectively"

"An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...