This is so upsetting!

I don't follow keypto nonsense, why is Bitcoin crashing?

yeah, yeah, and the terror alert's gonna get raised to maroon, you won't do shit

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

‼️ Russia: “Authorities in Novosibirsk, the largest metropolis in Asian Russia with a population of 1.6 million, have decided to freeze spending on road works amid a worsening situation in the regional budget” 🍿 (I told you to watch the regional budgets) ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/04/v...

The plan seems to be pretty clear actually: Steal the oil Sell the stolen oil and keep the proceeds in an offshore slush fund Use threat of violence to keep the Chavinista government in check Lol that's it, lmao

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Although to be fair, these people nowhere near as self-aware.

Nobody in this world is as evil as Russians. Nobody.

Trump doesn't give a fuck about Ukraine and loves Putin. This is him making excuses for russia's breaking of an agreed on truce and attacking Kyiv's energy infrastructure on a day when it's -25 outside.

1. FAFO 2. Ofcourse he was driving a big ass truck, ofcourse 3. Grown ass man attacking a teenage girl, pathetic 4. Hope the kids press charges 5. So glad he caught all those hands 6. Hitler youth-ass haircut

What's Q up to these days anyway?

This is Noam Chomsky talking about Cambodian refugees accurately describing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge that they’d escaped from. This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Sh*un King trying to cozy up to conservative fascists. Briahna Joy Gray spouting anti-semitic talking points. Noam Chomsky kicking it with white supremacists and pedophiles. The 2010's internet left has fully horse shoed.

Trump shit himself in the oval office (around the 33 second mark) and had to call off the press conference. What a time to be alive! Anyway, would be a shame if more people saw this. A damn shame. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6k...

if you need a good laugh - at 33 seconds you can hear Trump shit himself. look at the woman in green’s face around that time youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?...

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

it has been clear for months

This video is a tour de force in science communication, righteous indignation and political messaging (somehow). Well, well worth a watch, yes the entire 90 minutes. My god, what a stem-winder, bravo! youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...

These people have been put through hell over nothing. At least they're free now. How many less publicized cases are there, that are just as egregious?!

War crimes do not justify war crimes. Especially not if it’s unrelated actions from decades ago, by different people from different regimes, used to justify atrocities today. Nobody is forcing Russia to commit horrible crimes just because someone else did, does, or might do something bad too. 4/5

For years, an online meme phrase spread in the Ukrainian segment of internet, saying that a pedophile lobby was working against Ukraine. Seeing how many anti-Ukrainian figures show up in the Epstein files, from US elites to officials in Slovakia, it no longer feels like a joke

This genuinely reminds me of Kherson when russia first occupied it. Thousands of people came out in peaceful protest of russian occupation, and were violently dispersed with tear gas. ICE is acting like an occupier in American cities.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks. Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.

This is why I am frustrated when someone like Jamelle Bouie (otherwise an incredibly smart and perceptive observer) under plays Trump's ability to steal the midterms. It's not binary. You don't have to have ICE shutting down every voting location in a state for the elections to be compromised.

I talked with Applebaum before the new year, and even before the current raids on election administration offices in Georgia. Even then, it was clear that 2026 was the year Trump would go after election administration, which makes the midterms incredibly important.

If it feels bad, that's because IT IS bad.

Next time choose *not* to get played.

I do think Iran would be the one place where Trump's reckless belligerence could actually do some good. Which is why I don't think he'll do it.

The government arresting journalists and killing civilians who record them is TEXTBOOK FASCISM.

Bezos is still investing in the part of the paper that makes money. Not money for the paper, mind you, but money for Bezos via favorable regulatory treatment

“In theater.” In. Theater. In. Theater. They want so desperately to be cool tactical soldier dudes that they’ll wage war on America itself to make that silly, childish fantasy a reality.

Russia seized a major Moscow airport (4th busiest, according to Wiki) and then just auctioned it off. They tried to get 132bn rub, ended up getting 61bn rub. I wonder if this will be booked as direct revenue for the state, helping to reduce the budget deficit?

As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

You really had to be there in 2007 and 2008 to fully grok how demoralizing and humiliating Obama's post-presidency has been. Shit sucks man.

These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely. They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them

Powerful stuff. Shades of Maidan.

I just assume most eulogies and wedding speeches are generated by chat gpt now because it’s largely well meaning people who have been sold on the idea that this is a tool to help you do “a good job,” when the actual point of you being up there is to say what you’re feeling even if it’s clumsy.

Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me

I'm gonna make a database of people who are kind, generous, and good in bed and make sure everyone knows.

This is quite the thread.

Anti-lockdown “protesters” inside the Michigan capital building 2020.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.