"Hernández boasted that he would 'stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses' while trafficking more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. "Trump freed him, saying, 'If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail'..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

What's funny about this is that the ADL and the AJC and the president's conference are always complaining to BDS types: "Why are you singling out Israel?" Now they demand that Mamdani singles out Israel (and the Times plays along).

taking this stupid, tortured analogy seriously for a moment, the american people gave the republican party an exclusive two-year contract to handle extermination duties. you're mad at the exterminator you didn't hire because they're not doing the job you hired someone else to do.

is it, and yet the last Democratic administration probably had the best LatAm policy in our country's history and now we have...this

Have you considered that when Kamala Harris was asked whether American military should exist in some form she answered “yes I think so”? Dems own this just as much as Mr Trump.

Fixed it.

elon musk knows about the sexual harassment and CSAM generating bot he’s created and he likes it and endorses it! pedocon rapist theory

I think this is true historically, but not necessarily in perpetuity. A charismatic progressive could strike a "Get a look at these dumb assholes" tone with media, and have them eating it up. The Democratic party just has too many Zero-Riz dinosaurs in it, but maybe that's changing/will change soon.

One funny thing Elon Musk figured out about the media is if, instead of providing comment to reporters, you email back an automated reply saying "go fuck yourself," the reporters will just invent their own plausible-sounding defense of your conduct to balance their stories instead of punishing you

We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside

i do find it a fascinating assumption rightwingers are making that they should be able to walk into any daycare center and observe random peoples children whenever they want

So the only aspects of this fraud case Republicans are lying about are: - who committed it - the $ involved - what the Biden DoJ did about it - that it’s ongoing - that it’s widespread In other words, everything

"He stole people that worked for me," Trump initially said, when explaining why he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2003. It was unsettling and incredible on multiple levels. This reporting is much more unsettling, and much more credible

Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.

Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?

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"

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

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

The defense is essentially stranding him alone out there, this would be like a 4-2 Devils or worse if there weren't a brick wall in the Thompson family tree somewhere

If you're wondering how the Capitals are leading in this game, Logan Thompson has stopped 29 of 30 shots through the first two periods.

I love this, but I also want a movie where the FMC took a job in a small town at the Local Niche Industry, but goes home to the Big City she’s from, and rediscovers the joys of a decent Vietnamese restaurant, live theatre, and falling in love with someone who doesn’t give you shit about high school.

Reminds me of this under-resourced Ukrainian army officer who, nevertheless, described successfully terrorizing a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." Someone commented, saying, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

I can't wait to recreate the meme in reverse. every naval engagement from 2043 onwards gonna be like The USS Sword Of The God-Emperor vs. fifteen identical copies of the PLAN '我们昨天建造了它' supplied by a ship that does nothing but make hot pot for the other ships

The DOJ is continuing to redact more mentions of Donald Trump found in the Epstein files. On the left the original version, on the right today’s version. Source: justice.gov/multimedia/C... #OpDeathEaters

On the other hand, WAR for a +13 Dem seat is supposed to be used to not run up the score but to shave the margin and elect someone more to the left, not the center! But this just keeps going to show those guys don't understand what politics actually is and why it exists.

He's lying. How do we know? Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.

NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Just wanted to note a small scale bit of Trump corruption that y’all may have missed. There’s been a project to restore some historic golf courses in Washington DC, some of which were designed in the early golden age of golf /1

I sure would like to see the Virginia General Assembly legalize balcony solar in 2026. Let people buy a $100 solar panel at Costco, plug it into an outlet on their porch, and make electricity. Germany does it. Utah does it. Virginia can do it too.

Elbridge Colby spent years shouting: “Japan must be explicit about its Taiwan role!” Japan: makes clearest statement in its history China: furious Trump administration: enters monk-like vow of silence That Nobel Prize for Strategic Self-Silencing? Colby himself could present it.

This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

beyond a certain point, every auth-leftist is materialist except for their list of the Bad Ethnicities Which Stopped Communism from Happening. if you are a ML, you also know Russian slurs for every non-Russian Eastern European ethnicity and the word "gusano."

I think it’s really funny when people who purport to be experts in the Middle East do not know anything about Lebanon

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

Tom Wilson getting ready for the second period

I agree with this passage, but of course the actual people destroying merit are the ones who put Pete Hegseth in charge of the Pentagon

In nine years of conservative judicial power, the Supreme Court has, once again, read the 14th Amendment out of the Constitution

Like make them fucking fire you, the moral cowardice of the modern American officer corps knows no bounds

USA would be the leader in 5G right now with no one anywhere close to them, if they hadn’t denied a visa for one Chinese guy. Instead he ended up working for China, and those devices are an actual serious threat to security

Cons of the neocon true believers: they were willing to kill for constitutional democracy. Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

The NYT and the Washington Post are simply ignoring the rapidly growing constitutional crisis in the White House. Almost nothing in their news coverage or opinion sections. They are as culpable as anyone in this.

The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.