i stand with the former fbi director slash lesbian detective novelist against our nation’s game show host dictator and his forces of evil (a cartel of faucet manufacturers)

Maybe just more Hegseth idiocy, but if this were happening in another country where an authoritarian leader was trying to consolidate power, we'd be very nervous

More of this, please!

This one hits hard.

Our best hope of survival is that their incompetence may overwhelm their malevolence.

I say often that the goal of disinformation is not to get people to believe the lies, it's to get people to believe they can't believe anything anymore. The flip side of that is that once you've succeeded in the disinformational project, well... Reichstag fires are a lot trickier to light.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Oh hey cool, we switched sides again. Ironically, this makes war with Russia more likely because neither they nor we know where our red lines are and therefore we are more likely to do Bumblefuck 1914.

watched a documentary about the making of megalopolis last night and I really think we should encourage more rich people to spend more time pursuing extremely iconoclastic artistic visions and less time fucking up every workable aspect of society

Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner

I'm not voting for Newsome again, because civil rights aren't negotiable, but his troll game is A+.

Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.

Just in case you were wondering why capital letters are also called "UPPERcase" :)

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

This is bad

Absolutely critical for putting the events of the last 48 hours into context

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

HUGE NEWS: Governor Newsom just signed into law our bill to ban ICE & other law enforcement from wearing ski masks & other extreme masks. The No Secret Police Act (SB 627) will help stop the masked secret police who are kidnapping people in our communities. Show your damn faces.

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

If this goes through, the offshoring will be massive, and large swathes of US software development will be permanently gone.

Trump's corrupt prosecutions of enemies as "retribution" for legitimate fact-based prosecutions of him are really about the core authoritarian goal of erasing the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. This new firing is all about that. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Trump put a $100,000 tariff on people:

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

California isn't backing down on offshore wind power despite Trump cancellation

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Remember when Disney lawyers were supposed to be this invincible force of cataphracts that would bury any opposition, no matter if it was a government or a grief-stricken parent putting Spider-man on their son's grave

A cybertruck for your face

Major media outlets are (surprise) missing the fact that the big networks are being more feckless than usual (Kimmel) in part because they're lobbying the FCC to eliminate some of the last remaining media consolidation limits preventing the big four networks from merging

Dooming is silly. You cannot know what will happen, except for this one thing: if no one fights against what's happening, then it will happen. The only thing to do is to fight against the evil you fear.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Star Trek vs Stargate

A complete collapse of political norms around virtue and ethics since 2016. This celebration of cruelty and violence, and the encouragement of the public to take joy in violence against others, is very unhealthy for society.

One like = one synopsis for the TV show this is a publicity shot for.

This is a really serious problem. prospect.org/health/2025-...

The right wing takeover of basically all social and traditional media is the thing that worries me the most right now. If the Post can fall, any outlet can fall.

This would not be at all surprising. ICE is already empowered and unaccountable and abusive in this environment, but the rigid quotas are turning everything up to 11, even in situations that are counterproductive for the administration.

When John Yoo, the so-called "Torture Lawyer" who drafted memos justifying water boarding and other extreme measure during the Iraq war, says you've gone too far, you've definitely gone too far.

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

RFK's new picks: *a cardiologist who backed using hydroxychloroquine + ivermectin to treat COVID-19 *an epidemiologist who opposed campus COVID-19 vaccine mandates *Marsha Blackburn's daughter-in-law *a semi-retired transplant surgeon *an obstetrician who decried COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Terrific @stevechapman.bsky.social piece on how Trump's gleeful assassination of alleged drug smugglers could unravel international law and norms. www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-sta...

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

stack ranking! everyone loves stack ranking! this will surely help morale issues in the federal government

I hope every mlb team that made tributes, Democratic legislator who flew flags at half staff, and pundit/online-type who scolded people for reminding us of verifiable past statements learns that they just helped them get to this. Your decency can only be used against you now.

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

This is *incredibly* stupid. Piss off your entire customer base, you colossal idiots

I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!