Just chatted with a close friend, someone who's been organizing more than 20 years and who has been on the very front lines of tracking the rise of the alt-right online. She's in a neighborhood Signal group. Many are forming around here. They can be a bit..chaotic. Well today...

Bro sounding like Charlie Kirk right before he got shot

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

Elon Musk has publicly claimed he never visited Epstein's island and barely knew the man. New documents show Musk emailing Epstein in Dec 2013: "Is there a good time to visit?" Epstein: "always space for you" This was 5 years after Epstein's 2008 conviction and sex offender registration.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

is it also the best way to farm clout as an "objective journalist"?

The best way to farm clout as a leftist is to pull a Hasan and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a centrist is to pull a Bari and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a conservative is to pull a Charlie and say Dems suck. The best way to farm clout as a fascist is, you guessed it,

Lemon's arrest should be a wake up call to the access addicted narcissists that make up the vast majority of political journalists in this country.... but it won't.

Evergreen

Gege showed up to watch the fight lol #JJK

That nearly four minute static shot of Yuji and Hakari had more frames than One Punch Man S3 amirite amirite #JJK

Looking forward to JJK fans being extremely normal (laudatory) about Kirara tomorrow and dreading JJK fans being extremely normal (derogatory) about Kirara tomorrow

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.

You can argue over whether Obama or Biden is first but you have to go a very long ways back to contest either. Trump? lol Bush Jr? lol Clinton? Underrated imho but lol Bush Sr? lol Reagan? lol Carter? come on dawg Ford? lol Nixon? lolllllll LBJ? okay. you have to be at least 57

Word has gone out in conservative internal communication channels to present the post Pretti moment as a sea change "pivot" moment. "Feds are now cooperating with local law enforcement" is one of the talking points.

I think the defining quality of Bari Weiss media is her insistence on the need for dramatic change or bold action - followed by a parade of the most aged, tired, impossibly dull figures or ideas, except they’re also always underqualified amateurs or cranks.

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

Judge so and so IS NOT PLAYING AROUND. Judge whatshisname HAS RUN OUT OF PATIENCE. And every time they’ve done fuck all

this is where my "democrats need to understand the press hates them" messaging comes into play because the press is gonna be running Reconciler In Chief Comeback Kid shit by thursday

BlueSky mods will just let people openly post any sort of cognitohazard huh

If only the Tsar knew!

If Signal is "compromised" because untrustworthy people can join the chat and pass on information to the authorities, then in person organizing is also "compromised" because untrustworthy people can join the meeting and pass on information to the authorities.

You don’t hate the press enough

Now we need to go into the circumstances to determine what this portends for the outcome

The Seahawks ran for 75 yards. The defense gave up 27 points. They basically needed all of Darnold's 346 yards and 3 TDs with no big mistakes and he did it. For this game, they won because of him, not just with him

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

The statement from Alex Pretti’s parents is just “tell the government to stop telling smirking, transparent lies about why it killed our son” which feels like a new low for our nation. This president and his toadies have brought us to our knees and must be driven out

Glory to the martyrs who defend the republic

Truth and reconciliation commissions have usually involved not prosecuting the ppl who have engage in atrocities. We need prosecution. The ppl responsible for this violence need to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Staying in the GOP is a choice and at this point speaking out is not enough.

Everyone who stays in the GOP is choosing this and should be viewed as a supporter of extrajudicial murder of dissenters unless they leave the party.

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

If Abolish ICE gives you the vapors, just call it the Bill Kristol doctrine. Sounds moderate to me!

Our media betters told us she was one of the good ones

QTs really demonstrating how the BlueSky literacy crisis is an ongoing problem. Anyways, "Democratic Youth Wave PAC" seems to be a scam org that does nothing except fundraise money that it doesn't spend on actual electoral activities.

We’re here because the judiciary from the top on down sabotaged any attempts to hold their special boy accountable in any way They failed us completely.

Jake Tapper and his cop loving son are grateful to Our First Responders for getting this dangerous man off our streets

every democrat needs to be prepared that every interview they give on every network might be the last time they're ever allowed on it

journalists know the things you're telling them, they're doing this on purpose because they hate us and they're rooting for ICE to win

stop assuming they don't know how to do their jobs and start realizing they just disagree with us on what their jobs are

This is one of those things that in another administration couldve been a months long scandal if the media wanted it to be. call it AgentGate. What did Bondi know and when did she know it? Weeks of opinion pieces etc etc.

The JJK literacy crisis continues into its second week

Time to check the Trending tab for the latest on "California Politics" and "The Traitors"

414.2 gallons of milk is barely enough to feed my family for a week Thanks Joe Biden

for those that don't think the media's coverage of politics tangibly affects individual decision-making, here's a guy whose life has been ruined by believing his phone's news app