Our information space is dominated by a system that demands and rewards continous and immediate emotional gratification, so you can't even begin to have a discussion about complex issues. It's a bright cancer that spreads and multiplies with every interaction.

Why MAGA Influencers Are Masquerading As Americans on X nymag.com/intelligence... this has been known for over a decade—but data won’t change behavior because it is STILL what is cited by media & folks in politics. Until journos & politicians don’t use it, Musk, Trump & Putin control the discourse…

Lmaooo dude deal with the fact that the only truly right-coded things are pedophilia, racism, misogyny, and stupidity and not necessarily in that order

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Or. Online.

Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump's pardon entitled him to multi-million dollar reparations.

Dear God. “Why are you guys so obsessed with the President of the United States being part of a massive child rape ring?”

In case you'd been wondering why Trump rolls over for Putin at every turn:

The Iron Law of Trump is "No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse" and it's never failed once.

Oh well! Too bad! Maybe you shouldn't have used the last 10 months waging war on the citizens of this country and kneecapping Congress and whining to the SCOTUS every time you don't get what you want. Fuck off and eat a dick

Unprecedented corruption - not just monetizing the presidency by selling branded products, but selling those products directly to government employees and having the Department of Homeland Security promote them to the media

How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country flip.it/cTKbOy

Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait. It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists. As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.” But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻

Cosplay Noem is warning against the dangers of non-citizens driving on our nation’s highways.* *Noem has over 20 citations for speeding plus tickets for ignoring stop signs and traffic lights and improperly registered vehicles. 🚗

Here's WHY this is happening. This false view of Dem policies/issues is a RghtWng talking point. And MSMedia, which pundits consume, is dominated by RWng talking pnts. Bc MSM execs hire RWngers to appease the RWngers who work the refs Ppl believe what's repeated en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusor...

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically. Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

For more on hybrid cognitive war tactics: Danyk and Briggs (2023) digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

It’s really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way. linktr.ee/gildedrage

One great thing to see at the Cincinnati #NoKings rally was lots of people engaging with local organizations that had tables – there were political organizers, labor unions, charitable organizations, human rights groups. Looking for a next step? Reach out to your local organizations.

East Wing of the White House gets torn down without approval and not a peep from Republicans. Tear down a confederate statue, though, and you’re “destroying history!” Kinda tells you what side they’re still on.

From opposing Putin to raising funds for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, this is the digital footprint of one Russian man with a shifting political ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico). In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

New in PN: Trump's invasion "The Trump administration’s war on cities just entered a new, more terrifying phase. What stage of fascism is it when the president defies a court order and sends troops into a city anyway? Because as of Sunday, that’s where we’re at."

On Mar 21, 1933, Hitler issued an Amnesty (Straffreiheit) to all his followers who had previously been arrested and punished for their involvement in street fights—in order to secure their involvement in a new series of confrontations the NSDAP was organizing in opposition-loyal parts of the country

In case anyone was unclear where Dear Leader gets his decorating ideas from, here he is in Leningrad in 1987.

In a new paper, we find that sycophantic #AI chatbots make people more extreme--operating like an echo chamber Yet, people prefer sycophantic chatbots and see them as less biased Only open-minded people prefer disagreeable chatbots: osf.io/preprints/ps... Led by @steverathje.bsky.social

This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.

Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.

US attorney Michele Beckwith was fired after telling Border Patrol chief Bovino not to stop people indiscriminately & emailing him that “compliance with court orders & the Constitution” was required. Shortly thereafter her work cell phone & computer stopped working. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Kirk was not a politician, he never ran for office, never worked for communities, sacrificed heroically nor did he create important policy or scholarly political theories. He was a millionaire soc med/pop cult propagandist for white christian supremacy. so why would he get hero treatment

oh we're live this week's decision letting Trump unilaterally cancel $20 billion in congressional funding for climate projects is a new and egregious example of conservative judges building a pseudolegal house of cards to shelter Trump's brazenly illegal acts ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/clima...

It’s Putinism — no one anywhere can be free because my people might get ideas

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The core problem isn’t that Trump can’t do math & doesn’t understand what it means to “cut prices” by more than 100% — rather, it’s that there are people who actually believe this can be true & an entire political movement & media ecosystem that encourage it.

It was only a matter of time:

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

Both sides news coverage is killing democracy and there is no place where it is more dangerous that in how legacy media covers the GOP attacks on free and fair elections. For my latest and to access all Democracy Docket premium content, sign-up now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

New in PN: What happened to "states' rights"? "Republicans are realizing the dystopian fantasy they daydreamed about not long ago. They act as if government exists only to advance their own interests, and they dismiss any law or court ruling that hinders their far-right agenda."

Understand the Republican Party is all about loyalty tests now. Every outrage is an opportunity to reinforce the dominance of the In group and filter out anyone suspected of disloyalty. They don't need to believe anything that's happening is right, they just need to prove loyalty again and again.

“Fascists are ultimately cannibals. They inevitably eat their own.” @wajali.bsky.social writes about the very public breakup of Trump and Musk, breaking down a day of petty threats and insults–tap link in bio to read and bring some popcorn!

Where to even begin with this?

Ignoring calls for a May 12 ceasefire, Russian forces launched 108 strike drones and decoy UAVs at Ukraine overnight. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The last on-duty homicide of a detention and deportation officer was 1949. The last time there was even a non-COVID death on duty was 2016, when an officer had a heart attack during a foot pursuit. Before that, a training accident in 2003, then a fall down an elevator shaft at a jail in 1975.