"Don't Tread On Me" flag by the guy who gets paid to tread on people is just so quintessentially American

During the oughts there were maybe a million discrete utterances of "we have to fight them over there so we won't have to fight them over here." Fighting over there was always training to fight us domestically. It was always right to oppose the entirety of the US military.

Jesse Welles doing that thing he's really good at

If there's a single undercurrent of our age it's that these miserable conditions are the result of unchecked elite impunity, and the further they continue the harder it becomes to imagine anyone using wealth to cause harm ever facing a consequence for their actions.

liberals need to think long and hard about what these guys consider communism before they start thinking they're safe

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

So the worlds richest man’s fascist bar started doing child porn, so the man he bought the presidency for kidnapped a socialist leader, while hanging out at the place he used to recruit underage girls for Jeffery Epstein!?!?!?

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

"The head of CBS news installed a private telephone line to call the CIA directly and bypass the switchboard" comes off as cartoonish left wing propaganda about the relationship between capitalist intelligence services and corporate media, not a literal fact openly told to Carl Bernstein.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.

California firm Skydio shipped 100s of AI drones to Israel, which battle-tested them in Gaza. Now nearly every big US city has signed up with Skydio and is using the drones to surveil their populations Gaza is the future of how the world will be surveilled & subjugated to violence

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

My book has an essay called “Larry Summers Caused My Eating Disorder,” about how Summers — as the face of the neoliberal Y2K era policy consensus — provided expertise that trashed Russia’s economy, leading indirectly to a massive market for female models who were often exploited, to put it mildly.

Have any Brits speculated yet that Starmer picked Peter Mandleson to be ambassador to the US precisely because his longstanding friendship with Jefferey Epstein was hoped to give him particular camaraderie with Donald Trump?

honestly you aren't mad enough

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny

If your office is on the south side of the Capitol complex you can ignore the following: If Lucy is holding a football, don’t try to kick it. She’s not to be trusted. Thanks.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

You cease, we fire.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Democrats have been moving right on almost every issue for the past half century.

One party wants the destruction of civilization, the other party wants bipartisanship.

Sunday election days make so much more sense than Tuesdays.

Elon’s donating them because he can’t sell the ones he’s building, right?

it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before

how do you even talk about how the policy response to Wall Street gambling off a cliff in 2008 was to essentially earmark billions of fed dollars specifically for the purpose of subsidizing a campaign of mass psychosis inducing fascist propaganda across the entire world polity for a whole generation

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

The idea that you can talk about the economy without talking about immigrants or the climate (never mind climate immigrants) is also mind boggling.

"Everything that Israel has accused the Palestinians of, Israel does as a matter of doctrine," says journalist @jeremyscahill.com, co-founder of @dropsitenews.com.

Who knew witnessing a murder could make you laugh

Leaving aside the existential threat to civilization it poses, if they think immigration is Democrats’ Achilles heel you’d they’d accept the need to cut emissions for that alone.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

the internet is forever enough to hurt you, but not forever enough to help you

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.

No words.

A lot more people should be rooting for the mariners because a mariners World Series appearance is explicitly called out as a requirement to achieve our collective relief from samsara

Since so much of what makes some people feel unsafe in public is visible homelessness and mental health issues, giving everyone healthcare and housing would do more for perceptions of safety than more cops and soldiers and guns.