clickbait headlines like this are not helpful: "Will we have elections in 2026?"

Monstrous

Heritage Foundation having a normal one www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I see words are losing their meaning again.⚖️👇🏾 #truthiness

There are now cement trucks entering the White House construction site, which is not what you'd expect for a project that hasn't been reviewed by anyone yet. The White House has previously said no NCPC approvals are needed yet because they're just doing demo, not construction.

Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't it be a news story when the president is posting AI videos of himself without disclosure - either he's trying to deceive people or he's reposting AI content without knowing these are fake videos of him www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Seems bad either way...

One of the most chilling things about this story is that some did not even know it was ICE. They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter. Think on that for a minute.

Under late Biden a clip like this would have been a five alarm fire (rightfully!)

Every labor lawyer with a pulse is hitting up Heritage folks on LinkedIn right now

Their survey data here www.collectivemetrics.org/deepfakes-an...

Dec 2024 - Costa Rican man crosses into U.S. Feb. 2025 - ICE detains him. He talks to his family daily. June - He disappears. Aug - His family finally finds him detained and in a vegetative state. Sept. - He's air ambluenced home. Oct. 26th - He dies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Incredible; I can't believe this really happened. The books are going to be Theranos-level bonkers. "Several former Neom employees likened the working culture to the atmosphere in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes."

Terrifying Kinsley gaffe

Trump posting AI videos of himself is... something truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Another one bites the dust

T admin death count

quintessential fox news chyron. zero notes. ht @ndrew.bsky.social

Someone this old and so obviously in ill health who gets this confused about things that matter would not be allowed to hold a job with responsibility in any other part of American society.

Friends don't let friends call it Newsweek. Misleads people my age and older. Call it Zombie Newsweek.

A verb, a noun, and unrepentant bigotry

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Pathetically craven even by FIFA standards

I was expecting somebody to invent their own Nobel Peace Prize to give Trump, I just didn't expect it to be freaking FIFA bsky.app/profile/pbsn...

It’s crazy how the entire national platform from discretionary spending to diplomacy has become a series of make-a-wish projects for a senile octogenarian.

Fascinating economics job market paper by Jens Oehlen on the effects of Enigma codebreaking and how it interacted with military/intelligence strategy jensoehlen.github.io/uploads/Enig...

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

That a judge has to order this in the United States in 2025 …

The Istanbul jaunts are, um, about to dry up

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

Sad to see yet another lawmaker - Rep. Jared Golden in this instance - citing threats against their loved ones as an impediment to their continued public service.

Bad day at the office for the Solicitor-General. SCOTUS is now hearing from the other side arguing the whole shebang is unconstitutional.

Holy shit: Roberts took major questions out of the freezer!

A case in point. These issues aren't all powerful, but people are just mirror-imaging the over-claiming after the last election.

I can't believe this is real life

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team Details TK

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

"While high-quality content is posted more and receives more total engagement across platforms...a given author attracts higher levels of engagement when they post lower-quality content" "pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"

Great example of how election-to-election swings are almost always close to uniform. “Realignments” (uneven shifts in support) are almost always slow and accumulate but only over many years. (Mayhew 2002)

"The results, then, are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands." @jamellebouie.net this morning: [🎁]

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

Our aspiring dictator once again expresses his envy of a real one

Just pausing for a moment on 'you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID" like wow free country, gotta show your papers to get fucking cereal

"Republicans had held a supermajority in the Senate since sweeping the state government in 2011." Remains underrated how national polarization is wrecking party competition at the state level (which is needed!).

So much D over-claiming about last night. Bingo card: -"This proves we have to {do what I wanted to do anyway}" -"{A winning D} supported {position on which Ds are vulnerable} therefore it doesn't matter" -"{A losing R} used {issue/tactic on which Ds are vulnerable} therefore it doesn't matter"