Senate Dems often like to say “well in private our Republican colleagues are critical of Trump.” But that’s the performative part! The standing and clapping for attacks on Dems, that is what their Senate Republican colleagues actually believe!

one of the basic problems of prediction markets that our brilliant economists clearly have not thought through is that the insider trading poisons basically everything in public life. everything is potentially untrustworthy, a set-up. the fix is always in.

I spent years as a county prosecutor. I'm also a victim of childhood sexual abuse, rape, and sex trafficking by my own father and the men he sold me to. So when I read this NYT op-ed wringing its hands about the Epstein files release, I had some quick *thoughts.* 🧵 1/x

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Torture man given a safe harbor at one of the most prestigious law schools and universities in the land says WHAT?

So Savannah Guthrie had to cancel travelling to Italy to cover the Olympics for NBC because of her mom’s kidnapping and the director of the FBI, who hasn’t solved the case, went to Italy to party with the U.S. hockey team. Concerning!

As promised, forewarned, I have written about my most recent rewatch of DEADWOOD. I think it is one of the most profound, sophisticated, and relevant works of art in recent American history. To the 8 of you hoopleheads who will actually find this interesting, I hope you enjoy.

Found some cool clouds. Thought you'd like them.

now liberals please gather round, so we can walk you through the alternatives to “just voting.” this here is called Direct Action.

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

State of Florida's new mandate for public college Intro Sociology curriculum: "The following should not be included in any course content... "Discussions arguing a causal association between institutional sexism and unequal outcomes between men and women" Indoctrination, not education nor science

Cartoon by David Horsey

The administration is anti-democratic and seeking to facilitate a global fascist movement. That’s what this is about. The United States is now trying to incite unrest around the western world to unravel democracy. We have become a…very grave threat to the free world.

hahaha seriously though we should charge these people as child sex traffickers

Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.

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One way to identify right-wing dominance of the US media environment: This is much more direct, egregious government censorship than the biggest claims of the “Twitter Files”—including ones they made up that had no evidence behind them—and will get a small fraction of the attention and outrage.

This is actually fucking vile Like it’s not just stupid or offensive, it is appalling behavior on so many levels and should be professionally disqualifying

I'm sorry* to all the men who think I should stick to archaeology and not discuss politics ever. *literally go fuck broken glass, I am so tired of you policing women on the internet

Lying under oath used to come with some form of repercussion.

Allow me to suggest that it is extremely poor form for a journalist to dissemble about why they're stepping down from a position of public trust, especially by using a hoary old chestnut of a lie routinely indulged in by the people he covers.

We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

Look, I'm going to be very clear as someone who does interviews every once in a blue moon. Putting people's "ums" in a quote is malicious.

Never not once. They sanitize his remarks every time he speaks to make them appear incoherent. This is high school level bitchiness.

"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health. The risks are so immediate and constant that it can be difficult to keep track of them all." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Has anyone from Bluesky said yet whether they’re getting these subpoenas for user data from the Trump regime?

i remember when certain people were saying hanania had gone to the left with a straight face

basically going to need a "people want art" miracle to make ends meet this month. that sucks. kind of a lot.

This is simply evil for evil's sake and everyone involved in doing this to these poor children should die at the end of a rope and burn in Hell for all eternity.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

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Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.

The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.

@aliciamenendez.bsky.social ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” No longer catching illegal criminals, now militarized to go after lawful citizens exercising free speech.

Minneapolis was economically devastated by Operation Metro Surge, writes James Beard-winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman, suffering $10-$20 million in weekly losses. "This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congres...

People who speak like this under oath to our elected Representatives in the People’s House should face actual legal & professional consequences

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Last week, Education Minnesota, the Minnesota teachers union, filed a FEDERAL LAWSUIT against Kristy Noem, DHS, and ICE to stop the government from terrorizing students. Did you hear about? Probably not. We need to uplift their bravery. Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...

If the hype were true, practical use would be self-evident and the companies involved would not be trying to shove it into literally every possible aspect of consumer tech regardless of consumer desire, nor would the biggest hype men be the same people involved with crypto and NFTs.

Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others

Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it: Testilying. Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

“The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election," says @markwarner.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Probably unfair to rats to compare Libertarians to rats fleeing a sinking ship here

What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent. This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...

Shocked. Shocked, I say, to find that Abundance is, in fact, a smuggle for tech fascism. Courtesy @levernews.com