The secret police stage of fascism has arrived.

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

haha oh geez wow what a thing to ask for

Sure, if by "future" you mean "death."

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

One of these days Wilhoit's Law is going to get the credit it deserves. Every question about Republican hypocrisy in the face of their stated principles is answered by this one simple observation.

One of these days Wilhoit's Law is going to get the credit it deserves. Every question about Republican hypocrisy in the face of their stated principles is answered by this one simple observation.

The more I think about this the more I think it's correct. The Trump administration is using the Kurdish separatist movement as a scapegoat in their rhetoric against antifa, possibly via Erdogan weaponizing his relationship with Trump to further persecute them.

what the fuck

Hmm... Noem claims antifa is "as sophisticated as ISIS" while Trump plans to classify them as a *foreign* terrorist organization. I suspect they're using YPG as the basis for these claims. Trump already screwed them in term 1 and he's been cozying up to Erdogan lately; I think he's going after them.

Hmm... Noem claims antifa is "as sophisticated as ISIS" while Trump plans to classify them as a *foreign* terrorist organization. I suspect they're using YPG as the basis for these claims. Trump already screwed them in term 1 and he's been cozying up to Erdogan lately; I think he's going after them.

So now Trump is using the shutdown to argue that they shouldn't have to meet court deadlines to file status reports.

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs. They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun. That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

Tankies love to pretend they're students of history while being willfully ignorant of it, even (especially?) as it relates directly to them.

Need Mayor Brandon and Guv JB to start getting petty. Daily inspections of the Trump Hotel kitchen, elevators, pipes, whatever ….perhaps the street in front needs to be torn up for repair, the former happening much quicker than the latter.

Trump wants to export America's gun problem to the rest of the world.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

My fear is that Democrats are going to win in 2026 (assuming fair elections, etc.) *despite* their shitty centrist "kitchen table" messaging and assume their shitty messaging is what won the day.

The lesson for Democrats of the last four years is that if you don't use power when you have it, your opponents will happily use it instead

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.

It feels incredibly ironic to be attacked by tankies when I have an actual 1932 SPD poster as my profile picture (currently modified to show solidarity with Ukraine against Russia). Have any of you children ever even read any history? FFS

JFC Bluesky desperately needs a tankie blocklist to match the MAGA one. I didn't leave one toxic cesspool just to join another. It's mostly pretty good here as long as you don't run into the hornets' nest by daring to have an opinion that fails their purity tests.

When it comes time for Trump's goons to frog-march the staff of the New York Times out of the newsroom and off to jail, will the Times describe it as "an impromptu relocation based on a policy dispute over press freedom”?

Tankies be like "anyone who doesn't like tankies must be a far right MAGA," because they're incredibly stupid children who will never have an ounce of political power in the US. Ever.

Republicans: It's not a gift to Trump personally, it's a gift to the DoD! Also Republicans:

the Batman Forever leather nipples costume, because criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot who are also uncomfortable with their sexuality

Oh, shit - DHS has precogs now!

New resistance strategy just dropped:

Holy crap, Elon Musk's piece of crap AI is going to get people killed. It's telling people that the Hawaii tsunami warning has been cancelled because no waves arrived. The waves aren't even supposed to get there for nearly another 4 hours!

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

MAGA's brains have been so utterly broken by Trump's constantly shifting stories on Epstein that they're actually calling Trump himself fake news in a very confused attempt to defend him.

So over at the hellsite, Grok is now just making up studies and authors to cite. I was fact checking a community note proposed by MAGA that linked to a Grok conversation and couldn't find one of its citations, so I asked about it. It admitted it made the whole thing up.

In a shocking turn of events, Elon Musk's Grok is completely incapable of detecting extremely obvious AI-generated fake images.

Trump: "I'm issuing an order to put people with mental health issues in camps" MAGA: "liberalism is a mental disease" Also MAGA: "trans people are mentally ill" It's not hard to see where this is going.

So now the US is directly violating Canada's sovereignty to kidnap Canadian citizens. This seriously borders (no pun intended) on being an act of war.

Seriously, wtaf is wrong with these people?

Elon just locked my Twitter account because I replied to a post saying that Borax was banned because it can remove fluoride from our bodies and suggesting that drinking Borax is a good way to do that. I merely suggested that they should follow through. 🤷‍♂️

Trump on Afghan allies in the UAE facing deportation back to Afghanistan: "I will try to save them!" Trump on Afghan allies in the US: "I'm deporting them back to Afghanistan!"

Reverse psychology > 4d chess

Correcting a previous post: Recall that in June, Trump issued an executive order that allowed the VA to deny care to unmarried women. This is all of a piece with Republicans' war on women and I wouldn't be surprised to see other red states following suit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rep. Crockett for Speaker

we had a whole debate on this in the 1860s and ended up bayoneting to death the people who thought that some classes of people did not deserve equality before the law. Just something to consider, you know. In the abstract.