I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Century of humiliation

I think what editorial people in the media need to understand is that it’s a lot more subversive nowadays to say people need to take care of one another than it is to say that everyone should be a dickhead

Holy shit

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

The Beautiful Game

Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

Trump is raising taxes on working people in order to lower the top tax rates on high income earners. His own economic advisors admit it, openly. Will the media tell voters this fact or will they steelman a more appealing, imaginary rationale.

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

the entire political project of the american right is to create a hierarchy with protected in-groups and punished out-groups. there is no moral nor political upside in meeting them half way on any of those out-groups. the only people in a bubble are those who deny that hierarchy is their agenda

Many Dem consultants urge adopting bad GOP positions. Better to adopt proven GOP tactics. Republicans made issues out of nothing through repetition and outrage. A national security breach implying many more (Signal? Not DoD comms?) must be made into an issue by Dems. It won't just become one.

[with great and aeon-scoured weariness] but her emails

This is exactly as bleakly hilarious as you would expect At Kennedy Center, Trump envisions remaking Honors, suggests he could host www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

The Democrats losing voters so young they hardly remember Obama spending the SOTU response waxing poetic about Reagan, who was President 40 fucking years ago, is exactly how we got here.

“We obstruct everything until Elon Musk is gone” is a clear message about an unpopular figure who is doing unpopular things

I still don’t understand why Democrats would negotiate a budget when the Trump administration claims unilateral authority to cancel any spending it dislikes. As long as congressional Republicans endorse that position, they are not legitimate negotiation partners! An agreement with them has no value!

I think multiple elected officials just nonchalantly being like “Elon Musk is not a government employee and has zero authority so his words are basically toilet paper” would probably result in one of the most epic public breakdowns and illegal threats against federal officials we’ve ever seen

It’s not the fucking bird flu. That would cause some price fluctuations, but not a lot. It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.

DC! Join me today at 5:30 pm eastern. Stand up and fight back against the bulldozing of our rights and services. The federal government is working people providing services for working people. This is our government and our money. “Waste” is war and forced poverty.

A whole lot of incumbent Democrats in DC are simply not up to this moment and need to be both (1) shamed into whatever action we can get from them and (2) removed at the soonest opportunity.

Wrote about this recently. I sincerely believe Musk wants to be emperor of the world, and no I don’t think that’s hyperbole.

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

CGI in commercials peaked with the Capri Sun liquid metal kids, everything since then looks like trash

MORE BARGING

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

every word of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

It’s kind of like Musk did an LBO of America and is in the process of paying himself out of its revenues and saddling it with the debt he incurred to acquire it as he strips it for parts, and Trump is just the embodiment of fully captured regulatory authority.

“Free speech warrior” Musk believes that opposing him is breaking the law. He also freely amplifies lies about people he wants to disparage. He also believes that “criminals”, including US citizens, should be deported for foreign penal colonies. Oppose him with all you got now, when we still can.

this is complete ethnic cleansing and genocide. untold horrors are about to begin, across the entire world. america is driving ybe earth into a complete death drive

Why the hell did I just get a WaPo alert about that same weird pro-natalist couple with the glasses?? In 2025???

You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

Made my calls to my senators to tell them to vote against Vought at OMB and to gum up the works. Both inboxes were full (which I take as a good sign) so I called the local offices. Also gave a call to Rep Beyer to thank him for bringing attention to USAID today. It's not much, but it's something.

rally at 5 PM on Tuesday at the Treasury Department

This is the guy who defeated AOC for the Oversight position. He has cancer. Someone needs to be doing this job. Now.

Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...

"For all its factual value as a label, you might just as accurately call R.F.K. Jr. an esquilax."

Jake Paul should have to fight all of these guys before he gets to fight Tyson.

The Tyson-Paul Fight is actually to see who becomes HUD Secretary

the dems on the ethics committee should just leak the report

Here’s my pitch: the Democrats should take a few million dollars and fund free childcare centers and bowling nights in swing districts resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-...