I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

Apocalyptic ravings of mad man Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel … he is looney tunes

Em-Bear-assment #bears

"Smooth segue from gambling to the pope." Scott Van Pelt with a transition you don't hear a lot on Monday Night Countdown.

The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms and basements as explosions ring out overhead.

📄 NEW: The Trump-Musk conflict represents a much larger set of interests that runs from Kyiv to Los Angeles, and will become a major issue as Russia struggles to achieve its strategic war goals. My latest. america2.news/the-trump-mu...

President #Zelenskyy congratulated #Ukrainians on Vyshyvanka Day. "Every pattern in a Ukrainian vyshyvanka holds the strength of our lineage, our traditions, our history. The strength of many people, thanks to whom all of us are alive."

The 21st century in one cartoon

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

LMFAO

Really good night for Dems. Rs passed the WI voter ID amendment, but it didn't - as they hoped - transform turnout for Schimel. Ds hold WI court, hold WI superintendent of public instruction, flip a number of mayoral offices in IL. Rs hold FL House seats but margin down by half since 2024.

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This was aired on Russia TV on Jan 28, 2025, before Ka$$ Patel(fBI), Pam Bondi (US Atty General), Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) were confirmed by the US Senate. Patel is referred to as their "boy", who will come together as a pair with Bondi. Tulsi is their "girl". meidasnews.com/news/russian...

After the onset of Russia’s full-scale war in 2022, negative and misleading narratives about Ukraine have gained momentum in right-leaning U.S. alternative media. As traditional news consumption reaches historic lows, a new frontier of media consumption has taken the lead.

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

📄 NEW: "The Four Memos Quietly Rocking Washington" A set of memos about Elon Musk, the Neoreactionary movement, DOGE, and financial instability is making waves in Washington. But will they lead to a tipping point? Not unless Republicans take action. america2.news/the-four-mem...

📄 NEW: "How to Understand America's Failure" As the world is left reeling trying to make sense of Friday's disastrous Oval Office ambush, we offer thirteen different lenses that answer the question, "How did we get here?" My latest. america2.news/how-to-under...

Incredible chart

The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.

🇺🇸🧐 The U.S. Vice President, without makeup or eyeliner—true conservative values! A real rebuke to President Zelensky for not wearing a suit. A snapshot from the wild student life!

This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

Closely approaching the Streisand effect. 🚨This is their 2nd attempt at removing this image🚨 Why don't they want you to see this pic of Trump appointee Pete Marocco and wife, Merritt Corrigan, before they crawl through a broken Capitol window? instagram.com/stories/high... Timecode: 9:08

404 continues to absolutely kill it.

Yet another huge scoop from @leahfeiger.bsky.social The GSA—staffed by Musk acolytes— is planning to sell 500+ buildings, some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators. www.wired.com/story/gsa-se...

We cannot overstate the risk posed when the United States says that maps are negotiable, with borders to be redrawn by whoever uses force to take land, rule of law be damned. This is music to the ears of Chinese eyeing Taiwan and Russians eyeing Eastern Europe. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w...

the Soy Right: "right-wingers who have adopted the sensitive, aggrieved victimhood pose and corny rhetorical and personal style that they have spent the last 10 years attributing to liberals" maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-...

Elon Musk wearing a baseball hat in the Oval Office reminded me of right-wing outrage when President Obama hoisted a selfie stick

French TV are getting a lot of credit for "revealing" Orbán's "secret palace" Except #Hungary's PM's opulence a& double-standards were first revealed by locals who receive little credit. So maybe retweet this & encourage the original video creator @balazsgulyas.bsky.social to be more active here!

NIH cuts hurt a major employer - higher education - which generates huge exports and big positive externalities in communities across the US. Use this tool to estimate how your state will be affected www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Ohio has produced a lot of astronauts - each inspired by getting as far away from Ohio as humanly possible.

Superbowl ads, by Jeff VanderMeer

remembering two years ago when Elon tweeted “go Eagles!” and then deleted it when they lost

NEW: Elon Musk's buddies and DOGE underlings are working in the dark to make drastic changes to the US government. @propublica.org is shining light on them with our new tracker. Read. Share. Most importantly, send us your Musk tips: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE. I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

⚡️'He works for Putin' — Zelensky slams Tucker Carlson's pro-Russian commentary. "Regrettably, this blogger or journalist, whatever he wants to call himself, he fully repeats the words of Putin. ... He works for Putin," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Piers Morgan.

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

Harry Truman was born in 1884.

I hate pants! - Magnus

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American radio host and propagandist, Scott Horton. He’s best known for blaming Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine on the US, and for publishing a 700-page book full of Kremlin propaganda. 1/23

It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

NEW: Here’s how some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a decades-old legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care.

NEW: “Eat What You Kill” Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social

This is what russian soldiers do. This is what their masters instruct them to do. This is what makes their officials gloat — publicly and, outrageously, with impunity. They are the scum of the earth. It’s time to stop tolerating them.