I'm really interested in the psychology of the masked up ICE agent with the Facebook camera glasses who also appears to be wearing a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden Flag. Is it meant ironically? How does he square current ICE targets and tactics with the ethos the flag has traditionally represented?

took me a sec

“Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, a Times investigation found. Family members have appealed to Elon Musk for help.”

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

BUCK: welcome to Monday Night Football going out across the fractured and shattered united states. we'd especially like to welcome our newest viewers from the greater Omaha Demilitarized Zone who are joining us courtesy of the warlord Lord Bones, the Water Prophet. AIKMAN: Tremendous warlord, Joe.

This is very good advice that I recently found myself intuitively needing to cultivate more of, and this is making me realize I need to put an end date on the mini-project I started a couple weeks ago 😅

Good name alert

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Nothing, and I mean NO THING, strikes fear in the heart of a TV or radio syndicate like a rattled advertiser pausing their ad buys

waow

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

for his first episode back he should just stare at the camera smiling for 22 minutes

Harrison Butker, the back-to-the-kitchen, women! Chiefs kicker developing a version of the yips where he keeps missing chipshot kicks far to the right, is one of the funnier developments of this year. Six mandatory workplace DEI workshops will fix this.

The new fascism is rising everywhere, but it will make a certain kind of grim historical sense if its realized form takes fullest root in the US and UK, the two countries that from 1980 foisted Thatcher/Reagan neoliberalism and the resulting doctrines and methods of social demolition on the world.

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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

you might criticize the trump administration or its ICE and other agencies for actions like this but on the other hand, our tax dollars are funding operation after operation that allows masked men like the one here to keep feeling like a big man, and you can’t really put a price on that can you

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the president keeps using the military to murder people in boats in the Caribbean, an act that is a crime even before we get to the release of the celebratory snuff film captured on targeting cameras. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

ThE MIlitaRY wiLL IgNOrE IleGal OrdERs like murdering people in boats in international waters and with no enunciated legal authority. Oh. And making fascist snuff porn. Imperial boomerang on this one gonna be bad. Moreover we must destroy ICE & smash fascism.

i think every girl should be issued an obedient murder of crows upon reaching the age of 12

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

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I’m so happy to share the debut album from Visible Light today! New music for cello, flute, and synthesizer, with textures from the Minnesota wilderness. Inspired by solar rhythms, leaf-fall patterns, and the hidden language of trees.

we knew this from the data but there really is nothing these freaks love to do more than assault women

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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

We’ve moved from strongly worded letter to very strongly worded letter, folks

hey so this is insane

these people are genuinely idiots

Art-pop auteur Asher White talks about her brilliant new album '8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living,' and how to get into noise music when you're 12 years old

That was fun

LOL. You cannot make this up; these people are TEMU villains.

President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement can, should, must, and will gargle thumbtacks. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

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personally I care way more about this than jimmy kimmel but hopefully people who care about kimmel realize how it’s connected to mahmoud

This feels like a Succession plot line.

Kimmel was fired for criticizing the president. That milk toast white man said nothing about Charlie Kirk. This is just authoritarianism 101. I've lived it. I know. Wake the fuck up America.

Yes.

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

They are literally canceling culture

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

... which is how Kimmel got the time slot in the first place, ironically. From 2002: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/b...

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...