“Upham described Trump as the Antichrist and a false messiah" no fedposting pls

from all we know taco bell did everything right. they caught it early, pulled any possible products, and were way ahead of both the government and the supplier whose fault it actually was. but it’s getting pinned on them

So when I talk the need to move to proportional representation through a) multimember districts + b) an expanded House, people often say “but the AfD is polling at 27%”…. which is probably what MAGA would be polling at if in a multiparty U.S. — instead of, you know, controlling the federal gov’t.

Sweet. Milky Way's candy center www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/i...

Just a reminder for everyone that the claim was China was considering hurting Biden in the 2020 election, not Trump, but ultimately decided not to bsky.app/profile/domi...

This is the actual unclassified version of the intelligence community’s review of the 2020 election. It is accurate. Trump will try to convince you it is not. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

"Under Xi’s leadership, the regime has sought to radically transform minority culture and forge a unified ethnonational identity" "New policies have decimated bilingual education in minority regions" foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/15/c...

Republican China hawkery is 100% phony

Probably just pendulum swing? But not totally clear which party has the high/low propensity advantage.

TV channels not airing the Dear Leader's speech is a real failure to intimidate

2000-2024 population change by state (scaled from -30K to the infinity that is Texas) West Virginia is the only state with fewer people now than it had in 2000.

i feel like if i know the name of your produce company - and i know taylor farms - you’ve probably done enough bad shit that they should shut you down

Decided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism

Think before you suggest ending farm subsidies to this poor misguided man.

Pictured: Real American farmer ready to do Communism if only urban voters weren’t so mean to rurals online.

Yemen civil war may be kicking off again; the Saudis and Houthis just bombed each others' airports. This isn't solely about the Iran war or Red Sea shipping; the Houthis want to expand in Yemen. [Qatar doesn't have a side exactly, al-Jazeera may be an OK source IMO] www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

I like Mamdani but it is really weird to me when people are like "see?? when you DO GOOD THINGS you will be EXTREMELY POPULAR AND BELOVED by the voters" and his approval ratings are... fine? IIRC he's like at 50/30 approve/disapprove (depending on the poll), and +20 is certainly better than many

Is it smart to piss off your own bodyguards while also enabling gun ownership and inciting violence?

Russian crude exports up so much that it can't all be unloaded; one kind of inventory that's increasing. Exporting more because they can't refine & use it themselves...but still a factor in world oil markets united24media.com/world/russia...

"It's my right as an American to kill myself with drugs, alcohol, pollution, gun, and loneliness. It's against the 14th Amendment to not let me kill you with the ricochet."

Advantages of a parliamentary system, as well as advantages of really hating the fascists

The simple solution is to preferentially provide funding directly to black belt or otherwise blue counties and municipalities while denying it to rural red states. We need more ways to bypass red state governments anyway.

"One thing I learned was a DA can’t prevent police killings if the police are trained to kill. "'' www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...

ICE temporarily stops vehicle stops. A victory, they can be pushed back www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

Shocker. That was always unlikely to be carried out, even more than other demented raving

TLDR: Refining is the bottleneck, more than the amount of crude oil. Prices of refined products are rising more. Russia already is trying to import gasoline from India BTW paulkrugman.substack.com/p/suddenly-h...

I think this reply guy thought this was a compliment

Democrats lead by 26 points among “double haters” in the 2026 House midterms vote, according to new Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io poll

UPDATE from Michigan on diarrhea outbreak: - Early information shows lettuce as a common product that regularly comes up during investigation - BUT no specific type of produce, grower or supplier has been identified as the source - other food items cannot be completely ruled out yet

we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

Someone in Baltimore called 911....according to this, Graham's scheduler, who Graham called & complained of chest pains. Graham wouldn't call for an ambulance himself, don't be like that folks

You just voted to give these thugs another $70 Billion. You’re complicit in this and every other murder committed by Trump’s secret police.

Even funnier thing about anti-Europe/NATO yank leftists is that they have, in Donald Trump, a president implementing the policy they claim to want. The State Department isn't on Ukraine's side anymore! The US president is open to allowing Russian expansionism in Eastern Europe! You won!

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I had not previously realized how truly expensive gas peaker generation is. VPPs, DERs and distributed load reduction FTW!

and I thought I was getting annoying fundraising texts

Something I predicted multiple times is about to come true. Blanche is going to cut a deal with Madero to have him falsely claim that Venezuela tilted the 2020 elections. In return, he and his wife are likely to be in the same prison as Ghislaine Maxwell.

The odds are good that this is Maduro’s action plan for avoiding Super Max: tell them whatever they want to hear about his “meddling” in 2020.

I spent $7 to do this factcheck. Time to start a gofundme.

In my lifetime, I've seen segments of society lose trust in evolutionary biology, climate science, and vaccines. None of this was due to anything scientists did. All of it was because non-scientists perceived some advantage (political, cultural, financial) in attacking science's credibility.

Informative but doesn't count transponder off ships. (Sneaking through)

the uk's authoritarian slide continues with amnesty having to take down a report on anti-trans orgs @rejserin.bsky.social rejserin.medium.com/in-defence-o...

warrior culture is only fighting wars on weekends, killing people who can’t fight back for content, spitting on allies who fought and died for you, throwing a hissy fit and making toothless threats, violating the trust of female + trans + black personnel who paid into the system, being real swole

IMO the skeleton key to understanding a lot of the most insane online behavior is honor culture dynamics. The online spaces that are more sane/orderly are typically relatively closed communities that have successfully avoided being personality-driven/centered on parasociality towards specific people

Was it the explosive diarrhea that killed him, please tell me “a brief and sudden illness” is code for the explosive diarrhea

This is why "Po and Rhine" is Engels' most famous book

One thing that's amazing if that if you remember the past literally at all, you're basically superhuman in discourse.