Damn. There is no hyperbole here. The shoe fits. One mad king in imitation of another.

From @slate.com apple.news/AXSYOahwbSGO...

They ought to do a "Harold and Kumar" style movie with Don Jr. and Kash Patel. Call it something like: "Don and Kash's Big Coke Adventure."

Yeah, that’s why I turn to the news — I just want to hear what I already think I know parroted back to me.m CBS doesn’t want to inform its viewers. It wants to assure them they were right all along

Start the new year off with this fantastic article by the inimitable Joshua Shanes, revealing how the failures of the ADL reflect a deeper failure of how we talk about antisemitism in the US. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Much of #MAGA and contemporary conservatism is bound up in mediocre or inferior people aghast at their loss of privilege. No longer does simply being white or Christian or male entitle you to a higher rank in society. They are finding out they're not as special as they thought they were.

This unbelievably dim loser thinks he comes off well in this video, as he tries to force his way into a daycare. The employee asks “what department” they’re from, and he says “we are from ourselves” — because being an entitled white man empowers you to act like a vigilante, apparently?

Holy shit. Mystery, er, mysteries solved!! apple.news/AC4dB7O1XRLm...

We should judge people not on innate characteristics like race that they cannot change, but on the content of their character. And a person’s political views are deeply reflective of the content of their character.

The Pizzagate-style frenzy over MN daycares is yet another moral panic over children and sex abuse designed to distract from the real one that didn’t go the way the Right thought it would. Consciously and/or unconsciously.

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

ICE caught in yet another blatant lie. Glen Burnie, MD

Fucking ghouls. Seriously, full justice without mercy for these Nazis. apple.news/AyJwXTqYHSiq...

So now we’ll see JD Vance and Stephen Miller denounce violence on the right, eh?

Do people realize that the damage Trump is doing to the #economy through tariffs and other mismanagement is only the tip of the iceberg? Consider future lawsuits and trillions of dollars in damages being paid out to victims of #Trumpism once he's gone for crimes committed by the US government?

#Christians on the right… Go ahead and keep acting as if this Nazi regime you helped put in power isn't going to eventually turn on you too. No one is safe. apple.news/A3WbZxIwHR9K...

US President is an obviously disturbed person (beyond corrupt, uninformed, authoritarian, incompetent). Everyone around the world knows this, except many Americans, because Corporate Media *sanewashes* him.

Imran Ahmed founded an group to fight online antisemitism on the left. But he has also criticized Elon Musk for antisemitism and disinformation, so the Trump admin is trying to detain him. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u... You know, in case you thought this admin cared about "fighting antisemitism."

I know this is a bit nitpicky, but can media just stop reporting "ISIS in Nigeria." Call them "Islamic State" or even IS. ISIS is "Islamic State in Iraq and Sham," which obviously isn't Nigeria. Their goal is total world domination. They were never limited to Iraq or the Levant. Be accurate.

Did people just stop bothering to ask "Is he dead yet?" or have they given up hope altogether?

“See you in seven years. Eh, six. You know, let’s play it by ear.”

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to go all in on working with this administration right about now.

When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies. European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA. In the US, he is attacking news orgs.

The President should be taken into custody immediately. But so should the people who would have to do that.

Reminder: Nazi Germany did this too. They aren't remembered kindly for it. apple.news/ABuh7OUkjTs2...

I called this last week… These are some of the dumbest people on earth in Washington right now. The New York Post is running a story now about how to read the redacted parts of the #EpsteinFiles. Because I knew they'd be too dumb to redact them properly. These dumbasses also do our NatSec btw.

I’m sorry, are you genuinely stupid enough to believe “the guy who shot at a crowd of Jews said he didn’t do it because of hatred for Jews”. Like are you really that fucking dumb?

The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. www.ms.now/news/abortio...

OPINION by @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social: “Jayapal’s survey is not the only one finding majority support for Medicare for All more recently.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/pram...

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

The delayed/smothered/spiked 60 Minutes report is what you'd expect: a straightforward account of the brutality at CECOT told through the eyes of a migrant sent there who claims to have no criminal record. It ought to be a disgrace for the Trump administration. Let's see how Bari Weiss handles this.

The answer to “Is it good if prices go up or down” is often: are you a buyer or a seller?

In light of Trump's saber rattling and threats towards Greenland/Denmark, #NATO ought to kick out the U.S. Actually, we should probably also be booted off the UNSC. We are not a serious government, and the world needs protecting because of the massive military threat to world safety.

Savage… but also fair.

Honestly sick of people telling me they "have to" stay on X "for the reach." "It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here. "The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too. Lots of other people have. You can too.

Just thinking in the wake of the sudden 60 Minutes CECOT story pull how ironic it is that Bari Weiss calls her outfit "The Free Press." Seems anything but "free." #CBSNews

Did the internal censor you were required to hire to approve the buyout make you do this?

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

we genuinely need to make "being a racist edgelord" something you get your ass beat for in middle school and high school again because otherwise it metastasizes and then this whole cohort gets a foothold in the public consciousness

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Representative Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: “Pete Hegseth happily releases a video after each strike... He recognizes when the American people see this video, they will be repulsed. It is basically the summary execution of two people clinging to wreckage.”

loved blogging about SLOP for Mother Jones

Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

Next: Did the civil rights movement do more harm than good?

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Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory. If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.

Kind of wondering what percentage of MAGA morons will ultimately die of chronic health problems or their own stupidity by the next election. They're not exactly the finest specimens, physically or mentally.

I really don't understand all the #Tahoe hate. Is it different? Yes. And it seemed like a big adjustment for all of about a week. But it's fine. I actually think it's a bit of an improvement across all platforms. I'm still a little unsure of why I need menus and window buttons on my iPad though.