The Kremlin tries to look like the returned Cold War power that the USSR was, but it's a pale shadow of what it used to control, let alone of the Warsaw Pact. TL;DR, the population gap between the Kremlin and NATO has grown by 5x since the Cold War, and the economic difference has grown by 7x. 1/

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What an absolute embarrassment Trump is.

Mass arrests of pro-Russia agents across Moldova today. Pro-Eu President Maia Sandu came out fighting. Her statement: ⬇️

“Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.” ―Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

"...while the poll demonstrated that Trump’s support has softened among rapists more broadly, his approval rating remains safely above water among the demographic of ephebophiles—those who, like Trump himself, are sexually attracted to teenagers.”

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

‼️ The Indian character famously played by a Mexican and a British actor will be played by an Indian British actor famous for playing an Iraqi character! I don't know why, but this feels right.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

What if I threw away the REMAINS of your CHILD - would it mess your life up?

"Back when I was in college, I was a cool, virile twenty-two-year-old with washboard abs and a large group of friends. Students today would struggle to say the same, since I’m sixty-two, my kids hate me, and my doctor says I’m prediabetic."

Me every time I see a cybertruck.

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

Or J Edgar Loser as he’s known.

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones. But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Washington may have persuaded Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign a long-awaited peace agreement, but one month later it still remains unclear how much the U.S. is ready to invest to make it stick, argues Olesya Vartanyan: carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...

I never understood how Gutfeld had a comedy career, but this is laughable. Not funny, but laughable. So well done, Gutfeld, you unfunny clown, you finally got into the right section of the thesaurus.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

2 studies of the Rx Kids program are out today—one about the moms and one about the kids. Here's what happened when $1500 was given to ALL pregnant moms in Flint and also $500/mo for a year after birth: Flint saved $6.2M in NICU expenses due to fewer premature births Postpartum depression fell 14%

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

In Billings, they are drugging the dogs. The FBI came in, they are drugging the cats. They’re drugging - they’re giving meth to the pets of the people that live there.

Let’s be clear—your rights don’t disappear because of your skin color, your accent, or your citizenship status. The Constitution doesn’t work like that, no matter how bad Republicans want it to. This Supreme Court ruling is dangerous and it’s only taking us backwards.

If only libertarians could talk about children's safety like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:

We spent 80 years ostracizing the anti-democratic left and platforming the anti-democratic right. Today the far left engages in the democratic process and the latter seeks to destroy it. The lesson is that deplatforming anti-democratic elements is effective.

Here's something I just realized that I love about Bluesky. The quality of bots is so much higher. The Bad Place bots all offered nudes in bio. Here they decry the culture of nudes and ask for more politics. If you want evidence that this platform is nice, ask the strategists at spam factories.

If only they were empowered to have done something about gun control and reining in hate speech over the past 40 years. But you can't blame Congress for the laws, that's the lobbyists fault. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I just bought a used car in CA. Transferring the title, I got a bill for $450. It was far higher than I'd anticipated, and I had to request an itemized receipt. Median income in CA is ~$42k. This unplanned, opaque bill is >1% of that. You can't live here without a car. How is this reasonable?

It shouldn’t be considered disrespectful to the dead to remember how they actually lived their lives.

Speaking as a hater and a loser, you are a weird, demented, angry man, which is all on brand for a fascist.

Dowdprovided the most sterile, anodyne, and accurate analysis of this event, and he was fired for it. Jesse Waters said progressives are waging war on conservatives, used "us vs them" rhetoric, and called people who disagree with him rats. He's celebrated for it. Dowd was right. Fire Waters.

⚡️Kyiv court rejects appeal, upholds Ukraine's first de facto recognition of same-sex couple as a family. The Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld a landmark ruling recognizing a same-sex couple as a family, human rights organization Insight LGBTQ reported on Sept. 10.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every one of these yellow stones has the name of a child who cancer took from this world. Every day that RFK Jr is destroying health care research is another day that the line of stones grows.

Ukrainian foreign minister on fascist Russian drone incursions into Poland:

If we tied down RFK Jr and got rid of all the parasites in him, would he suddenly in the absence of their mind-altering excretions become pro-public health?

The system is working exactly how the moneyed interests intended. Money flows up, yeg the people don't revolt.

This is great news. Instead of less conservative kids inheriting unfettered control, Fox News leadership will finally be accountable. One Murdoch will have 1/3 of the company (too much), and an executive decision leading to a $700 million penalty will get him pushed out.

Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads— “HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.” Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.

JFC

Rep. Thomas Massie as a voice of reason and integrity who bucks his party. These are weird times.

Excellent read on how plastic waste was a corporate decision that's poisoned the world, along with instances of better choices that some governments have made.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Timeline cleanse

A child frightened to the point of vomiting. However evil you think Stephen Miller is, double it. Then double that. You still aren't fucking close.

We have 7 tax brackets today. In 1975 there were 25 of them. Having fewer tax brackets makes the middle class lobby for the wealthy. Doctors and lawyers and CPAs wind up being critical mass voting for the ultra wealthy to pay low taxes. We need to get back our progressive tax code.

A very good and hope-inspiring essay on the state of Russia's war on Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/dianefra...

Dear America. It's the guns. Love, Everyone else. Credit: Philip Labes www.instagram.com/philiplabes?... www.tiktok.com/@philiplabes...