“It remains unclear whether China succeeded because it is authoritarian, or whether authoritarianism looks successful because of China.” An interesting reflection from @bequelin.bsky.social in @chinabooksreview.com:

“We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.” —Hunter S. Thompson

So, they say there is no separation of church and state. To that I say, tax the churches.

#BSC1 #Betsy1776 #NeverTrump #StrongerTogether #Resist

Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.

I'm apparently going to have a problem, as I have zero respect for thieves, pedophiles and raunchy personalities. 👇

School vouchers for private religious schools are unconstitutional in Missouri. That hasn’t stopped the GOP supermajority from transferring $60 million of taxpayer funds to private religious schools just this year alone. The same supermajority defunded public school schools by 190 million.

Look at the citizenship- revoking & deportation of Haitian-American Voters thru the lens of yet another way to manipulate the midterms if he can’t get his SAVE Act fix done. Expect more citizenship exclusions (think birthright) before Nov. He is desperately searching for last-minute levers to pull.

Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028. You can believe me now or believe me in 2028. Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.

“If Democrats win, Congress will do its job again” is a wild message from the current Speaker of the House

On the fourth anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade remember that they lied to get their seats on the Supreme Court

Was thinking about this epic, magnificent thread this morning. Somewhere on the Internet there's someone angry about people being named at birth as opposed to being able to name themselves. And I mean _really_ angry.

The fact that stephen miller is saying the US is closed to asylum seekers from Haiti while granting asylum to white South Africans should tell you all you need to know.

Currently driving a rental car that smells like cigarettes and faintly of weed and something else that I can’t quite identify. My 9 yr old: Smells like Philadelphia.

Welcome to Howdy Arabia, run by Y'all Qaeda.

A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by Katie Phang. Read the details here: joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-...

Phang: I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2nd, he either has to put up or shut up. He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.

Remember when George W. Bush called for Al Gore to be jailed and when Ronald Reagan called for Jimmy Carter to be tried for treason and when Barack Obama called for John McCain to be put in front of a firing squad yah me neither because actual presidents don’t do that shit

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The fact that I have to take the time to give some company my email address and phone number just to park the car for 45 minutes to run into a cafe for a coffee is truly enough for me to riot.

The Supreme Court has a vision of America that is ……… white

🚨 BREAKING: Judge Sullivan just GRANTED Katie Phang's motion for a preliminary injunction, ordering the Trump admin to move forward on key transparency measures in the Epstein files case—including defending redactions, producing additional records, and publishing the disclosure log required by law.

The reason Donald Trump is still here is because the Republicans were too chickenshit in 2021 to impeach him and convict him and pull him out of office forever.

Why did God send Donald Trump to destroy our country?

Tom Emmer: "We need to stand up, speak up, and take our country back from these evil marxists that are moving in" (Republicans currently control the entire federal government ... )

She has an outside shot now at winning Nancy Mace’s old district in SC-1. Wouldn’t that be sweet?

Yale’s Budget Lab ran the numbers. Households with the lowest incomes lose $2,160 a year under Trump’s megabill and tariffs. The wealthiest gain $9,670. And he just killed housing relief on top of it. The cruelty is the point. #TrumpsHousingCrisis

He doesn't like it, he loves it.

This is what a police state does.

So much of the pathological behavior and deranged worldviews of these oligarchs can be explained by terror management theory and a basic over-salience of mortality. I'm convinced that if we carefully orchestrated a bot farm we could incept them to take suicidal risks out of desperate fear

Oh now Thiel is talking about the "reproducibility crisis" in science, amazing Wait these guys are all myna birds, aren't they. They hear a few words said by someone else and they just grab them and repeat them without understanding. Now I see why they love LLMs so much.

Also anyone who studies cancer from a public health perspective would immediately make the point that cancer survival stats are dominated by access-to-care equities. Scientific advances will not affect population level statistics without a fucking delivery mechanism. Absolute smoothbrains

"The problem today is we have 'Big Science' and anything we make big becomes stagnant." (30 seconds later) "We could never do the Manhattan Project or the Apollo program today" My guy what the fuck are you talking about

"We declared a War On Cancer in the 1970s and we have not made significant progress on treating cancer despite ever-increasing funding. It's a welfare program for academic labs" Bro what the FUCK are you talking about. The survival statistics do not bear this out even at first glance

I've made the mistake of listening to a lot of Peter Thiel interviews recently to try to understand his worldview. The guy is an absolute third-rate thinker who contradicts himself every 30 seconds and nobody pushes him on it.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

The legal equivalent of telling someone they must jump off a bridge if everyone else is doing it

opinion that will probably get me yelled at: making it illegal to go the speed limit if everyone else is speeding due to "impeding the flow of traffic" just gives cops carte blanche to pull over whoever they want for any reason they want and will disproportionately affect minorities

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️

"Let’s keep on reminding Americans about all the empty boasts and outright lies the administration told...Let’s keep on exposing Trump’s defeat, and the bad deal his administration is now defending. Keep on wrapping Trump’s Iran fiasco around Republicans’ necks." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The Best President America had while I was here by far and they set him up and undid everything that could have saved us. I hope Freya snatched Jimmy Carter up for Folkvar because "Heaven" doesn't deserve him. A true warrior.

It's All In Project 2025. Remember when we told y'all to read it? Well...

He's saying this because Mamdani has drastically improved New York City and 3 candidates Mamdani backed won their primaries against Dem incumbents backed by AIPAC. Corporate Politics is scared shitless that they might have to actually help the people who make their existence possible.

The self-proclaimed free speech absolutist...

A major win for voting rights today! A federal judge has permanently blocked most of Trump’s first executive order on elections, including its attempt to require documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Is it called the Republican Party?

i remember the krishna groups in Seattle in ‘70s “The Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) is a new religious movement started in the 1970s. It was founded by Chris Butler after he broke from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. It is based in the US state of Hawaii.”