Political analysis in this country is really hamstrung by the fact that most of the people doing it seem to have no idea what different political systems are or why people adhere to them

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Mangione was at best a diagonalist. The most recent Colorado school shooter was right-wing.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

Ah, yes, the rhetoric. That's what's getting heated.

sure thing boss, real anti-ice just like you asked

Probably the best Jimmy Kimmel monologue I’ve ever seen in its entirety. Also maybe the first I’ve ever seen in its entirety.

Where are your saved posts on here?

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

The funniest thing about Charlie Kirk was that his entire shtick as a teenager was “watch this college dropout DESTROY these undergrads.” And he then went through the entirety of his 20s and into his 30s … still debating undergrads.

Shanah Tovah to everyone, even the haters and losers

WE FUCKIN DID IT

Sweet

Also they think it has to do with the Gregorian date being 9/23 but the holiday starts tonight (the 22nd). Been going for a while now in Sydney, I guess!

The Wife Put Me in Charge of the Toilet

So if the Rapture is tomorrow, do I still need to get a challah for the second night?

It's vexing

Kind of funny how states keep replacing old state flags that all look the same with new state flags that all look the same

ICE treats you like a “living ghost,” one woman said from detention. “They don’t care if you die.” Inside the “psychological torture” regime targeting migrants who can’t be sent home.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

The presidential historian the NYT quotes as an authority can’t correctly recall what happened five years ago.

“Better to stand on our feet … than die on our knees” Bro, that isn’t how that one goes.

I suspect a lot of the ceremony around Kirk is an attempt to leverage Christian nationalist symbology in order to convey the messianic fervor of MAGA from Trump to Vance.

Tracks, since it seems like media can’t decide whether our secrecy bias is supposed to be activated

🤦‍♂️

It was, in fact, while Trump was president

Trump has arrived- gives the “fight fight fight” fist- sitting in a box behind bullet proof glass. Crowd chants “USA USA USA”

Well I couldn’t keep fascism from instantiating itself in America, but I sure unclogged the hell out of my kids’ bathtub

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

They probably should have

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Well shit

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

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.

incredible things continue to occur among the nationalist populist right

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

Here's what we know as of Saturday morning. If White House figures are to be believed, the U.S. has killed 17 people on ships in the Caribbean this month.

Karen Attiah made critical comments about *men who are white supremacists* and @washingtonpost.com said that they are a protected class Be clear about what they were saying That white supremacists are a protected class

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

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Look these people are not very bright and keep losing the iterated prisoner’s dilemma that they’re in

Feds just fired a tremendous amount of pepper balls at Reverend David Black, a regular protester here. A number of them hit him in the face and head.

It’s giving “makes law abridging the freedom of the press”

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

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