I’ve been writing about politics in some capacity for over 25 years now and it’s still stunning how the mainstream media refuses to tell the public basic truth

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

The most crossplatform UI framework isn't a Web Browser. It's VT100 terminal. The programs using ANSI Escape Codes will very likely be usable in 10-20 years unchanged. And this isn't a good thing, btw. API politics got so bad we can't agree on how to put a triangle on the screen.

Isn't this one of the teaching examples in the MAGA/Tate pick up artist manual?

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

So, the president of the United States casually mentioned that he took away free speech. Just in case you missed that.

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

“Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything”

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

Found and reposted because truth needs to be spoken, especially when there’s so much falsehood being pushed.

Somehow I’d always suspected it… www.tumblr.com/myjetpack/79...

This is why truth in journalism matters. Call out the liars for money! We are suffering the consequences of the "liberal" press being too scared to call out lies by Republicans - AND by Faux News and the further-right ecosystem. Only truth gets us past this. www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Stop appeasing the bullies. It never works. The only thing that works is to stand up and hit them back and make it HURT. They may hit you hard in the moment, but they won't come back - there will be easier targets. www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9...

Status report, "How I Lost It" dep't: Making my way to #Luzern on my way to the #ReichenbachFalls. And (on the train from Zurich HB to Luzern) what must I be subjected to? A...production guy of some kind (YouTuber? probably) looking at video on his phone and commenting interminably on it. (1/3)

This is a list of #Nexstar stations, who has decided to join Sinclair in violating our #1A rights: www.stationindex.com/tv/by-owner/...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8... Too bitterly, bitterly true.

This is a clear marker of both stupidity and narcissism. Too narcissistic to understand that other people grow up speaking other languages, not just English, and too stupid to accept that to communicate with others, you need to use language they can understand.

pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.

They arrived with no judicial warrant, were told to leave, but before leaving, 10 agents urinated on the grounds. That is not "I really had to pee." That is trying to send a message. And it's a criminal act by each of them.

@quatraingleam.bsky.social For you. I loled. h/t amandapalmer.tumblr.com/post/7887045...

A fun hobby for the rest of us www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

Here is Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell together at a party in 1992.

Experts reviewing RFKJr's magnum opus MAHA health report conclude that the whole document was faked by someone using Chatbot AI, and was probably never even proof read. They're not just fraudsters, they're very lazy, too. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Not only completely corrupt, but a huge, blatant violation of the Emoluments Clause.

@nbareferees.bsky.social Referees need to stop being allowed to review their own calls. Scott Foster just whitewashed his own bad call AGAIN and he will keep never admitting error, because that’s what he does.

Exactly this. 10/10, BBB no notes. The GOP is too stupid to understand soft power, and completely screwed up the Middle East by trying to put boots on the ground… to be targets.

The President of Harvard (student body of 21,278 in 2023) was made to resign over a plagiarism accusation that made front page news. The arrest and indictment of Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Dallas Church (weekly attendance 25,805 in 2023) for sexually assaulting a 12 year old did not.

It is time for Democrats to go on the attack, and take away tax-exempt status for every church that unabashedly campaigned for Trump. Take off the gloves, start to destroy the opposing institutions that fund the fascist movement.

Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem kidnapped a woman who was grateful she got her taxes done before they kidnapped Rümeysa Öztürk. www.propublica.org/article/rume...

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

'It's not book banning if you can get it on Amazon" has been the rallying cry of bigots for years. Every day, there's a new thing even the book banners said was unbelievable a couple of years ago. We're not in slippery slope territory, we're solidly in the realm of "America is not a free country."

"So what if we remove titles from schools, you can still get them in public libraries" "It's not book banning if we remove them from public libraries. You can still get them on Amazon." "The government is demanding Amazon remove these books."

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

When Musk’s hackers attack a us government database and take a copy for themselves, it’s a nobrainer that Peter Theil’s Palantir was the likely illegal beneficiary.

(This is exactly what he said)

Michigan Republican seems to be screening his constituents for a tele-town hall.

One SSA employee tells me that DOGE has admitted it has no interest in improving Social Security—just in gutting the agency to save money. This will result in the failure to distribute benefits, insiders tell me. www.american-doom.com/p/social-sec...

Lots of people trying to find a way to deal with Elon's shameless lie abt amount of fraud in social security. We need to jump beyond shame--bc it won't work, IMO--and get to instrumentality, which is this.

www.dailykos.com/story/2025/2... #GopDelendaEst

Only speaking in generalities to preserve source confidentiality. But we hear a lot about DOGErs heading right for the personnel files at these offices they go to. Seeing increasing amounts of evidence that these files are being searched for details to create pretexts to fire people. But the ...

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say.