Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Pedophiles protect pedophiles.

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days. Mike Johnson voted “no” on that. They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

Yes, “the worst of the worst.” Drug traffickers. Predators. 73 year old Sikh grandmas who sew saris and pay taxes www.bbc.com/news/article...

One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.

FTR, if there's a show or movie you like on a Disney service and you're bummed you can't watch it cuz you wanna support the boycott, let's just say I was in a similar position and it took me NO time at all to find an alternative way of watching it. Google is your friend!

FBI footage exposes Tom Homan pocketing $50K cash from undercover agents, vowing to grease border contracts in Trump's nascent regime until the new DOJ, deeming it deep-state drivel, slays the probe amid Trump's tirade for retaliatory indictments. #CorruptionCoverup

The FCC Chair Brendan Carr's outrage at Kimmel's monologue shows how much the truth bothers some. Portraying a shooter as MAGA is more shocking than the repeated lies from this CULT. The priority should be public safety, not political sensitivity. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 Ok, Brendan Carr … 👇… !?

Just leaving this here. AOC just ended Tom Homan.

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.

This is incredible. h/t: @jessedamiani.bsky.social

This can't be good. wapo.st/3VX50HYhttps...

I wonder about THIS 👇 In 🇨🇦, when Stephen Harper (currently IDU boss) lost elections to Justin Trudeau, before he finally left the office, he managed to sell over 60% of our Canadian media to an American hedge / heritage fund with links to Trump & Republicans. Poilievre is drooling to do all 👇

Does any of this sound familiar? encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

When a society doesn’t learn from history, it is doomed to repeat it.

I love this guy. youtube.com/shorts/lSQMj...

That, or you’re just bad at your job

Breaking on MSNBC: U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert, who oversees the Eastern District of Virginia, told colleagues he plans to resign. Siebert had been pressured by Trump officials to bring bogus charges against NY AG Letitia James. Siebert did not find evidence to bring those charges.

This will be called "evidence of consciousness of guilt" in subsequent criminal trials.

It is shocking how much the USA has lost in 9 months.

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t “cancel culture.” It was government coercion. Brendan Carr told Benny Johnson, “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” and affiliates panicked. Regulatory threats can’t be the answer to speech we don’t like. If we let this stand, no voice is safe.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

White man kills white man, black woman gets fired. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...

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See ya, Hulu.

Trump has now gotten his billionaire supporters to get both Colbert and Kimmel cancelled because they did too good of a job speaking truth to his big stupid face.

I don’t get it. Does he have something on everyone? Are some people just existing in a bubble? Is it that some folk are just stupid? All of the above? (It’s all of the above, isn’t it?)

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

The estimated number of deaths so far due to USAID cuts are truly mind-boggling. Musk will be complicit in the unnecessary deaths of millions of people. (estimation below done by www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi... )

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

Good people to follow on days like this are @eliothiggins.bsky.social, @asharangappa.bsky.social, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired the U.K. ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This is how we learn from the Charlie Kirk killing.

I was writing a column on assaults on college free speech when I heard the news about Charlie Kirk. Then I watched the hypocrisy as the same Republicans passing laws to crush academic freedom praised the often toxic Kirk as an avatar of free expression My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/char...

it does seem like there is a coordinated effort to ignore that kirk's most violently extreme haters were all on the ultra hard right. it's not really a secret. they are posting graphic AI edits of the shooting on public forums.

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

Canada will never be the 51st State. #FanjoyVsPoilievre #CanadaStrong

Done and done. They even provided me with a pencil.

Today is THE day #election #vote #canada YouTube video by Lisab0923 youtu.be/QD8Gcz2I3r0?...

Meanwhile, in the United States, the Orange Cocksplat is still talking about making Canada the 51st state. He can fuck right off. #Never51 #ElbowsUp

Good morning 🌞 🙏🏼