No, I have simply learned that when it comes to controversial topics, asking ppl on one side to *describe* what ppl on the other side are saying is not reliable “They compared us to David Duke!” “Jimmy Kimmel blamed Kirk for his own death!” “The FBI admitted 274 undercover agents on J6!” Etc

Ya THINK??

"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will." -- Joseph Goebbels, born #OTD 1897 MAGA movement | Meaning, Beliefs, Origins, Donald Trump, & Facts | Britannica share.google/ByHS33cYEj8a...

"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." -- Joseph Goebbels, born #OTD 1897 Donald Trump has spread 2020 election conspiracy theories 500 times on Truth Social share.google/VbZLrXoWbHdc...

This is naïve and ahistorical There are many places on earth where people have never in modern history had this type of freedom Assuming that “the arc of history” always bends in the right direction is foolish, and leads to complacency at best, utter collapse at worst.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This ⬇️ re: Israel/Gaza twitter.com/firstfusilie...

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi, born #OTD 1869

RIP Jane Goodall My favorite anecdote was when The Far Side ran this cartoon. The Jane Goodall Institute was NOT amused, and threatened litigation, until it found out that Jane Goodall herself had seen the cartoon and thought it was hilarious. 🐐 www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

Interestingly, on the other site these days, I am less frequently accused of having "TDS" ... because in light of the malice, incompetence, blatant corruption and stupidity on full display over the last 9 months, nothing I can say at this point is really beyond contemplation

"Too many officers, he added, had risen “for the wrong reasons – based on their race, based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts.” ... Or promoted for being on Fox News www.mediaite.com/media/tv/pet...

Tom Homan took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag.   The DOJ shuttered the investigation. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi is chasing down political opponents like NY AG Letitia James.   This is the biggest political corruption scandal in modern history.

His own words….

Except when he's the President...

Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."

How did we reach this point in just 9 months, and WHAT will the American people be willing to tolerate after 3 1/2 years?!?!

This never would have happened if Trump was President. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

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

“Hateful rhetoric mocking Kirk’s faith, tonight at 8pm” — Fox News promo, probably

There is absolutely NOTHING good or positive about the death of Charlie Kirk. Anyone I see celebrating gets an instant block. He had two young daughters who will now see their dad die online. And of course I fear (know) this will be added to RW lexicon about how “they” are trying to kill us/MAGA

I understand MAGA is insisting the signature isn't Trump's but the WSJ piece nicely shows how the signature matches other letters he signed.

Perhaps a silver lining to the horrific ruling by SCOTUS that ICE can use racial (or language, or workplace) profiling: maybe lots of citizens that meet these criteria who didn’t have gov’t IDs will now go get them, hampering GOP voter-ID efforts to tip the electoral playing field.

Ok, you can get to the files from The Oversight Committee site. Warning: It is not easy reading. oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Occasionally we are reminded of why we like social media A+ post

More “smashing norms” media-speak 🙄

The finest visual demonstration of Brexit that you will ever see.

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

We just need a real fighter. Like Merrick Garland.

This headline encapsulates the entire dynamic between democratic and republican politics

"this was the 1st report released following Trump’s firing of the chief at BLS, which led to Qs whether the #s would be twisted to be more politically favorable. It appears, based on these numbers, that they have not" Wrong - reality could be EVEN WORSE www.mediaite.com/media/tv/bru...

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WTAF @jaketapper.bsky.social @cnn.com ?? Your guest host on State of the Union (Brianna Keilar) just said: “An appeals court ruled that many of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, raising concerns the U.S. could have to pay back the billions of dollars TAKEN IN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES” ?!?!

Ask yourself why Russian state media is trying to gin up support for Gaza and criticism of Israel. twitter.com/sputnikint/s...

Amen

RFKjr’s threat to pediatricians: "AAP should ... be candid with doctors and hospitals that recommendations that diverge from the CDC's official list are not shielded from liability under the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act," Kennedy posted this week on X. share.google/V6oR1cpdZ7LV...

"You're in the position of not only fighting against the Nick Fuentes of the world, but also the purists on the left, who regard any disagreement as aggression" "My hope is that we cut that cancer out of the party and we just move on" Amen. Please pay attention @democraticpartyhq.bsky.social

90%(!) cuts at the National Park Service to maintain DC parks. Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper. Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

As always, Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️ Trump lost his mortgage fraud trial. So now everybody else in the world will be accused of mortgage fraud.

#USDemocracy Earlier, I said Trump was outlawing math because the numbers are rigged. Well, it’s coming. First he fires the economic data collector because her numbers made him look stupid. Now the DOJ is investigating the DC police because why? Their numbers make Trump look stupid.

Two weeks. That's about how long it seems to have taken for the peak furor over the Epstein files to subside within MAGAverse Say what you will about Trump, he knows the attention span of his supporters, and the power of the "in two weeks" trope.

Not sure this can rightly be described as "backfiring" ... The objective was not to keep the neighborhood impoverished so that rent would remain dirt-cheap because no one wants to live there. Gotta work hard to spin this as negative. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Xi knows he might have to invade Taiwan before the U.S. elections in 2028, because the next US president might not surrender/capitulate as reliably as Trump. t.co/wt72HO6YRd

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What good is ANY security guarantee from Donald Trump? Unless you physically hand Ukraine a dozen nukes to defend itself, I fail to see how any promises from the U.S. can be relied upon.

Soviet Union anti-Israel propaganda, 1982 (“Stop the genocide…”)

US troops rolling down the red carpet for Putin, basically bowing down to Russia.