We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation. It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

Fun fact, the iceberg that sank the Titanic almost certainly came from Greenland...

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

Every poll these days is like: - Mad Nazi Pedophile King: 39% - The Democrats: 42%

this summarizes about anything that could ever possibly happen under trump as president

this factory is fucked, all those jobs are going away, hope this helps

“3.6 Roentgen. Not great but not terrible.”

this is what it looks like when the evil is consuming you from within

Jack Smith about his criminal probe Trump: "Donald Trump suggested one witness should be put to death"

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you should ask yourselves why the prosecution has not produced photos of my client in a top hat, carrying white cloth bags marked with dollar signs.”

Do stories like this provide juice for a selective prosecution claim? Seen number stories linked that show this as a problem in the south. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/03/23/a...

Still waiting for X, “the everything app,” to run thousands of banks out of business with its killer financial services

Granted, my Minnesota cred is a bit rusty these days, but where the hell is this cadre of paid actors that can drive on snow and know the proper use of “Ope! Let me just scooch by you there…” supposed to be coming from?

Not only was DOGE illegally accessing your Social Security information, but it was also illegally offering to share it with third-party political groups working to overturn elections. This is a deep betrayal of the public trust and must be fully investigated. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Nate not realizing that our "unincorporated territories in the Caribbean" were acquired from Denmark in the first place in exchange for... relinquishing all claims to Greenland. Peak punditry right there. 10/10, don't ever change.

Take a maximalist position, alienate everyone, accept less than you could have had by asking nicely, declare historic victory.

Mamdani didn’t focus on a nebulous affordability, he focused on specific policies relating to the office, AND he stood firm on other values. Schumer is focusing on affordability with NO coherent policies IN ORDER to avoid discussing policies and values directly relating to his office. No tricky

Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there. When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...

are they not monsters?

Col Davis is the former chief prosecutor in Guantánamo.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

it's going to be the 1951 agreement but with TRUMP written on top of it in big gold letters

I hear AI is really good at picking vegetables, caring for elderly people and cleaning homes and offices, so I am sure he is right about this

I really hate the term "sanewashing" in part because I think what mainstream news outlets really do is something different, which is take Trump statements that intentionally have several contradictory meanings and broadcast the most optimistic one

it is really obvious that even Trump, an idiot, has figured out that constantly contradicting himself is a superb way to get the media to normalize his batshit statements:

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.

Earth, Germany 1933

Chicagoans are completely obnoxious about... well, everything. But especially our glorious Municipal Device. I made this pair of cufflinks for my husband a few years ago, but now I'm thinking I should do a pair with a version of the Device that goes harder.

This effort to curry favor by acting like an insult comic will be forgotten within the Trump administration in a day, but will make headlines and be remembered for decades in the countries being insulted.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Professor of rhetoric: ad baculum. It's a classic Trump threat - mention the thing he "won't" do as an implied threat. Media reports it out as "won't do it," target of implied threat understands, "he might."

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

The justices keep returning to the hypo of a Fed governor posting pro-Nazi videos to ask whether that would meet the bar for for-cause removal. The idea that this kind of content would obviously cross the line seems a bit farcical given some of the material that DHS regularly posts on social media

Imagine that another global power demanded to “take” Alaska, whether by economic pressure or military force. Think about how furious US politicians across the spectrum would be. And think about how little they’d be appeased by shrugging off the threats as hollow bluster.

Holy shit the Sun-Times profiled my trip to the Twin Cities with @bibliogrrl.bsky.social! Shout out to @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @courtneymilan.com and @hankscorpio.bsky.social and @dansinker.com and all the incredible folks printing whistles and spreading the word.

I recently met a widowed 71-year-old woman still working two jobs and living at an extended-stay hotel because even two jobs don't pay her enough to afford rent. This is what "one more year of work" looks like in America.

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

Pretty decent chance that Trump will get gasoline down below $2. Oil glut plus a 2008-style economic meltdown, with the AI bubble bursting and the Europeans withdrawing from our financial markets.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Difficult truth

Broken Clock is correct

another day, another trip on the ashland bus listening to the sound of impact by big black to level off the doomscrolling

"Asked why ownership was important instead of just fortifying Greenland, he said, 'Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.' Asked if he meant... for himself or... the country, he said, 'Psychologically important for me.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

These are the sorts of people that you should let back into the fold Not Richard Hanania. Not Elon fucking Musk.

Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US—a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, Bloomberg reports. Deutsche Bank analysts warn Washington’s key vulnerability is living off global financing—and Europe may decide it no longer wants to bankroll the U.S.

The S&P 500 has been falling ever since he started talking