A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets? We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

Interesting thoughts ...

Conservative White Christians Will Worship Anyone But Jesus During the last ten years, seeing White Evangelicals build idols out of people whose lives and public work are the antithesis of Jesus is something we’ve grown accustomed to. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

Fascism is an objective thing that exists, and some people fit that description.

“We are not going to stop *being* Nazis, so you have to stop *calling us* Nazis.” This isn’t a call to turn the temperature down, it’s a call to smash all thermometers.

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

I wonder if the annoying holiday song this year will be "Grandma got picked up by ICE ... walking home from our house Christmas eve...."

Excellent thread of data it’s worth committing to memory

DID YOU KNOW :In June 2023, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the US declared a “national state of emergency” for LGBTQ+ people in the United States.

No pain relief for #veterans who end up with permanent, disabling injuries & conditions as a result of their service. Huh. Anyone checked the rate of veteran suicide lately...?

I feel like anyone who is less concerned than Ty Cobb should just drape themselves in swastikas right now

Now is the time. If you have a GBLTQ+ person in your life, and you likely do - they could be your neighbor, coworker, friend, lover, husband, wife, son or daughter. Now is the time to support and protect them. If that means putting a cot & a TV in your attic then so be it.

Things to keep in mind today: Stereotyping Fallacy Attributing the same characteristic or behavior to all members of a group, based on limited evidence, prejudice, or anecdote. Hasty Generalization Fallacy Drawing a broad conclusion about a group based on a very small, unrepresentative sample.

Essential watch

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Anyone who has ever played a tower defense game can see what the administration is doing , and how it is likely to end up. Ouch.

Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

JD realized, and even said out loud, that Trump is America's Hitler. JD then tied his entire future to the fuhrer. This sick chameleon completely sold out & altered the course of his life - and potentially the future of America - as cavalierly as he changed his name. Craven, power-hungry psycho.

Some people I know have really surprised me by their zealous defense of racist, incorrect and bigoted things that Kirk said that is so powerful that it overcomes their ability to see that I agree with them that he should not have been murdered. I need new friends.

Fuck a duck Screw a pigeon Go to hell and get religion Appalachian boys’ playground chant from my childhood. I’ve come to imagine it meant they were wise to the preachers.

The Feds are lying about the poor guy they killed in Chicago. They lied about him being a criminal. They lied about his traffic violations. They lied about him threatening their lives. And they lied about an agent getting hurt. unraveledpress.com/what-happene...

Feeling angry & protesty. Streaming the songs of BCVA , protesting this world as it is. Original lyrics, AI band. Suck it if you don't like it. twitch.tv/apdel *WARNING* Contains language, truth, opinion, and a copious amount of fuck you for those who deserve it.

America is now a place where a prominent cable news host can openly call for homeless people to be murdered — and face zero consequences.

SEPT, 1933, GERMANY: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them into prison and camps in what they called Beggars’ Week [Bettlerwoche], carried out by the SA and SS, with the support of the police.

... and it was all BS.

Kirk was highly influential, but his political views were frequently inflammatory, racist, and transphobic, and he had many critics. “Authoritarians can … deal with everything except being laughed at,” one critic said. Read more: www.wired.com/story/charli...

One MAGA killed another MAGA. What did MAGA do? Declared Civil War on liberals. Insane cope.

Trump went on national TV and blamed the murder on Democrats without any evidence. What the evidence shows about the alleged shooter: - Republican parents - Donated to Trump's 2020 campaign - Conservative family - Conservative upbringing - Gun enthusiast

Screen time & computer panic is at the levels of the Satanic Panic. Soon there will be chick tracts about using your computer to pay your bills turning an innocent person into Rambo vs the schoolhouse. I spend more time on line than any shooter , and the only thing I killed is a level 4 mimic