The sort of thing MAGA routinely fabricates about horse paste, colloidal silver, CO2 or bleach, but actually true. (Well, probably true, pending larger studies)

Trump: <kills and devours corgi puppy during cabinet meeting> Republicans: "The Obamas had multiple dogs in the white house, where was the outrage then?"

Donald Trump's wildly inappropriate reaction to this (quite impressive) piece of Reaganite advertising ought to cause so many people to view the ad he doesn't want them to see that we'll have to rename the Streisand Effect the Ontario Effect.

So heterodox! It's not how people normally react to being in neo-nazi hellholes, which makes it smart and cool. Especially if you like jokes news ideas et cetera.

"We could get us a fella with even more overt nazi tattoos then Hegseth's!" "You slump-shouldered sack of guts! Why we'd look like a bunch of Johnnie-Come-Latelies, braggin' on our own casual bigotry, don't matter how irony poisoned!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOaC...

Shoring up the public health infrastructure, new from @aniloza.bsky.social at @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

when the executive is unitary

And then you’re 30

Excellent reasons to be skeptical. Counterpoint: it would be vengeance against Comey, whose daughter led the prosecution. He is absolutely that petty.

Trump: You get that visual allegory of my second term? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin dystopian just like you asked.

Ok so this is an australian thing where they troll him by just taking how he talks about himself at face value and then ask direct follow up questions in that reality? This is also what Jonathan Swan did in that excellent HBO interview during covid.

I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

#NoKings #Atlanta

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

This behavior needs to be associated with these people for the rest of their miserable lives. They should never again hold any position of privilege or authority, only jobs which literally no one else is willing to do.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Testing tripsnek link unfurling on bsky tripsnek.com/u/paris-nice...

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Democracy Dies in Both Sides-ism @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org & I on the @washingtonpost.com 's pathetic editorial on the Comey indictment. In @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

🧵: Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Budapest's House of Terror museum is maligned for Fidesz white-washing Hungary's complicity in fascism, but even it has a "Gallery of Victimisers" exhibit with names and faces of Arrow Cross members. We should strongly consider such a museum in Chicago and any other city that faces such terror.

Wray also pre-emptively resigned with years remaining on his statutory term to enable Trump's frictionless appointment of Kash Patel.

The effort by the Pentagon to crack down on reporters should scare every American. The civilian leadership obviously wants stenographers covering the U.S. military - and not reporters.

lindsey halligan, welcome to the rocket docket

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Something deeply morally gratifying about Jane Goodall reaching out from beyond the grave to list the absolute worst people on an entire planet and it matching your own list precisely.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

If this is to be end of the Republic, that end will be hastened by the inability to distinguish (or eagerness to equate) state violence and the acts of random individuals.

I don't think Stalin did it this way. I think he knew he had to make it clear in advance how you were supposed to behave, what the consequences would be if you didn't, and then enforced those consequences. This is what you do when you can't do any of that, because you are a bumbling, whiny loser.

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THE COURT: So which one are you submitting? MS. HALLIGAN: The one with...whichever one is better I guess. THE COURT: Better? MS. HALLIGAN: Well I don't know, you're the judge...magnet straight....so you can judge it?

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table" me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries chotiner: does your meal always come with fries me: ...yes chotiner: is there anyone else at the table me: chotiner: we can revisit this later

France with half the poverty rate, 1/5th the homicide rate, 1/10th the homelessness rate, 1/2 the sexual assault rate, less debt-to-GDP, higher education rates, listening to the US President say it's going to Hell yesterday at the UN.

Tylenol

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Homan also said newspapers who wanted to write “hit pieces” on him could “have at it.”

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

Do you understand what activists in any authoritarian regime in history would have given to be gifted our precise set of circumstances? They can publish or organize however they like, there’s still a severe taboo on state persecution of them, the regime is blundering, unpopular, and underresourced.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.