Unabashedly regressive

What makes the current moment especially dangerous is how openly this agenda is being articulated—and these ideas are being laundered through think tanks, legal strategies, and policy roadmaps designed for immediate implementation. trib.al/VIsWxCg

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

It’s Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and Must Be Replaced. “…so that Americans don’t have to suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule that makes a parody of the democracy they were promised.” [theguardian.com]

Two weeks after a Dem governor's win, the North Carolina legislature’s GOP supermajority fast-tracked a bill that would transform the balance of power in the state. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Take Harry Lime, remove the charm and wit, leaving only the penicillin-siphoning black marketeer who'd sell his mother up the river for a few shillings... trump aspires to that level of amorality.

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

the banality of evil

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I am concerned Americans are getting whitewashed info. & are now desensitized to how quickly Trump's Org Crime Mob is making changes (never approved by Congress/Americans). The banning/sanctioning these 5 *key* World Leaders of tech is a blow to World Democracies. www.france24.com/en/technolog...

There has long been enough evidence to indict and the slow release is intended to 1) further torment Epstein victims 2) get Americans used to child rape by elites 3) flaunt impunity, since there have been no meaningful consequences for perpetrators 4) arrive right when AI casts everything in doubt.

New to the Yabba? Ho, ho, ho

The last 24 hours have seen some of the most dehumanizing, disgusting posts of the year. This reporting is about internal comms from the team that makes them. The things they were instructed to show are horrifying, but the things they were told to remove or de-emphasize are even more revealing.

the geniuses of this WH are: a. closely associating themselves with the AI industry (inviting CEOs to WH, relying on endless slop) b. deliberately stopping any attempts to mitigate even the most obvious harms (halting green power projects that might lower electrical bills, neutering state AI laws)

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

take some time out and have yourself a little 5/4 action this christmas The George Shearing Quintet | "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃

The court document below is NOT new. I reprinted it in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT when discussing Trump's history with Epstein. Others also covered it. It was publicly available. Garland of course knew too and protected Trump. And Dems protected and defended Garland. Why pretend otherwise?

Ya'll the footnotes. I have never seen anything like this.

Authoritarian Surge Animates Attacks on Trans Americans www.assignedmedia.or... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

#NowPlaying #NowListening Once again I am recommending Dave Soldier's Christmas album. Brilliant, subversive vignettes meant (as far as I can tell) to be sprinkled into your normie holiday playlists. For some reason it isn't available via his bandcamp page, but you can get it elsewhere.

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

Die Hard, move the fuck over (a preëemptive "no" to any Hollywood remake)

Once again we see that the biggest motivation to turn right wing is to find some cover among fellow sexual predators

@woodrufflab.bsky.social says, if you want science to work, you can't have political hacks telling the scientists what to do. Perhaps that should be obvious, but these days, maybe not 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/ltq3Y...

some people say and believe anything to excuse their selfishness

What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Genghiskhanism

not something you ever want to hear from past CDC leadership, but it’s the truth

Adding on to the clip @parkermolloy.com found where the dumbass OU student admits she just rushed through the assignment. This isn't an issue of a trans instructor trying to force students to adhere to their worldview...it's a moron student half-assing an assignment and trying to shift blame.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

Hegemonic suicide: “The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior career diplomats to ensure embassies reflect its ‘America First’ priorities…” www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Idiotic warmonger Impeachment, we have to have it.

Matt Yglesias consistently treats net zero as if it’s some arbitrary goal that activists want, not a goal that scientists say is necessary to preserve a livable planet for all. He so badly wants a solution that sounds "reasonable" that he's willing to ignore and dismiss scientific reality.

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

Destroying progress in every sphere

It looks like the UK playbook because they're both using the same playbook. An actual conspiracy.

In Hungary, Orban created a new model for authoritarians to gain control of the media without overt censorship. He used regulatory and legal pressure to force media owners to sell their outlets to pro-regime allies. In the US, Trump is using the same approach to consolidate media control.

"Abundance bros, from Yglesias to Trembath to Stapp, ride on the perception that they are politically savvy, data driven thinkers. But they're just a bunch of hacks who get shit catastrophically wrong." That last bit should count for something. But apparently not to the NYT.

the beatings will continue until morale improves so much winning, so tired maybe this is the one that will wake the people up?

Oh sure let's be aggressive to a NATO ally. They want Greenland for minerals and ore, and perhaps geographical strategy. Oh and they want Venezuela for oil

Sounds like this dipshit ran into a program whose controlling authority was CIA/NSA, who do their own background checks and ended up in a real interrogation that he failed — then he fired everyone around him who followed the rules

Polygraphs are junk science. But polygraphs are an effective "prop" used by trained interrogators. An unelected bureaucrat developing a sudden interest in raw intel from a controlled access program is the kind of thing that makes career intel people very suspicious. And for good reason.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

So they've apparently had 1000 agents working through the 300GB of Epstein files, and they've managed to release under 1% of them, and those wholly or heavily redacted. Trump must feature in them an awful lot for the task to be so onerous.

It's not about the memorial building. It's about erasing the predominantly liberal message of the renowned cultural center. The center offers theater, dance, classical, jazz, pop, folk music & a National Symphony Orchestra. These were part of Kennedy's cultural legacy, something Trump cannot buy.