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Our premium episode for Patreon supporters is out this morning. @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I talked about the influencers who have descended on Portland to make agitprop for MAGA. Here’s our preview clip, talking about Benny Johnson: the straightest man in DC podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

So pretty much the secret to keeping billionaires in their place is to let Donald Trump run his mouth and ruin any possible court case that could arise from ... community action, let's say. COOL THANKS DONALD!

22 years in the UK. A Dutch immigrant prepares to leave, warning in this letter to the editor: in threatening 'Indefinite Leave to Remain' status, Farage’s words show how easily migrants’ rights can be torn up in Britain. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Gavin Newsom can go straight to hell

The 15th will be the first missed paycheck for federal employees if the government doesn’t reopen. This is what military see when they try to access their pay statements. One soldier told me they’ve never seen “currently not available” in 20+ years.

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

Want to learn more about trans Texans? We surveyed 90 of them to learn how they're dealing with an increasingly-hostile political climate. Almost everyone said they're feeling more anxious and less safe in public. @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite. Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform. Major conservatives joined in. Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

It is because Candace Owens is a blogger pundit and Megyn is a bygone mainstream empty suit. She doesn’t have the power anymore to throw fits against the likes of a true fascist. The media landscape has changed; the empty suits are powerless.

It's hard to put into words how important Daily's Place and AEW during the pandemic were to me as a fan, but Corey does a pretty good job! I probably wouldn't be a fan today tbh 🤼

A staffer on Stephen Colbert's show wanted to ask the first ever Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York City to play a game of thumbs up, thumbs down about an ongoing genocide.

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Celebrations over the ceasefire agreement continue across Gaza, as civil defense crews, journalists, and civilians take to the streets, expressing their joy and relief after two years of the Israeli slaughter.

there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

We need and want your help: If you know of specific book bans/orgs/local groups pushing for book bans and trying to get teachers fired etc, please let me know so I can request docs about what's going on / investigate further

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing. But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged. These are political choices. We can choose differently.

“I’m a billionaire and a bad person and I’m scared of dying so let me pretend this technology will make me immortal oh I fucked up the economy for everyone else well who cares I’m a billionaire”

So excited about the upcoming release of Equator! "We began to imagine a new cultural venture, one that rejects the nihilistic idea that the powerful do what they please, and success is the only measure of moral virtue."

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Look out!

First report live on Al Jazeera just now: “Israel is still bombing Gaza City”

Sometimes it feels like we Americans tried to own the “proud to be ignorant” stereotype, and nobody actually considered where that leads.

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The same pressures that have you desperately trying to make a success out of your game are the same pressures that have driven games media into the ground. It's all victim to the same economic crisis. There's no conspiracy, no lack of interest. Everyone is just broke af

Look. I totally get the despair and frustration. But every couple of weeks someone else is asking "where's press coverage for indie games?" and like, have you been under a rock? It's been torn to pieces my dudes! The devastation of games media has been widely talked about!

"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

Ninety-three farm bankruptcies in Q2 — nearly double the number from the end of 2024. @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/10/04/f...

My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

Excellent thread 👇🏼

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

Vast, vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. Many can't leave the areas they're currently in. If trans survival/liberation are something one cares about, at all, that's the reality. So...🧵 (And no, this is not — in the main — about indviduals leaving the country).

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song. But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Story via @newyorker.com

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

Best purchase I’ve made in a while

Despite the ceasefire news, Israelis are still shooting children in Gaza t.me/QudsNen/190555