US military action in Venezuela seems imminent as Americans are distracted by Thanksgiving. www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...

"But with revelations about Mr. Trump’s relationship to Mr. Epstein mounting, the default QAnon position has become that Mr. Epstein just isn’t that interesting anymore." - @willsommer.bsky.social

somehow i don't think president harris would be launching an explicit war for oil

It seems that X has already disabled the location feature that identified where users's were located. Not at all suspicious.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

In her video announcement that she is resigning from Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks directly to the QAnon community. 1/4 www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/m...

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Excellent thread by @eliothiggins.bsky.social that pinpoints the failure of Yarvin's hollow ideology.

Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr’s FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This is indeed what happens when billionaires like Jeff Bezos dictate the contents of the opinion pages of @washingtonpost.com What a fall for a once good newspaper! I have never regretted canceling my subscription after he nixed the Kamala Harris endorsement.

They started dismembering him while he was still alive

This op-ed is advocating for a military invasion and a war. This is war propaganda.

Spare me the "Marjorie Taylor Greene has changed" bullshit.

So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?

"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly." Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace? people.com/donald-trump...

Mark Epstein (Jeffrey’s brother): “The reason they’re gonna be releasing these things, the reason for the flip is that they’re sanitizing these files. There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out”

Sadly, we should all know who Nick Fuentes is (as Carlson interviewed him and MTG continues to defend him). This interview with John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is great!

Can't wait to read this preprint article critiquing the standard "polarization narrative" by @aurelmondon.bsky.social and his colleagues. Great thread on the article here.

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

A very depressing read

I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.

“A since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her ‘crazy eyes’ and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to ‘get rid of your diaper’ while telling the office to open the door and come out.” h/t @kfile.bsky.social … 1/ x.com/kfile/status...

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

Indeed... that was the main takeaway of teaching "Far-Right Politics" in Fall 2025. Not that the students are more supportive of the far right than previously - they are not! - but for them the far right is "normal". It is the "conservative" party that their dad supports.

No one should have to face such threats. It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

This is another example of AI being used to replace reading and reflection. But it speaks to how much we crave interaction & immersive experience. We want a kind of involvement we can lose ourselves in, which ironically religion has been offering for millenia. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/tech/re...

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

It's an intense time to be a faculty member at UVA!

The MAHA movement ("make America healthy again") is the most Orwellian double-speak feature of this entire administration.

PANIC SETS IN Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears. Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there. It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)

Any hope of a blue wave in 2026 is in jeopardy. Why would liberals, progressives, working people trust Dems to fight for them when they've shown they'll cave to the GOP? Dems fetishize conservative/independent voters, misunderstand how media works, & fear bold ideas. A party of anxiety & concession.

Things will get much worse. Dems caved & gained nothing longstanding, except the resentment of their supporters who're angry at Dems for not recognizing the severity of the moment & not standing up against authoritarian tactics. This is not politics as usual.

This is so incredibly naive. People don't watch Senate votes. They watch what the media tells them about those votes. And there is an entire far-right media ecosystem posed to ensure that this Dem compromise will blow up in their faces. They caved and lost everything.

Schumer, Kaine, and the other 7 Senators who gave the GOP exactly what they wanted with no guarantees in return must all go. Either, we need new party leadership or a brand to party. It is long overdue.

Wait, what???? "Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

I just can’t get over that they ruined millions of lives for some bullshit compromise that keeps a fascist regime in place that they will now hand trillions of dollars to.

Half the senators who caved are retiring. The other half should all be primaried. Every single one. We need politicians who will fight. The tactics of 2016 no longer apply in 2025. We need leaders who understand this.

@noethematt.bsky.social is correct. I'm disappointed with my Senator for not realizing he's playing a losing game. It's time for new reps who are willing to fight for what matters and recognize that yesterday's tactics don't work today.

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con. Please.

The Free Press is neither free nor the press. Discuss.

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

VA said "we've had enough!" This is a resounding victory for Democrats and an undeniable defeat for the GOP and Trump. www.cbs19news.com/news/state/d...

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do. Read the story: www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

F**k Rogan! F**k Tate! Where are all the articles on the PROGRESSIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS???

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices