The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a TV sounds like the premise for a 1970s dystopian satire written by the most hysterical Marxist novelist seeking to magnify the moral rot and decadence of a declining American empire…

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

More of this please

also "retribution" implies he was wronged in some way by the people he's persecuting, subtly justifying what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/reun...

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Temperatures were warmer than 5°C above the 1981-2010 average in September 2025 across northern Canada and into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The southern route of the Northwest Passage was ice-free and open for transit this past melt season. Data freely available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

‘Ozymandias is an antihero’ is n incredible read of Watchmen. [intense padme meme] in what way is he heroic, Peter?

Pro-life and pro-family

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

No.

Leaving Twitter, 10 years of history, & 7000 followers was quite easy in the end. I knew after the election result that Elon would become unaccountable to the law, and suspected someone would be rifling through my DMs. So I got my archive, had a few drinks at dinner in NOLA, and nuked my account.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

we need to abolish this shit

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

This is your legacy, Chief Justice Roberts. Congratulations.

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this* They don't give their opinion to the media They don't criticize how SCOTUS works This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

This is why they hate DEI

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

the short answer is that despite its box office failures, TRON is a recognizable brand, or at least recognizable enough for producers to think it has money-making potential. That begs the obvious question of "why" it's a brand at all, and I think the answer to that is interesting! Thread!

lol

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

MAGA House Speaker is refusing to swear in a fairly elected Dem rep to block an Epstein discharge vote. Seems like a big deal the media should be covering nonstop.

Oh fuck it’s because of a Trump China tariff post

Futures are getting hit after hours — $JEF down an additional 7%.

Bird flu cases are spiking, thanks to migration season. “More than 4 million poultry birds were culled in the last month, in states including Minnesota and Iowa, after flocks tested positive for the virus, called H5N1. States officials brace for a tough autumn. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

That said, there is a toxic brand of leftist, especially on social media, who wants shame to persist even after you grow and change. We should present relief from shame as a benefit of moving left. Instead, you often are told you should hate yourself for not being born with perfect politics.

Yes, I think this is right. Shame is complex. It often backfires. But it was undeniably a force in helping me shed the conservatism I was raised with. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-necess...

WGN-TV is, of course, owned by Nexstar. I hope they're reflecting on what they got out of complying with the wishes of this administration.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate: ❌ 27 blue congressional districts ❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats ❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats And the effects could ripple for over a generation.

UPDATE: Newsom has signed SB 79 into law!! This is a great day for anyone who cares about ending California's housing and homelessness crisis, getting the state to net zero emissions, and recovering American democracy.

<in best Archer voice> “So we’re just not doing [Hatch Act] anymore?”

Still the greatest line in the history of cinema

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses so yes, this does do something actually

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

History will look at these masked cowards who agree to do the work of fascism as the neo Nazis they are. This is just ethnic cleansing masquerading as law enforcement.

Maria Bartiromo claims Americans being able to afford healthcare is "small potatoes" compared to Trump's dealings with Israel and Hamas. What happened to America first?

Dude you have one song

Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”