"It is now simply a standard, often unmentioned part of our politics that those who the president dislikes, within his own party or outside it, will be the target of stochastic terror."

Breaking: Pakistan’s defense minister declared his country is at “open war” with Afghanistan, following what he said was a series of cross-border attacks.

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

Specifying a limit to the punishment the US is willing to dish out makes it much easier for Tehran to decide if it's worth making the concessions or taking the (limited) blows

We are living through a period where we have mass government layoffs literally causing countless deaths while at the same time DHS has so much money that Noem will have a different luxury jet for every day of the week

The White House posting a fake AI video of a gold medal athlete would be an insane scandal in the old times. www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

“…the communities of Gorton & Denton, SE of Manchester, have been Lab. strongholds for decades. Filled w/ a mixture of working-class voters, students & uni graduates, & home to a large ethnic-minority pop’n, they are the kind of places that helped make him PM in 2024.” 🌱

Nothing to worry about, just crazy people handling an erratic authoritarian president a blueprint for an unconstitutional power grab to try to take over the American election system

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

“With every passing year, the springtime chorus grows quieter. There are fewer song sparrows cheeping amid the shrubs and grasses. The high-pitched trill of the indigo bunting is muted. Even the raucous calls of American crows are fewer and further between. …” 🌱

It's a concentration camp for kids. That's what we have now.

Emergency, yes. Emergency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What does it say about the 1990s capitalist elite, that their real-life Zelig was Epstein?

DIE HATE CRY is here at last

I’m old enough to remember being taught that the cardinal rule of computing is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Doomerism is fading, if you know where to look — beyond the 🇺🇸, that is. The future is already here. It’s just distributed elsewhere.

The apotheosis of vulture-capitalism.

Yeah — you might as well suggest “maintaining the gold standard” as the rationale.

A lot riding on a single evening’s pharmaceutical prescription, indeed.

In 2025, the U.S. added 53 GW of new electricity capacity, the most since 2002. In 2026, it's on track for 86 GW, mostly solar/storage. To put that in perspective, the U.S. is expected to add more capacity in the next two years than it did in an entire decade of the 2000s combined.

I suppose I should be grateful that the US didn't join Russia in voting against like last time. I note that Hungary also abstained, showing (again) that as long as Orban is in power it will be a very unreliable ally.

Suggestive of my future answer to any students who ask “What is a hegemon?” From from now on, I’ll say “Whoever can get away with self-judging.”

This is one of the weirder and more confusing stories. Cognitive state ok? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yes - it is a petrostate BUT: Unlike other petrostates, the US has low dependence on its oil/gas export earnings. It's a new, unique kind of petrostate now - just all about projecting a narrative that it believes protects its dominance, rather than c/a or fiscal motives www.ft.com/content/4d25...

Well, it's all OK then. Vermont Jesus doesn't mind Platner's Nazi tattoo. And Platner hates Israel but disses antisemitism. So I guess let's just support him and get on with it. Right? Right? #JanetMills. www.jta.org/2025/10/23/p...

GESTAPO

“Human Rights Activists in Iran, a U.S.-based rights group, has confirmed the deaths of at least 6,500 protesters since demonstrations broke out in late December. Some activists estimate that the total death toll could be in the tens of thousands.”

My understanding of Section 122 is that it allows the imposition of tariffs to address "fundamental international payments problems" rather than allowing them as a response to SCOTUS decisions that the president finds annoying. So, this increase from the original 10% seems like it's on shaky ground.

EU Commission statement on SCOTUS tariff judgment - seeks "clarity" from Trump administration re deal with the EU ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Monstrous

Attacking anyone who questions his policies using the biggest bully pulpit in the world (no doubt directing vast quantities of vitriol, harassment, threats, etc. toward Hess)

Nothing to worry about, just state election officials preparing for possible illegal and unconstitutional efforts by the Trump administration to tamper with the 2026 election

Unprecedented corruption

What a #PetroState looks like. #CarbonOligarchy

What is needed. The rule of law must be defended.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

<time traveler from 1992 passes out, dies>

“The Trump administration sought to end protections for children held in detention that are in place through the Flores Settlement Agreement. The 1997 agreement requires that children be treated humanely and that officials should prioritize their release.”

If you have not (understandably) watched any of the videos, this is again worth highlighting.

Cross-national indices of press freedom should really account for the relative absence or presence of this tendency.

‘… It’s not a fair fight, with one side repeating a litany of claims found on anti-wind websites, and the wind power companies obligated to stick to facts that will stand up in court, said Danielson. “It’s not even really an adult conversation anymore,” …’ 🔌💡 🌱

“American carnage” and “engineered chaos” were and are tell-tale projections and self-fulfilling prophecies of fascism.

Shorter NRA: #TreadOnMe and my community.

They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.

Impeach the entire Executive Branch

“Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me.”

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.