Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Surely Jim Jordan didn't think it would go this way.

Score one for “fuck you, make me”

And @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty tried to give themselves millions of dollars for receiving these calls🤔

Dude thinks he has a legacy to salvage. How clueless.

Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."

Every single person of this regime in office outdoing one another on being indecent and vulgar

This is the most pathetic attempt at deflection I have ever seen a politician do in my lifetime.

They really cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid then put $50 billion back and think we’re all too dumb to notice

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-l...

Large law firms are siding with Trump over their clients and employees. Let me give you one statistic to exemplify this: DOJ is suing 22 states for access to sensitive voter data. My firm of 60 lawyers is fighting in all 22. Not a single big law firm is fighting along side us in any case.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

Not the worst part here, but the DC area has a plethora of concert venues and stage shows. Kennedy Center is a big part of that but far from the only game in town. Sales and shows fled so easily in part b/c there are lots of easy alternatives. Nobody in the habit will be in want of plays to go see.

New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys "Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

"Rebecca Solnit...said, you know, Donald Trump only has one power, and that's the power to make commands. But we also have only one power, which is to refuse those commands. And if we refuse those commands, Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot or anyone doesn't have any power."

In the wake of a fatal shooting, a college coach shows the essence of true leadership www.nytimes.com/athletic/691...

reminder that caldwell’s most recent book argues that the civil rights act of 1964 was something akin to a constitutional abomination that produced a world of white subordination

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Page One. @financialtimes.com

Just a refresher: 46% of Independents and 7% Democrats voted for lardass in '24. He won by under 2.0%. 20M registered Democrats didn't vote. 90M people of voting age didn't even bother to register to vote. Too many people took too much for granted for too long.

One of the few silver linings that have come from this harsh year of deportations and ICE raids is that it has clarified which people and institutions will use their voices to push back and which will choose accommodation.

“.. We can no longer permit ourselves nor ask our audiences to step inside this once great institution,” he said. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

Ah yes. Prior tenants famously control rent prices for subsequent tenants.

Yes, time to end PG&E’s dumb stranglehold on SF sfstandard.com/2025/12/22/s...

ICE caught in yet another blatant lie. Glen Burnie, MD

🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi has all but confirmed the existence of the conspiracy probe, pulling back the curtain on the potential next stage in Trump’s campaign of retribution against anyone who has stood in his way. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

It appears the whole Putin “Ukraine tried to kill me with 91 drones last night” was entirely made up. And of course Trump repeated it and said he was mad at Ukraine. Nightly Russia launched drones and missiles at innocent people. And tried to Kill Zelensky every day Spare me the gaslight

It’s not “patriotic” to bail out Argentina while Americans are struggling, to build a ballroom while cutting SNAP benefits, or to pad your own pockets while claiming “affordability” is a hoax.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking A Page From the Confederacy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...

This is not how a normal Justice Department talks about an ongoing investigation—or about putative targets and their uncharged conduct.

This is how you know a wealth tax is the right thing to do

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Once again, the whiplash I’m getting from finishing a book about the 1960s Civil Rights Division *fighting* discriminatory measures designed to suppress the vote and then reading its current leader defending those same kinds of measures today.

Since Australia this month barred children under 16 from using social media, parents around the world have been debating whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.

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The assaults on immigrants and any American who does not look 'White enough' is just the beginning. Trump is gearing up to disrupt the 2026 election by preventing those who do not approve of his autocratic kleptocracy from voting.

The fact that Elon Musk is pontificating about the important of experience in public services after gutting the federal government

ICYMI — “Jared’s the INVESTOR here” J.D. Vance referred to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner as “the investor” in Gaza, as he and Witkoff cook up a scheme to enrich their families on the backs of the horrors there And the Hunter hunters are silent🤔

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

This is why corporate media is dying in this country and independent media is on the rise.