Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir. apnews.com/article/immi...

I use this analogy all of the time, but it's like getting 10 installments deep into a Friday the 13th marathon and saying "I didn't realize Jason was so violent."

Federal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...

I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”

I don’t know, I’m actually here and I strongly disagree? I talked to people personally who were thrilled at the notion of rioting. A tiny number, but that’s all it takes - one man with an umbrella, even. Rioting would be ruinous and the risk must be taken seriously. Meanwhile this is all ICE’s fault

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Don't underestimate the vile, rank, racist lies of JD Vance. Remember, he was the one who amplified the blatantly false, hateful story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating the pets of their neighbors-a canard tore the city apart

Matt Taibbi testified under oath about a government-funded academic cabal that censored millions using AI and secret portals, led by a "secret CIA agent." After subpoenaed emails and work products emerged, every claim collapsed. @noupside.bsky.social

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.

what a fucking time to be alive

Aver pubblicato due libri in un anno (e rivisto la nuova edizione del titolo che esce in primavera) mi mette nella posizione di aver "detto abbastanza" per un po' e ho un bisogno inumano di tornare a insegnare: eccoci. violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...

i hate mike pence but i never thought he had sneering contempt for the responsibilities of his office or role

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Maybe, say, 250 years. New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qiHiUs

If you want to chart the lycanthropy of the Republican party, I'd offer this: They now launch wars for oil without even checking with Big Oil. www.thefarce.org/venezuela-is...

Trump is now likening his attack on Venezuela to his interventions in DC, Memphis, Chicago and LA claiming he has eliminated crime in those places he's truly lost his mind

This is all to pay back some rich right wing Latin American exiles who bundle money in Florida

wondering how my dipshit fellow anarchist who used to email chomsky when we got into an argument, then wave his printed response email in my face has been doing the last few weeks.

also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM

"New research from Democracy for Sale shows that three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking and Richard Tice." democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports. Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/what-i...

In other words, Hegseth was outed as a war criminal by a fellow Iraq vet who got the story from presumably high-level military officials inside the Pentagon. In case you were wondering how the military feels about him. Hegseth should know that he can't trust anyone around him in that building.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

There is a lot we don't know, but there are lots of disturbing questions raised by one thing we do know: that at least one notorious public figure has also claimed insider knowledge of Ed Martin’s investigative work. @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social and Susan Corke: lnk.thebulwark.com/4ofiJ8U

I don’t know why, and I don’t want to make a big hairy deal out it so ICE’s Special Media Prosecutor Division doesn’t notice, but People Magazine has been incredibly straightforward with their Trump headlines when he’s being a weird old asshole. They’re a quiet Facebook behemoth, so this is good.

house investigation committees go brrr

you do not hate or blame ralph nader enough for the last quarter century of dysfunction

Tales from a book rollout / book tour starting tomorrow:

Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case. openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...

“These rich, powerful old men are like 11-year-old boys talking about the crush that they have, and they're asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice about this.” Tim Miller and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.

About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.

They thought they were going to get pretext to throw a bunch of liberals in prison bsky.app/profile/maya...

its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house

this needs to known far and wide

A sobering read for a Saturday morning via @naomiaklein.bsky.social

No one has figured out the exact scale of the Hispanic vote collapse yet, but I tried to get my arms around it. Read the rest here: www.thebulwark.com/p/2025-elect...

THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US

And did they! Plus, the California vote that didn't get so much attention will result in a higher chance of Dems taking the house next year: www.thebulwark.com/p/election-d...

THEY DO NOT BREAK US, THEY BREAK UPON US

this is absolutely true and this should not strike fear, it should strike righteous fucking fury in you, are you going to let them break you, or are you going to make them break upon us?

Imma spend the whole day sorting out press clippings and BLASTING victory speeches wall to wall ALL DAY

the long dark also came early this year and feels like it’s gonna last longer. see you on the other side when a UV bulb burns our skins.

interesting to see that the supermarket publications have had significantly more courage to speak plainly than the prestige press this time around

This is not normal, why have we gotten used to this insanity.

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

OK. *deep sigh* If we’re really doing this … If anyone has information about this alleged $130 million “donation” — including the identity of the “donor,” if such a person or corporation exists, and any legal opinions purporting to authorize this — please send it my way. I am at crg.32 on Signal.