My mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant and now I have graduate degrees in crystals and invisible rays and alchemy, am bestowed with secret demonic knowledge, and also I cut the loose tags out of my T-shirts big dub for team acetaminophen tbh

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Watching a serial rapist, a man who abused his wife so badly that she *killed herself*, use this rhetoric makes me really glow with rage.

stunning development in transatlantic anglophone politics as liberals get St George in the partisan divorce

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

In light of recent developments in tactical aviation & the Lockheed Martin propaganda machine, I have been sent as a special envoy from the Free Republic of Mil Aviation Twitter to spread a message of truth and unity among the exiled natsec liberals.

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

I would like to respectfully throw a bit of cold water on this. One, even scaling for a country the size of the USA (as ZA argues), the Troubles and the Anni di Piombo only saw a handful of *major* bomb attacks, over decades. Two, the availability of explosives in the US does not support it.

The single thing about this whole mess that has shaken me the most - not the most offensive, not the worst systemic impact, but what has shaken my previously solid-ish view of the world the most - is the sense that the rightists were essentially right, that my greatest enemies *are* other Americans.

Yeah the most important criticism of this platform imo is that an uncomfortable number of the big accounts (>25Kish followers) are Blueanon bots/useful idiots/grifters.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p... Jones, Klein, and other pundits can blather on about civility and debate as much as they want. This dude created a watchlist that has academics I know on it, and they received harassment and threats as a result. Aside from everything else he said and did, the watchlist

Starfish poses this hypothetical as if John Foster Dulles didn't conclusively answer it in the affirmative 67 years ago

Someone really ought to be keeping an extensive list for the 18 USC 242 tribunals.

Life cheaper than doordashing yourself a double steak burrito with guac and chips in the post ZIRP economy.

Spread the word, new pod for the committed DOD weirdos and the madness-curious layperson alike is out

perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

It became a given because we won so substantially that most people who live in a liberal state don't know it exists. Us talking in this "public sphere," liberal. Being able to move within your own country, liberal. Until Maria Theresa, poor people in what is now Austria couldn't get married.

Guys, look, you can't sanely make the case that Fox stays on the air for even the first 24h of our next presidency. Not after this week.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Now ironically, Wright's area of responsibility as Secretary of Energy does actually have a lot to do with how the war unfolded, but I'm not sure anyone has told him what his department does yet...

Multiple Second Circuit judges sign on to a concurrence that says another judge is making up quotes. "Sure enough, add some words, and the meaning will change" is a withering line.

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3k). People overall believe Jimmy Kimmel's comments were acceptable. Further, people found FCC Chair Brendan Carr's comments about planning to retaliate *unacceptable.* And overall, people strongly disapprove of canceling Kimmel's show today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

If the TL will indulge my griping about something in the USG besides the obvious right now... There is a cringey and somewhat irresponsible linguistic trend happening in my beloved NNSA. It predates this admin but might be getting worse under Trump. A short 🧵 about "the warfighter." #nukesky

I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:

Homegrown fascist and possible child molester* Brendan Carr thinks you, the American people, are going to be told what to think by someone on the TV. Dangerous and stupid in equal measure. *no, there's no evidence, but it's possible isn't it? He's in the right political movement for it

U.S. leftists should read If We Burn and how globally all of the “leaderful”, decentralized protest movements of the 2010s mostly failed and members pretty uniformly wish they had been more centralized and organized and less anarchist

Everything old is new again

The social order that bends to a tyrant’s will becomes a world of people only concerned with their own private needs, who sulk apart in fear and loneliness, and are unable to act in concert—that is to say, act politically. And that suits Trump, the tyrant, just fine.

brb calling my high school civics teacher to tell him that he was right about how skipping jury duty is quote "redcoat loving Tory loser behavior" yeah it's been like 20 years and I've changed area codes since then but i bet he'll pick up

I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass

what did you guys think personal liberties and free markets meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

restoring lethality and deterrence btw

Hey now. I care about being cool to a select but important group of people and I'm over 25 yet not enfeebled. - My little cousins - Couple of widows + the one chill deacon at church - Small cabal of pseudonymous engineering and security dorks on Bluesky dot com, the Something App - Mrs Rocky Flats

Bessent is straight up saying that we're aligning with the Grand Strategic Pacing Threat to sustain Algorithmic Short Form Dopamine Hacking Content With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

I think it's only reasonable to question whether these schools get a cent of federal money in 2029. Fair play is fair play. UT can backfill from their football budget, that's basically an endowment right?

if you really believed this was the threat environment you wouldn't have an account on this website.

Taking it as obvious fact that the administration would never try to improve education for Black people or Native Americans/Indian tribal communities just for its own sake...what's the deal here?

Right, at the end of the day Miller has erotic fantasies about throwing libs out of helicopters and Vance thinks he's Sulla. The state repression is either all talk, or it isn't, and then posting doesn't matter. Panic is preemptive compliance. These scum have earned your contempt, not your fear.

And the far right campaign of collusion with America's foreign enemies continues, now with the aim of weakening the American military and preparing it for hyperpartisan use against the regime's internal enemies. Only one side in this country has ever stabbed America in the back and it's deep red.

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we got zoomer autotune Dos Gringos before the Epstein list, GTA 6, most agency heads confirmed, take your pick &c sorry USAFbros you're definitely going to war and it's probably gonna be a dumb one

Latest episode of Second Breakfast is out: this week we cover the epidemic of briefcase carriers in natsec policy, Once an Eagle and Army leadership PME failures, and how history is driven by a critical mass of grifters. open.spotify.com/episode/5b9G...

Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.

Depending on how conspiratorial your views are, DHS is somewhere on a spectrum from faithful executors of the President & his party's worst desires, to an actively anti-American, ISI-esque rogue state-within-a-state. Neither will be held accountable in the way that our Korean allies will demand.

meanwhile, what the right is currently doing, creating a database of progressives who committed wrongthink so they can be harassed, is not a "reaction" to cancel culture. it's just what the right does. I was put in one of these databases years ago simply for working at a nonprofit the right disliked

There is a very sad thing happening in right wing, largely adult convert Catholic spaces. It is an attempt to turn Catholicism the same direction as some American Evangelical & Reformed churches, in which God is displaced by politics, aesthetics and human hierarchies as the center of religious life.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.