hey, do you remember when Elon Musk allowed Dom Lucre - that Qanon influencer who posted CSAM - back on Twitter/X, kept giving him payments, and then the New York Times wrote a soft-focus piece about Lucre’s life?

glad to see that my “lyman stone gives off hitler particles” intuition was correct

Super important so I hope @eladn.bsky.social doesn't mind if I bring it here. This normalizing of the key denialist trope is both a huge red flag and one that probably doesn't seem that significant to those who don't actually pay much attention to antisemitism. www.threads.com/@eladnehorai...

Revisit one of our most-read stories of 2025: One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate became the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism. (Published June 2025)

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

The two things I think are funny about this are that 1) SF has the most moderate obviously-not-socialist government in decades at this point, yet the discourse remains unmoved 2) the idea of “tired of lefties and immigrants? Have you considered moving to Austin or Miami?”

It’s even worse when she lacks the very skill set needed for the job, never having designed or carried out the sorts of randomized controlled clinical trials required for FDA approval of a drink or obtained experience in drug regulation policy.

Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Russia lied and Trump bought it, aping the lie in public. Yes, again. Despite yet another Russian attempt at "look what you made me do," they've been throwing everything they can at Ukraine for years. This is just another lie to give sympathizers, including the US president, a temporary excuse.

In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.” via @floridaphoenix.com

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

so i keep seeing posts from this infantrydort guy and he seems like an idiot?

Democrats yesterday won the final special election of 2025, in Iowa: Their nominee defended a state Senate district by 43%. Harris had won it by 17% last year. This win means Dems prevent the GOP from gaining a supermajority; the GOP lost the supermajority earlier this year.

This is the one that really gets me. Hegseth treated a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart as a photo op, putting on makeup, telling an aide to “look commanding.” When the Ukrainian asked for honesty about what was going to happen, Hegseth refused to answer, just nodded for the photo. Hollow man.

Key to understanding MAGA is their deep envy of celebrity. Actual celebrities break their brains. If George Clooney made fun of my lawyering I would have the wisdom to go along with it or shut the hell up. If you're not a celebrity yourself you cannot win these battles, you're fighting an avatar.

The results of Musk’s chainsaw.

In retrospect this is probably one of the most cynical and brazen ratfucking attempts we've ever seen

Khanna on the Trump administration flouting the Epstein files law: "Every person at Justice who violates this law is guilty of obstruction of justice and a future administration could prosecute them"

"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"

I generally consider myself a small-government type but it has been very obvious for quite some time that there is no solution to the deficit that does not involve substantial tax increases for the top two income quintiles at least. Taxes gotta go up.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

No he didn’t, he openly spoke of deporting more than twice as many people as there are illegal immigrants. If people were stupid enough to live in an alternate reality that sucks for them but I don’t see why I have to pretend that was what was going on too.

An excellent and well researched article on nearly a year of Trump’s Immigration Nightmare How the US has moved towards fascism, how due process was set aside and how the Supreme court judges have allowed impunity From @radleybalko.bsky.social via @newrepublic.com Worthwhile...

once again, and i am serious, if you took a class from wurman, you should demand a refund

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

I am annoyed by the persistence of 'resist libs are tired of resisting Trump' line. No Kings put record-breaking numbers of people into the streets, specials/off-years are at D+10 or more. I don't think the resist libs are tired. I think some writers are tired of writing about resist libs.

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

“If there’s one thing the 90s were known for, it was an earnest lack of cynicism.” I suppose that must appear true if ”Beethoven” is literally the only piece of media from that era which is available for consumption.

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

Talking about Pluribus and realizing you can use the word “plurb” like the way Smurfs use the word “smurf.”

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.

Feels a touch ironic that “Gigachad” — a bizarrely specific, extremely 21st-century image of the ideal man — was not, in fact, in this guy’s DNA, so he did a bunch of very-much-not-DNA-based stuff to his body to try and achieve it anyway.

Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

Pretty strong vindication of @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s “gender camp” argument bsky.app/profile/hann...

We have flying cars (and not just helicopters). You don’t want a flying car. Or, more precisely, you don’t want everyone else to have flying cars. Have you ever *met* people?

This isn’t MTG having some great moral revelation, just her dealing with the realisation Trump isn't aligned with the beliefs she's assigned to him.

Also that guy you're arguing with was the guy who argued the Galactic Empire was good in Star Wars. You don't have to engage his fetish for arguing here.

You have to remember that The Bulwark came out of the Weekly Standard's newsroom, and is by and for never-Trump Republicans, not you and I. They're potential allies, but they certainly aren't your friends and today's article is a good reminder of that.

This characterization is going to stick with me. Per @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s review, it’s like Brink Lindsey wants a world where radically transformative technologies have changed the world completely but household formation hasn’t changed since the Flintstones (both on a ‘50s model)

The Papers of Record are incredibly eager to move straight into the “normal politics” horse race of the 2028 GOP primary, as if the lawless authoritarianism never happened. The Bourbons of political journalism.

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

Greene's shift is newsworthy but it's shockingly dishonest for @nytimes.com to portray it as a sincere awakening. There's no evidence of that; she's not changing caucus nor voting differently. She's an abhorrent bigot cynically adjusting position because she sees Trump as a liability. That's a fact.

I feel like we’ve gone quite a few rounds of “this guy is unfortunately not the guy you want him to be,” and it never really sticks.

shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same