Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

I feel like a pretty good rule of thumb is don't take drug advice from someone who can't pronounce the name of it.

If I sounded a bit salty this past week, I have to say. I spent years monitoring Proud Boys who thought Charlie Kirk was just the bees' knees. Watching the liberal media establishment treat him like some free speech hero has fully driven me over some internal cliff that I did not even know existed

Fun fact: GWAR spoke out against the defunding of orgs like PBS. Lead singer Mike Bishop, who holds a PhD in music, stopped in the middle of a show to point out that defunding public institutions is horrible and said it'd lead to worse. Dude was not wrong.

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

oh fuck holy shit?

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

Call me a filthy commie but I think blowing up boats without actually knowing who or what is on them is really evil and wrong

San Diego Wastewater tracking is back up after suing the fed. searchcovid.info/dashboards/w...

Yes. Also: this is COVID in the New York City area right now. Mask up, friends. coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-wastewater-surveillance

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

5 companies now control 90% of the 🇺🇸 media market. Not great! And they have all either caved to Trump, or are owned or may soon be owned by his allies. (Per @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — A 1996 bill signed by Clinton set us on this path 😕)

I really hate giving other people advice, but the murdoch family is involved in the tiktok deal with the US government. The plan is very much to "fox news" the new generations. Keep your kids and teens off it going forward, if you can.

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

He's very diplomatic about the way he says it, but he's absolutely right.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Fascism is always like this, to some extent. Fascists believe that their identity is naturally superior, that their desires and ambitions are simply articulations of the natural order. They believe that if they remove unnatural intervention (Jews, usually) their preferences will naturally happen.

The presidential historian the NYT quotes as an authority can’t correctly recall what happened five years ago.

this is fucking insane

Let’s get weird- we will be watching the memorial today, this will be a thread.

Let me make this clear: If you are white and just stand by and watch your fellow white person doing this and you say nothing, it's as if you did it yourself.

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

You're either actively working against white supremacy or you're part of it. Whether you're actively working for it or just going along with it. Honoring a white supremacist is actively working for it. Shame on anyone, especially those who so loudly proclaim otherwise, for honoring that.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

yeah, things are bad now, but they’re also gonna get worse

This may be my favorite.

Here are 11 American presidents supporting immigrants and immigration. It's sounds so radical today. But until the far-right took over, it was just normal. #NotStrangers

Best ALT text.

Inside every transphobe is also a raging misogynist

This is the way.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

The current administration will have control over the algorithm.

Exactly. “It's a performance to indoctrinate people and put a target on their opponents.”

This is the correct answer. If that’s not clear, maybe read some credible writing about authoritarianism and fascism. You always lose by debating with fascists.

Yes.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social is a dear friend of mine and a civil litigator who has dedicated her life to doing good for the world. She is being sued by a hateful troll for a thread she wrote on Twitter, which she had every legal right to post. PLEASE if you can spare it help her out.

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

When one marginalized group is sacrificed to satisfy the hunger of an authoritarian regime, it simply builds their appetite for the next one in line. This is simple, obvious, and proven repeatedly.

Maybe let’s save democracy w/out resorting to the sacrifice of ANY marginalized group? Maybe let’s refuse to sacrifice trans, Black, & Indigenous folks, along w/women, people w/disabilities, the unhoused, asylum seekers, immigrants, & everyone else these authoritarian skid marks greedily target.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.