“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

Joe Biden was the most pro-LGBTQ rights president ever. Just incredibly sad so many different people’s human rights were stripped away in less than a year because enough Americans chose chaos and others chose lies and apathy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m a progressive but the “all centrist = corporatist” war cry from the left flank is incredibly destructive when the FACT is that most Americans are MODERATES aka CENTRISTS. It is incumbent on progressives to have a persuasive message that brings in all people. Circular firing squads don’t help us.

This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

At the end of the day, I’m asking you to help build the future Pope Leo sees — and America needs. His witness calls us to bring a revolution of tenderness into American politics, culture, and media — a different way of being a nation in an age slipping toward cruelty and authoritarian reflex.

The worst kind of leadership is throwing one’s subordinates under the bus for one’s own egregious mistakes.

Rural town lost its only health clinic because of Trump. Taking bets on how many people in that town voted for him and are now pissed. www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...

Like his hero Lyndon Johnson, when Biden sent IRA grants into places that did not vote for him he did the moral thing by helping the Americans hurting the most. “It was the largest investment in Appalachia since the 1960s’ ‘war on poverty’ under Lyndon Johnson.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent. She didn't want to deploy to D.C. "She hated it. She cried about it." But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it. May she rest in peace. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The blood of our dead servant-soldiers are on the hands of WV Gov. Morrissey who volunteered his state national guard, Trump and all his fascist sycophants. All for performative politics and fascist theater. Fuck them all!

Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/

This is the fighter Alabama needs! @dougjones.bsky.social

It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...

'Does not serve American interests': Ex-ambassador bashes Trump's 'egregious' peace plan www.rawstory.com/ukraine-war-...

Chomsky is seen as a philosopher in some circles. But he has always just been an opiner of subjects he has no expertise in. A prominent critic of the US who launders Soviet now Russian propaganda while living in American comfort. A charlatan. Just like Epstein. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1/ The Kyiv Independent is reporting that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff is "running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials", cutting out Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an effort supported by Vice President J.D. Vance. ⬇️

Grozev is a reputable investigative journalist

If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.

“After Aceituno again told the agents he was a U.S. citizen, they finally threw him out of the van…[And] the agents had taken his car keys. (Aceituno voted for Trump in 2024 because of the border and the economy. He now calls it ‘the worst decision of my life.’)” www.thebulwark.com/p/baker-past...

WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game. @washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

More evidence that the Trump/Witkoff “peace plan” for Ukraine came straight from the Russians - it uses Russian syntax. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Past is prologue. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests. And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now. This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.

Amb. @mcfaulmike.bsky.social warns us in his new book that we aren't in just another version of the old Cold War. We talk about why Russia is willing to take more risks, incl. invasion & cyberattacks, to assert itself & how the greatest threat to America comes from within. youtu.be/KFDYUBDRJZY?...

If Trump, Johnson or Bondi attempt to use the “national security” excuse, they may do so at their own political peril.

When I was active in young Republican groups it was a well known secret that the worst of the worst were closeted gay men. Sexual repression and covering up one’s true self drives many upcoming and eventual GOP leaders. These people don’t love themselves, so how can they love their fellow Americans?

@karenattiah.bsky.social : “Jamal’s plight and murder was a warning sign for America, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure. 1/5

People are rising up and teaching each other how to resist and fight back, and it’s working. And yeah, we’re seeing a whole lot of stupid ICE agents stumbling around like they own the place. You cannot occupy a city and expect silence. The people who live there always answer back.

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew. “It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet." For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Stunning report.

Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

Watch who is freaking out over this, and who is not freaking out. Every guilty person is his own hangman, something something.

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

For House Speaker Mike Johnson, the shutdown was the perfect scapegoat, and keeping it alive was the only way for Trump and the House GOP to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein Files — a vote Trump was nearly certain to lose. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...

The Jan 6 Capitol attack was astroturfed. It could not have happened without effort from the top: filing bs election-fraud suits, whipping up crowds, getting media attention, pressuring lawmakers. Ed Martin was deep in it. He linked Ali up with Josh Hawley - then both of them talked to Trump. 3/

Please realize: when Ed Martin drafted the pardon for the fake electors he was pardoning himself. He made it pre-emptive and general, so it covers "all United States citizens for conduct relating to ... efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 presidential election." 1/

New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

Vaccines account for <10% of global pharma profits. Chronic diseases make up the majority of profits, by far. A major driver of chronic disease? Infectious diseases. MAHA has always been a Trojan horse for the pharma industry.

Going to be interesting see how much control Trump and Johnson are going to have over those Republican House Members whose political careers they have ended.

Lt. Gen. (ret) Russel L. Honoré: @ltgrusselhonore.bsky.social “We cannot be passive and save our democracy. It’s up to all of us to protect and defend our Constitution and the freedoms we hold dear.” youtube.com/watch?v=Rm5G...

We have discovered the antidote to Elon Musk's tyranny—his truest nemesis. First of Her Name, Queen of the Bookstores and Libraries, Daughter of the Literature Department and Humanities, The Breaker of Billionaires... @joycecaroloates.bsky.social lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...

Minds over AI: To tackle disinformation, look to education www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/minds-...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” —Frederick Douglass, speaking to Senate Democrats

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.