I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

Sally Jenkins pops into my feed now and again with consistently terrible takes

Although fascist activist Bari Weiss is leading the charge as chief MAGA censor at CBS News, the Ellisons also installed a SECOND Trump mouthpiece there. It's a fully fascist propaganda outlet now, CBS News is gone. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

JD Vance is a gutter trash racist and a scumbag

JD Vance: "Jasmine Crockett, the record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails."

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's private defense attorney. He didn't stop doing that to now serve justice and the American people. It really is that simple. He's not acting in good faith. Period.

Todd Blanche’s appearance on Meet the Press was disgraceful but clarifying. The “Department of Justice” is Donald Trump’s defense team. There can be no presumption they’re acting in good faith. One has to approach them as one approached a Soviet “Department of Justice”—as propaganda, not justice.

Who are these gutter trash still going to his rallies?

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

They sure are being obvious about their coverup

A LEAKED DOJ memo orders federal law enforcement to investigate groups based on their advocacy for immigrants' rights, LGBTQ+ equality, and social justice. To criminalize dissent and organizing is to criminalize the very foundation of democratic change. https://bit.ly/48IX6rX

This is honestly the logical next step after they awarded Anora Best Picture last year

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

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If this is what he tries to sell to lawmakers and the American public then whatever good he's done over his career is wiped away

Not only do I not recognize ANY of the songs, I only recognize one of the artists

Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps. I am not kidding. Look at the thread below. One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.

there's a lot of dumb shit that you can pin on media and how Americans perceive the world but it is a little unfair that Sicario became the "cool badass operators taking out cartel guys" movie for morons because the very explicit text of both movies is that none of that shit works

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Reup: We know that Afghan counterinsurgency veteran Rahmanullah Lakanwal passed multiple vettings before he allegedly murdered Sarah Beckstrom. The Afghan counterinsurgency veteran who FAILED his subsequent vetting, before murdering, is Whiskey Pete Hegseth. www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/29/m...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

The Trump DOJ played down the risk of deploying the National Guard to DC, despite warnings, and now one of them is dead. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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The best way to prep the turkey for moistness and deliciousness (after two days of dry brining)

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell. Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

C'mon. No one believes he's on thin ice, if he is, for using public resources for his private benefit. That's SOP for Trump and his loyalists. If it's anything, it's the latter. www.ms.now/news/trump-k...

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

There are reasons I canceled by Atlantic subscription years ago. This kind of BS is at the top of those reasons. Shameful.

Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against? Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM

I don't often know if a court opinion is going to be completely withering based on its first sentence but "a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience" does a thing

Love hearing @zoekeating.com in Ken Burns' The American Revolution. A perfect fit.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The “America First” crowd was right about foreigners taking american jobs, at least as far as the job of “right wing propagandist” is concerned. If I were conservative I might do a little soul searching about being so easily manipulated but I’m sure we’ll find out why it’s really the left’s fault

Would love your take on this, @atticus59914029.bsky.social

I made a declaration last year at the Thanksgiving table: People should only make dishes for the Thanksgiving table they commonly make. When people make dishes for the first time for Thanksgiving, those dishes tend not to be very good. I am all for creativity but know what you're doing.

Message to other musicians: If Sturgill can play a 3-hour show without a break and start that show on time, you can start your podunk 300-seat show on time

Where was she when other women were threatened and attacked? It's only real now it's come for her?

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

The nation needs Stephen Miller to stand to account in front a jury of his peers

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?