The Atlantic or The Onion? You decide.

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I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.

This is worse when you see the quote because he is describing professors getting fired for calling Kirk a racist piece of shit and then his college fired him. Also: the origins and defining ethos of Turning Point is getting professors fired. That part, and not free speech, is baked into their bones.

First of many. #$FDX

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

seeing the US men's hockey team bro out with Kash Patel in the locker room and laugh at Trump's sexist jokes does force a person to wonder how many of them are actually seething about "Heated Rivalry"

His body has long settled to ground temperature, so maybe this enforced hagiography can stop now? His murder was horrifying, yes, but he was indeed a "racist piece of (expletive)."

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

the pope telling jd vance to fuck off must be a religion unto itself because i’m devout

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I'm gonna post this gif because it's funny and I wanna look at it and laugh OKAY!?

They're quite literally pillaging the government.

Trump banner at the Justice Department. Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy. What's the difference?

This banner of Donald Trump on the DOJ headquarters building is giving 1930s Germany vibes.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Very innocence forward response, sir. Well done.

Because self-dealing is just fine.

JD Vance, Sept. 2021: "Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don’t talk about it."

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

When bearing false witness on TV, it's helpful to wear ash on your forehead. How else would anyone ever guess you're supposedly a "Christian"?

Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. Remember this.

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

The ultimate problem here is that there's an entire class of political pundits like this who have cooked their brains on X and get their entire view of trans rights advocacy through an explicitly right wing framing, a result that was the explicit goal of Elon buying and manipulating the platform.

PSA: Recognizing the basic human rights of transgender Americans does nothing to diminish your own rights. Denying the basic human rights of transgender Americans puts your own rights at risk.

My exact point right here.

"... the independent experts – who serve in their individual capacities under mandates from the UN Human Rights Council and are not UN staff – warned that the alleged acts documented in the files could amount to some of the gravest crimes under international law." news.un.org/en/story/202...

I couldn't forward the article but I think the headline says it all.

LEFT: Someone who appears in the Epstein files over a million times. Epstein called him his "best friend." RIGHT: Someone never mentioned in the Epstein files—even once. And she never met him. So guess which one is being hauled before our corrupt, cover-upping Congress to testify about Epstein.

This is not a group of people who dislikes Democratic voters and ideas. This is a group of people who dislike the leadership of the party— *because* they hate Trump far more. “Weak” “paralyzed” “afraid”… they are expressing a desire for fighters and leaders that will harness the public energy.

There is no way to be authentic, to stand up for real American values, and throw bad-polling groups under the bus. This is impossible, and voters know it. That’s what the NYT group said today.

These quant brain data bros have lost the whole thread

The next few elections are about brand - about being a party that stands for something – and about fight.

Oh! The Argument, funded by wealthy people who like the status quo, is running more articles arguing for the status quo on gender choice. This is fruitless. Normie voters at NYT said today unanimously they preferred a progressive candidate to a moderate! Issue poll-following is dead.

This language on the TrumpRx site.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:

“.. The Monday interview is on pace to shatter clips of Colbert’s December interview with pop superstar Taylor Swift ..” @forbes.com #TXsen @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...

Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 CBS is dead. ☠️ More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀

And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise

These voters have a well-informed and extremely coherent message for Dem leaders, if they’re just willing to hear it

Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962] 🖤