Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

We could have retooled & electrified the Canadian auto sector as part of the enormous post-2008 bailouts. Instead we gave China a nearly two-decade head start. We’re surrounded by the growing consequences and constrained choices from years of predatory delay.

There’s a zone where supernatural belief, mental illness, and grifting all meet and it’s hard to fully distinguish them.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Recommended reading for anyone trying to wrap their head around today’s WaPo news www.linkedin.com/posts/mabaro...

One option for WaPo folks: launch a premium ghostwriting biz. You’ll write for eg: - founders - investors - executives - successful creators - other businesses Key thing: you’re NOT a “freelance writer” offering a commodity service. You’re a business consultant who happens to know how to write

"We need to be the news" says Bari Weiss, as she hires Epstein connections. (Attia just joined CBS).

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.

As we're sifting through the latest Epstein Files release with all the bombshells about Elon, the Trump administration and even the new CBS News Zoo Crew, please remember that they still haven't released half of what they were supposed to release.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Grateful for the engagement with our work 🙏 One slight misread that I'm seeing and would like to address head on: let me be immensely clear that this is not an argument to transition slower. It's an argument that we need to transition dramatically faster. (1/

Yep. Mentioned this last night on @allinwithchris.bsky.social and he was 🤯

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it is no big puzzle why the venn diagram between school shooters and fascist shooters is rapidly converging to full overlap. Columbinerism is, and always has been, neofascist, because it asserts the divine right of annihilation

good GRIEF man bsky.app/profile/jive...

I’m not as terminally online as I used to be, so I’m a bit late to staring into this particular memetic reflection of the transnational conservative abyss. Anyway, if you’re trying to figure out what the nihilist penguin meme is all about, watch this source clip, then the other one in this thread.

I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

As an elder millennial Canadian, growing up next to USA! always felt like having this pal/coworker who mostly keeps it together but has an unhinged streak nobody likes to look at too closely and you kind of always figure he’s eventually gonna spiral and totally lose it but you hope not & here we are

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Pressure works. Contact your MP and ask Parliament to investigate the extent to which Canadian companies are working with and actively helping ICE. Info below.

Powerful photo—this is the young woman who was simply driving through an area where ICE was deployed on her way to a medical appointment. She was dragged out of her car while screaming she is autistic and has a traumatic brain injury.

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Very little time till we get “what the president clearly meant was…” But in the meantime airline execs are gonna be PANICKING haha And some articling students on Bay Street are gonna be drafting some very annoying memos till 5am

WE’RE SO BACK

This is kind of blowing my mind?

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

JD Vance's strategy for succeeding Trump as head of the MAGA movement is predicated on retaining and exciting the support of violent Nazis all around the US. That's what makes his Holocaust commemoration so unique.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

While we should be thrilled that Minneapolis effectively killed ICE there with their kindness, we should be ready for them to find a new site that will react as they're clearly hoping we'll react -- with some kind of violence they can use as a pretext for cracking down.

we talk a lot about how this administration is Very Online and one of the things that comes with that is a complete inability to understand their opposition - who they are, what they're motivated by, and how they might respond to the administration's actions it's why they're failing

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

The Gestapo leader who oversees kidnappings promises consequences for exercising your First Amendment rights.

Friendly reminder that this gem exists: youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

This is why they're here. I've had this discussion many times with neighbors. They're here because they're cowards who'd run and hide if they encountered someone stronger, with more guns, who could kill them. They expected us to do that, and don't understand why we don't. And now they're stuck.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

🇨🇦 BE PREPARED!!!!!!! "We should stop thinking of defence as something the military does “over there” and think instead about the psychological readiness of every Canadian right here."

Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in. 'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.' Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.

This is a very good question, and part of the very terrible answer is that people crave a permission structure that allows them to act out their violent power fantasies. They defend it because it’s fun for them.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

5/ The reason President Trump's various pronouncements suck up so much oxygen is that with the power of the US behind him the threat matrix looks very different. This is for much the same reason there are very few "mild collissions" when the other vessel is an aircraft carrier.