A proposed 2% wealth tax in France would affect 1800 people, and bring in $20 billion a year. It’s overwhelmingly popular, but it seems that Macron would rather let the far-right take power than tax the super-rich. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/Snv1jbR

Just irredeemable pieces of shit. We're going to need a modern-day equivalent to the Wiesenthal Center to hunt down and arrest MAGA immigration criminals once this is over.

🇸🇾🤝🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — A pro-Ukraine rally took place in the Syrian city of Maarat al-Numan (Idlib) today as people were protesting any possibility of normalization of Syria-Russia relations.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Good for him. Also, Zohran being asked questions about Israel so often that he has to make it clear he's running for Mayor of a city in the United States of America. Fucking nuts really.

If Pete Hegseth was managing the woke Antifa Allied war effort in WW2 (a stretch, I know, we know his sympathies would have laid with Germany), he would have fired Oppenheimer and Turing for not being "manly" enough.

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

In tonight’s New Jersey Lt. Gov debate, Jack Ciattarelli’s running mate Jim Gannon said - out loud - that new taxes are on the table for NJ residents…EXCEPT FOR MILLIONAIRES!!! Clip via @umichvoter.bsky.social on X.

Epstein victim says there are tapes of Donald Trump having sex with 'many girls' recorded by Jeffrey Epstein. open.substack.com/pub/seemorer...

it's genuinely somewhat absurd that a literal 85 year old Reagan appointee feels more mad about this than Senator Fetterman

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

A top tier useless politician begging to lose a primary next year.

Broke: Covid was created by China to lose the 2020 election for Trump Woke: Covid was spread by a man eating an undercooked bat at the Wuhan market Bespoke: Covid was created by the Houston Astros to distract us from their cheating scandal

Tech bros: AI is a tool for enlightenment. Me:

This got multiple likes so here we go! 1) “Daddy take your time… I want you to punish me… I need some discipline tonight.” Who sang it???

I want to do a skeet series where I quote lyrics that reference kink/bdsm and y’all can guess who sang it- anyone down?

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

guy who got confused and voted for joseph kony in 2012

A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes. An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

That video should be running on every news show 24x7 for a week to show all the zero-information electorate in the suburbs what they voted for last November. Maybe they’ll think about more than just their own wallets for a second in 2026.

NYC peeps: Please vite YES on this and all of the ballot proposals this November.

Elon Musk has spent the past year obsessing over Pakistani child-rape gangs in the UK. Meanwhile, allegedly, in his own immediate family:

cuomo turned over control of the state Senate to the Republican Party, appointed conservatives to the state's Supreme Court (shut up, NY lawyers), and _still_ collected a huge number of state party endorsements. then he ignored the results of the primary to collaborate with Trump.

Historically the route to regional/great power status has been taking in people expelled by other states for bizarre ideological/religious reasons

NATO needs a better response than this. Sweden does have the right and it should actually do so, now. It’s a fucking DRONE- you’re not even gonna kill a pilot- wtf are you scared of????

Thinking about how Biden was unable to fire Louis DeJoy for his entire presidency

I’m pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine. That’s how you know I have a damn brain.

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

You can’t say you want to expand the coalition by accepting conservatives while simultaneously trying to exclude leftists. Either you’re a “big tent” person or you aren’t. Period.

Kirkle jerk? Is that something? I just woke up.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Given [waves hands at everything] I have some recommendations: 1: Subscribe to your local newspaper and see if there's a print edition. Read it at the kitchen table with coffee. 2: Find a bookstore and browse in it often, buy one book every time you go. 3: Stop consuming news online.

We’re not talking enough about how Trump plans to colonize Gaza with Bibi Netanyahu, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) & Elon Musk. There’s a leaked proposal that literally has: - Trump Riviera & Islands - MBS Ring & MBZ Highway - Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone ???

The one belief that unites Long Island Republicans and Long Island Democrats is that New York City does not have a legitimate claim to self-governance and the needs of the suburbs always outweigh the needs of the 8 million people who live in New York City. Jay Jacobs embodies that perfectly.

Antifa landing in Normandy

This is going to kill babies and toddlers who would’ve otherwise survived and their blood is going to be directly on RFK and his plaguelusting posse’s hands

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

I just cancelled my Disney Plus subscription

- Boycott Disney. - Cancel Hulu. - Cancel DirecTV - Boycott ESPN. - Cancel Disney Plus. - Boycott ABC - Cancel ABC NEWS - Cancel CBS NEWS -Boycott CBS -Boycott & cancel all @NexStarMedia programs

I just subscribed to @inquirer.com in order to wean myself off the pathetic @nytimes.com’s both-siding everything coverage and I feel so much morally cleaner already.

Every major Dem electoral advance in the past 30 yrs has come via small donors & grassroots groups, & every time the Dem elite reaction has been 'how do we rein that in?'

The bigger story to me is that the US government, the FBI, and Justice Department appear to be planting false evidence for political gain…

The bottom line is this. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

i was told by the supreme court that this was a hysterical hypothetical

Ukraine is winning. We need to let them win. Putin will be Mussolini’d.

Hear me out: Frank Serpico for NYPD Commissioner