I sat down with 20 undecided Texas voters on @jubileemedia.bsky.social’s Surrounded. One of them brought up “welfare queens” so I told him the truth: The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes.

What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

Happy anniversary to The Expanse, one of the (if not THE) greatest scifi TV shows ever! The first episode aired OTD in 2015. @abraham.bsky.social, congrats. 😀

Americans who die young from preventable infectious diseases are only making the rest of us stronger. by RFK Jr.

> @miatretta.bsky.social

Guarantee every Republican asked about this “hasn’t had time to really look into it yet.”

Amidst all the various threats, unknowns, sturm und drang of our age, is it possible that this ends not with a bang, but with a pandemic? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing. Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.

Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong. Wherever in the world it happens. You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.

Chancellor Merz is right: Europe can no longer depend on America. But he's wrong to say that America is pursuing its own interests. Trump is pursuing his deranged and corrupt interests, not ours.

Steve Bannon’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein deserves even more scrutiny. Every day. Bannon has manipulated press coverage for years, even while being a superspreader for rightwing extremism and idiotic conspiracy theories. Reporting every day. Bannon + Epstein.

Oversight Dems just dropped a new trove of photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate — including this one of Steve Bannon. @monacharen.bsky.social has a question: Where's the uproar over Bannon's connection to Epstein? Read it here: bit.ly/3Mq75uP

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself

It's a defining feature of the Trump Era: unqualified people in big important jobs who don't want to do them and can't anyway so they spend a lot of time pretending to do it on TV and social media.

Trump posted about gold signage and a new mirror at the White House, yet still no posts about the flooding in Washington state

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Two days after the House of Representatives voted to restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees, Trump moves to illegally end collective bargaining for TSA workers. Trump may be the most anti-union president in American history.

Of all the things a compliant Republican congress is just letting happen, giving a slimy sex addict power over the health of the nation may end up doing the most irreversible damage.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Well would ya look at that It seems Trump, in fact, was involved enough in the Indiana gerrymandering fight to know which obscure state Senators voted against it And his pride was wounded enough that-like the small minded, petty villain he is-he’s plotting revenge against them

Incredible free vacation opportunity for cool guys.

“Welcome to Supply Chain Management 201. There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social I’m watching the 12 monkeys tv series and we’ve reached the point in season one where they are creating random characters and dynamics to make what’s happening interesting and we will see where we are at by the end of the season and if I will continue

When it is your first rodeo.

Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.

This is what David Ellison paid for:

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social justice realized: it’s not the end of expertise, it’s the redefinition. No longer about ideals or about aesthetics, the new experts are in clicks, likes, and follows. We are the media for the meme market, and the experts are the ones that best spread them

@radiofreetom.bsky.social there’s so much there in TNG for a Tom Nichols to love

@radiofreetom.bsky.social one thing I think we’re lucky on with Bari Weiss at Fox News: I don’t think she knows the audience she is trying to get, she’s generally unlikable after you listen to her for a while, and I don’t think she’s at all interesting enough for a large audience

Jeffrey Epstein called her “my great defender.” Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!

@radiofreetom.bsky.social I just started the 12 monkeys series from a few years back, streaming on prime. So far I’m enjoying it, Tom Noonan is making a great bad guy, he always scared me in Robocop 2 as a kid

Beyond parody.

@schumer.senate.gov wtf is wrong with you my dude

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

I am a comfortable, influential PhD and published author and broadcaster, and I don’t understand why people of color buying a snack at Cinnabon don’t just reason with the person shouting racial slurs at them, for the good of World Socialism. Today in the Atlantic

@radiofreetom.bsky.social you check out the new knives out movie yet?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social is it just me or does RFK jr look like the most unhealthy individual imaginable. Whatever he does it isn’t healthy living, he looks like he’s constantly mid heart attack. I don’t mean this as a joke, I mean this as a public warning

I think my favorite part of Glenn Beck's chat with his weird AI George Washington thing is when "Washington" says "You have grown skeptical of truth," it shows some sinister looking footage of someone holding a sign that says "Protect Trans Kids." Subtle!

this is 100% accurate and why the mainstream media constantly downplays negative stories about steve bannon