If I were dictator of America I would mandate that general tax revenue be used to install a large battery (say, 200MWh) next to every distribution feeder on the US grid. That would, in a stroke, solve basically all our grid problems & unlock *trillions* of dollars of economic growth & development.

One reason the Dem establishment hates Mamdani is that he's just *better at this than they are*. He just talks like an authentic human about things that matter & people respond & it breaks their poll-tested, consultant-cooked brains.

Award-winning primatologist who established world’s longest-running chimp study still lectured on conservation and climate even over age of 91

damn 😢

In the name of centrism, we shall be partially metric, partially imperial. Please convert everything to orders of magnitude of feet and gallon. "I walked 9 kilofeet today." "I drank 49 centigallons of coffee." Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

"We do have the potential to eliminate cervical cancer in our lifetimes. It depends on vaccine access and uptake being high." www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

I'm thinking Hakeem Jeffries got snookered today by Eric Adams dropping out. He was going to endorse him.

Like Hakeem Jeffries either truly believes that we are just gonna ride this era out as a nation and it will be business as usual in 2028 OR he is being paid to behave this way. Either way, he needs to be primaried and voted out

This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

bystander presidency!

Jeffries would make for a fine Model UN Team Captain. We need such people. Just not as an actual leader right now of a movement resisting authoritarian rule in the United States.

Schumer and Jeffries are so bad at their jobs that they’re losing a popularity contest to a bunch of domestic terrorist pedophiles.

Alan Dershowitz is a slime-ball pedophile.

Lots of conflicting signals on US inflation. Here's the only one that matters. Inflation above 2% is becoming more generalized. Combined weight of items in CPI with >2% inflation is up from 63% in Aug. '24 to 76% in Aug. '25. We have an inflation problem... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/inflation-...

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

FBI: "There was anti-ICE writing on the bullet." *flash over to the scene of the crime* *bullet has "anti-ICE" written on it* This is not real. This is a Family Guy bit.

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

Stephen Miller gave a speech that was nearly 100% plagiarised from Joseph Goebbels. Please stop telling us that the whole MAGA/Trump movement is not Nazism. We’ve always known it was.

Ah, I see, shadow docket *plus* rocket docket for whatever Trump needs. Reminder that the emoluments clause case filed by Maryland & DC started June 12, 2017 and then was stalled for so long that SCOTUS dismissed it in January 2021 without a decision because Trump losing made it moot.

1973

When it's all said and done, no one. Like in Germany and Austria from 1945 to today.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Love to live in a shithole country that can't produce reliable economic data but can blow up random boats in international waters and set aside a day to remember a bigoted podcaster.

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The government is looking the other way when cash bribes are taken. It’s throwing protestors to the ground. And the president is publicly demanding DOJ indict his political opponents. Somewhere some garbage think tank wants to talk about moderating on trans issues though.

Wow. Not at all surprising, but wow. Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

is this bad?

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

The one good thing about this “run America like a business” nightmare is that more people are beginning to realize how corrupt and craven many businesses truly are. Take notes. Never forget how they abandoned us. Don’t forgive their complicity.

As a lifelong Star Wars fan, the irony of an award winning world about the fight against fascism being owned by a company that caves to fascism is not lost on me.

It is remarkable how few national Dems have been willing to put themselves on the front lines here.

Fed. Governor Lisa Cook is the test. If SCOTUS says yes, the purge begins. The Fed folds. The SEC obeys. The NLRB vanishes. Independence is gutted. One man decides who stays. Who kneels. Who falls. This is how dictators destroy democracies. Ask Jimmy Kimmel what happens when you dare to resist.

ok my most tinfoil hat health theory is that the reason melania has reemerged and is always holding hands with him now is because he needs it to walk in a straight line

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I suppose all this shit is why there’s a whole ass constitutional amendment specifically banning insurrectionists from ever holding office again

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...