The reason I want to see Secretary Hegseth and Admiral Bradley charged with murder, based on what we know, isn't because I hate the US military. It's because I served in the US military and respect it, and want to see its honor restored.

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

George Lakoff and I pushed this simple and reasonable idea years ago. When I returned to journalism, I realized the problem. Editors care more about SEO and controversy (=clicks) than about whether the headline is destroying truth. Incentive is to bait engagement at all cost.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Look! It's possible to build frigates!

Obviously I'll be writing about this imminently, as I've been ranting about Constellation for ages, but honestly it should not be this hard to buy some goshdarn FRIGATES news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...

This article makes really good points about the inability of most people to cut expenses without entirely losing the ability to participate in the economy. I get tired of people telling me to live cheaper by eliminating things that are necessary for modern life.

10 part HBO miniseries based on Red Storm Rising. Yes I will make the Russians cartoonishly evil. Yes I will choose casting that SPECIFICALLY pisses off MAGA. Yes it's propaganda.

You people WILL be getting a three season HBO series on the Peloponnesian War and you WILL like it or you’re going to the re-education camps.

I’m Mexican and civilian on the four sides but he is one of the American generals that I admire the most. Love this quote, applies to traitors in my country too.

I am once again asking why your priorities as Secretary of Defense are the same as the priorities of an Army First Sergeant.

Obamacare, but it's even more expensive. (Have I said "fuck libertarians" here yet? Fuck libertarians)

1. I do not think this is going to go well for them, because it is going to be just as clown shoes as everything they've tried to throw at Comey or James 2. "we can go after ex-military congressmembers for things they say in public" is really not a pandora's box the GOP wants opened

Earn $50K? Pay FICA on 100% of income Earn $250K Pay FICA on 67% of income Earn $500K Pay FICA on 34% of income Earn $1 Million Pay FICA on 17% of income!

Caught the end of F1 Academy at Vegas, got to see Doriane Pin win the championship! Very cool. Also Chloe Chambers singing "Viva Las Vegas" on the radio, very fun.

I'd love a racing game with a realistic career mode. One that starts with you as a 6 year old kid asking your parents for a go kart and 99 times out of 100 being told "no, we can't afford that shit." Instant game over, and you just have to keep restarting new games until they say yes.

I know there's nothing genetic about being a pedophile that would show up physically on a person, but jfc if I had to describe a pedophile to a sketch artist, it would look EXACTLY like this dude.

If the Republican position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" and the Democrat position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" then the result will be that Republicans keep getting away with committing crimes in public office

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

We were maybe half a block up the street from this, had to snatch up my daughter and sprint. open.substack.com/pub/cpmille3...

Yes! Think about it like this. Zohran is so charming he got the world's most famous racist capitalist to slob the knob of a brown socialist for an hour in front of the press and if you don't think that matters to the country as a whole then I don't know what to say. Optics are everything to Trump.

This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not

pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.

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This is what a protection racket looks like, although they are rarely put in writing

When he told them he was born in Raleigh, the agent questioning him grew angry, Vazquez said. They abruptly pulled off the road into the parking lot of a carpet cleaning company, where they dumped him, a half mile away from where they picked him up.

“The idea that teenage girls are not only stumbling blocks for their male peers but also sources of temptation for adult men is the darkest and most dangerous point of convergence between purity culture and rape culture.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred. As ALWAYS, this is about $$. We're about to become REALLY "great"... shorturl.fm/xs7gY

To back this up: "But what about violent & criminal illegals??" What exactly is it about being undocumented that suddenly makes regular law enforcement ineffective? Do your fingerprints magically disappear from murder weapons? Are you invisible to FBI agents? Are undocumented people wizards?

This feels like a stupid question (and if it is, please tell me why), but is there any reason the US Government can't just have it's own shipbuilder & yards? Like we pay HII or GD to do the design, then build the ships ourselves? I understand that would take a huge upfront investment, 1/3

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

Raleigh, NC

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

When the Clinton administration designated Aum Shinrikyo a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997, it obviously didn’t occur to anyone that the designation justified JSOC raids in Tokyo. But because of the GWOT, people hear FTO now and confuse it with a declared hostile force under an AUMF.

Yes. The issue is how Americans have come to view terrorism over past 25 years—from a criminal problem that might occasionally require US military response when it poses a threat to US, to something many assume *always* justifies/demands US military force. That’s what the admin is capitalizing on.

Heartbreaking: the person you campaigned and championed to get elected does exactly what he said he would do

"I can't believe they're doing this!" says man who campaigned for the guy who promised to do exactly this.

Important messaging. But also don't forget Elissa Slotkin fucking sucks and voted for half the people in Trump's cabinet currently doing illegal shit. Still needs a primary'in

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

I've listened to many conservatives justify mass deportation with "we need to secure the border," and I'm not seeing enough pushback arguing that these are totally separate things. Kidnapping people in Chicago is not going to reduce border crossings in Texas.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

God damn I hope day one of the Beshear/Walz/Pritzker/Buttigieg admin includes supermarket sweeps for Ukraine. Throw the doors open, give em everything: three entire ABCTs worth of vehicles, three squadrons of Block 52+, some Mudhens (why not), as many 155 tubes as they can carry...

Do it in the opposite direction, too! If you make OTHER people sick, you pay penalties! So we can fine the shit out of big oil, big plastic, big ag...

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

Love that it's almost 2026, almost 4 years into the war, and people are still doing the "America did a bad, this is why Ukrainians deserve to suffer and die and we shouldn't try to help" bit. Anyone making this point is a fascist-apologist AT BEST and more likely a straight up fascist. Eat shit.

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