RIP, may his funeral also be 8 hours long.

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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

The worst part though was the aftermath. The insurrectionists were in our own workplace. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz would be walking around as if nothing ever happened. I had to go through a military checkpoint to get to work. What difference did it make if the perpetrators were in the building?

I’m one of the few Hill staffers that can or is willing to openly talk about January 6th and let me just say it absolutely sucked. The attack was bad and there was a brief period where I wasn’t sure if my boss was alive. We all had no idea it was coming though were told not to come in that day.

A relevant article to this ⬇️ point, from @liberalcurrents.com.

Good day to share one of my finer moments online.

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Put on your Ben Shermans and have some sweet n sour bubblegum:

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

Friedman's posts above this, and yes.

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Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

The Matt Christman 2017 tweet “This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history” is the undefeated summation of the 21st century.

Everyone posts like this now

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

*raises baby fish until they’re able to find food for themselves* Yeah, I’m doing fry January

The 2026 bread people are at it again

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

People should read this. Political influencers are mostly trash from the ground up.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.

My hands smell like hersbrucker, it’s delightful.

If there is one resolution I want for journalists this year: it is to get off S*bstack and use Ghost or any other indy publishing platform that does not fund literal nazis instead.

Speaking of “why many women and others who aren’t cis white guys are feeling REAL reluctant to pivot to creating video at this EXACT point in history where AI makes it crazy easy for bad actors to steal and exploit our faces”

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

People who tell librarians how to do their jobs always want libraries to be silent places that charge fines and never throw books away. No grace, no openness, no change. You're just describing a graveyard

Woooooooow 🍌🍌🍌

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Saying this basically got Norm Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute blacklisted on Sunday morning shows.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

I still don’t understand how it could possibly be a violation of U.S. law for a foreign head of state to own or to conspire to own any type of gun in his own country.

Consent machine go whirr whirr whirr.

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Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

I cannot endorse the bootleg m&ms for homeschoolers

24 hours ago, journalists were wondering aloud what "deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" could possibly mean

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Not the main thing ofc, but indicting a foreign head of state for conspiring to possess a machine gun is low key hilarious.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.