An essential feature of authoritarianism is that the leader - not courts - decides who is guilty and who is not. Santos - who Trump said is getting a commutation bc he “votes Republican” - is the 10th high profile loyalist to get a pardon or clemency. We cannot accept this.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

He's fading quickly.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Republicans using old Ecuador & Brazil riots to invade Portland! “On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photo of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.”

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Does anyone have any good home remedies for treating the aching void inside the dark hearts of men

When Trump was asked about the best book he’d read…

Cambodia vs Armenia..

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people —does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us” -Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (2020)

Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

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A new report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social on how the Trump administration has ended enforcement actions and investigations — many against technology companies that have spent more than a billion dollars on lobbying, campaign contributions, and payments to Trump businesses.

🔥Dropkick Murphys played a Trump–Epstein montage during First Class Loser. This is art.

a shockingly small number of people are already aware that the girl who epstein and maxwell provided to prince andrew was recruited initially while working for donald trump, down the road from epstein's place

Just an incredible number of examples, every day, of people who need to hear it

This is just magnificent. Absolutely perfect. @thedailyshow.com

And also, we'd like for the press to acknowledge it as such

Sometimes you have to just stop for a second and remind yourself how truly bananas this is.

Not a single House Republican voted in favor of releasing the Epstein files. Not one.

Obviously you already are reading Molly White every week to stay abreast of the insanities in the Trump-approved crypto world but in case you are not (I won't tell anyone) here is a good place to start Great post tying lots of threads together, and a great chart of Trumpwold's ties to crypto too

Just look at this absolute rampant and blatant corruption in Trump-cryptoworld laid out like this

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu... "Catriona Campbell, the chief technology and innovation officer for EY in the UK and Ireland, touted a recent survey in which a whopping 48% of UK companies reported that quantum computing would play a role in their business by 2025."

I simply do not tire of looking at this

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I got lots of advice, some very specific. But one thing I heard again and again: America, you are running out of time. Here is what I learned: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Simple 3-factor model to explain and predict everything Trump does: 1) He is a clinical sociopathic malignant narcissist. 2) He is compromised by Russia. 3) He is a moron.

“A trillion comments have been wasted accusing the wrong people of Trump derangement syndrome. The real TDS afflicts those who keep seeing a rational actor, or an economic chess game, where none exists.” Me on Trump’s wrecking ball. www.ft.com/content/9f51...

We all see it don't we?

Car Salesman in Chief? Cool, cool , awesome ...

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

NEW: We compiled and confirmed a list of some of the top people working inside the govt under the banner of DOGE. We even uncovered a DOGE-branded chatbot on one of the employees’ personal websites. As always, reach us if you have a tip or know what’s going on. ✌️ techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/t...

404 Media has obtained audio of Elon Musk's AI ally and the manager of government coders, in which an employee refers to one of his plans as "illegal." 🔗 www.404media.co/things-are-g...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched in 2018 as part of a publicity campaign.

Here's our handy illustrated guide to all of Trump's conflicts of interest. Laid out in one place so you can follow the gameboard as it plays out starting Monday. Compared to first term, this playing board is more complicated--and to ethics lawyers--more troubling www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's been bugging me for days. I've been trying to figure out who Mark Zuckerberg reminded me of and I finally realized it was Mrs Roper from Three's Company.🤦🏻‍♀️

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.