Quite the encapsulation of how racism, anti-immigrant hatred, sexism & patriarchy & trying to return women to the home, & the neglect of early childhood/ willingness to harm children, are all bound up in one another. That's why I don't "stick to one topic." These intersect. Fascism relies on all

Trump just pledged $500bn more to wage wars across the globe. Meanwhile, he's cut US healthcare by $1 TRILLION over 10 years. Wittman claims the legislature should decide on policy and spending. Tomorrow he votes on the ACA subsidies. We wonder how he'll vote..?

To be crystal clear: it'd cost $350bn to extend the enhanced ACA tax credit for 10 years. $500bn for a one-year bump for weapons, or $350bn for 10 YEARS of healthcare access. Now let's see how Wittman votes - with his constituents or for his dictator boss's latest whim.

American netizens are devising ingenious puns to avoid the country's pervasive online censorship.

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna to tell everybody directly: that is BULLSHIT.”

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Do you know who Willie Horton is? What about Laken Riley? How is it that you came to know these things? Ok, now. Without googling, how many Jan 6 rioters have recidivated? Been charged with violent or child-sex crimes? What are their names? Who were their victims? More on the disparity here.

It's weird, these Republicans all saying that he doesn't mean what he's saying, even as he continues to say it. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

Now the Venezuelan regime has issued an emergency order telling police to “immediately search and capture” anyone who supports “the armed attack by the United States” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

If the DNC had a sophisticated and strategic digital comms/advo operation they’d be launching multi channel online and offline blitz targeting every Republican (the party of Epstein) electeds and candidates to give back their money from Musk. This shouldn’t be difficult Dems.

How Palantir operates as Peter Thiel's personal intel operation. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump looks at Putin's Russia -- a failed and decaying state with a ruined economy engaged in perpetual wars of conquest that benefit only a dictator and his cronies -- and asks: How can I make the United States like that?

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Mark Zuckerberg had one good idea, once. And it wasn’t actually a good idea. And it wasn’t even his.

In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.

“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.” Monstrously cruel.

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

Controlling the judiciary and amassing wealth through corruption, you say?

Absolutely true, and somehow not-discussed point: The US **ALREADY** has all the strategic advantages it could gain by "owning" Greenland. Through treaties and (until now) close NATO cooperation w Denmark The US has a naval base & 'space force' base there. You see USAF planes at Grndlnd airports

No disrespect to Scott (and read his story) but there's a mismatch here. The facts of Jan. 6 aren't contested by most people. They are contested by Republicans/Trump, who run the place, and have decided to enforce a line that one in five Americans agree with. www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-an...

There is no "burgeoning", "rising", or "looming" authoritarian state in the US. It is already here, and is more normalized and entrenched than nearly every major institution has been able or willing to accept or address.

What fucking safeguards.

i get that people want to rip herr miller's racist rhetoric. so do i. but the thing is: we also need to fight his information war & explain how the global postwar institutions the u.s. built gave americans great wealth, power, prestige & security. if you have that platform, use it for good.

You gotta hand it to them: they’re very creative at finding innovative ways to destroy our society and devalue everything that gives life meaning

Fewer vaccinations and less public television: America tells its next generation to drop dead.

We banned overdraft fees. Trump brought them back.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

this notion that the republicans being evil fuckwits somehow absolves the democrats of the duty to do their jobs is so wrong

The Koreans did it as soon as they realized their leader was a YT conspiracy junkie.

you know who else circles back? vultures

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

Mission Accomplished

Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

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Always read Will's columns. Here's a gift link... share.inquirer.com/oHGewL

A world ruled by force rather than law is a world where no one is safe. That's exactly where this train is heading.

Now that Republicans finally released the video and transcript of Jack Smith’s deposition (hidden on New Year’s Eve), it’s time to grant Smith’s request to testify in a public hearing like every other Special Counsel has done. The American people deserve to hear the truth live.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right

Old people may fall asleep in front of the TV or during a boring church sermon. But while standing up during a press conference about going to war while facing dozens of reporters and cameras? No.

Unbelievable. Primary him. Primary all of them.

I was watching this two days ago and musing to myself about what big distraction might land this weekend.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

who gives a shit about power levers. if you don't even attempt to start the process of impeachment, the fuck is the point of anything. "step on me daddy. please rig the next election, daddy" bsky.app/profile/squo...