Remember how Paul Ryan, Omarosa Manigault and Jeff Sessions used to all be on the team during Trump 1.0? Remember how they all left? Starting to feel like that now. (Image on left from: Jason Leopold, "The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files", Bloomberg, August 1, 2025)

Bottom line up front, about half of the country thinks the President is a sex criminal. Again. So, there you go. There's more interesting detail in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll data, though. I couldn't find charts anywhere so I made them. (🧵)

could you just use the frickin' metric system please

The state of American discourse on Israel’s war on Gaza in the last week of July 2025 looks, at least superficially, like a remarkable case study in information war failure. For the first time in recent memory, a Republican lawmaker used the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. (🧵)

"I'm sorry sir, I gotta make that quota today"

"There are three ways that international orders collapse, according to the historian Brendan Simms quoted in Bloomberg today: 'Through defeat in war or some catastrophic failure of deterrence; through economic decline or a divergence between the order’s political and economic arrangements...' (🧵)

TikTok: I feel like I know the latest breaking TikTok trends no one else does, and it doesn't occur to me that the algorithm is giving me obscure randos making content that will make me think exactly that! 🧵

The disinformation narrative that "Russian interference in 2016 was an Obama-administration hoax" is so stupid it is possible to defeat it on the merits without even engaging with its claims in detail. 🧵

Ask a dumb question, sometimes it takes a bit of work to get an answer. Question: how much impact is there really to Epstein revelations in the context of the low-quality right-wing news ecosystem? The question is really "How do you quantify an idée fixe?" (🧵)

gonna be real, "correlation isn't causation" I know, but it's hard not to see this as cause and effect

Usually the highest-chaos outcome is the worst for liberals. Looking at the budget bill, the July 7 MacArthur Park ICE raid, foreign policy setbacks and the kerfuffle over Epstein files, I don't think that's necessarily true anymore. www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...

I did a very informal survey of low-quality right-wing news and news discussion groups and pages that surfaced in my feed - I didn't go looking for these, they were suggested 'naturally' by algorithm.

Today, June 25 2025, multiple sources report to NBC and Fox that FBI is pulling its resources from aiding in Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) mass deportation operations; sources confirm to ABC that the number of agents is potentially in the thousands. (🧵)

didn't we try that

The Honorable Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson, Associate Justice, The United States Supreme Court

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"docked airplanes" indeed

there, he said it

could someone direct me to the nuclear bomber fleet please

Please share this meme. You have seven seconds to comply. Six. Five. Four. Three...

One of the more brilliant things about Spider Web is its explicit use of unknowing Russian accomplices I can't claim credit for this insight, but - what that's doing is, it denies Russian state-sponsored propaganda the opportunity to identify a culprit and publicly blame them That's pretty smart

disguise 10/10 they'll never know

‼️ Russian Railways May 2025 Loading Update Thread Things got worse…

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"

taco go up

they actually are

News summary for Memorial Day, May 26, 2025 covers the status of wars in Ukraine, Yemen & Gaza, what happens next to the "big beautiful bill", and the pitch decks of Democratic political consultants www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...

"what would 2025 be like right now if biden had won and he got this cancer diagnosis" what an interesting question, does it have bearing on the fight against fascism or

Recent Antifa Consolidated Heavy Industries & Shirtwaists, Inc., production

dude's on a sports gambling site 😂 next we gonna find out he's been leaking classified material on frickin' Clash of Clans or something, watch

Tomorrow, the US will propose officially recognizing Crimea as Russian and freezing the front line as part of a potential peace deal — The Washington Post

being 100% real, it sucks that the hell on earth created by Russia's war on Ukraine is still happening and there's a fascist in charge of the executive branch but I smile every day with relief when I see so many NAFO fellas who turned out to be antifascists as well

well that just makes sense

being perfectly frank here a good number of anti-Putin memes I've made are basically just anti-Trump memes with the names changed

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

at some level you have to be glad that the Trump administration is crashing the economy at the same time that it's violating people's Constitutional rights if it was just the latter and not the former, I think a lot fewer people would be united against Trump

“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Alfred Henry Lewis, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1906 This is a supercut of four major-outlet front pages discussing the Apr 5 "Hands Off" protests... mentions of the protests are outlined in red. Tell me what you see, or, rather, don't see: (🧵)

I've been doing apartment renovating the past month; most of the heavy lifting on that is done by the end of today, the entirety of it by this weekend. It's been a kind of working sabbatical, basically. I've been monitoring things decently closely despite that, so I know, for instance, that 🧵

Circling back on this…

maximum lel bit.ly/4c4hqW2

I double-take'd on this because suspension of habeas corpus is a massive warning sign for tyranny If Trump's DHS can arbitrarily detain you because they say you support a Guatemalan gang and they have no burden of proof for that, no one is free anymore in the U.S. We just haven't been targeted yet

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

Great.

REDDIT RELEASE: "THAT's who they remind me of!" 🤣