this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood. Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...

Wow that’s harsh on Vance

Holy shit. Russ Vought is 49. I seriously thought this mutherfucker was in his late 60s. Further proof that being a monster will age you hard.

Charlie Kirk is treated as a symbol of America itself. But there's nothing more American than the story of Trey Reed — a young Blk man, found hanging from a tree, his death hastily ruled "case closed" by officials. My latest at The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A Black college freshman was found hanging from a tree on campus. Mississippi authorities rushed to call it a suicide. @kaliholloway.bsky.social looks at Trey Reed’s death. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

🧵 In the latest Theory of Change, I spoke w/ @karenattiah.bsky.social about how anti-Trump leaders need to be much more serious about power and money if they want win. "It's not enough just to be right. It's also, you also have to be resourced and organized." plus.flux.community/p/to-stop-tr...

🧵 Liberal elites have become pathological, so committed to their own Rawlsian neutrality that they are unable and unwilling to defend their own philosophy. This thread is a summary of the latest "Theory of Change" episode featuring @polphilpod.bsky.social. Continue here or click through 👇

The long knives are out for those who dare buck the administration. The Fourth Estate continues to slit its own throat as well as that of our nation. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Reference for the older case www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Reactionaries constantly claim that Americans need to have more children. And yet, this is how they respond to actual children--well children who aren't white.

🧵 Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage." The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney essentially never happened. Republicans made it up. And as a former GOP media consultant, I know the "one weird trick."

1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base. It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen. Here's why. Click through or continue here...🧵

JD Vance was a creation of American liberal institutions that went on to destroy those same American liberal institutions. Liberals who wanted to empathize with the noble savages of the White Heartland. Real Greek tragedy level story

The USDA stole 16 million acres of blk land through racist loan denials & admits this in reports dating to 1965. The debt can never be fully repaid, but at least there was something after all these years. Now Trump killing even that. I wrote abt back in 2021: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

🧵 Social media permanently changed American political campaigning, but only Republicans have changed with it. Donald Trump won the 2024 election, not because people liked him, but because his party understands network marketing. @rynnreed.bsky.social and I discussed. Click thru or continue here...

One of the weirdest sub-plots of 2024 was Donald Trump marketing himself as a hip-hop icon following his arrest. Sadly, several prominent artists helped, a sick degrading of the revolutionary ethos of Tupac and early rap. I spoke with @deanvannguyen.bsky.social about Tupac's political legacy 👇

What is this horseshit?

Watching The Little Mermaid as a kid: I’m Ariel! I’m 16 and I’m going to marry a handsome prince! Watching The Little Mermaid as an adult: I’m Ursula. Some under-qualified white man usurped my throne, took my trident, and now I practice witchcraft.

Malinowski: A couple of years ago, Vance gave a speech.. The title was universities are the enemy. He said explicitly, we cannot achieve anything in this country as a conservative movement unless we aggressively go after the universities. That's what they're doing right now

I hate how so much of Trumpyness is just being DUMB & LOUD & really PROUD of it. Like, I feel like idiots tried to hide being idiots for most of my life? Now they're like, "WE'RE RUNNING SHIT NOW!!" and just hate-reveling in their idiocy. So proud to be ignorant shitheads. I just hate it so much.

It really can’t be said enough. Key Trump officials who are weaponizing “antisemitism” to suppress speech about Palestine are not Jews. They are Christians, some of whom believe in an eschatology that entails Jewish conversion. It is wild and antisemitic stuff. They didn’t ask and don’t care.

NOBODY WANTS APPLE BUILDING IPHONES HERE YOU IGNORANT FAT TODDLER. Good God you exhausting sloppy goon

“Trump is trying to break the world’s leading university because he knows that higher education — everywhere — is one of the bulwarks of a free society devoted to pursuing truth without fear or favor.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

letter from harvard’s president: trump admin “continues a series of government actions to retaliate against harvard for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government’s illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body.”

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

I took this pic of then Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office back in September 2015. I’ll never forget how, during the 2020 campaign, he would make a point of saying the press is NOT the enemy of the people. Thinking of President Biden as he takes on this next battle. Godspeed Mr. President.

The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

Trump admits businesses were booming under the Biden administration

Who was President last year? Sounds like they had a booming economy.

If you're upset and offended that a plantation that enslaved countless Black people has burned down then just pretend it was a book on Black history and you'll feel better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do not believe in violence. But, hypothetically, if someone knelt on MTG's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, do you think she'd die of a drug overdose? Also, should that hypothetical person be pardoned? I'm just wondering.

if a liberal fox existed this morning "Questions swirl about Trump mental decline after unhinged attacks on Taylor Swift, and the Boss. Our panel up next." "Trump grocery garble: Do we need the 25th amendment or is the president just an out of touch elitist? Special report after this."

Textile artist Eboni Hogan instagram.com/the_wreckshop/ (more info in alt, from the fb page of Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom)

so to be clear about what happened here, the Trump White House released audio meant to make Joe Biden look bad to Axios hours after the US's credit rating was downgraded. Trump wanted a distraction and the usual suspects in the press are happy to oblige.

Every journalist at the NYTs is a baby bird still in its next ready to imprint on the first face it sees.

One day we Latinos will realize we don’t wear our immigration status on our foreheads. Now an innocent girl—who didn’t ask to come here, who only knows this as home—is about to be deported. This country’s cruelty runs on silence and complicity. #MomSky youtube.com/shorts/xms8R...

A teenager wearing a Police tour tee nodded at me today. ACAB, I said to him.

Please stop complaining about right wing news media being free and left wing media having a cost. Making up lies is easy and free. Investigative journalism requires time, energy and funding.

Agreed. One thing I don’t like is how many words it takes to compliment someone in white middle class American small talk. Black people and a good hefty cross-section of poor people can just point or shout out “MAAM!” Or “I SEE YOU!” I love that efficient hit of dopamine.

Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison after being convicted of working with an "undesirable" organization, according to Russian news agencies and his attorney.

Everything appears to be white genocide except the nearly irreversible abolition of all of the stuff keeping white people alive. Like a Black woman having a visible job is white genocide but dismantling the FDA, removing fluoride, rampant deregulation & resurrecting old world diseases is freedom.

This is like a satire of the US political press, so desperate to punch left rather than right that they are ginning up a "scandal" about a retired pol with no role in the party while Trump & crew lay waste to the republic. How can anyone look at this and still take that profession seriously?