A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance

During a press conference, Marco Rubio was unusually energized, restless, with rapid speech, visible agitation, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, jaw tension, frequent sniffing, and an intense emotional presentation reflected in rigid posture and exaggerated gestures. ❄️⛷️☃️

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BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply? MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

Archaeology gains prominence in the 19th century → the cult of Mormonism springs forth from pseudoarcheology Psychology gains prominence in the 20th century → the cult of Scientology springs forth from pseudopsychology Machine learning gains prominence in the 21st century → [YOU ARE HERE]

"If you ever feel useless, remember it took 20 years, trillions of dollars and 4 US Presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban." - Norman Finkelstein

In capitalism "haves" rip off "have nots." When revolution threatens, "haves" fund a temp middle class, the "think they haves." Once rev threats pass, funding stops for "think they haves." They sink back into "have nots." To grasp this pattern is to bring capitalism's end nearer. --Richard Wolff

The act of denying life-saving treatment to someone because of their lack of ability to pay for it is, in fact, murder. You are deliberately killing someone. Denying chemo coverage to a man with treatable cancer and letting it metastasize is an insurance company killing a person.

Revisiting David Brooks' Nov. 21, 2025 "Epstein story? count me out" column Brooks posits that the interest in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes & associations is a distraction of apiece with QAnon because it positions "the elites" as a cabal of predators He says it's unfair to say all elites are rapists 😵‍💫

Act to fight data center power grabs! PJM, the power grid operator for the Mid-Atlantic, may force residents to pay around $70 more each month for electricity. Sign MD State Sen Katie Fry Hester's petition against this plan to pass data center costs on to us. Sign at www.protectingratepayers.org ⭐

They just renamed the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center. What are we doing.

THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool. With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections. Here's how you can use it. 1/

3/ In our reporting, we found that consumers often have no way of knowing if the medications they are taking came from contaminated factories, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S., but then granted special exemptions to do so anyway. www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...

Trump and Republicans got rid of the CFPB’s rule to cap overdraft fees at $5. Now, big banks are taking even more money from struggling Americans to pad their own bottom lines. Trump isn’t looking out for you – he’s looking out for Wall Street.

David Brooks writing about how there was nothing to see with the Epstein Files while not disclosing *he was in them* is at least a Nuzzi-level journalistic scandal What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks

Somewhere along the way, being wrong about facts was reclassified as "having an opinion," and knowing facts was stigmatized as "having bias." It's a big part of why we're in hell now.

The Pharaoh didn't build the pyramids. Caesar didn't build the Coliseum. The faces on Mt Rushmore didn't build this country. Workers did. And if we chose to, we could build any kind of world we wanted.

Google not only supplies the fake citations via Gemini, their awful products in the form of knowledge infrastructure are so shoddily kept that they can't be fucked to remove fake venues.

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

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Sounds reasonable to me

TOTAL BACKFIRE: Pulitzer Prize Board just turned the tables on Trump. In his defamation lawsuit, they’re demanding his tax returns, financial records, and even medical & prescription history if he’s claiming damages. (Law&Crime)

You're not poor because you don't work hard enough. You're poor because your employer doesn't pay you enough, corporations charge you too much, the government taxes you instead of the rich, and your tax dollars are being used to build bombs and prison camps instead of to make anyone's life better.

Rob Reiner religion note: One of his last film projects was “God & Country,” a documentary released last year based on Katherine Stewart’s book. The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism. Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...