Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

Who convinced young men that 80's mullets and mustaches were cool? I want to meet this magician and recruit them to actual important causes.

I repeat, yet again, he is not built for this. Entirely out of his depth and could end up blowing a sure thing.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

The good news: 1) Aftyn Behn moved a ruby red district 12 points more blue. 2) She can and should run again in the midterm election. 3) With real investment and good candidates, every R+ 7 or less seat is now in play. The bad news: Rural white voters are still the absolute worst.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

I'm not sure he's going to make it, folks. Eyes are closed

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Amazing headline. h/t @brianstelter.bsky.social

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

"It's not the Neros or the Trumps that you have to be that worried about. What are the people who want to impress that person going to do? That's who you have to worry about." @ryan-holiday.bsky.social talks politics and philosophy with @johnavlon.bsky.social on How To Fix It:

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

I am really losing patience with Americans who treat their elected officials like celebrities they have to defend, instead of representatives they have to hold responsible. Grow the fuck up. Millions of lives are at stake.

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/SQ0LTb0

Trump promoting a death threat should not be dismissed as just one more of his excesses. When a wannabe autocrat aligns himself with a call to execute political foes, it’s not just another Trump social media post. It’s another warning.

I've long believed that there was a point in a person's lefty-ness at which they were so "left," so "liberal" that it was, practically, "right". This is a perfect illustration.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

Past is prologue. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests. And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now. This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.

Came out 2 weeks ago and I still dont understand why it isn't bigger news. www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans. Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power. Take that shit to court!

The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure. 1/5

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5

I am once again asking why no publication covering the media ever notices that a company capable of producing enormous amounts of AI content is also capable of producing enormous numbers of AI users/listeners/viewers/whatever to get you to write about their slop product

Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.

This is like knowing COVID was here and waiting for the stock market to convince everyone that it could kill us all.

I knew they blamed immigrants for everything, but I didn’t think they would blame immigrant cows for hamburger prices.

Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus

Trump tells the GOP to vote to release the files, and he’ll give them whatever they’re “legally entitled to.” How long before he tells everyone they’re legally entitled to nothing because of the open and ongoing “investigation” he opened into a “hoax”?

We really need more scifi shows to focus on the ground. To show the daily lives of regular people in the dystopian futures they imagine. To do it without promising some grand adventure or revolution is going to fix things. To show the uncertainty and powerlessness of being born into such a world.

Massachusetts AG Campbell: What you heard from the president and the speaker is total bullshit. Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

I believe that DOJ is burning, shredding and redacting the Epstein files RIGHT NOW!!

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

It’s not a ventricular fibrillation flare up. It’s just a fall.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“What is new is the confluence of three trends: The sheer scale of wealth for the richest. The untethering of compensation from performance. The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society. All three are rising to a dangerously high tide. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...