thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

The only thing that protects you is being white, and even then ... not if they find you annoying or intrusive.

Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...

Also, what's the story on duck?? Why do people not like duck?? I think it's far and away better than turkey and it isn't coming from horrifically mutated Godzilla birds

Turkey is bleh. Pork is where it's at, because if you're good at marinading / cooking it, it can be so much more flavorful than you'd expect. Just make sure not to use fresh pineapple.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I continue to believe that some of the most breathtaking artwork in the world are 10,000 year old cave paintings and aboriginal petroglyphs. At some point in human history, people were making art because other people were making art, for a distinct reason. But what about at the very beginning?

Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.

Not only are X users marinating in a disinformation bubble, but viewing the posts of bots on X actively contributes American funds to overseas bot farms because of its financial reward system.

Hang onto these pictures because Hegseth will have the offending sign removed as soon as he sobers up today.

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

The "People in India and other low-wage countries are farming racist rage-bait on X" phenomenon is downstream of Elon Musk manipulating the X algorithms to prioritize promoting racism.

“The account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading ‘Patriot Voice for We The People’—is actually based in Eastern Europe.”

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

Well, there goes my interest in lunch

An infomercial pitchman who made headlines for getting into a violent altercation with a sex worker? Running as a Republican? Hmm, seems like a stretch

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

He's supposed to be the treasury secretary for the whole country. also...like, I bet Rs in purple seats in blue states really love to hear that the only solution the Rs have for inflation is for people to abandon their districts.

Why would anyone claim there's a bubble when these industries are simply spending hundreds of billions of dollars to get money from just 3% of users? www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

Utterly lawless

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons. share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...

2008 v 2.0

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

TAPPER: Trump posted yesterday that "I have just gotten the higher poll numbers of my political career." I don't know what poll numbers he's referring to. Is Trump only getting the most positively skewed polling info? HASSETT: Jake, as you know, I'm not the poll expert

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡

TAPPER: RFK Jr, according to his own family, is causing real damage. You don't seem willing to criticize him by name CASSIDY: Clearly you want me to be on the record saying something negative. It makes news if Republicans fight each other T: I don't even know that he's a Republican C: Or whatever

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors

Huh. I wonder which Canadian billionaire it will turn out to be.

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

Withholding our own tax dollars from us. Intolerable.

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

They should invent an antidote for ozempic.

Have we considered that Mamdani is an actual X-Men mutant, and his superpower is "entrancing" people using pheromones or something?

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

Good. Everyone involved with that operation, up to and including Musk, should be prosecuted. It was just a breathtaking run of illegality. bsky.app/profile/solo...

We need more shows that demonstrate the value of arguing - productively - with your peers to solve complex issues.

He meets with Mamdani one time and immediately tries to step his swag up

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.