bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

3 months ago, Melissa Hortman & her husband were killed in their home by a man who— *While In Disguise As A Cop In Order To Increase His Chances Of Success/Evading Capture*— stalked her *&* another state legislator. Today? Crickets. Charlie Kirk's gonna get his face on a prayer flag in the Oval.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Everybody still going this can't be a REAL dictatorship like those poor third world countries the US destabilized can stay the hell away from me. The more the regime goes after, the more it smacks of your privilege that you feel safer than you are.

"Trump, a convicted criminal who pardoned 400 violent felons who assaulted police officers in his name, on Monday announced he's deploying National Guard troops and seizing control of the capital city’s police force" b/c of the city's *lowest crime rate in decades* www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Not to mention, sprawl creates fascists. Who’s more likely to be aggrieved and vengeful? The guy who walks to the store and has a drink at the bar and chats with people, or the guy who sits in traffic all day and views other people as obstacles in his way?

Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

"It's another step in Mayor Todd Gloria's and Gov. Gavin Newsom's embrace of law enforcement as a tool to combat homelessness." Just a reminder, this never works. You can use cops to combat homeless *individuals,* but the only thing that ends homelessness is housing. www.axios.com/local/san-di...

I covered Ghislaine Maxwell's trial from her indictment to her conviction - my report minutes after the jury found her guilty is below. It will be nothing short of a travesty of justice and a tragedy for every girl she victimized if Trump's DOJ cuts a deal with Maxwell to protect the President.

Propaganda works. They print the stories the right wants printed because they like Trump and want him to win

We normalized political violence years ago. Most obviously, we normalized political violence when January 6, 2021 happened & Donald Trump faced exactly zero consequences for it. We're 15 exits past this on the interstate in 2025.

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

California is going to lose congressional seats unless housing costs come down enough to reverse population decline, and those congressional seats are going to come out of the bluest parts of the state. Blue state NIMBYism is a gift to right-wing authoritarians. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day. Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.

It really is wild that the government pays people more to kidnap kids than to educate them

America in a nutshell.

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

16 million people are losing their healthcare and hospitals are already closing because of it but it’s a win because one of the bottom tier fast food restaurants is going to start selling the same Mexican Cokes that you can already get at literally every store

he also completely destroyed whatever was left of corporate oversight and U.S. consumer protection, but I don't expect that to be reflected in polling until the press figures out it's going to cause mass fatalities through a concussive series of systemic failures

wrote about the shocking cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show, and why there's no justification for Paramount's decision that isn't about the craven politics at play: slate.com/technology/2...

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

WSJ has a serious investigative news desk bc their non-opinion stuff has to reliably inform people in the business/finance worlds of the social conditions that will shape the economy. the NYT politics desk and senior leadership, otoh, seem to have decided their core mission is to discipline the left

No! He’s lying! I keep seeing this like the speaker of the house is a small child that doesn’t know what message he’s saying but he means what he’s saying, he’s saying it to Trump and lying to make him like him more! It’s just a lie!

Hahahahahahahahaha… everything is so stupid. The latest reason to fire Jay Powell is the Fed's use of “premium marble” as part of an "ostentatious overhaul" of its offices. But the Fed wanted glass. Trump appointees insisted on marble. apnews.com/article/powe...

everytime i post "the media likes trump and wants to help him" someone always replies with "yup! he's good for ratings and clicks!" and a way you can tell it's not about ratings and clicks is that they shy away from publishing stories about trump and epstein, which are newsworthy and very popular

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

ANOTHER intelligence assessment says Trump's strikes only set back Iran's nuclear program by months. Evidence is becoming overwhelming that the White House's claim that Iran's program was "completely and totally obliterated" was a lie.

Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services. DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.

If your government is setting up concentration camps then you're the bad guys. It's remarkable that even needs saying in the 21st century.

To be clear Larry Ellison, a billionaire Trump donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, used his own money to buy CBS and install his son as the boss. They'll then convert CBS into another right wing propaganda mill like Fox News. It's not really subtle!

Housing policy is climate policy; and California’s refusal to allow more housing in temperate, already-urbanized areas near the coast is climate denialism.

I don’t think this is the moment to cut weather forecasting services

The Supreme Court's disdain for Congress, the statutory design of agencies, and the public services they provide to millions truly astounds. Destroying a 50-year-old Cabinet-level department may be the biggest violation of the Take Care Clause in U.S. history—and six justices simply ... don't care.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

On its shadow docket, the Court has yet again ruled to overturn the decision of two lower courts without argument. While this is disappointing, the Trump-Vance administration's actions to decimate a department established by Congress are still unconstitutional.

The Republican-appointee majority provides no reasoning for its order, which effectively overturns two lower court rulings. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”

incredible that mainstream media keeps announcing that the story they "missed" during the election was biden's age, even though it got constant coverage for years, and not "donald trump was close friends with notorious pedophile jeffrey epstein"

ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.

Just so we’re clear, he wants us to pay more for goods we get from Brazil because he wants to save a foreign political crony on trial for corruption. Not seeing the “America First” mentality here…

Clean energy is the proven new frontier in innovation, climate action, and job creation. The Big Ugly Bill backs away from the future to satisfy the greed of industries past. It’s a foolish and cruel choice. [1/3] www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

"The facility’s behemoth methane gas turbines increase Memphis’s smog by 30-60% as they belch planet-warming nitrogen oxides and poisonous formaldehyde around the clock, pollutants linked to respiratory and cardiovascular disease." tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/07/a...

whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no stop making this the global hub for news communication

"If Congress is not going to repeal the [TikTok ban] law, then they should insist it be enforced," writes Joe Lancaster @reason.com "Enforcing a bad law is at least preferable to setting the precedent that a president can simply ignore any laws he does not like." reason.com/2025/07/07/e...