MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol? These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

The United States is in an unprecedented crisis. A convicted criminal has attained the presidency. And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.

If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today

For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office. President Donald Trump is taking a different approach. https://to.pbs.org/482NOaK

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

One of the best "I'm not a racist" letters I've encountered. This one was sent to Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield, an advocate for the 1964 Civil Rights Act that was under consideration at the time this letter was sent to him. The Trump administration feels like the spiritual descendant of this fella.

One of the best things i've read this year is from @rmabud.bsky.social and @brusselermel.bsky.social. "Without understanding how the pro-authoritarian coalition has used three interlocking levers to consolidate power, it will be impossible to build something better."

The way to stay safe on or near an ebike is to stay away from people driving cars, who kill nearly 40k people annually in the US, and well over 1 million people worldwide.

and that's why when we took down our robert e lee statue here in charlottesville, we melted that bitch.

Those three children would still have a father if Donald Trump had gone to jail for his many, many crimes, including inciting a deadly insurrection on January 6th, as he should have.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Lead investors in US TikTok include Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, private equity firm Silver Lake, and Emirati artificial intelligence investment company MGX

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

In the first term, Trump did a lot of penny ante grifting, but for his second term he's really figured out how to monetize the presidency into making billions. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

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Talarico on Texas bill forcing every classroom to display the Ten Commandments: “If you have to force people to put up a poster to prove your legitimacy, that means we don't have a living faith anymore... When the church gets too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice.”

In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. www.wired.com/story/suprem...

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

Bashar al-Assad maintained control of Syria by having secret police abduct his critics and send them to secret prisons where they were tortured to death. Could the same thing work here for Trump?

"It's a Cover-Up": Rep. Ro Khanna on the Trump Administration Protecting The Epstein Class The Trump Administration is involved in covering up the biggest political scandal in modern history, protecting an international cabal of criminals and pedophiles. thelefthook.substack.com/p/its-a-cove...

Pretty clearly, the president of the United States is involved in a cover-up and a criminal-seeming conspiracy to cover up the worst child rape ring of the century, with one of the two rapists who led the ring.

Tulsi Gabbard and the White House killed a whistleblower report that someone close to Trump was talking to foreign intelligence. Trump and his allies are in the Epstein files, and likely controlled through blackmail by foreign intelligence. The Trump administration is a national security threat.

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

If Steve Bannon is desperately trying to spread a particular message far and wide, maybe consider why, and also whether _not_ helping him do that is an option?

An email from an unknown sender to Epstein, sent the day after Trump’s 2016 election: "You must be happy tho." It then referred back to the weekend Epstein introduced Melania to Donald, stating that he repeatedly exclaimed "wow what a hot piece of ass" #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverUp

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

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Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

The Trump administration is a criminal organization.

The true danger posed by Donald Trump 🎁 economist.com/leaders/2026...

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’ George Orwell, Animal Farm

And there's also a very cool piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social where he argues that digital analytics hastened the GOP's radicalization. Highly recommend! 👍⤵️ academic.oup.com/book/60493/c...

It's not enough for people to realize that trump has lied to them. They need to understand that the media that sold trump to them has also been lying to them...about everything.

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

CNN has a live cam on the twisted rebar that is all that's left of the East Wing and the Colonnade. www.cnn.com/live-video-2