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

Back in 2023 we helped pass AB 835, a single stair reform study bill. That study is almost done, and we need your help to make sure the final report is grounded in sound evidence by emailing a public comment. It’ll only take a minute, and it makes a real difference!

Opinion | I never personally had a Nazi-curious phase. But as a fair minded journalist, it’s my job to pretend this is a normal rite of passage for American men who might later go into politics.

“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries. Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

He did everything he possibly could to overturn the election & stay in power - threatening his VP, Govs & Secs of States, organizing a mob to storm the Capitol. He knew if he ordered a military coup they would’ve refused & he would’ve been tried for treason. That’s why he left.

I'm really sick of this grifting piece of shit

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9

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World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

No Kings in Venice Beach

UVA says no to the compact

Millions came out for the last #NoKings protests. These will be even bigger. They want to scare people into not showing up. Show up. Exercise your Constitutional rights. Be in community with all those who believe in democracy.

Metro modeled 4 congestion pricing areas - #DTLA, West L.A./SM, Santa Monica Mtns, 10 Freeway. Staff states DTLA is most promising. Sounds like West L.A. second.

It's not a presidency – it's an organized crime takeover of your government.

"Trump Action Tracker" - A tool to track how President Trump and his administration are "flooding the zone" and eroding the rule of law. www.trumpactiontracker.info?

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful. globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Yes to every single idea in this @clarajeffery.bsky.social story on soft secession. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades. It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate. Tell him!

Probably dumb as hell to publish this on a Friday afternoon, but the clock is ticking to get @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79. Please share — and, if you're a Californian, please call the governor's office at (916) 445-2841 to ask for his signature. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

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“The entire mainstream media environment has been working overtime to sanitize Kirk’s legacy since his murder—a legacy that includes targeted harassment of professors at schools across the country and normalizing the notion that basic human rights are up for ‘debate.’”

News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth. Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger. Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

The new episode of the YouTube show I host just dropped, and it's a huge bummer! But important for people who don't already know all about this stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QUG...

More DEI! Louder www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...?

The first-in-the nation LGBTQ+ legal hotline is being birthed right here in Illinois, thanks to Governor and possible 2028 Democratic Presidential candidate JB Pritzker. The LGBTQ+ legal hotline is named Illinois Pride Connect, the statewide version of The Trevor Project.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

MAGA aren't republican, they are pro-monarchy, pro-oligarchy, and pro-autocracy. Supporting corruption and removing power from the people to concentrate it in the hands of a few wealthy and corporate entities and individuals is the opposite of republicanism. They are regressives.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

OTD in 1937 NKVD order no. 00485 was signed, ordering elimination of Polish minority in USSR. Imagine it being state policy to eliminate an entire people, a genocide if you will, in this day and age...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Really good journalism by @awalkerinla.bsky.social about a really bad situation.