As this story shows, trusting the DHS version of events is a big mistake. "the video shows an agent turn federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, “Do something b----.” The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez."

I assume Hegseth has had multiple interviews with legacy media. Did any ask the most essential and obvious question: "[Brief bio of Hegseth] Do you honestly believe you're the most qualified person in America for the job and why?"

I described this effort in 2016 on the bad place and wondered aloud why it was taking so long. My only answer was that the mega-rich assholes are so risk averse that they had to wait until their fortunes were so enormous that buying the media they didn't like was just a convenient write-off.

I mean, that IS a pretty big frog...

But I thought if you smeared someone and they were then the victim of violence, that meant you had to be fired from your job. Or does Fox News only think that applies to teachers?

'Rain Holy hell fire': MAGA accounts bombarded judge with threats before her house burned www.rawstory.com/diane-goodst...

Seems like ‘Republicans are on vacay’ is still flying way too far below the radar.

Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/

They are clearly up to no good.

The president won't rule out a pardon for the convicted pedophile and sex trafficker who worked for his best friend, another convicted pedophile and sex trafficker who died in prison on his watch. Probably nothing to see here. Just a diligent civil servant not wanting to speak too hastily.

Indeed, Bad Bunny is more American under Trump's "birthright" blather than Trump is. Both of Bad Bunny's parents were also born in America. Trump's mother, however, was not.

We must fight everywhere in every way. Thank you NY

Very troubling thread ==>

All the ICE talk may be confusing, so I recommend we all repeat like parrots, "Bad Bunny is a native-born citizen" every time this comes up. Not because native-born is better, but because it disrupts their lies. It shows this is about ethnicity, not immigration. www.salon.com/2025/10/05/b...

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome. not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation. you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

When I say "I hate everything," I don't really mean ~everything~. There are at least tens of people I don't hate, there are many clades of animals I don't hate, and there are a few underlying physical laws of the universe I don't hate. If you're not in any of those groups, you know what you did.

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

"6. Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny." Journalism that fits this description has not existed in the US for decades now and is effectively impossible within the informal social & economic constraints in which US journalism works.

Police violence is part of our national fabric. You will not find us diminishing that. It's hard to believe any cops could be worse than a department who ran a torture black site. But DHS is entirely unleashed and unaccountable. They will kill more people by the end of this month if not stopped.

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

I'm trying very hard not to second guess the DC Democrats.They don't have real institutional power and these subsidies are important to people. But it's surreal to see this normal policy argument on the split screen with the President sending an invasion force to American cities. It's disorienting.

The fact that there is no Nobel Peace Prize for the most heroic and effective promoter of MedBeds pretty much says everything about "the system."

Time for a nerdy timeline palate cleanser: 🧬 This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about regulatory T cells and the Foxp3 gene -- the immune system’s built-in “brakes.”

Anyone read Erewhon recently? Sounds like now is the time.

OK, California, you’re up! apnews.com/article/cali...

The thing that no AI company has officially communicated to anyone is that the minute there's decent enough agentic AI — an AI using apps for you — you will never be able to buy anything of any value online ever again. Unless, of course, you use their agentic AI...

Not sure, but his cousin is certainly dropping some truth bombs www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"Democracy" sounds way too much like "equality" to a lot of deplorables.

This is a very big part of why we're descending into authoritarianism. Liberals have spent a decade extremely bored by the need to say obvious things and stand by simple principles.

The irony of Trump using "DEI" to purge the upper ranks at the Pentagon of women and men of color and suing colleges if they god forbid have a diversity office is that Bari Weiss has ZERO QUALIFICATIONS to be the EIC of CBS News. Like, the poster child for a DEI hire!

It's cute how we pretend that the refs aren't on the take. Like, quietly and then suddenly, right wing billionaires basically took over the entire media landscape and the idea you can just run a 1990s playbook of fact checking press conferences with THIS version of journalists is a pipe dream.

The quintessential right wing move of the modern day. Say the most inflammatory shit on social media and then when you're confronted with said inflammatory shit act shocked SHOCKED that anyone would accuse you of anything untoward.

lol. LOL

This guy sounds like a fucking lunatic.

Ukraine has endured several winters under Russia’s attempts to destroy our infrastructure. But this is the first winter we’ll respond simmetrically. Belgorod, Russia, blackout:

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools. Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in. Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The wave of censorship in schools over the past 5 years has been driven by dark money far-right groups fronted by a tiny, tiny percent of parents.

Immediately after writing this she gave $100,000 in unmarked bills to someone representing the Federal Bureau of Wallet Inspection

It has begun. No flesh shall be spared. Also, I’m in Milwaukee, Hammond and Flint this week! Go to pattonoswalt.com for tix!

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

We need more hardware stores with “guard” dogs sleeping randomly about and professional mousers checking comfort quality of various items throughout the store. Also old guys in overalls, mattress tick logging shirts, and worn oiled boots who “sure can show you how that works and where to find it!”

Unlike some people we know, Greta doesn't make it all about herself. We know what the story is. The story is genocide, with a subtext of the world taking no meaningful actions to stop it.

Last week I talked to @kenklippenstein.bsky.social, who is very good at this reporting thing, about the recent political assassinations and how the Trump White House is weaponizing them. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

I think we can all agree that if any former leader of CBS News (or any big media outlet) had proudly declared strong political opinions like this, Bari and her right wing friends would have gone defcon 2 until they were kicked to the curb. Now, it's where's my corner office?

If you have followed me for a while, you know that I love interactive political cartoons, the darker the better. I've made a few myself. Like the thoughts and prayers calculator for after mass shootings. Here's a new one about Kristi Noem a friend made. defcon45games.itch.io/krusty-gnome...

Subscribe to The Onion. I want to have more subscribers than The Free Press as soon as possible. This is achievable. In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.

Russian fascists are almost as innumerate as American fascists.

Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required. It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.