I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time

wizard frog is insane

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

TX is getting weirder by the day www.tpr.org/news/2025-10...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Something in my gut made me delve into this subculture at one point. Maybe...something I saw about how it affects people's minds. I was online when it started. I rubbernecked--my husband would laugh at my weird reports. It frightened me but I wanted everyone to be right it wasn't a threat. Alas!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

For those who may be unfamiliar, here’s the paragraph that is from:

i’m the secretary of defense, and this is jackass

dude is having an episode QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Jimmy Kimmel might’ve been their Pickett’s Charge.

Only in TX www.wfaa.com/article/tech...

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

ALL ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS MUST SHUT THE HELL UP

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

I’m reminded of the old xkcd that had the alt text pointing out a seller on eBay could, for one of every 30 packages, ship a live bobcat in lieu of the item advertised and maintain a 97 percent approval rating.

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

You know what's a little good news? Monarch butterflies. They seem to be having a real great year. Let's hope storms don't fuck them up during migration.

I can’t with this shit www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Everything about this Administration specifically and the GOP generally makes a lot more sense when you realize they think their supporters are empty-headed morons, ready to be told what to think. It's why they are so shocked and offended when they get actual pushback.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Like this list, adding Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Youngest’s entry at Chalkfest

Just think: Before the internet, it would've taken days, weeks or even months to receive mountains of misinformation we get now in just minutes

Fun thread, thanks C. A.!

whoever invented prepositional phrases was a masochist

My @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh has great post on politically motivated violence in US, its (generally low) incidence, and who does it (9/11 dominates stats; otherwise right-wing violence much more common than left-wing & other since 1975): www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/politicall...

Does everyone literally get their memory wiped by the Men in Black zappy thing when someone dies and all of a sudden they were a saint while alive?

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

And with that, any hope of F*x disintegrating goes to zero: Murdoch family resolves dispute over ownership in billion-dollar deal www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

*global hegemon destroys its entire network of post war diplomacy and trade that gave it control of the world economy for the last 80 years while liquidating its own bureaucracy, world renowned education system, and engineering a collapse of its public health system* yeah 50bps should do it

REPUBLICAN Senator @RandPaul calls out Vice President @JDVance for saying “I don’t give a shit” re: bombing alleged drug runners in international waters without a trial, or even an arrest. A lawless regime.

Facts are still facts, regardless of who is ignoring them.

Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.

Needed a little something.