I wrote about the ways propaganda takes root, how attacks against trans people in the US and UK reflect different mythologies of protection, and why combating disinformation at the local level might be a more effective way to dismantle these frameworks than abstract online arguments with strangers.

The government official who sent migrants to gulags is now urging the the firing of the journalists who reported the story and objected to it being killed. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Invading Venezuela is a close second: 19% approve, 60% disapprove.

Have you reported a naughty potty? Operators are standing by.

We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.

Noteworthy that *no* Justices thought that the SG's unconvincing alternative argument that Trump had properly invoked the *rebellion* provision of 12406 was even worthy of discussion or refutation; and ... [1]

As a self-employed labor reporter, I don't have paid holidays. Can u spare a few bucks to help me take some time off over the holidays? paydayreport.com/donate-to-he...

A little billionaire usury for Christmas!

In San Francisco, we even have "parallel" Democrats—self-described Democrats who hate progressives/the left but have nary a bad word to say about Trump. The press buys this hook, line, and sinker—thus making an extreme faction seem like the "center." (There's no "center" in politics)

One of the most depressing realizations of the last decade is that Birtherism is a coherent worldview

Really hard to imagine this opinion coming down the way it did if Illinoisans hadn't rallied to protect their neighbors and Pritzker hadn't publicly and forcefully resisted the administration.

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Also, Justice Kavanaugh sounds like he really, really wants a second try at his decision authorizing Kavanaugh Stops. He's now insisting that immigration enforcement should not be like EXACTLY WHAT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS LIKE UNDER TRUMP'S THUGGERY.

Oh yeah, that footnote is entirely unnecessary to the case in hand otherwise. Definitely agree with Lee‘s read.

What we saw inside Delaney Hall is the betrayal of the American Dream.

ICE and Border Patrol remain but a good sign any time an attempt to incite an insurrection to justify military occupation fails.

Here’s one thing to point out whenever the trump wh and gop do this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Yup. And without ePTC, coverage losses may take several years to shake out, and much of the lost will be CSR-eligibles downshifting to bronze or, in some states, gold (which has triple the OOP cap of strong-CSR silver).

(sigh) They haven't posted the actual press release w/the hard numbers yet, but once again, a HUGE chunk of those 15M are likely people who passively auto-renewed without realizing that their premiums are about to double or triple. I'd expect a large number to drop their coverage next month.

They believe in the sanctity of traditional rape

Elizabeth Warren has been right about endless things and she gets see this one proven beyond a reasonable clout.

The commonality bt the 60 Minutes Fiasco and the failed Jeffrey Epstein rollout is the incompetence of the person leading the effort.

Bari is the Edgelorax she speaks for the tech fascist elite. She speaks for the tech fascist elite for they’ve got the funds. Well, they’ve got more funds and she hopes they win.

It should be OBVIOUS that this is the fight we are in. Are the Dems going to become the party of Cuomo or the party of Mamdani? We're not the same party. Are the GOP going to be the party of Thiel or the party of Hawley? Those are also not the same party.

This is why brand actually means something in 2025. Actual aesthetics matters little compared to “dude who lives this.”

NEWS Russell Brand has been charged with one additional count of rape and one additional count of sexual assault. These charges are in addition to two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of oral rape.

This holiday season, skip all arguing with strangers online and save it for your relatives!

The 60 Minutes stuff is going to break bad. But not for Bari. Think early X-Twitter. Think DOGE.

Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,

NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time. This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected. Ohio is following Trump's demands.

No need to 2024 Elon Musk her politics. She did a whole website!

To me New Jersey is like Los Angeles County on the Atlantic. There will never be enough.

To be clear, the Comey case is RIDICULOUS. The charge is basically, "Was oblique in one answer to Ted Cruz four years ago." How clean does a dude have to be for them to seek this weak Worcester?

You wouldn't like Charles when he's mad, James Lankford. You can't handle the charts.

Thinking about this a bit harder. It feels like an op!

even if I’m putting on my very most cynical hat, it’s a very good thing that the establishment lane understands that they’re getting graded on this

By sending immigrants to a gulag in El Salvador, Trump is trying to seize the power to silence any American he wants. April 17, 2025 Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer

I got passes for a Trump rally in 2019 and my inbox has been traumatized like this for more than six years now.

Corporations terrify us of the common good because it's usually cheaper and more reliable for everyone, not just the top 1%.

Just as Marcy was one of the VERY few calling out Trump's political prosecutions of the first term, she's continually kept focus on the first political prosecution of this regime and the most ominous one—a member of Congress! Why has LaMonica Iver gotten 1/1000th the coverage of Comey? You know.

It's going well for the people who hired her, right? They'd much rather have this than that story air as planned. The hit to the reputation of "news" only helps them.

Retired 27-year FBI agent Brian Carroll, who specialized in managing exactly the type of cases like the Brown University shooting, explains all the ways in which Kash Patel just ain't it. Really great inside analysis: prospect.org/2025/12/23/k...

“Working toward the Fuhrer” is a well established principle in authoritarian systems

Thinking about this a bit, it feels real fake. And the kind of thing that'll get pointed to as way to undermine any truth claims. FWIW.

Just imagine if the J6 thugs who attacked the Capitol had easier access to AR-15s. (remember, they stashed weapons in VA) wapo.st/3LftZ7J

Don't know why I'm still bummed that AI actress Tily Norwood spoke at Turning Point USA.

This aged like the finest of wines. Be not intimidated. These people are mediocre and incompetent.

In the past ~50 years, times when: -Residential detracted from GDP contribution -PCE added at least 1% to real GDP growth -Unemployment rose QoQ -U3 was sub-6% (remove the deep recession periods) Bulls can point to 1995/96, bears to 2007 and arguably 1989.

What was Kushner’s title and purpose at this meeting?