there’s the fucker

We’re going to need a lot more of this. Please contribute if you have the means.

There’s your Trump jobs!

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism: Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches. Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵

Yep

Absofuckinglutely.

Every time I see JV DJT’s name I think of Tom Paine’s explanation for why hereditary rule is such a stupid idea, because so frequently nature gives us “an ass for a lion.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

Good luck with that America. 😬 Inside the Dark and Predatory World of Crypto Casinos www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

With this decision, CBS and Paramount deserve every bit of smoke and consumer backlash as ABC and Disney got for attempting to fire Jimmy Kimmel to appease Trump. Corporations that censor journalists and media to kowtow to fascism deserve all our ire. Money is the only language they understand.

Under Trump We can afford ICE a private army seizing and disappearing people But We can't afford ACA subsidies to help Americans afford healthcare It's about choice We chose I say healthcare for all What say you?

open.substack.com/pub/thetonym... Something is changing inside the U.S. military, and it isn’t happening with a press conference or a formal rewrite of the rules. It’s happening quietly, in deleted posts, scrubbed bios, and service members deciding it’s safer to say nothing at all.

This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽

This is great.

They literally handing $40,000,000,000 to Argentina just because

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Dem voters need to be smarter about what it’s going to take to win back and hold the majority. Left wing purity tests aren’t it.

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Just JD Vance being a racist ass shill for the extreme right.

This. 100%.

A candidate running on dismantling ICE, you say?

Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1

Are we tired of winning yet?

Mike Johnson has lost control of the House, as we continue to push through petitions to force the votes he tries so hard to run from. Congress may be closed for the Holiday, but their inboxes aren’t. Let’s flood them with messages and urge them to vote yes on extending ACA tax credits!

good shit my dude

Always has, always will.

This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias. Read the whole thing.

Reup of this public resource we created Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) with links to all the publicly available documents

Doesn’t Mike Lee understand that it was those captains who had letters of marque who were the pirates? 🤔

Seems pretty damning.

The great white wash has begun. Cover up etc. Whatever you want to call it.

If people want to "debate" they need to find venues that don't primarily exist to drive engagement and outrage to extremists and hate.

The Guardian is right. SCOTUS is illegitimate. It serves only Trump. If a fiend like Trump is found guilty by a jury, he's guilty! If he loses his appeal, he's more guilty! If he loses another appeal, he's even more guilty. That's it! Trump's guilty! SCOTUS doesn't get to overturn everyone else.

Facts.

The very best Hallmark movies are made in Canada.

Congress demanded Jack Smith testify about his investigations, but kept him behind closed doors during his sworn deposition. If we care about transparency, then Congress should release the transcript. My thoughts in Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It sure is.

The economy will take off like a rocket just as soon as Republicans unveil their healthcare plan.

A little timeline cleanse from all the nonsense. Anyone in the Bay Area want a lovely new puppy for Christmas? We're fostering again, and this little guy is a bit shy, but super sweet... www.dpsrescue.org/adopt/pet-de...

For a GOP president—after the Iraq War—to say outright that invading Venezuela is all about oil is wild. But it is. It’s also about corruption, power, graft, and land. And we should take him at his word. @msnowevents.bsky.social

Are Portuguese people the correct shade of white to be allowed to immigrate? 🤔 Aren’t they European? I’m confused.

The sooner we all go: “Fuck you. They’re not hurting anybody. Leave ‘em alone.” the sooner Consevatives have to scramble for a new target. And whoever they go after next, we’ll defend them, too.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Trump's speech last night was demented. My thoughts. www.thedailybeast.com/its-time-to-...

Seems important.

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--