Incredibly embarrassing. Poster-podcaster government

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by

this = the problem w/ X. by turning it into 4chan w/ virality distribution the platform turns everything into a meme. so it must strip away almost all context & imbue it w/ intense amounts of nihilism or so many layers of irony that there's no humanity anymore. it's a great dehumanization machine

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

DC does not have a triumphal arch, despite all its other Roman architecture, because they are an imperial and not a republican symbol. They became reserved for the Caesars, and the Arc de Triomphe is a monument to Napoleon. If this dumb thing gets built, the only acceptable course is to demolish it.

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

I used to think this, but it is not accounting for the risk of ruin to society from systems capture and corruption. I obviously learned this in a hindsight 2020 way, but nonetheless any good that came so far feels offset by that risk having manifested. The class is malignant and should be maligned.

the evangelical Christian Zionist right is pro-Israel without being pro-Jewish the fashy tradcath right is anti-Israel without being pro-Palestinian

Sammy Davis Jr. Can Still Tap Dance youtube.com/watch?v=foDI...

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Dave Chappelle at the end of a special: And I knew that duck. He was my friend. He just wanted grapes…but the man at the lemonade stand refused. Just think about that. Damn.

Grim reporting from @propublica.org about starvation in one of the world's largest refugee camps and how newly-appointed U.S. officials discussed it uninterestedly over fancy dinner in Nairobi after cutting off aid. www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Latest: A report by the Cato Institute, a new AP investigation, and reams of court documents show how DHS is abusing a law about impeding federal law enforcement to threaten and arrest people for protected First Amendment activity. Those cases are falling apart in court reason.com/2025/12/18/t...

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics” Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics! (The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

The Biden administration repeatedly rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return President Trump to the White House, a New York Times examination found. Former officials in his administration said that Biden and his confidants made two crucial errors.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Hüsker Dü - Sorry Somehow youtube.com/watch?v=ZrgZ...

Part of this is a pool problem: People attracted to Trump are disproportionately rather stupid and emotionally dysfunctional. Part is tactical: An incompetent person is more acutely aware how dependent they are on the patron’s grace, and has no independent reputation to protect. But also…

the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week

South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.

“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa."

There was a SAF drone attack yesterday on the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan that killed 47 civilians. It’s not just about history it’s also about the present.

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Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

I'm not saying that *nothing* these agencies say about their operations turns out to be true. I'm just saying you'd have to be a Bill Melugin-level dummy to take them at their word.

The historic architecture of Ethiopia and Eritrea: a complete overview www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

Sarah Longwell: "Donald Trump took office, we have experienced a net decline of over a million jobs... Everybody in immediate proximity to trump is getting richer while the vast majority of Americans are getting poorer and people are losing their jobs."

The ADL is terrified that the Mamdani administration will continue to demonstrate that a genuine, tangible commitment to the well-being of Jews in America can coexist alongside staunch opposition to the policies of a country on the other side of the planet. It hurts their bottom line

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Jay Jones definitely the funniest win of the night

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

Over 10,000 killed within three days. Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space. An absolute nightmare.

"In the shadow of Sudan’s misery, President Donald Trump has done conspicuously little.....The White House was more focused on gutting USAID, an agency that propped up critical elements of the humanitarian complex aiding Sudanese people." By @ishaantharoor.bsky.social. wapo.st/49qdcbO

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 218 of The Continent El Fasher has fallen — the last Darfuri city to resist the Rapid Support Forces. After a 500-day siege, the Sudanese army withdrew, leaving 250,000 civilians at the mercy of genocidal militias. bit.ly/218_TC

- @willsommer.bsky.social knows this stuff better than anyone so if he says that this was a real shift and escalation, believe him

The Trump administration makes it official: The refugee cap for this year will be 7,500. As we reported earlier this month, a bulk of the limited slots will be for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination.: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

So much stuff happens that I bet you already forgot about the whole “circumcision causes autism” thing. I bet that just went into the pile despite it being the craziest fucking thing you’ve ever heard

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details: