They’re doing the exact thing Duterte is being prosecuted for right now, except with even less evidence of drug dealing

Absolutely bonkers that trying to stop white supremacists from doing mass shootings is now a delicate subject!

it's almost impossible to get on CNN if you're, say, an academic or journalist that criticizes corporate power, radical wealth disparity, billionaire taxation reform, or failures on consumer protection but you can spread racist propaganda for a decade and they're treat you like a very serious boy

The desire for stability is extremely powerful, and it fuels extremism on multiple levels. Extremists can make great advances when people are destabilized, which is why extremists do so many destabilizing things.

As a child of the Reagan years, the fact that the *Republican Party* is expropriating shares in companies and shaking companies down while saying stuff like this is wild

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Just a reminder that these "pivotal votes" that the Democrats got in these recent special elections aren't pickups. They are pivotal seats that have been vacant for months because the Democrats who previously held them ran for office notwithstanding age and cancer diagnoses, then died in office.

Absolutely not. Britain came up with the migrants-eating-beloved-animals meme ("Swan bake", The Sun, 2003). And which country pioneered irresponsible speculation about medicines and autism? America is a re-exporter.

RFK Jr. Promotes Natural Immunity With Invitation To Touch His Festering Sore https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-promotes-natural-immunity-with-invitation-to-touch-his-festering-sore/

Plug for @briandeer.com's book if you haven't read it.

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

How bad was Trump's Tylenol presser? @ashishkjha.bsky.social, physician and former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, tells @citizencohn.bsky.social it was the worst public health briefing since the bleach moment.

CLIP: “Figuring out ways to love my neighbor became so hard as a Republican.” Ex-GOP Lt. Gov. of GEORGIA Geoff Duncan, now running for Gov as a Dem, says others are having the same journey — and the “tone & tenor” inside the GOP chased him away. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO9e6s2...

NEW: The military’s annual Warrant Officer Convention has been deemed a rousing success as over 5,000 officers’ hats registered and flew to the Indian Ocean paradise of the Maldives.

Regrettably, that appears to be an AI hallucination - searched here in the book here - there's no mention of marbles or microchips, etc. www.google.com/books/editio...

This is actually getting amazing reviews.

"Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries." gifting this piece from Roxane Gay - www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

"Civilians in the U.S. as a group still have more than enough power to keep authoritarianism from solidifying... Though we are careening dangerously down that path, there are not yet enough law enforcement officers to crack down on the whole country... But that window won’t stay open indefinitely."

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This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

As a former U.S. Public Delegate to the UN, I watched Donald Trump’s speech with profound concern. He treats alliances as transactions and diplomacy as a reality show. This isn't strength; it's a reckless retreat from the world stage. My thoughts:

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I'm really interested in the psychology of the masked up ICE agent with the Facebook camera glasses who also appears to be wearing a "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden Flag. Is it meant ironically? How does he square current ICE targets and tactics with the ethos the flag has traditionally represented?

CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns. As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.

Oh we were on that bullshit well into the 1800s. See St Paul’s of Liège (Belgium), which first commissioned Joseph Geefs to sculpt Lucifer When Joe delivered it in 1842 (real fuckin sexy, etc) the Bishop was like “oh no!” so re-commissioned his brother Guillaume, who… made it sexier

I really do think that there is something seriously destabilizing happening behind the scenes in Russia rn that is threatening Putin's control.

We must be mindful of the feelings of white supremacists at this sensitive moment in our nation’s history.

The real test will be if Times reporters start being as blunt about Trump ruling as a dictator as they have been lately about him lying and hating. presswatchers.org/2025/09/is-t...

“Despite speculation in some reporting about SIM farm operation that suggests it was created by a foreign state such as Russia or China and used for espionage, it’s far more likely that the operation’s central focus was scams and other profit-motivated forms of cybercrime…”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

A good ad on the DC Metro

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, is 1 of only 100 Americans out of over 250 million adult citizens given the consequential responsibility to advise and consent on exec branch nominees. He used that to approve an antivax, anti-science conspiracy theorist as the nation's top public health official.

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

#himpathy Try this: He wants to be seen as solving autism and women are the preferred collateral damage.

We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.

Trump humiliates the US on the world stage

Welp.

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

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Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

The Magical promise with a grotesque catch Beyond The Noise 81: To serve Man @pauloffit.bsky.social

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

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Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.