“Hello?” a voice said on the other end of the line. This time, the president had picked up. “I’m writing a story about a big supporter of yours in the oil industry, Jeff Hildebrand,” I said. “Can I ask what you think about him?” by @alexcuadros.bsky.social

One of the core elements of Trump 47 is that it makes one miss the less toxic hacks of Trump 45. Like Louis De Joy. Bad as he was, he never tried to pull this stuff off.

The psychopaths are killing Al-Jazeera journalists again in Gaza and pretending they’re Hamas.

A drone is heading straight for the truck. RUN! RUN!.. I wish more people would see this video. This is the true cost of Ukrainian bread🇺🇦💔

Trump wanted to be president because it would make it easier for him to be a thief.

Handful of detainments here by the reflecting pool. They are being done a variety of officers, including Monroe County Sheriff, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State Police, US Marshals, a county in Texas I can’t make out, and a county in New York I can’t make out.

This is just US politics now, apparently.

the ongoing disappearance of "midlist" media is truly alarming across publishing, film/TV, and games and it'll continue to disappear as shit becomes more and more monopolized. Yes, indie can fill that void, it's not a solution to what is a far larger issue.

The true volk of america, the inner city dweller, are all that is best about this country

You look at this and tell me Economics is real.

i created this meme like 4 years ago on twitter and it went super viral and i think i got like 20 death threats. that's how you know i was cooking with this one

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

and literally everybody else on earth loses. and next month? npr loses, too. and the bosses will say "what did we do wrong? it must have been that we were too liberal" and everybody in charge will point to that without any evidence that it was correct. and the decline of ethical journalism continues

it’s worse than that. the original founders had already laid out the strategy for all the models that tesla ended up selling, prior to the cyber truck. elon’s only real contributions to the company were 1) door handles that will kill you, and 2) a truck that will kill you

The Washington Monument celebrates a man who stole teeth from he human beings he violently worked to death by claiming to own them. The Jefferson Memorial celebrates a child rapist who enslaved his own progeny who were the product of rape.

Posting this for a specific audience here.

A nice simple explainer of this entire situation

Ill edit it as a courtesy: cishet white dudes in stem (especially engineers) are fucking evil pricks who dont believe in emotional regulation or therapy or equality between all people. Their meritocracy mythology fuels their shitty behavior. There we go. Now its a 100% true sentence

The next time you see Disney or any other large media conglomerate say they need to cut staff in order to get costs under control, just remember this headline.

They're gonna try their hardest to normalize this. And I can get why; video game consumers yelled and complained about phone-home DRM, day-one DLC, a lot of consumer-hostile shit. But in the end, they bought the games anyway and eventually just got used to it. Frog-boiling works.

Usually, the dynamic of hostile dependency is not quite as explicit as this, but this is a great example:

Terrible politics is an underscored point. He’s basically designed in a lab to let Susan Collins survive a blue wave

Some men never recover from having been a boy with a mother. Rather than successfully integrating their animus and anima and individuating into psychologically whole individuals, they remain entrenched in a position of hostile dependency in relation to all that is feminine.

"HR Lady" is just a distillation of "everything I don't like is feminized and also my mom telling me things I don't want to hear"

If you know Boston, you’ll appreciate this. A perfect Storrowing! (Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/R...)

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

“Bilton is making $2.5 million for his new “60 Minutes” gig. Sources tell us that salary is $1 million more than what “60 Minutes” veteran Tanya Simon was pulling down for the same job before she was ousted by Weiss” pagesix.com/2026/06/04/h...

One of the most devastating voices in this piece is the mother of a 15yo girl who disclosed that her father sexually abused her for years. The girl's mother said the OALC didn't help... yet she remains a member. Why? “Because I want to go to heaven.” www.propublica.org/article/old-...

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

This should be a much bigger story A priceless collection of art has gone missing during trump's chaotic and secretive renovation of the Kennedy Center share.google/EgXWR11JELf6...

Quick ! Hide your precious stars from Bowsy the Koop ! 🌟🐲

The author who published a book about truth and AI that was embarrassingly revealed to have included AI-hallucinated quotes told @wired.com that he'd rather quit writing than quit using AI.

The call for “viewpoint diversity” is a nakedly political demand to overwrite the principles of academic freedom and academic excellence in order to create a “balance” of political and ideological allegiances – but only in fields and sectors that are deemed to be too liberal.

I cannot believe that we have gone so long without base level journalism that this feels somehow radical, and the guy being interviewed literally cannot conceive of being asked basic questions

ICE camps: Law enforccement is being driven by investors & shareholders in the private labor camps run by Geo Group and CoreCivic. They run on the labor of detainees. "The privatization has escalated the barbarity & indecent & inhumane treatment."

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

It dropped off the national media radar because they like Trump and think he's a louche who won't touch abortion, but the nutters are still trying to make it legal to execute sluts. Overturning Roe was never going to be enough and they won't stop spiraling deeper until forced.

Boys go to Jupiter, says Sting

"These five “myths” all point to the same meta-lesson: the most famous social psych findings are often right about the phenomenon (people conform, obey, ignore, rationalize harm), but wrong about the psychological process." open.substack.com/pub/powerofu...

the slow, ongoing destruction of the white house is both an on-the-nose metaphor and, more importantly, very funny

Oh god… we’ve made another mistake.

Johnny Canal knew.

let this be a message to Americans who join the military. the GOP will campaign on your death and use their power to delete your existence from the history books once it becomes inconvenient.

Dgaf about that group. If it wasn't Gaza, it was going to be the never ending whining about the loans they took out. If not that, the vibecession. Sure as every city street magically became void of protesters immediately following the election, they would've found whatever excuse. Whether..

The IRS leak that was the subject of Trump’s suit occurred in 2018-2020, when he was president. So, in effect, he was suing over what his own IRS did. Then he dropped the suit after he got his own Justice Department to give him a $1.8B slush fund to reward his thug army. What an outrageous scam.

The only people who still care about this are 'leftists' who desperately want everyone to think racism and sexism doesn't exist anymore.

The perfect encapsulation of how the political economy of MAGA fascism really works:

Humiliation ritual