The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

this is more or less what I expected

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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

Got my Covid and flu shots today in NYC, no problem. I had to justify why I wanted the Covid shot, because I'm under 65, but once I did, no problem. Covid is everywhere right now and vaccines are avail right now and both things feel highly changeable so this is a PSA

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Please go to support.abc.com and "submit programming feedback", tell them to reinstate Kimmel. Takes about a minute. Let's flood them.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Still okay to joke about the murders your administration is doing though.

COVID-19 Vaccines Averted 2.5 Million Deaths, Mostly Among Older Adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Before this year I would have given the idea a disinterested shrug, but I'm now pretty much all-in that Pritzker should be the 2028 nominee and it's not even close, head and shoulders above any plausible alternative.

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I think it is because this death is being mourned and shared like this should be treated as the loss of a moral and political hero, and it’s not because of the substance of Kirk’s beliefs but because of his proximity to Donald Trump and the desire to placate the man operating as POTUS.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

It is fine to keep hammering away at "release the files" but there is a real danger here of underplaying how much this is itself already a smoking gun.

“Every infection is another round of damage. Another hit to your blood vessels. Another chance for the virus to set up shop in your organs. Another spin of the wheel…the one that gives you diabetes, or ruins your heart, or breaks your brain. You’re not building immunity. You’re accumulating injury”

Hard agree

I’m 7 hr ahead of east coast right now and no one else awake to schaudenfreude with me makes me desperate to wake you all up like when I was little and got to go rouse my high school aged uncles who lived in the attic at my grandmother’s house and could sleep until the unfathomable hour of noon

Great collection of resources here for #longcovid and its many complications

I will be doing this as soon as I have an address. Fellow expats and folks outside the US, I really encourage you to do this. This could have a real impact on whether they gather the audacity to do this again.

Holy fucking shit

The NYT article is terrible and this is worse

Correct. It’s insane that anyone is standing for this. We need people in the streets, campus protests, a general strike. Democrats should be holding rallies and press events constantly. The apathy in the face of all this is astounding.

On earth 1, large crowds of govt workers standing around doing pretty much nothing at all would be a big scandal. Govt waste & all that

Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage. Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?

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Turek 2028

Trump isn't the solution to the "crisis of manhood," he's the problem open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Why A Bunch Of Real Dicks Keep Throwing Fake Ones - defector.com/why-a-bunch-...

Turn this off, people. On iPhone go to Settings / Apps / Instagram / Location >> NEVER. I already had mic, location, camera, Siri turned off for Instagram, which I also recommend. What are they thinking, rolling out this kind of surveillance as a surprise and an auto-opt-in?

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

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really need to see some men reading this and recommending it but i know i won't, so just recommending it myself to everyone

In 1990, only 1.2% of all guns manufactured were AR15s. Now, >23.4% of all guns made are AR15s & mass shootings with ⬆️ casualties skyrocketed - due to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban expiring in 2004 & the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act giving the gun industry a civil liability shield.

It’s not every day your work is shared by a former Secretary of State…

Can someone smarter than the New York Times explain to me what exactly the $200M fine that Columbia is paying is *for*? Because in my naiveté and with $400M in grant funding canceled, this is indistinguishable from a protection racket. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

This is correct

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Kristi Noem must resign now.

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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Trump’s Use Of The Term “Shylocks” Highlights Racially Incendiary Language And Compels Us To Ask: Why Won’t Zohran Mamdani Condemn Language Someone Mentioned To Him? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.