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It's more an indication of incompetence and cowardice. The Dems should have reflected on the fact that the extreme right was 1. taking over the country, and 2. going mainstream; but the turning point was Heather Heyer being killed in Charlottesville while Nazis chanted "Jews will not replace us"

Reminder that some Democrats voted for this person, cause the party is stupid Labor secretary says Americans want to work hard jobs for little pay www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The Cass Review has not been peer-reviewed. But it has now been critiqued in depth and from every angle and fully discredited as pseudoscience by ELEVEN peer-reviewed publications. So when the government uses the Cass Review to justify any policies it is not “following the science”.

New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy. How Musk and Trump killed USAID. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

ALERT: Attorney General Pam Bondi is apparently threatening some of those providing medical care to their minor transgender patients. If you receive one of these subpoenas, please reach out, have your lawyer do so, or send me a copy. My email is in bio, as is my Signal.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The National Science Foundation has sent an email out to its members to collect signatures for a dissent declaration similar to the NIH’s Bethesda Declaration and the EPA’s Declaration of Dissent. This comes on the heels of Lee Zeldin putting 139 EPA declaration signers on admin leave

people who think the gvt controls the weather are a faction that is quickly gaining power on the right — and MTG says she's planning to introduce legislation on this soon @davidgilbert.bsky.social & i looked at how these conspiracy theories got supercharged after the tx floods this weekend:

Citizens being assaulted, arrested, and sent to jails. Military-style sweeps of Hispanic neighborhoods. This is what Congress just gave President Trump $150 billion to do to Americans in every state. www.aclusocal.org/sites/defaul...

Trump wants to impose a tax on you so that his buddy can avoid consequences for a coup attempt.

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

I had no idea red letter media made it here, and that they somehow posted content I missed on YouTube - it's brilliant. Sucks that they're not more active on here.

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...

REPORTER: Yesterday you said you were not sure who ordered the munitions ordered to Ukraine. Have you figured it out? TRUMP: I haven't though about it REPORTER: What does it say that such a decision could be made without you knowing? TRUMP: I would know. If a decision was made I will know.

"i want to overturn the outcome of the thing that just happened" went from being seen as cowardly excuse making to just the thing that savvy coaches do, and that's spilled downwards into half the country thinking trump looking for any opportunity he could to overturn his election loss is fine

cant believe that this response from a sitting member of Congress from Florida, to one of his Dem colleagues, is real

They don’t know what’s in the legislation they just voted for

Your daily reminder that xAI is actively violating the Clean Air Act by running 400+ megawatts of trailer mounted natural gas turbines with no selective catalyst control devices in a poor, majority black to post "Hitler was the man" on X

@nbcnews.com thinks calling for the mass murder of people with Jewish sounding names is "removing nuance".

Cambridge Analytica on steroids. I had a friend who worked on that and at least they believed they were advancing science, just without all the red tape of consent, etc. Their egos were huge and they could see the $$$ potential. Any underhanded shit on "X" would just be a billionaire's grudges.

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Who Goes MAGA? With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however. Update: Just after I…

"They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it," Izquierdo said.

The article contains no contrary source to represent the state of the scientific research: interpersonal harm in a society is not determined by homicide clearance rates, but by structural features: inequality, healthcare, education, housing, toxic masculinity, levels of connection/loneliness, etc.

Wow -- Trump jumps in to try to shut down a reporter who attempts to ask Pam Bondi about the missing minute in the Epstein jailhouse tape

This man is one of the true villains in the history of administrative burdens. Would love someone to do a back of the envelope estimate of the value of time lost.

MacArthur Park today is what a mass deportation regime looks like. It’s what it’s supposed to look like. Mass deportation is both the cause and the excuse for mass militarization.

a lot has been made of the fact that younger voters don’t view Trump as “abnormal” because he has dominated the scene for their entire political lives that’s true but it swings both ways, “only centrism can save you” isn’t compelling to those people

One of the things the old time political machines did that was important to their longevity was try to identify talented and ambitious up and comers from the community and incorporate them into the machines, instead of risking them becoming reformist opponents by blocking them out.

If this is substantiated every single justice department attorney who touched the filings denying jurisdiction should be disbarred unless they're individually willing to put in a sworn statement declaring that they were told something different and identifying who lied to them about it

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

still the biggest undercovered story of 2025. when it gets bad all the political journalists who are ignoring it now will laugh and talk about how "everyone knew" it was so much worse than was being reported

straight line from Republican fearmongering to this

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

NEW: NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn spoke about the Mamdani article at his daily meeting with top editors this morning, praising both the story and the reporting process, a Times source tells me. He also praised Assistant Managing Editor Pat Healy’s explanation of the situation that he posted on X.

A gentle reminder that the VA getting rid of 30,000 people instead of 80,000 people isn’t a win.

READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you listen to what Trump says, he definitely wants to create forced labor camps. newrepublic.com/article/1976...

He chanted "Kill them!" as rioters beat police at the Capitol.