Dirk Peters

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Oh.

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

We stan.

NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

I am driven to distraction by how *not angry* so many of my electeds seem. When they sit around and blab about policy this and policy that and blah blah blah, what I hear is "This is an interesting intellectual exercise for me." You should be barely able to contain yourself in public.

This.

"If you commute on an e-bike 20km a day, five days a week, your charging cost would be about $20 – annually."

The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes

tfw you have no idea that conservatives have been saying since the 1970s that if you have accessible and pleasant comms people, then "objective" journalists are easy to manipulate into thinking power and the disempowered are equal.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Weird how the NYT can presume Trump is grieving, but can never presume he’s lying.

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

It remains a mystery why Platner has to resign for sexual impropriety and Trump doesn't

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. A guy who shits himself in public and thinks people should drink bleach says it is open. For busy American motorists, it can be hard to know who to trust.

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

You know it's an extremist, partisan court because the opinion here is not 9-0. The Constitution does not leave any room for doubt on this question.

An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗

PRIORITIES. 🙄

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."

I can see flaws these rules, but at the same time, these are some of the most are interesting ideas I’ve seen for breaking the cycle of compulsive behavior. How else can we possibly break free? Open to ideas…

go knicks go mamdani fuck james dolan

We're used to conservatives claiming people protesting ICE (and getting gassed and beaten and killed for it) are violent mobs. Now HERE's a REAL violent mob - sicced on brown people by Hitler-saluting Elon Musk - and they've been downgraded by the Prestige Press to "protestors." It's too obvious.

IF YOU ARE STILL IN LINE TO BOO TRUMP, PLEASE STAY IN LINE

Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The last 10 years in a nutshell: Nazi: I’m a Nazi! Media: Outspoken Man Touts Unconventional Ideas Nazi: No, I’m just a Nazi. Media: Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who— Nazi: No, seriously! I’m quoting Mein Kampf! I love Hitler! Media: Why Both Sides Have an Extremist Problem.

It seems like the fundamental problem is people hate us more than they love America or God.

If Knicks win the title, Mamdani gets to be Mayor for Life. Those are the rules.

I went down a rabbit hole learning about rice, does anyone want a big rambling thread about rice?

every country has an endemic Type of Old Person, like how the Southern US has “peepaws that set up at the Hardee’s to talk shit”. what is your country’s Endemic Type of Old Person?