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I can finally tell you all about this project that has consumed my life. I am so excited to announce this searchable dark money database aimed at exposing political influence networks. This is just the first phase of the project too. We have big plans.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

I KNOW YOU LYING TO ME www.wjcl.com/article/sava...

Republicans' anti-democracy project has a fast track (Trump) and a slow track (Roberts Court). They sometimes disagree on specifics, but both tracks backslide the US, and do more in concert than they could on their own. If you excuse the slow track because it's not the fast track, you're a sucker.

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

We're so used to avoiding medical care because of the potential cost that we've lost sight of how fucking absurd living like this actually is. It truly does not have to be this way. www.welcometohellworld.com/it-truly-doe...

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

A Pa. police chief on why he signed a deal with ICE to arrest and deport immigrants

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

The Intercept is suing for critical records in the Prairieland “antifa” terrorism case that has seen anti-ICE activists hit with prison sentences totaling over 560 years. Can you chip in $5 by midnight to help us uncover the truth? buff.ly/0yHib2h

Just read @katemanne.bsky.social ‘s fantastic piece in The Cut about the Cornell rape and she points out that students protesting conditions in Gaza were treated more harshly than the rapists and holy shit, this detail

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

it will be cool when we can get back to a media environment where child abusers and predators don’t get a say in editorial

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

the thing about the "you're out of touch if you haven't heard this song" discourse is that radio has been dead for well over a decade. it's extremely normal to listen to a lot of music but still never hear the songs at the top of the charts.

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

the Allied post war "denazification" was a massive failure. nuremberg was a massive failure. the Nazis who survived were, in large, not held to account. suggesting otherwise is fantasy.

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

curious if the new york times will correct/append this story identifying that all the things attributed to "AI" in it were actually people in a call center https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/meta-muse-ai-agent.html

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

This week's newsletter is out! It's about how James Carville, seen here wearing Oshkosh B'Gosh for adults, could cost Democrats in the midterms link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

Denmark has the opportunity to do the funniest thing to U.S. potash supplies.

"I hope people read my thread and respond to what I said and not whatever they made up in their head," I said, posting on the Responding To Whatever You Made Up In Your Head website

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

this is the kinda of twisting oneself into knots one has to do as a liberal, to take a clear issue of right & wrong, pretend it is more complicated so that you can tell yourself that you're still progressive while actively caving to bigotry or holding bigotry in your heart unquestioned.