Benj

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

In Jared Kushner, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman found an American partner he could steer in whichever way he wanted.

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

This is the sort of thing Americans have spent decades mocking African and South American nations for doing

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

More evidence emerges linking unrest in France to large-scale Russian influence operations. Both Macron and Merz discuss it. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

gonna lose his mind when he discovers where english numbers come from

Bigotry & stupidity is the republican brand...

Lol congrats to all the chuds who spent the past 24 hours clutching their pearls pretending that Obama insulted Cheesecake Factory just so Trump could actually insult it.

She wants to know what Biden did for farmers? 🤔

I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

This is a lawsuit only in the same sense that any old crazy person can roll up to the courthouse and hand in a napkin scrawled in crayon about how the lizard people are eating their thoughts.

The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so. What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.

A reminder also that this office has no U.S. Attorney, and the guy running the office — as first assistant — was ruled to have improperly served too long as the appointed U.S. Attorney.

look, nothing is simple and i have no parsimonious explanation for anything here, but a student protest movement, focused on corruption & authoritarianism, just won a major european election. a big deal.

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

It would probably be beneficial to recognize that the kind of social media and internet-driven perception and mis/disinformation campaigns people associate with Russia are carried out by nearly every monied interest, including nation states, corporations, oligarchs, and political parties.

Three moments broke Trump 2.0: 1) Kimmel and other attempted censorship after Charlie Kirk. Made public see the attack on speech. 2) Minnesota anti-ICE protests, Goode and Pretti killings. Made public see the attack on rights. 3) Iran war. Made public see bad foreign policy affects them directly.

From my read so far, most of the U.S. press does not often qualify this administration with the "corrupt" label in stories that quite evidently call for it. But time will show there was no other to qualify what this government is doing, just as @vermontgmg.bsky.social writes here.

FYI I don't think you included this, which is my new favorite corruption, which also implicates Blanche's tax immunity. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

My second essay on how under Trump we’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable to us just years ago. Today: The corruption of the Justice Dept and *EIGHT* scandals on par with Watergate: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

Great reporting at the crossroads of fossil fuels and political corruption. Words by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu, photos by @lynseyaddario.bsky.social

"The Cuban regime has stifled any viable domestic opposition. But the withering of the state—a process that has been under way for decades—has accelerated, and is shocking to see up close" From Robert Worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This 🤡

Like, Trump already has us on the brink of a for-real World War for no sane reason, just because he likes throwing his weight around and it didn’t occur to him that Iranians shoot back. The energy policy of the far right is going to destroy the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people.

I think this becomes quite understandable in the context of an international fascist movement that has swept much of the planet in a decade, with horrifying and very extreme consequences for the entire species

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

This is one good example of how appropriations hardball can work if you're willing to not blink first. Another: take your pick for demands and restrictions on funding Executive Office of the President. Yes, literally defund the White House. EOP is the central hub of the assault on the Constitution.

The Pentagon and private capital have teamed up to militarize the island nation. theintercept.com/2026/10/26/p...

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Maybe the real voter fraud was the voter fraud we committed along the way. Another grotesque display of Republican hypocrisy, exposed by @brendanhartnett.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

These people have cooked their brains to the extent that they literally cannot complete simple, normal human tasks without being augmented by machines which think for them. This is not a social improvement. It's a disability.

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In his (rather dubious) defense, Republican voters have shown him again and again that they love bigotry more than the constitution, the country, the troops, their jobs, drinking water, affordable food, their dignity, their own families, and even their own lives.

It would be delightful if our goony maladjusted oligarchs trying to play masters of the universe is what starts tipping countries away from the fascists they try to install.

Trump’s whole “no one knows what incumbent means” thing is funny bc they could’ve spent months playing a snappy jingle for Alaskans like that time Mike Duggan beat Mike Dugeon AS A WRITE-IN, but instead they decided just to whine like little bitches youtu.be/LSAmk7OUg0U?...

This is exactly why I called the Republican Party a bunch of Drakes the other day: people have the same name all the time and you explain the difference between Dan J. Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan like a grown-ass political party. This happens frequently: www.yahoo.com/news/2-polit....

As I've said, this is either an impeachable offense that Democrats act on or it's a new precedent.