Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
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Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."
The Defenestration of Prague is just made-up rubbish. How do you get an entire city through a window?
I mean, it never hurts to talk about Sonic The Hedgehog.
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
Genocide, kicked off by Netanyahu-caused famine in Gaza.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.
In approximately 60 days, several major elections are going to take place across the country. I think SOMEONE at the DNC should be responsible for INFORMING all of the Dems in America how we can help our team members win. SOMEONE should be sending out links to sign up for letter writing, call &
The kind of thing that validates the view that trying to talk Republicans out of fascism should be way less of a priority than trying to get non-fascists mobilized.
McKinsey must be kicking themselves right now.
"You're gonna climb...climb, climb, climb!"
Many such cases.
Doesn't this guy usually just sign tweets with "DJT"?
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
Palestinians will be offered $5000 for their land, 4 years of rent subsidies, & a year of food—if they “voluntarily” leave. This is ethnic cleansing, a war crime If Palestinians don’t “voluntarily” leave, they’ll be placed into concentration camps & imprisoned. This is genocide & a war crime 2/4
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
It's the vaudeville music that they play you off to when you leave the stage.
There's another one I've never found a name for, the one that goes: ya-dadda-dadda-DAH-daa, ya-dadda-dadda-DAH-daa (at a lower pitch) ya-dadda-dadda-DAH-daa, daaaaaaa-uhh-aaah! (the last part is usually a trombone gliss).
It's the Minsky Fanfare or Minsky Pickup tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
If you liked that tweet, come to the Vaccine Congress in Kyoto! I’m giving a talk on RFK Jr’s entire vaccination policy portfolio. I plan to light his ass up & put numbers on the measles epidemics he’s trying to cause. Registration still open! conferenceregistration.elsevier.com/19th-Vaccine...
He's a science denier and a grifter, and both of those statements are journalistically accurate; he realizes millions of dollars in income from spreading disinformation about vaccines. Why pharmaceutical companies haven't taken note is beyond me.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Just sent Wikipediai $25 and urge those who can to do likewise. Would love to see Wiki reach out to the numerous scientists, historians and other experts that the Republicans have fired. Maybe grant them some additional editing status in their respective fields.
🐔 Rep Chuck Fleischmann (R) tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press he will “never” do a town hall www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Your dad was Mario Cuomo.
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
Why they changed it, I can't say.
I'd need to see the mouse.
Don't forget the many strongly worded questions!
Casey Kasem would have agreed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUk...
Mamdani is a citizen just like Vance. He no more owes "gratitude" to the US than does anyone else. The suggestion is that he is some kind of second-class citizen who owes deference to the country and those born here - exactly the kind of blood-and-soil nationalism that Vance so often promotes.
Lot of discourse about what Democrats need to create and not enough, in my view, on what they need to repeal or amend. Lot of stuff on the books that can be cleaned up. Repeal the Comstock Acts, amend the IEEPA to restrict exec authority, amend and narrow the Home Rule Act for the same
Post a meme made by you:
Lawsuits incoming?
this man is a racist
Phillip: The final point from my conservative friends at the table. Since when are conservatives cheerleading for tax increases? Since when is it okay for one man to decide that every person in the United States has to pay a higher tax, and he never has to go through congress to do it?
It's called racism.
MAGA is the toxic legacy of all the people we let off the hook. The Confederates, the Klan, the Nazis, the Republicans, it goes on and on
The people making this decision are simply evil. That's why.
"are providing." ARE PROVIDING. Mealy-mouthed bullshit from journalists is eroding the very freedoms that makes journalism possible in the first place.
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
A federal judge blocks Trump administration's deportation effort, citing due process violations.
The thing about conservatives who say they’d never end a family relationship over politics is that, like every other thing they say, they’re lying.
Wake. Up.
"I am extremely skeptical that Bill Pulte would come across 1/100th as well as Lisa Cook if his paperwork were scrutinized as closely as he has scrutinized Cook’s paperwork" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Trump wants to use the FEMA budget to build concentration camps around the world.
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
Such optimism.
Terminal stupidity.
Honestly. It reminds me of a line from Glengarry Glen Ross: "You're such a hero, you're so rich, how come you're coming down here wasting your time with such a bunch of bums? "
Oh, good. It's nice to have something to look forward to.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition
#TrumpTariffs
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
You may not be interested in authoritarianism, but authoritarianism is interested in you.
Mike Johnson on CNN and Fox News polls that show how unpopular Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act is: “I'm not buying that, polls can be manipulated.”
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
Really not great that this ketamine addled piece of shit is using an entire social media network he bought to spread blatant lies and go after trans people because he couldn't accept his own trans daughter.
serious l i t e r a l Nazi shit
If a poll said 40% believe the Earth is flat i wouldn’t say well let’s give those flat-Earthers a chance, maybe they’re on to something. I would say, we need to redouble basic education. Fascists need to be expelled from public life. Everyone should be on board with that.
Meiselas: I saw a headline, “Trump Stamps Dictator Chic on Washington.” And they don't even see the problem with that. I feel like one of the last survivors sometimes in a zombie movie, where the zombie hasn’t gotten me yet.
You could not write a character like this in a children’s cartoon without being called cartoonishly evil, and yet here the fuck he is saying it on camera. What the actual fuck is wrong with this goddamned country
Fucking ghoul.
This reads like a Futurama headline.
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
Many such cases.
It's time to #RetireSusanCollins and her Trump rubber stamp for fresh leadership ideas and perspectives. #GrahamForSenate
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This post from an Oregon Republican FB group is indicative of how far down the authoritarian rabbit hole some rank and file republicans have gone. They are outraged that some middle aged white normie Dems are allowed to make posters in the public library. McCarthyism on steroids.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
true story i used to be one of those red pandas who thought booing was impolite and unsportsmanlike but this administration and its shitty people has completely changed my stance i am all for booing and public shunning of every single one of these fucks tbh thank u for coming to my TED talk
Trump pardoned scammers, predators, and violent criminals. Of course his admin wants Ashli Babbitt honored with full military honors. He glorifies the worst while vilifying public servants like Lisa Cook. Trump is the tyrant the Founders warned us about.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
Portugal’s president gets it, branding Trump a “Russian asset,” and blasting him for his tepid response to Moscow. “The supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset.” www.thedailybeast.com/portuguese-p...
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
It isn't funny. She's a selfish disgrace, and based on the warm reception she got at that recent town hall, her constituents think so, too.
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
every time someone says “fuck you, make me” an angel gets its wings
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
Trump now at 37% approve/55% disapprove. On July 16, was at 40%/54%. Voters are gradually moving away from Trump. But elites continue to accommodate and acquiesce to him. So his authoritarian project marches ahead. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
Amphibianism
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Christian nationalism is no longer a fringe threat—it’s a fast-growing, well-funded movement working to replace U.S. democracy with authoritarian religious rule. From apocalyptic prophecies to Catholic theocracy. This article breaks down 10 chilling ways it’s gaining power and momentum.
All things being equal, greater political influence over the Fed will raise interest rates because of the extra risk of bad decisions. Given Donald Trump’s wishes, the irony is obvious
I miss when following US economic policy didn’t mean trying to get your head around US court processes.
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
