ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
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ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
A hugely overpriced service that most of its users hate?
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Democrats want to retreat to the only place where they are politically comfortable: disavowing the left
Many have made the point that the press thinks that the white Republican voter base represents REAL America, but it's also worth noting that they transmute this onto elite views as well. The shit that RFK Jr. and JD Vance believe is pure elite conspiracy. It doesn't have a wide constituency.
ABC is doing literal Fox News chyrons for headlines
Americans lose faith that hard work leads to economic gains, because it doesn't
Jesus Christ
Is Purdy elite?
Super interesting, I've never heard this perspective before!
The infallible free market has allocated all its eggs into one basket, historically the safest and most profitable way to store eggs
Why do you say that? Mamdani just did it and won the most votes in a NYC mayoral primary ever.
Congratulations Jerry Nadler you have just been named 2025's Antisemite of the Year
Is the average flyover state voter reading Mencius Moldbug blogs, like JD Vance? Do they believe that the only way to save America is to let the tech oligarchs establish a monarchy?
Like okay, 30% of the public believes that vaccines aren't safe and effective. That's not what RFK believes. He believes they were genetically engineered to spare Asians and Jews. He also believes that WiFi causes brain cancer. How many Americans share these views? 0.1%, maybe?
Many have made the point that the press thinks that the white Republican voter base represents REAL America, but it's also worth noting that they transmute this onto elite views as well. The shit that RFK Jr. and JD Vance believe is pure elite conspiracy. It doesn't have a wide constituency.
They're not even saying they are the same thing, they are saying one if preferable!
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
Nate Silver coming home and seeing the Savannah Bananas score after betting against them for the third time this week
"It's not looking good for Trump" ummm he looks as healthy as ever
The *literal* same people who constantly screamed Twitter isn’t real life for a decade are now telling us it in fact is, that real Americans are concerned with great replacement theory, transvestigating, using the R slur, and sperm counts.
In China, EVs are now cheaper than gas cars, per FORTUNE
I literally had this reaction
A stroke of good fortune!
lol they actually did it
In addition to the corporations trying to destroy the NLRB and 90 years of labor law, don’t forget a university is also helping, just to fight their own faculty and students.
I love to actively participate in the destruction of my country while also tanking my approval rating lower and lower every day
Democrats suck but Labor is like if the entire party was Fetterman, Sinema, and Manchin
America is in very clearly in decline and likely going to continue on that path, but it's genuinely pivotal we avoid going the way of Starmer and Labor.
What an awesome party
Even when the press decides to report "critically" on Israel, Israel still always gets the right of denial in the subhead. You never, ever see this with a country like Russia. The press doesn't care if Putin denies wrongdoing.
Almost every elected Democrat believes that Republicans are secretly correct about most things (immigration, crime, economy, etc) and they are willing to backfill anything to justify that belief, including just completely re-inventing the past to flagellate themselves about how bad they were
People's perceptions of the pandemic, up to and including a Democratic Senator, are completely hallucinated. The idea that COVID restrictions were "Kafkaesque" is absurd hysteria that has zero connection to reality.
Seems entirely possible that the rest of my life is just party control switching back and forth every four years
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Boston had 23 murders in all of 2024. 23!!
This continues to be a spectacular story and one of the few genuine bright spots about the United States over the last decade. Not only do we not celebrate it, but half the country is convinced that the precise opposite is true and urban crime rates are at all-time highs.
Important context here is Mamdani is muslim and Bill Maher hates muslims.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Just unconscionably evil
This hero just saved a woman from domestic violence
the evil democrats are saying you're not sexy sir
You all have 1-3 years to form your own team and elect your own coach and leave real Generals the f*k outta your mouth I read all the replies & you all have no real solutions (or coaches) other than "not that guy" for defeating the Globetrotters which is why you all sounds like propaganda bots
Trump is looking great regardless of what the haters say
“I just wanted it more and it’s illegal to say otherwise” is actually an incredibly cool way to explain stealing from a child on camera
Maximum wage of $500,000 IMO
This certainly sounds like the Rudy Giuliani I know
I was out roaming the roads like a ronin, saving random women from violence, when a septic truck ran over me 31 times. This will be my only statement on the matter.
An uncanny ability to read the For You page on Twitter. He really is a master.
published my Guide To Reading More Books nearly exactly a year ago so I guess it's time to post it again youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/learning-h... [free to read!]
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
lol perfect
As someone who made the case Trump's first term was absolutely not as bad as either of W's, this term is likely to be the worst of any modern president and it's not even close, the velocity at which damage is being done is unprecedented.
9-4 season followed by an opening loss to 2-10 Florida State. That's tough.
Let me note: Yemen's PM and cabinet were assassinated *2 DAYS AGO.* And not a single outlet reported it. A perfect intersection of anti-Africa, anti-Palestine, anti-Muslim, and anti-Black streams. They will print rando rumors abt other places but this escaped notice of the uhhh 'journalists.'
Joe Biden is literally dying of cancer my man
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
Then some centrist focus-group morons told Walz to shut up, and it sucked the air out of the room. Kamala couldn't get coverage anymore. Trump got to go back on offense. And then in the VP debate, all of Walz's work was undone. He bear-hugged Vance, and Vance's approval rating skyrocketed 19 points.
People think campaigns are about fundamentals, but they're more about projection and perception. Those things just usually happen to overlap (stronger candidates project better). During that stretch, Walz was yielding wall-to-wall coverage and Dems were fully on offense.
I don’t know if people remember how wild that period of the campaign was. Walz’ weird attacks had the Trump campaign fully on defense. Vance was doing awkward interviews about how he wasn’t weird like every 3 days. Trump was literally considering replacing him according to reporting.
My most irrational but strongly held political belief is that Kamala Harris would be president right now if the campaign hadn’t muzzled Tim Walz
Remember things like this when supposedly serious people suggest the best way to organize society is around someone like this making decisions for you.
Still marveling over this. Cuomo and Adams just... blew off Sharpton and the National Action Network. They're not running to win. They're running to stock up some campaign funds and log some future Fox News guest credits.
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
wow.... explains this
Look I don't agree with the guy's politics but I wouldn't wish this on anyone
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
trump finally appearing on a balcony on sunday like first of all my doctor said i may have set the world record for health
my hot take is that Maddow promoting Bluesky is lowkey one of the worst things to ever happen to this site
And of course, because we have no institutions or mechanisms for collective experience in this country, all this devastation will be felt in an individualized, atomized form. People will get sicker, receive worse medical care, and consume less safe food and water without recognizing why.
All they do is ask questions that they know the answer to and don't make a single demand. www.offmessage.net/p/schumer-an...
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
I think it’s cool that we made a machine that gives entire towns asthma so it can turn your uncle into the dad from Frailty
It is so insane how these do-nothing losers can't lift a finger to stop Trump but EVERY TIME someone challenges their nursing home insider club, they suddenly activate like sleeper cells ready to go to war.
Ideology obviously matters here, but being part of the insider's club is primary to these people. Graham Platner should be a great candidate for Dems. He's not even a leftist and he's a veteran, which they love. But he's not an officially sanctioned member of the club so he must go.
It is so insane how these do-nothing losers can't lift a finger to stop Trump but EVERY TIME someone challenges their nursing home insider club, they suddenly activate like sleeper cells ready to go to war.
New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest
All Mark Cuban ever posts about is how he shouldn't be taxed more, how important crypto is, and how we should be nice to Trump, yet half this website inexplicably loves him. It's baffling.
Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday. The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
And now said billionaire blocked me. Imagine living like this. Go fly on a jet or something man Jeus.
I think it rocks that every billionaire posts on social media constantly about how unfair they are treated
Remember earlier when they were literally calling it a blood libel to suggest Israel would ever bomb a hospital and now the only ambiguity is how many times they bombed one
And of course, because we have no institutions or mechanisms for collective experience in this country, all this devastation will be felt in an individualized, atomized form. People will get sicker, receive worse medical care, and consume less safe food and water without recognizing why.
I hate this party so much
Travis 