Not a lot of people know this, but it’s actually Peak Performance for a President when the country is constantly spectating if you’re dead and/or a pedophile.
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Not a lot of people know this, but it’s actually Peak Performance for a President when the country is constantly spectating if you’re dead and/or a pedophile.
Like Trump, Noem is pushing for a state-media standard - 'I can say whatever I want & you have to broadcast it.' She knows it's a lie but that's what authoritarians do. They lie. Fox would have let her get away with it (again) but thankfully CBS pushed back...this time.
As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any
This is really really really bad.
The transparency is so great they’re still hiding all the evidence of the President’s participation in a teen rape club.
At this point, I have to assume the only reason we have guns in this country is for mass shootings, because it definitely isn't for fighting tyranny. 🤔
Military honors for Ashli Babbitt "tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution."
Colin Moulding… one of my favorite bassists. Great song, great, great album. “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul” and “Another Satellite” are still in regular rotation for me 40 years later.
He's a narcissist. No makeup. No hair in other pics. A narcissist wouldn't compromise egoic attachments. We've seen the cankles and the bruises. He's been failing for a while. He's very unhealthy. That said, there's a line of fascists waiting. One person is not the end. We save ourselves. Resist.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Missing here is the reality that mainstream media—and even many “progressive” Substacks—largely ignore union voices. Then their own disregard becomes evidence that there’s nothing to regard. If a tree falls in the forest but no one has the forest beat or takes forestry seriously, would anyone know?
This does not make America great.
Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, we’re gonna keep dragging it down. 🫡
Here’s my speculation on Trump
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
gov’t trying to corral them, for taxes a/o safety a/o environment, they are out of ideas except what all self-important, unjustified excessively wealthy folks have done throughout history, i.e., they’re taking over gov’t & trying to force rent-seeking schemes on the rest of us.
These Silicon Valley “geniuses” ain’t as smart as the puffery media have made them out to be. They grew up/got rich in a period where regulations hadn’t caught up to tech innovations and now rolling out another e-tailer or e-service to a skeptical public doesn’t pay as well as it did and with
No. This is what they’ve been waiting for. Crypto is a fiat currency, too. Their propaganda machines will get very loud, “Kill the dollar! Break the fed! Cancel national debt!” Then, these traitors replace our collective fiat currency with their own and get a cut of every transaction.
trying to recall what came after the pre-depression peak
And they’re too dumb to recognize that their voicing this attitude shrinks the pool even further for them leading them to get more frustrated & stridently misogynist shrinking the pool… ♾️
His ketamine doesn’t come in a box.
Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS. I remember this because I have Pundit Memory™️, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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I’m sick of Cold War has-beens like Mearsheimer, Posen, Allison, and Walt obtusely misinterpreting Ru and confidently regaling us w clueless takes about how Ukraine can end the war through concessions. Enough. Accept that Ukraine proves you wrong every day by not conforming to your warped theories.
A-fuckin-men!!!!
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Because Putin has the Epstein evidence.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
Exposing a NOC agent will get an entire network of intelligence assets wiped out and potentially spill classified secrets which seriously damage US national security. Gabbard has now done that and intentionally.
I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Yep. My sympathies towards Russians grow weaker with every passing moment especially since far too many I meet in the West agree, to some degree, with imperial claims. Of course, this disdain feeds their retrenchment psychology even more and they cling harder to jingoism & colonialism.
I was frightened of being called out so kept a dictionary with me all the time so, when I came across something new, I knew how to pronounce it… if I was, for some reason, away from a dictionary, reading stopped until I found one. I would not ask anyone for help b/c that would be showing ignorance.
'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
What surprised me the most was watching Szoboszlai at fullback and seeing his acceleration to regain position after a forward foray. Had no idea he was that fast. @barneyronay.bsky.social
Still available on HBO. Was Leonard Leo involved in supporting Bopp? He and Ginni were among the first to take advantage of Citizens United - something reporters overlooked for a decade. @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/04/alex...
Remember “The Decameron?” 700 years ago! For the next pandemic, the wealthy today figure they can sequester themselves in compounds while the rest die. They own farms to ensure clean foods, equipment to purify water,comms systems so they’re not alone, and plentiful supplies in oversized homes.
Bail out to farmers (most of them bigger corporate farms, if I remember correctly) after hundreds of family farms went bankrupt and there was a spate of suicides. Trump was never held responsible for that.
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
In a new post I write about how Dems 1) can't approach the upcoming budget talks as traditional negotiations w/the governing party 2) have a big opportunity w/Trump's tariffs to show we are with the people and they the oligarchs - and we need to seize it 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-court-ru...
My bet? The thing's a scam. ICE itself will run on maybe $10 bill. The remaining $90 billion will go to 'law enforcement contractors' that act as middlemen between ICE and the military surplus/law enforcement suppliers' market and upsell until the cash is gone, all run by Trump's friends of course.
⭐️ Worth reading on the reality of “end times fascism”: “We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world...” By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
We celebrate Lincoln for ending slavery but the real unstoppable force was the millions who walked off plantations and joined the Union fight. Their general strike made emancipation a fact on the ground and forced the nation to reckon with freedom.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
That intuition gives me optimism. Someone believes there are still good guys on the inside. Thank you.
I have a hope that your hunch is based on some insider scoop.
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
that said, I am pleased that I got so many people to talk to me about the phenomenon of more-expensive-than-ever AI I dunno that this is an existential threat to all AI startups -- or any AI startups but only because there are macro trends that could be bigger threats www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-c...
JB is amazing at having great ideas and getting stuff done. Who knows what may come of this, but he's out there fighting all the time. Very proud he's my governor. Other elected Dems should take notice...
In 2001, I was lead counsel on a class action case on behalf of so-called "comfort women"--sex slaves who were kidnapped from grade schools and town squares across southeast Asia, ranked by race, and forced to service up to forty Japanese soldiers a day in concentration camps--and this made me cry.
Rather than folding to anti-science pressure, CDC employees are exposing the dangers of MAHA to the public health system. Already, some major drugstores are limiting COVID vaccines to follow new restrictive guidelines. Dr. Jen Layden, who resigned from her director position on Tuesday, joins @ 10aET
…until they’ve found agents willing to break the law and destroy all the documents.
Russian mercenaries operate in the shadows, exploiting Africa’s resources. They want us to look away, to cower, to forget. But I won’t forget the faces of the survivors I’ve met, the graves I’ve seen, or the courage it takes to stand up to those who believe they are untouchable.
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Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
FFS.
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023. The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion. That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia. These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Problem for Kirk, besides the fact no one with whom he wants to breed would breed with him, is that half their kids will die before they get to voting age b/c of vaccines and many of their women won’t be replaceable after they die in childbirth b/c they don’t believe in providing for women’s health.
I don't think we fully grasped yet how important solar will be as an energy source. Great graph @carbonbrief.org based on @iea.org data.
the ai guys are very afraid of legislation i will personally only back democrats who support ai legislation every time we take this hands-off approach the people get fucked mortgages, crypto, etc
Why not make him a Senator as well?
"When a system allows people to serve in government barely long enough to understand the entity they are set to destroy, and just as they get their sea legs under them, they move to cash out, it signals to the public that corruption is the mode of operation in Washington." — @prospect.org
Please like and repost. Log on and read to the end for multiple opportunities to resist Project 2025 near you, online, and by writing letters and signing petitions. It’s imperative that we all do what we can to save our nation! open.substack.com/pub/resistpr...
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.
Those who think that RESISTANCE will bring RETALIATION are correct. But NO RESISTANCE will only fire up their CONTEMPT followed by RETALIATION. Your choice.
In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)
🧵What do Trump, Epstein & Brunel have in common other than sex trafficking & raping children? Melania. She is another Trump "Big Lie" Epstein and Brunel are central figures in her real narrative. Both now conveniently dead.
"That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power — and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded — that America’s most important market today is its affluent. As more companies tailor their offerings to the top, the experiences we once shared are increasingly differentiated ..."
DOGE has apparently created a cloud database of gov’t data & personal info about almost every American … used AI to mine it … and, evidently, exposed it to grave security vulnerabilities in the process. This isn’t dystopian fiction. This is happening in the United States.
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
Admiral Stockdale survived 7 years of torture by mastering one paradox. That same lesson is the key to defeating Trump’s creeping fascism now.👇 www.JackHopkinsNow.com
Temu Matt Walsh isn't the only a-hole preaching this horseshit. Charlie Kirk is being paid millions to indoctrinate young people into believing this brutally misogynistic dogma. Another reason there has to be a well-financed and unified mass movement to counter the rise of Christofascism.
hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today
Trump’s top housing regulator wants lenders to “count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage.” This is a recipe for mortgage fraud and a more volatile housing market. From James Baratta:
I'm thankful Don took the time to make this case in such a methodical fashion. I found it very convincing.
Fucking hell!!!
They also often have really good produce!!!
Yeah, since I am neither a sociologist nor in the LGBTQ community my knowledge of Russian slang doesn’t cover that… plus, I’m old so my version of slang is probably horribly outdated.
“Убей себя” would translate as ‘kill yourself.’ Not sure of the reference except as a trolling statement popular among kids. Could be a reference to the Russian shooter or could be that a lot of these kids learned Russian b/c so many of the online fora that seek radicalize are based in RU.
The only time I’ve ever seen that is in reference to day care (комбин is short for комбинат, AFAIK; so, it comes to something like children’s factory). Not sure of its slang meaning, though, if any.
She was a criminal and now they are giving her the honors of an American hero at the same time that the Republicans in the House refuse to hang a plaque honoring the hundreds of Capitol Police that defended them. Just disgusting. thehill.com/policy/defen...
If the police don’t want to be the good guys, i.e., take accountability for their actions, undergo scrutiny, get rid of the bad apples among them, perhaps we don’t need them. We need police but we need them to be the good guys. There will always be false accusations. Hence, we have investigations.
russia: bombs Ukrainian civilians every single day hungary:
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
Kyiv this night💔
🙏 The consequences of the Russian attack on the central district of Kyiv.