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The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
Of all the many many ways I imagined Trump would ruin this country, I have to admit “sealing us off from outside mail” wasn’t in the mix.
There are Labor Day protests already planned for next Monday. Find your local activities here: www.fiftyfifty.one
Yes, and columns from former contributors who are better aligned with the Post’s traditional reader base are being rejected as not in keeping with the sympathies of their audience. Audience of one
UNFUN FACT: MAGA is more upset about the new Cracker Barrel logo than their president raping children.
I’m so happy I hid a pile of his books under a bunch of Harry Potter toys in Barnes and Noble last week
Hi, I'm Andrew Cuomo. I'm sorry I groped your mom and killed your grandma, but if you give me a fifteenth chance, I promise to throw you out of your apartment.
also here: www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/t...
Establishment Dems need to step aside!
Wontco
This woman is awesome
🚨LEVER TIME: Trump’s billionaire private equity booster is on tape saying his “dream” is to get access to Americans’ retirement savings — now Trump may let private equity loot your 401k. We air the billionaire’s audio on LEVER TIME — you gotta hear it👇 www.levernews.com/your-401-k-i...
Someone sent this essay to me a couple of days after the 2024 election. I’d never heard of Sarah Kendzior, but I read this piece and trembled for hours. I knew much of this, but seeing it laid out this way is frightening. Take a deep breath and sit down before you start reading.
You could have just uninvited a bunch of people!😁
The Mütter Museum is my favorite and I especially love the gift shop. I still have a stash of giant colon postcards.
HOMICIDE and anything Andre Braugher has ever been in!
I’m halfway through and I find myself slowing down so I can savor it.
Media: Oh my god! Biden mixed up two names! He can’t be president! We have super high standards! Me: Motherfuckers, Trump is a convicted criminal, rapist, who committed multiple acts of fraud, and tried to send an angry mob to kill his own Vice President. Get the the fuck outa here with that shit.
Humans will never evolve. We are soaked in evil.
I think it’s important for Americans to understand that the current famine in Gaza is a joint US-Israeli production. We are not “failing to stop this”. We did this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
OMG 😂
Yes, shocking how easy it is to lie about this and have it accepted as fact.
I never thought about it like that.
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
I wish people would just say outright that this is their north star—“our goal is to raid all American resources and cultural capital for short-term cash for the richest, whitest men.” Then we could have a real conversation
Perfect
Actual good news for once
The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life. Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.
MY DADDY BOUGHT ME A MEDIA CONGLOMERATE! YAY!
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©
We're in the middle of a green energy revolution -- India is 50% renewable, half of China's new cars are EVs, Iceland is 100% renewable, France is 80% nuclear, etc -- and the Trump administration is basically trying to restart the whale oil industry
One would think that a president hallucinating a discussion about Ted Kaczynski, claiming $16 trillion in foreign investment, napping at a rally after forgetting who was there ,then forgetting hiring his fed chair over 48 hours would be more newsworthy than it has been. It's a mystery...
He forgot her name
To be fair, this looks like the inside of a gas station I saw in Lake Placid, NY.
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.
My god. People are going to die because Kennedy, trump etc are monsters. Actual monsters. How can they take this away from people?! “Early mRNA vaccine trials also indicated the recurrence of melanoma could be cut in half” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop. "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day" Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
Of course, this is all by design. The kleptocrats don't want to pay for public schools or even have a broadly educated population. Because denying people education makes it easier to delude them with disinformation and force them into the low-paid manual work that will remain as most jobs get AI-ed.
I think about it each and every day
I became obsessed with finding that book about 15 years ago. It went out of print in the US for awhile because he also drew erotica. Then there was a great exhibit of all his work in NYC around 2015.
The Tomi Ungerer book? That was my favorite book as a kid. I never knew it was made into a short…until now!
Love to see news clippings from a normally idyllic farm along the California coast look more like a dispatch from a war correspondent in Vietnam.
HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
The man too afraid to ride the 6 train is gonna take you to space.
Just finished Kendzior's They Knew and the bipartisan nature of the dismantling of the US would be shocking if I wasn't feeling so validated by everything she writes. It seems like the only material difference between the establishment parties is one brags about it and the other won't admit it
We’re still using a 2012 MacBook!
A huge tax break snuck into Trump & the GOP's big ugly bill would allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their planes in the first year of purchase. Meanwhile, the law will cause millions to lose food assistance and healthcare. "Party of the working class."
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
One of my all time favorites
holy shit a guy who was born in Uganda listed himself as African American on an old college application this is certainly bigger news than the concentration camp in Florida
Peace demonstrators have been beaten, foreign students have been disappeared, and educational institutions have been broken and tarred for being "antisemitic" through a series of tortured jingoistic inferences, while Donald Trump constantly and explicitly tells us what he thinks of Jews
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Hakeem Jeffries is still speaking but eventually Republicans are going to pass their megabill. And it hasn't been discussed much, but that is going to force $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Not just Medicaid. Medicare. Here's why: prospect.org/politics/202...
What we just saw major media do over the last week was the equivalent of a breathless minute-by-minute analysis of what happened between the moment Jim Jones ordered his flock to drink the Kool-Aid and the moment it did so. Just pointless earned media for a madman dead-set on destroying everything.
Imagine if a fraction of the journalists who helped manufacture claims of "anti-Semitism" against anti-war protesters began to cover the fact that white nationalists are helping to direct attacks on non-white people in the US.
from today's post. on the left, an officer at Auschwitz. on the left, ICE Barbie at Alligator Auschwitz. please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/4knDZXX
A John Wick movie where he goes around assassinating neighbors who upset the local dogs with their fireworks.
Show me the difference. This is monstrous. Hell waits for every single person whose okay with this.
“he started to eat himself” i cannot
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet:
This may sound old fashioned, but again it’s worth saying. 60 Minutes did nothing wrong. This is a payoff for merger approval. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Amazon paid $40 million to license a Melania Trump documentary. ABC paid $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation suit. META paid Trump $25 million for suspending his social media accounts. And now Paramount is paying Trump $16 million to settle his ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit. Truly pathetic.
There is a Department to Weaponize the Justice Department and one of the Jan 6th instigators is consulting there. 10,000 more secret police financed by the BBB. This is really happening.
This paragraph was written in January 2024. The election outcome was already evident. What the mafia state needed was a passive citizenry with baseless trust in corrupt institutions. Otherwise they might actually rise up against the authoritarian threat. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/americas-l...
Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?
Of the 2 GOP senators whose votes let debate on the abominable Trump bill proceed, 50% say they fear for their lives. Of the 2 GOP senators who voted against debate on the abominable Trump bill, 50% have now announced their retirement from politics. And major media is vote-counting like it's 1983.
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.
We also know that Donald Trump is a famous offerer of bribes, and unmatched in his capacity for graft, so for corporate media to pretend that what we're watching is just the operation of politics and not the internal machinations of a brutal mafia daily controlled by crime and coercion is *obscene*
I fucking love Kneecap
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
Keep you eyes on this: I assume the Congo and Rwanda meetings are to make arrangements for more third-party deportations. Or perhaps he’s ready to start shipping out “the homegrowns.” Seriously, pay attention.
Trump set U.S. tariff policies to make every other company’s smartphones more expensive, and then announced a cheap smartphone to compete with those companies he’s regulating — and it won’t even be made in the USA. That’s corruption.
The inestimable @willbunch.bsky.social, speaking tragic truth:
And he’s just getting started
(PS3) I’ve also not heard *one word* about Trump deliberately inciting the Iranians in his little speech by boasting—yes, BOASTING—about his illegal assassination of the second-most popular man in Iran 4.5 years ago. Instead, corporate media is insisting to us that Trump wants peace. JFC, Orwellian.
the accuracy (via @midheavens.bsky.social)
These ICE thugs in no way resemble anything Americans have conventionally thought of as competent law enforcement They are *at best* a half-step above the Proud Boys
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Inasmuch as the Trump admin has any consistent tactical approach to policy, I think they just get up in the morning and say to themselves, what’s the most evil, destructive, and stupid thing I could do today? Then they do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera
The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.
Highly recommend subscribing to Sarah Kendzior on Substack and following and supporting non-corporate news sources like Pro Publica.
Shut down the Senate. While you still have the members free to do it.
Notice she's not talking about "criminals" anymore. Now they're onto who they perceive as their enemies, including the people *we* elected. They want to use L.A. to show they can force liberal cities into submission.
The rumor that Donald Trump is secretly ordering MAGA to attack the police at protests so he can send the military into Democratic cities is a bit far-fetched. I mean, seriously, when has MAGA ever attacked the police?
Loyalty tests and purity tests operate not only to control subordinates but to protect the illusion of legitimacy around authoritarian aims.
Large-scale murders amongst women who met Ted Bundy have unleashed fear amongst women who date men and are accustomed to remaining alive after dinner and a movie.
For a few square blocks of protest. Bullshit fascist political theater.
This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.
"Our Applebee’s menu does not have calorie counts. We scratched them out with a switchblade. You either want a Tex-Mex Shrimp Bowl Supreme or you don’t, dickwax. A bunch of fancy numbers ain’t gonna change that."
Someone alert Jake Tapper that the president is having imaginary phone calls with the governor of California.
the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled
Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.
What happened yesterday should radicalize you The LA ICE raid was full-on fascism The Abrego Garcia case is an abomination. We have a government that concocts charges against anyone it doesn't like, and pardons any criminal that supports Trump. And they are just getting started Free Kilmar!
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