George Keith

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained." - .

FACTS: "Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear."

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YouTube video by WIRED Why Conspiracy Theories Took Hold When Charlie Kirk Died | WIRED

NEW:

DisinfoNation, a new YouTube series presented by....me

Episode one, which discusses how conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirks' assassination emerged, evolved and persisted, features the amazing @bostonjoan.bsky.social and @ninajankowicz.com

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America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First Argentina: A very Trumpy debacle

Paul Krugman lays out Bessent's magical thinking on the Milei bailout.

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Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

This is a perfect encapsulation of what is so maddening right now. We can all see reality, but the lies are painted as having legitimacy behind them when that’s so visibly not the case.

But in which direction? Both?

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

What if there are two players with the same name?

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders Where We Are With The Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders

Here's where we are:

Republicans have shut down the government.

Why?

They won't negotiate. They want to pass a bill that will allow the Trump administration to throw 15 million Americans off their health care & double premiums for 20 million Americans.

We won't let them.

Schwartzkopf was a pretty hefty dude, if I remember correctly.

Our 9 year old son is getting the HPV vaccine this month…..

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Acceptable Losses Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

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They have been so LOUD about showing us that they don't care, and never cared, about supporting "free speech" unless it's theirs, or preventing violence unless it's directed at THEM.

Really guys, this is elementary-school shit that a 3rd grader could understand.

This is a better way to state my point. Thank you Lydia.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

The Washington Post lacks the self-awareness to notice the disgusting irony of publishing this from disgraced former governor Scott Walker right under their claimed commitment to democracy.

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The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:

1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $

For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Brace yourself. This one is sobering, difficult to watch and read, but absolutely critical. I tried reading and watching earlier today with my kid, age 8, and had to stop. It’s heavy.

Bravo @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

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There is real insight and wisdom here.

This is what we get for ruining his birthday…

Wow. Even just the picture of that guy makes me hate him.