The Grift Bubble A Political Theory of American Collapse

#EVERYONE should read this, from the great Tim Snyder: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

kudos to #MonaCharon:

Aside from absolutely everything else having to do with them, I am ecstatic to see the end of Giuliani, whose name I mistyped every freaking time, and the arrival of Mamdani, whose name is crazy easy to type.

This is an excellent idea!!!

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

#EVERYONE needs to read and repost this

The Trump Outrages That Matter Most Razing the East Wing? Breaking Congress? An unscientific survey of the President’s most disruptive, significant, and truly surprising moves.

"I am most astounded by the fact that no one is really stopping him": The Trump Outrages That Matter Most
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Couldn't agree more+ the Times has betrayed us for years

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

www.vox.com/politics/466...

Trump administration slashes number of refugees, prioritizes Afrikaners The State Department will also no longer manage the resettlement of refugees.

This doesn’t just gut refugee admissions — it creates a race-based system that prioritizes white South Africans over people facing real danger in their home countries.

An insult to everything we stand for. Trump is burying Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as a “shining city on a hill.”

WTF... So deliberately obfuscating

Horrifying

Wow

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.

Opinion | The choreographed fakery of American politics: East Wing edition Trump’s residential immodesty is nothing compared with his anti-constitutional immodesty.

Impeccably put & should be plastered #EVERYWHERE, including the #White #House & #Congress: The choreographed fakery of American politics: East Wing edition

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Understanding #public knowledge is a great place to start - how about it, #Sarah #Longwell and #JVL?

what a #deliberately #ignorant #buffoon, completely without shame

White House fires commission charged with advising the president on design as Trump pushes construction projects | CNN Politics The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency charged with advising the president, Congress and the city of Washington, DC, on “matters of des...

Someday, #expertise and #free #speech will triumph again - but we have to work to defend them:
www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

If your savings account can’t buy you a yacht, maybe stop voting like it can.

Extremely politically astute nightmare Halloween display! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Harvard should go! A creative solution for Harvard’s bind, and a chance at a mug

This is a great idea - it challenges Tr*mp and MAGA in a really imaginative way: open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

This is amazing!!

An even better list of #corrupt #WhiteHouse #ballroom donors - do everything you can to publish their names!

Here is the list of donors, provided by the White House, who will be footing the bill for the 90,000-square foot ballroom in the East Wing of the White House.

Take note and never forget.

So what WAS he doing for all those 21 hours?

BREAKING:

Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.

In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

We've all been missing the point of what #MAGA #Mike has been up to:https://www.facebook.com/share/17Fj3kHMnE/

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

This needs to be circulated EVERYWHERE - open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is THE BEST #NoKings compilation on the internet.

SO proud to be #ANTIFA!